bdpnetworks blog » general http://bdpnetworks.com/blog industry news · company information · useful IT stuff for small businesses Mon, 28 Feb 2011 22:01:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Your Smartphone Could Be Your Most Dangerous Possession http://bdpnetworks.com/blog/2011/01/16/your-smartphone-could-be-your-most-dangerous-possession/ http://bdpnetworks.com/blog/2011/01/16/your-smartphone-could-be-your-most-dangerous-possession/#comments Mon, 17 Jan 2011 04:30:43 +0000 Brian Place http://bdpnetworks.com/blog/?p=266 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/

]]> http://bdpnetworks.com/blog/2011/01/16/your-smartphone-could-be-your-most-dangerous-possession/feed/ 0 Deferred IT Maintenance: A Ticking Time Bomb http://bdpnetworks.com/blog/2011/01/05/deferred-it-maintenance-a-ticking-time-bomb/ http://bdpnetworks.com/blog/2011/01/05/deferred-it-maintenance-a-ticking-time-bomb/#comments Wed, 05 Jan 2011 21:42:39 +0000 Brian Place http://bdpnetworks.com/blog/?p=261 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

]]> http://bdpnetworks.com/blog/2011/01/05/deferred-it-maintenance-a-ticking-time-bomb/feed/ 0 Human PAC-MAN Performance by Guillaume Reymond http://bdpnetworks.com/blog/2010/09/14/human-pac-man-performance-by-guillaume-reymond/ http://bdpnetworks.com/blog/2010/09/14/human-pac-man-performance-by-guillaume-reymond/#comments Tue, 14 Sep 2010 23:20:54 +0000 Brian Place http://bdpnetworks.com/blog/?p=259

]]> http://bdpnetworks.com/blog/2010/09/14/human-pac-man-performance-by-guillaume-reymond/feed/ 0 100 Million Facebook pages leaked on torrent site. http://bdpnetworks.com/blog/2010/08/11/100-million-facebook-pages-leaked-on-torrent-site/ http://bdpnetworks.com/blog/2010/08/11/100-million-facebook-pages-leaked-on-torrent-site/#comments Wed, 11 Aug 2010 21:06:23 +0000 Brian Place http://bdpnetworks.com/blog/?p=248 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.

]]> http://bdpnetworks.com/blog/2010/08/11/100-million-facebook-pages-leaked-on-torrent-site/feed/ 0 Thousands of online bank accounts wiped out by virus, negligent end-users. http://bdpnetworks.com/blog/2010/08/11/thousands-of-online-bank-accounts-wiped-out-by-virus-negligent-end-users/ http://bdpnetworks.com/blog/2010/08/11/thousands-of-online-bank-accounts-wiped-out-by-virus-negligent-end-users/#comments Wed, 11 Aug 2010 21:05:53 +0000 Brian Place http://bdpnetworks.com/blog/?p=250 ‘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!

]]> http://bdpnetworks.com/blog/2010/08/11/thousands-of-online-bank-accounts-wiped-out-by-virus-negligent-end-users/feed/ 0 BDPCam! http://bdpnetworks.com/blog/2010/07/15/bdpcam/ http://bdpnetworks.com/blog/2010/07/15/bdpcam/#comments Thu, 15 Jul 2010 21:28:34 +0000 Brian Place http://bdpnetworks.com/blog/?p=238 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

]]> http://bdpnetworks.com/blog/2010/07/15/bdpcam/feed/ 0 Dell sold faulty computers – then *lied* about it. http://bdpnetworks.com/blog/2010/07/01/dell-sold-faulty-computers-then-lied-about-it/ http://bdpnetworks.com/blog/2010/07/01/dell-sold-faulty-computers-then-lied-about-it/#comments Fri, 02 Jul 2010 01:14:42 +0000 Brian Place http://bdpnetworks.com/blog/?p=233 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

]]> http://bdpnetworks.com/blog/2010/07/01/dell-sold-faulty-computers-then-lied-about-it/feed/ 0 iPhone 4: Retinal Display Geekery http://bdpnetworks.com/blog/2010/06/25/iphone-4-retinal-display-geekery/ http://bdpnetworks.com/blog/2010/06/25/iphone-4-retinal-display-geekery/#comments Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:54:43 +0000 Brian Place http://bdpnetworks.com/blog/?p=231 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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]]> http://bdpnetworks.com/blog/2010/06/24/volksvagen-installs-a-slide-alongside-escalator-in-a-subway-station/feed/ 0 Google adopts background images, ala Bing! http://bdpnetworks.com/blog/2010/06/09/google-adopts-background-images-ala-bing/ http://bdpnetworks.com/blog/2010/06/09/google-adopts-background-images-ala-bing/#comments Thu, 10 Jun 2010 04:32:02 +0000 Brian Place http://bdpnetworks.com/blog/2010/06/09/google-adopts-background-images-ala-bing/ It appears that Google now supports background images, just like Bing. This raises some questions…

a) doesn’t that look like oil-tainted swampland, perhaps a retort to the fact that BP bought a whole bunch of AdWords on Google and Bing to try to do damage control?

b) isn’t Bing turning one this week?

c) I am *pretty sure* this is a clever joke, though every website says “oh wow, you can set your background image on Google now like Bing!” I think they’re missing the sarcasm…

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