Are Americans Addicted to Technology?

Blogged under Hardware News by Dr. Byte on Friday 23 December 2005 at 9:16 pm

According to a recent Wired article, the majority of Americans are becoming increasingly dependant on their gadgets. High speed internet seems to be the one most determined to be a ‘necessity’. A third of the country is said to pay more than $200.00 a month for their addiction, where 4 out of 10 pay between $100.00 and $150.00 a month. Other items in this list of ‘gadgets’ include, mp3 players, dvd players, laptops, handhelds, etc.” How addicted are we? How addicted are you?

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    Blogged under Software News by Dr. Byte on Friday 23 December 2005 at 9:19 pm

    After more than two and a half years, SCO must finally turn over to the U.S. District Court in Utah any proof it has that there’s Unix code in Linux.

    Back on June 16, 2003, Mark J. Heise, a Miami-based partner in The SCO Group Inc.’s law firm Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP and complex commercial litigation specialist, said, “Through contributing AIX source code to Linux and using Unix methods to accelerate and improve Linux as a free operating system, with the resulting destruction of Unix, IBM has clearly demonstrated its misuse of Unix source code and has violated the terms of its contract with SCO.”

    Since then, however, SCO’s attempts to prove that there is Unix code in Linux have come to little.

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