Intrusive video ads have invaded the Xbox 360 dashboard, and it doesnt take a rocket scientist to figure out why players dont want to be bombarded with ads when they simply want to play a game or browse the marketplace. Thankfully, a few clever Reddit users have discovered some workarounds for these ads and have [...]

WEB SITE blocking is pressed for on various grounds, all of them bad. Whether it’s copyright trolls wanting to censor filesharing web sites to extract high prices for their content or the UK Prime Minister wanting to shut down social networks during times of unrest, web site blocking is oppressive by its very nature. In [...]

On Wednesday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 674 to repeal the “Tax Increase Prevention and Reconciliation Act of 2005,” legislation that imposed burdensome new requirements on government vendors and agencies. Passage of H.R. 674 represents a major legislative victory for both the Security Industry Association (SIA) and the Electronic Security Association (ESA). The [...]

11/11/11 is the day when not only did the world not end, in case you were wondering, but also when two important products for their respective industries were launched, the Motorola Droid RAZR Android LTE handset and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, a game we’ve been talking about for quite a while here on TFTS. [...]