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Published: 01/6/11

Motorola Xoom Introduced at CES: Is This the iPad Killer?

By  Steven Hoffer - AOL News
Motorola Xoom Introduced at CES: Is This the iPad Killer?

Has the iPad met its match? Motorola certainly hopes so. The company introduced its much anticipated Xoom tablet computer Wednesday to an eager audience at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The tablet, which thus far has been very well received, will run on Honeycomb (not the breakfast cereal), Google's latest version of the Android operating system. The Verizon-based computer also features 1280 x 800 resolution on a 10.1-inch monitor, 5 megapixel camera and 1GHz dual-core Tegra 2 processor. For more on the tech specs, click here to visit Engadget. Check out this ...

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Published: 11/12/10

Opinion: 3 Painless Ways to Kill the Debt Dragon

By  not in system - AOL News
Opinion: 3 Painless Ways to Kill the Debt Dragon

(Nov. 12) -- Gen. George S. Patton once proclaimed that the duty of the American soldier wasn't to die for his country but to get some poor bastard from another country to die for his. We would do well to pay heed to that advice as President Barack Obama's debt commission starts to lay out the pain and sacrifice it says will be needed to cut the nation's crushing debt load. The message of U.S. citizens to federal officials should be "You first." To be sure, Obama's bipartisan deficit hawks, former Republican Sen. Alan Simpson and former Clinton White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles, are ...

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Published: 09/3/10

UN Calls Out BlackBerry, RIM, Over Data Security

By  Steven Hoffer - AOL News
UN Calls Out BlackBerry, RIM, Over Data Security

(Sept. 3) -- When it comes to data security issues, there is a blurry line between private sectors and government -- particularly if the BlackBerry is involved. The secretary-general of the U.N.'s International Telecommunications Union (ITU), Hamadoun Toure, is attempting to define that gray area in favor of his constituents, calling on BlackBerry manufacturer Research in Motion to allow government law enforcement agencies access to user information, according to The Associated Press. Toure believes that governments engaged in fighting terrorism have the right to request the customer ...

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Published: 02/17/10

Watchdogs: Terrorists, Telephones and Tolls

By  James Grady - Politics Daily
Watchdogs: Terrorists, Telephones and Tolls

A pack of government and private watchdogs have separately set their oversight eyes on America's telecommunications industries. They are concerned about everything from how terrorist cyber attacks might ravage the country and our post-9/11 failures to improve emergency communications to cell phone companies potentially charging excessive fees. This week, the non-governmental Bipartisan Policy Center ran a "war game" in Washington, D.C., to consider how the federal government could react to a cyber attack. In January, 2003, the "Slammer" computer worm crippled Bank of America ATMs, Continental ...

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