Corporate IT departments should be pleased with new security measures in Windows 7, but consumers are still at risk of getting hit by malware despite changes in the User Account Control (UAC) feature designed to help people be smarter when using applications, security experts say.
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Entries Tagged as ‘Computers’
October 27, 2009
Windows 7 Security Defaults Worry Experts
October 27, 2009
Gaping security hole in Time Warner cable routers
A gaping security hole in cable modems distributed to Time Warner/Road Runner customers could potentially be exploited remotely to access private networks and possibly capture and manipulate private data.
That’s the warning issued by David Chen, a blogger and start-up founder who discovered he could trivially access a customer’s of Time Warner’s SMC8014 series cable [...]
October 2, 2009
Apple Keeps Google Voice for iPhone on the Table
In a letter to the FCC, Apple specified that it hasn’t actually rejected Google’s Voice application for the iPhone — rather, it’s still under consideration. The letter was a response to an FCC inquiry on why exactly the Google Voice application has not yet become available to users. Apple denied consulting with AT&T on the [...]
July 29, 2009
Apple and AT&T Has Pandora’s Box Been Opened?
if Apple is going to constantly tell me what I can and cannot have on MY phone, the flashy interface and features may not be enough for me to tell Steve Jobs to shove that flashy phone up his rear and go elsewhere.
July 28, 2009
Google Voice…
I was looking forward to playing with Google Voice, the new service that gives you one telephone number that can ring your home, work and cellphones at the same time. Also provides voicemail, etc. Lots of interesting features.
To take advantage of it on the iPhone it would help to use an app. One has been [...]
July 18, 2009
Decided to give MobileMe a try
In my quest for good personal email on my iPhone, seperate from my work account, I’ve decided to give Apple’s MobileMe a try.
Yahoo! offers push but to be able to use my various desktop email clients they wanted $20.00 a year. Yes, cheaper than MobileMe but I wasn’t entirely sold on Yahoo for spam [...]
July 17, 2009
Which email service would you use?
When I was given a Blackberry for work the one thing I fell in love with was my emails pushed to my phone and I instantly knew someone sent me something. I also liked the fact that whatever I did on phone or my work desktop, my item was there at either place when I [...]
June 25, 2009
IBCNU APRS iPhone App has updated.
The IBCNU APRS iPhone app has finally been released by the Appstore. After field day weekend I hope to sit down and check out the new gui interface and features and finally put out that review I have been promising.
Right now the new update isn’t connecting to the APRS servers. Got to figure out what’s [...]
June 21, 2009
IRLP 4865 Down…
Due to power surge the IRLP node is down until further notice. I have to figure out what is bad on the computer and replace those items.
June 15, 2009
Way to go Steve Jobs!
For people that do not own an iPhone you have to use iTunes to sync music, etc to your phone. The one thing that always ticked me off is you cannot make a ring tone from a CD that you own that you have loaded into iTunes to play on your phone. So I never [...]
