The Rise of the Smartphone
Today I was relaxing in a cafe, taking it easy on Sunday. As I looked around the other tables, everyone else was either looking at a smartphone or else had one resting on the table. They weren’t students or young…
Microsoft Will Have Holiday Stores
The Summer isn’t over yet. In some places, the new school year has yet to begin. My limited experience in retail was enough to show me that now is the time that retailers start rolling out their plans for the…
Video of Tim Cook and Apple Legal Team During Surface Announcement
Yesterday Microsoft held their mysterious event and unveiled the Windows Surface Tablets – both Windows 8 Pro and Windows RT versions. It was a rare time for Microsoft – the pre and post-announcement created Apple-like buzz. Fitting since the new…
Microsoft Abandons Podcasts
It is time to say goodbye to the Zune. Microsoft has recently announced that it is switching over to Xbox Music. The emphasis is clearly focused on music, and it looks like there will be a way to stream music…
Microsoft Issued Emergency Patch Against the Flame Malware
Flame is a malware that was discovered recently by researcher at Kaspersky Lab. Flame is a malicious program that embeds itself in a system and steal data from that system by watching keystrokes It can steal valuable information, including but…
Windows 8 Release Preview Leaks
Poor Microsoft just can’t keep anything secret. Today the Release Preview version of Windows 8, which will be released in the coming days, has leaked out to P2P. The build, which is labeled 8400, hit bit torrent and is spreading…
E-Logs
As an over-the-road truck driver, in the past couple of months I had to make the mandatory switch away from a paper logbook that had to be filled out each day to an electronic logging system, or so-called E-Logs. For…