Google has made it much nicer to view the maps and navigate to businesses and residential locations. On the desktop they have made searching much more intuitive. You can easily navigate to a location, and then from there you will be prompted to explore the area.This is similar on how the app on Android was worked. Their…
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Just this week China began taking aim at some of the United States biggest technology providers claiming they are a “terrible security threat.” This comes only a few months after the United States government targeted one of China's largest tech companies Huawei.Back in March of this year Huawei became a target of scrutiny when suspicions…
Bing is planning on taking the majority of searches performed on the Internet. They are planning on making the Bing Search engine the go to search engine for all schools. This would include kindergarten through high school.As of right now 34 school districts are already using Windows 8 and only Bing as a search engine. Bing allows…
This past week one of the world’s largest free email providers announced that it has plans to begin recycling email accounts and making old accounts that haven’t been accessed in the past year available for someone else to use.There have been numerous IT security professionals that have said that this is going to cause major…
Google has developed a new system that will have the ability to eradicate Child Porn from the Internet. This will be the first time that search engines and web firms will be able to swap data about images that portray child pornography, and sex abuse.The Internet Watch Foundation has jumped on board and would like to help…
Pakistan and many other countries around the globe have picked fights with Google in the past but none have went quite as far as Pakistan's new IT and Telecommunications minister Anusha Rahman Khan.Khan made a statement that YouTube, one of the services Google owns, hosts “blasphemous and objectionable material” and stated that unless Google cleans…
Finally the wait is over Google is the company to buy out the popular navigation app that makes driving as fun as Pacman. Waze has finally accepted an offer from Google for 1.2 billion dollars ending the months of speculation on who will purchase Waze.Google has agreed to keep the development of Waze in Israel where it all began.…
Since Windows 8 has come on to the scene, Windows XP users continue to dwindle away. Windows XP as stated in previous articles has had an end of life date set by Microsoft for a long time now. Windows XP support ends April 8th of next year. Since the end of support date is quickly…
The FBI has joined forces with Microsoft and together they have taken down The Citadel Botnet. They announced that they have disrupted more than 1,000 different botnets that steal individuals financial information.The Citadel Botnet caused the result of over $500 million in losses from over 5 million people and businesses. Citadel was found in over 90 countries including…
One of the biggest concerns when designing data centers is space. Many times when a company is looking into a location for offsite backups, virtual servers, email, etc. prices are largely determined by the amount of storage space they will need. Over the years small business have been looking more and more at the possibility…
The NSA PRISM program was top secret until now. The NSA has a program code named PRISM which lives on the servers of major service providers that include Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, Youtube, Skype ,AOL, and Apple. PRISM has been in operation since 2007 and first partnered with Microsoft. They are aiming to have…
Quantum Cryptography is when you use the laws of physics to encrypt your data. We have been able to encrypt data using vastly large prime numbers that would have to be factored to decrypt the key. The number is so large it would take current cutting-edge processors the projected life-time of the universe to crack.With all things there are…