Tag Archives: oliver starr

iPhone Phones Home, Tells Everything

Posted on December 20, 2008 by admin

Caveat: I am not a developer so what I am about to reveal may or may not be news to the developer community. Nevertheless, this is not something that I was aware of previously and I have not seen any … Continue reading →

Posted in Apple, big brother, Blog Power, iPhone, mobile | Tagged Apple, back door, bad apple, consumer rights, data theft, iPhone, Mac, oliver starr, owstarr.com, privacy laws, root kit, snooping, trespassing, unlawful surveillance | 14 Comments

Floyd Landis and the Magic Water Bottle: Part III

Posted on July 11, 2008 by Oliver

Editor’s Note: Here’s the long-awaited third installment to my series on Floyd Landis and his epic Tour de France and subsequent doping controversy. While I don’t claim to have all the answers, I do have a unique perspective that is … Continue reading →

Posted in Biotech, Personal, Sport | Tagged bike racing, blood doping, CAS, cycling, Dick Pound, doping, floyd landis, Greg LeMonde, lance armstrong, oliver starr, owstarr.com, rEPO, starrtrek, steroids, testosterone, tour de france, UCI, USADA, WADA | 31 Comments

CAS Refuses to Hear Landis Appeal. Positive Doping Verdict Upheld.

Posted on July 8, 2008 by Oliver

So ends one of the most ludicrous, unfair, illegitimate and biased trials in the history of professional sport. According to CNN, a three person committee meeting in Lausanne Switzerland has issued a 58 page ruling denying Floyd’s request to be … Continue reading →

Posted in Personal, Political, Sport | Tagged CAS, doping, drugs, Landis, oliver starr, owstarr.com, starrtrek, steroids, testosterone, Tour de Farce, tour de france, WADA | 14 Comments

Joikuspot Launches New Mapspot Service.

Posted on May 28, 2008 by Oliver

The folks at Joiku, the company that has developed the revolutionary Joikuspot software that lets you turn your Symbian Series 60 device into a mobile wi-fi hotspot have done it again. This time they’ve built on their Joikuspot platform by … Continue reading →

Posted in mobile | Tagged Disruptive Technology, Google Maps, GPS, Joiku, Joikuspot, Location Based Services, Mapspot, oliver starr, owstarr.com | Leave a comment

Is OLPC a Fraud?

Posted on May 24, 2008 by Oliver

Back in December of 2007 I took OLPC – the One Laptop Per Child project up on it’s special year-end offer. This offer included two laptops: one which would be donated to a country in need of the devices to … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog Power | Tagged bad service, fraud, frustration, laptop.org, negroponte, oliver starr, OLPC, one laptop per child, owstarr.com | 4 Comments

Greeley, a Short Story

Posted on April 18, 2008 by Oliver

Editor’s note: Growing up my grand-dad had a feedlot in Greeley, Colorado. This short fiction is based upon events related to that property. Greeley The two men leaned against the fence staring silently over the long shadows of the corn … Continue reading →

Posted in Creative Writing, Personal | Tagged co, Creative Writing, greeley, oliver starr, wiseman brothers livestock. owstarr.com | Leave a comment