02.28GMail users report all of their e-mail is gone…

The downside of cloud computing is that big problems impact a huge number of users.  Apparently something happened to Google’s GMail in the past few days that zeroed out people’s mailboxes:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/27/gmail-reset-emails-deleted_n_828863.html

Here at BDPNetworks, we think “Cloud Services” are an important tool in anyone’s overall IT strategy, but there are certainly downsides – small issues can impact a huge number of people!  At least when you have in-house e-mail you’re responsible for your own backup, either directly or by hiring a firm like us to take care of it for you (and audit it for you).

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01.16Your Smartphone Could Be Your Most Dangerous Possession

Our increasing reliance on Smartphones is making them more dangerous – we’re carrying passwords, credit card information, personal financial information, private information about our friends and family and more around with us in a box the size of a deck of cards.  And theives can easily extract this information from the majority of lost/stolen Smartphones– an unlock password is easy to circumvent.  Here’s an article from CNN explaining the gravity of the situation:

http://money.cnn.com/2011/01/11/pf/smartphone_dangers/

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01.05Deferred IT Maintenance: A Ticking Time Bomb

Here’s an article about the “ballooning IT maintenance debt” and what impact it’ll likely have on US companies.

http://infoworld.com/t/it-management/what-you-missed-deferred-it-maintenance-ticking-time-bomb-898

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09.14Human PAC-MAN Performance by Guillaume Reymond

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08.11100 Million Facebook pages leaked on torrent site.

http://www.thinq.co.uk/2010/7/28/100-million-facebook-pages-leaked-torrent-site/

Commentary:

There are no guarantees that anything you put online will remain private or secure.  Ever.

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08.11Thousands of online bank accounts wiped out by virus, negligent end-users.

‘In the vast majority of cases, if people had kept their computer’s operating systems and software such as Internet Explorer up to date they would not have been attacked,’

http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2010/08/11/thousands-of-online-bank-accounts-wiped-out-by-virus-negligent-end-users/

Commentary:

Keep your computers up-to-date!  Keep your antivirus up-to-date!  Don’t use Internet Explorer!

Or let us do all of this for you!

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07.15BDPCam!

We’e installed a webcam at the new office with up-to-the-minute views of downtown Seattle. Check it out:

http://www.bdpnetworks.com/BDPCam1.jpg

BDPCam1 - Downtown Seattle Skyline

BDPCam1 - Downtown Seattle Skyline

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07.01Dell sold faulty computers – then *lied* about it.

Will they ever recover from this breach of trust with their customers? Bill Snyder from InfoWorld explains…

http://infoworld.com/d/the-industry-standard/the-ignominious-death-dell-882

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06.25iPhone 4: Retinal Display Geekery

Were you also a bit skeptical when Steve Jobs said “the display on the iPhone 4 is a higher resolution than what can be perceived by the human eye?” Read more here…

http://prometheus.med.utah.edu/~bwjones/2010/06/apple-retina-display/

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06.24Volkswagen installs slide alongside subway station escalator…

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