Microsoft Keeps Beating a Dead Browser

Posted on 03 July 2009

I hate to be constantly beating a dead browser, but news about Internet Explorer 8 keeps coming up, kind of like a day-old fish taco at Earl’s House of Chowder.
It seems Microsoft will stop at nothing to get people to try IE8. First, they published a “get the facts” comparison chart showing how — surprise! [...]

BlackBerry vs. iPhone 3.0: Smackdown Revisited

Posted on 03 July 2009

The new iPhone 3.0 OS is now old news, but do its enhancements overcome any advantages that the BlackBerry has over the iPhone? In May, I pitted the BlackBerry Bold in a head-to-head competition against the iPhone 3G, which handily beat RIM’s business standard in most areas. After all, the iPhone 3.0 OS enhances the [...]

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Google Says Outage Caused By Traffic Routing Error

Posted on 03 July 2009

The outage that took Google offline for scores of users on Thursday was caused by a traffic routing error, the company now says. The Google outage affected users across the United States and in numerous other countries. The vast majority of Google services became unavailable, including Gmail, YouTube, Google News, and even the google.com home [...]

Security

DOD Prohibits Removable Storage Devices To Stop Worm

Posted on 03 July 2009

“Lockdown” must be the Department of Defense’s middle name. As a worm seems to be making its way through the military’s computers, the DOD has responded by banning flash drives, CDs, and just about everything else that can store data and be moved from one machine to another.
DOD Prohibits Removable Storage Devices To Stop [...]

Software & Applications

Coder, your days are numbered

Posted on 03 July 2009

Programmers care about languages. Opinion on the topic is generally divided into two schools of thought. One holds that a good programmer will be versed in a selection of different languages, to be better equipped to handle a variety of coding styles and challenges. The other school maintains that the best way to remain marketable [...]

Storage

Back Up Those Digital Photos Dad

Posted on 03 July 2009

Earlier today I received an email from a good photographer friend of mine. She was asking me about a new online back up service that I was not familiar with after having almost lost a hard drive at 4am this morning.
As a photogeek, but even more as a geek dad, the importance of photo [...]

Wireless

Aruba invents virtualised remote access

Posted on 03 July 2009

Aruba Networks has announced a new family of branch office wireless access points it says can be used to build a cheap but powerful remote access system based on virtual principles.
Dubbed the ‘virtual branch office’, the system uses software-upgraded versions of the company’s current range of data centre-based hardware controllers connected to one of [...]