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Facebook user to Beacon: Bite me

I’m sure everybody remembers the Facebook Beacon controversy a couple months back. You know the one where bloggers around the world were concerned about...

Hasbro, Mattel scrabble to squash Scrabulous

Scrabble has recently emerged from the nerd ghetto, thanks to Scrabulous, the Facebook application that lets users play the crossword game. But Hasbro (the...

Web host vendor soothes with sassmouth

Valleywag reported on the recent gaffe by Web hosting company DreamHost, who, for starters, over-billed their customers by $7.5-million. Oops! Making things even worse,...

This never happens on 24

A U.S. government audit revealed last week that an FBI wiretap had been cut off by a telephone company because the Feebies hadn't paid...

Bill’s last day

So Bill Gates won't have a full-time gig at Microsoft after this July. That means no more keynotes at the Consumer Electronics show in...

Someone needs to say something nice about SAS

SAS is looking for a new Canadian public relations agency. Shark Tales knows this because every other firm in Toronto (other than GCI Group,...

Mr. Schick vs. Mr. Bean: The pics speak for themselves

A recent letter from a Canadian IT manager reading ComputerWorld Canada editor Shane Schick’s blog recently said the dashingly handsome journalist-at-large (who certainly has...

Who says Wikia Search isn’t working?

Wikia launched its user-generated alternative to Google on Monday, and writers from TechCrunch and others were quick to heap criticism on its effectiveness as...

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