Have you left the house without your mobile phone – only to be a wreck until you were reunited with it later on? I have a deep-seated fear of losing my phone or being separated from it. I always joke about it, but apparently I’m not alone. There’s even a name for it: Nomophobia.Nomophobia gets its…
Thomas Fox
The Amazon Dash button provides yet another clever way to shop. Dash, a stick-on Wi-Fi button, is great for brands, but a loss for consumers as it creates brand-specific shoppers who fail to compare prices.In theory, it sounds great. You stick a Dash button on your Keurig, press it when you're almost out of K-cups, and…
Google Fiber expansion is putting Time Warner Cable (TWC) on the defensive.
Google Fiber has release plans to expand into Charlotte, NC. This news has put TWC, the current and largest ISP in the area, into overdrive to make sure they keep their existing customers. TWC has plans to upgrade customers' Internet to speeds as much as…
President Barack Obama is taking aim at "malicious cyber actors" who attempt to profit from digital attacks on US interests.An executive order announced Wednesday authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of State and Attorney General to impose sanctions on cyberattackers hacking into the networks of US companies or government agencies.The White House aims to…
Unfortunately, we have the sad duty of reporting yet another Internet related scam targeting small businesses.This latest fraud comes via postal mail as a very official looking invoice from a company called “Website Backup,” although if you check carefully, the word “invoice” doesn’t appear anywhere on the document. The mailing looks as though it is…
It seems Microsoft took note of the 5 million Chromebooks sold.
Microsoft is set to release two new laptop lines to the market this year. To most people, this is not very newsworthy. What is newsworthy is that Microsoft plans to target the business segment created by Google and their Chromebook. Microsoft is planning on…
With the release of the Surface 3, Microsoft is bringing an end to the Windows RT operating system era.
The new Surface model, named Surface 3, is set to be the lightest and slimmest model to date while still having all the laptop-replacing features as the Surface Pro 3. The Surface 3 will come installed…
Facebook’s efforts to spread Internet connectivity to nearly every person on the globe will get off the ground this summer. A new report from The Wall Street Journal indicates that Facebook’s prototype drone, Aquila, will be much larger than the one-tenth-scale drone that the company tested last year.The full-size model will have the wingspan of…
Middle East terrorist organization, Islamic State (ISIS), has called on its followers to take its fight to 100 members of the United States military residing in the U.S. A group calling itself the "Islamic State Hacking Division" has posted names, addresses, and photographs of soldiers, sailors, and airmen online, asking its "brothers residing in America" to…
Samsung to start adding Microsoft services to their phones and tablets.
Samsung has announced that it will be pre-installing Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, Excel and Skype on some of its Android based tablets. Samsung has yet to announce which models will be pre-installed, but these models will also include OneNote and OneDrive as well.Microsoft products and…
Cyanogen is a $500 million company after latest round of funding.
The start-up company, Cyanogen, creates Android-based operating systems which allow the user more control and customization of their Android device.Cyanogen is about to close a deal that will add an additional $110 million in funding to the Android company. With this funding, Cyanogen will be able…
A new SSL/TLS vulnerability named “FREAK” was identified by several security researchers, a decade-old encryption flaw that leaves device users vulnerable to having their electronic communications intercepted. It’s a threat because FREAK allows an attacker to get between a client and server and view what is intended to be a secure and private communication.The vulnerability is…