The “Break it Down” Blog

RIM Offers Free BlackBerry Wallet Private Data Software

Looks like RIM is offering a free personal-private data management application for all BlackBerry devices called BlackBerry Wallet. It’s not general PIM software, but rather software used to store your more private information like address, passwords, credit card numbers, etc. RIM claims it’s completely safe, so if you trust your BB and RIM completely, have at it. [...]

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White House Ordered to Disclose Tel-Com Ties

It seems under the Freedom of Information Act, a judge has ordered that the Bush Administration reveal it’s relationship with the tel-com industry and lobbyists. There is also mention that the White House agreed to release the information on December 31st, which is naturally after it would have voted and passed the FISA bill. Who wants to [...]

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NASA Scientists Refuse Giving Up Privacy

Interesting story on Slashdot about how NASA JPL scientists have been “asked” to sign a privacy agreement to relinquish all privacy from their employer and allow investigation into their personal lives “without limit”. Apparently 28 senior level scientists refused to sign the document by the deadline and are blogging about the progress in real time as [...]

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MPAA/RIAA Decide which Features go into Windows Vista

This is a fantastic little tidbit of information, aparently the “media companies” stepped in and told Microsoft they must limit and or disable HD playback on 32-bit machines as they do not have the ability to enforce copy protection like 64-bit systems do. The full blurb: Pity the Vista user with a 32-bit CPU. Senior Program [...]

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