About Jeff Belanger
I'm a Canadian, I like to write, I like to play video games, watch movies and read books and all that. Also interested in current affairs and comic books as well.
The US government is being ordered to pay $50 million to Apptricity for violating a licensing agreement and spreading Apptricity’s software among its military ranks without actually paying for it. The software, which tracks ...
Google has found itself in hot water after an investigation found that it had violated Dutch data protection laws. The investigation was done by the Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA), and they found that Google had gathered in...
With the advancement of technology and social media, privacy is becoming more and more of a concern. Vint Cerf, one of the fathers of the internet, believes that privacy is something that will be harder and harder to maintain. As ...
Russell Glass, Bizo’s CEO, believes that it is entirely conceivable for advertising companies to one day pay your entire phone bill. Bizo is a marketing company that focuses on business-to-business services, and Glass has wr...
It seems that the National Security Agency (NSA) may have been working with Level 3, whose fiber optics cables connect both Yahoo and Google’s data centers, to spy on these companies. Level 3 is an internet service provider ...
Grand Theft Auto 5 is one of the most successful games in history, fun to play, and critically acclaimed, with people already predicting it will take many Game of the Year awards. An earlier version of the franchise, though, Grand...
At the moment, the United States of America is ranked #31 as far as internet download speed goes. This ranking is made by Speetest.net, and is reported in their most recent update of the index. The site marked how it was unusual f...
A recent report by Essential Information details how corporations like Wal-mart, Bank of America, McDonalds, etc, are monitoring non-profit organizations illegally, and often use former NSA, CIA operatives to do so. Essential Info...
Bitcoin, which has seen a meteoric rise in value over the past year, is also fast attracting criminals and there have been a string of robberies lately involving the digital currency. In the past two months alone there have been s...
Valve, the much loved game-making company that has also yet to announce a true sequel to one of it’s most popular games, has created and launched the beta for Steam Reviews. This service will allow it’s users to write ...
More information from the Edward Snowden leaks has revealed that, as of 2007, there was an agreement between the United Kingdom and the United States that would allow the National Security Agency (NSA) to keep records on UK citize...
With the release of the Xbox One an reports that they have sold a million units as well, the console wars continue to escalate, especially given the fact that Xbox One seems to have a much stronger launch line-up of games that the...
A baby baby that was believed to be dead, already having his death certificate issue, woke up in a funeral parlor in Hefei, the capital of the Eastern Chinese province of Anhui. According to Xinhua, the state-run news agency, the ...
After news that Acer CEO, J.T. Wang, will be stepping down after failing to turn around the company’s fortunes, it has been announced that Stan Shih, the company’s founder, will be occupying both the president and chai...
Vint Cerf, who is credited by many with the title as one of the “fathers of the internet” believes that as time goes on and as social media continues to prosper, privacy will become something that is more and more diff...