File-Sharers Await Official Recognition of New Religion

The Missionary Church of Kopimism is waiting for recognition by the Swedish government. The group, started by philosophy student, Isaac Gerson, claims the copying and sharing of information is a token of appreciation.

Posted on: April 18, 2011 9:00 am

RIM’s bid for Nortel patents is more than a Google block

Nortel Networks declared bankruptcy and put 6,000 wireless patents on the auction block. Google claims they want to buy the patents to protect themselves from copyright lawsuits. RIM, in consort with other companies, also wants to buy the patents to protect themselves from Google.

Posted on: April 18, 2011 9:00 am

Chrome OS Nears Release

The Chrome operating system debuted two years ago, in an era of netbooks. In the meantime, the iPad was released and netbooks are fading from the market. Where does that leave Chrome?

Posted on: April 18, 2011 9:00 am

RunRevLive.11 Conference

The RunRevLive developer conference in San Jose, California, April 26-29 will introduce you to the LiveCode cross-platform development environment for iOS and Android and show you how to create mobile apps for the cloud.

Posted on: April 15, 2011 9:00 am

BlackBerry PlayBook Review

RIM’s new PlayBook is now available. The 7-inch tablet is slender, light weight, and multi-tasks with ease. But. It doesn’t yet have native apps for e-mail, contacts, or calendar. This review includes a short video showing the device in action.

Posted on: April 15, 2011 9:00 am

Crowdsourcing the Censors: A Contest

Some people have used the anonymity of the internet to “scam” surveys and other opinion polls. This contest is looking for ideas on an algorithm to prevent such abuses.

Posted on: April 15, 2011 9:00 am

IOS 4.3.2 Released

The latest version of iOS was released late yesterday. It fixes a number of issues but it only took a few hours for the new version of iOS to be jailbroken.

Posted on: April 15, 2011 9:00 am

New article: Open question: what would you like to see us cover?

ZATZ editorial coverage has always been a reflection of the interests and needs of our readers.

Read this Computing Unplugged article.

Posted on: April 15, 2011 9:00 am

What’s killing your Wi-Fi?

In an effort to insulate homes, and save energy, builders are wrapping new homes in something called Protect TF200 Thermo. The result? Your new home is now a giant Faraday cage and Wi-Fi doesn’t work very well, if at all.

Posted on: April 14, 2011 9:00 am

‘Facebook. Your password has been changed!’ = malware

There appears to be a rash of spamvertising that mimics a message from the Facebook Support Team claiming your password has been changed. The attachment on the message contains malware.

Posted on: April 14, 2011 9:00 am