Goodbye Ultimate/Home/Starter/Basic/Premium/Professional/Blah/Yackety/Yack/etc – YESSS!! It appears Microsoft has has now relented on the number of Windows 8 editions planned for final release. An April 16th announcement confirms that Redmond has decided to follow the XP model and introduce just two versions for home consumers and […]
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Mozilla has announced that, after April 24th, there will be no further updates for Firefox 3.6. With the exception of any last minute security patches, Firefox 3.6.28 released last month, will be the final update. Firefox 3.6 was the last of the legacy versions before
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Microsoft has ended full support for its ill-fated operating system as of 10th April with an extended support period through to April 2017. This means that Microsoft will no longer be offering free technical support for Vista users nor will they continue honoring any warranty
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You will need to be quick in order to take advantage of this great offer from BillP Studios – the special pricing is in effect only from Noon EST on Monday, April 16th 2012 until Noon EST on Wednesday April 18th, 2012. This is the
‘WinPatrol Plus’ LIFETIME licenses for 99 cents – 2 days only! Read More »
I posted an article earlier this week about the Flashback malware that has been causing problems in the Mac world. Since then, Apple issued a Java security update for this issue. Yesterday, Apple released an update for Macs that do not have Java installed. As with
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I posted an item earlier this week about the Flashback malware that has been causing problems in the Mac world. Since then, Apple has issued a Java update for this issue. The Java security update removes the most common variants of the Flashback malware. It
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Apple’s operating system, Mac OS X, has long had the reputation of being invulnerable to viruses or any other malicious attacks. Then along came the Flashback attack that affected over a half million Macs. According to an Apple press release, Apple released a Java update
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30 million. 5 million. 1 billion. 18. These are the big numbers circulating around the net’s news sources discussions of Instagram this past week.With a long-awaited, and hotly-debated roll out on Android devices last week, and the announcement yesterday that Facebook plans to buy Instagram
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Facebook issued a press release stating that it has agreed to acquire Instagram , a photo-sharing app for mobile devices, for total consideration of “approximately $1 billion”, including cash and shares of Facebook. The transaction is expected to close later this quarter. Mark Zuckerberg, founder
Consumer Reports came out with their tablet ratings today and named Apple’s iPad the top tablet. The top rating was based on the new iPad’s Retina display, its 5-megapixel camera, long-lasting battery and dependable connectivity to Verizon’s 4G network. Other highly-rated tablets included the Toshiba
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On March 20th, I posted an article about reports that the new iPad was running considerably hotter than the iPad 2. At the time, Consumer Reports conducted some tests that found the new iPad to be about 12 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than the iPad 2
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Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit, working in conjunction with financial institutions and the computer security industry, has joined forces with US Marshals to take down a number of botnets which have been utilizing variants of the Zeus family of malware. It is claimed that Zeus and
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The Mac Observer is reporting on a vulnerability issue related to Mobile Safari on iPhones and iPads running iOS 5.1. Earlier versions may be affected as well. David Vieira-Kurz of MajorSecurity discovered the vulnerability and has issued a security alert. The vulnerability allows malicious sites
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The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) recently set out to answer this very question – how many people would be willing to give up more personal information in exchange for bigger discounts or a better price. ENISA conducted its research on a cross
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