Do you use a jailbroken iPhone/iPad or a rooted Android device? The manufacturers claim that rooting or jailbreaking devices violates Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). In 2010 the US Copyright office issued a temporary 2 year exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA) that granted users the right to root or jailbreak their phone and devices. This exemption is about to expire. If this exemption does not get renewed then it will be illegal to root your device. Read more

Earlier this year hackers in India affiliated with hacking group ‘Anonymous’ released details stating that they had possession of source code from Symantec products ranging from Anti-virus to remote system access. Symantec has verified that is is true and is due to a system breach in 2006, but some applications are still vulnerable. Read more

Happy Birthday Commodore 64. Its hard to believe but it was 30 years ago, January 1982 that the commodore 64 was introduced at the consumer electronics show. How many of us had our first computer experience with this machine? Read more

Apple has reached a settlement regarding the MagSafe power adapter cable fraying and shorting issue. The affected units are the 60w and 85w versions with the “T” power connector.  With repeated use the power cord becomes frayed at the strain relief or pulls apart from the charging plug. In both cases the wires have been found to short out and over heat causing a fire hazard. Read more

Today HP announced that they were dropping all development of WebOS devices including the TouchPad and the WebOS phones. In addition they will be spinning off the PC side of their business. They have also purchased a company called Autonomy (Enterprise Information Management) for $10 billion. What will this mean for users of HP PCs and the TouchPad? Read more

It appears that the Avast! V6 is breaking the Microsoft Windows validation. The issues seems to affect more users running Windows Vista SP1 but it is not limited to these users.  Microsoft forums have been seeing more users experiencing the ‘non-genuine’ notifications with a code of Licensing Data–>C:\Windows\system32\slmgr.vbs(291, 5) (null): 0xC004D401. Read more