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Can the DMCA Kill the Cloud?

Posted on September 10, 2012 By Michael Kavka No Comments on Can the DMCA Kill the Cloud?

The DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) is a powerful tool for copyright holders. Take down notices get served to many websites daily to remove infringing items, yet many are false positives. Will the DMCA harm cloud computing? I think its a good possibility. I recently read an interesting article on SC Magazine about a security…

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Computers, Rants, Security

Hypocrisy: Microsoft, Google, Silicon Valley and OEMs

Posted on July 3, 2012 By Michael Kavka No Comments on Hypocrisy: Microsoft, Google, Silicon Valley and OEMs

The world of Technology is a fickle one. You can be a darling one minute and a hated evil empire the next. There is a lot of talk going around on the technology websites. With all the announcements made recently there has to be. You have Microsoft’s Surface, Google’s Nexus 7, Apple’s new MacBook, and…

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Computers, Microsoft, Rants, Security, Tablet/E-readers

TechEd Day 2

Posted on June 12, 2012June 12, 2012 By Michael Kavka No Comments on TechEd Day 2

Yesterday I said I was surprised by the lack of Windows 8 talk in the keynote. Today remedied that, plus some interesting security facts. After everything that happened on the first day of TechEd, I was not sure what to expect from the keynote that kicked off day 2. I got a much closer seat…

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