It took a while, but it looks like the legal system is starting to catch up to the “Fake Antivirus” guys who were pushing ‘Scareware’: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/052710-alleged-100m-scareware-sellers-facing.html Hopefully this helps put an end to this practice, but I’m sure someone somewhere else will come up with something like it down the road. Be vigilant! Bookmark It [...]
Google has announced ‘Google TV,’ a way to more easily search for and watch media on your television, no matter where the media is located. This platform should be built-in to set-top boxes, Blu-Ray players and TVs as early as this fall. Yes, you too can get Google’s very targeted advertising mechanism delivered directly to [...]
Expo 2010 opened on May 1, 2010 in Shanghai, China. This is the largest Expo or World’s Fair in history, and they expect to attract 70-100 million visitors by the time it closes on October 31, 2010. This year’s theme is ”Better City, Better Life.” As a huge fan of World’s Fairs I feel it is [...]
Folding a towel may seem easy to you, but it’s not easy to teach a robot how to do it: Bookmark It Hide Sites $$(‘div.d151′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(‘slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) });
Introduced nine years ago, Windows XP is ubiquitous in corporate environments but it’s creaky and showing its age. As hardware & networks have improved Windows XP has had new services “bolted on” to it over the years but it’s really time for a new client operating system. The introduction of Windows Vista was a mess [...]
For over a year we’ve been aware of an emerging security threat that targets (primarily) home PCs. But we’ve seen this security problem jump to corporate PCs as well. This threat is a serious problem as we’ve seen it show up in the field many times. This threat shows up in the form of ‘Fake’ [...]
AT&T in conjunction with Cisco has just announced the “MicroCell” – a miniature cell phone tower for your home or office. If you suffer from poor reception (and what AT&T customer hasn’t had problems with service?) you can stick this on your Internet connection and use it instead of AT&Ts service for your phone calls. [...]
Here’s an item about a new study which shows that seventy-five percent of all businesses suffered losses due to cyber attacks last year, resulting in an average loss of $2 million per incident! http://www.daniweb.com/news/story262199.html# It may not immediately sound like this applies to small business, but small businesses are often far less protected from these [...]
Ever wondered why some messages (mainly from me) seem to be signed with the letter ‘J’ every few sentences? Wonder no more – Microsoft has the answer. It’s a smiley face which is mistranslated across systems. I’ve been known to use more than a few smiley faces in my e-mails (it’s a habit I picked [...]
06.19Program Notes
We’ve just completed a necessary round of infrastructure work on our monitoring & management systems. We’ve moved everything to a much faster, more reliable connection which will improve our management capabilities, speed up your access to the customer portal, and even improve the quality of phone calls. If you have any questions or notice any [...]