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Viruses Are Nearly Inescapable
By: gregg housh
Whether it's Koobface or a new fake anti-malware program, it feels like spyware and viruses are inescapable for any computer connected to the net. It's estimated that the amount spent annually on security software in the U.S. has risen to over $800 million in the last two years, but computers are still getting infected daily.(read
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Google Voice The Future Of Phone Calls
By: gregg housh
Google Voice is a telecommunications marvel that extends users a unique phone number, to which any calls to your actual phone – or, if you so choose, multiple phones - will be transferred. It is one of the most useful tools to come out of Google.(read
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T-mobile And Microsoft, Information Loss And Cloud Systems
By: gregg housh
You may have already heard about the colossal failure of Microsoft and Danger's cloud system, resulting in the loss of approximately 800,000 T-Mobile users' cell phone information. The unique methodology T-mobile employed to manage their customers data experienced a catastrophic failure on October fifth.(read
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T-mobile And Microsoft / Danger, Data Loss And Cloud Computers
By: gregg housh
You probably have already heard about the colossal failure of Microsoft and Danger's cloud system, leading to the loss of approximately 800,000 T-Mobile users' cell phone information. The unique methodology T-mobile employed to manage their clients information experienced a disastrous failure on October fifth.(read
entire article)
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Upgrade Firefox's Performance With Firetune
By: gregg housh
Often praised for its functionality, with a feature set that has made it more popular than Microsoft's Internet Explorer among computer savvy users, a constant criticism of Firefox has been its speed. Regardless of its intuitive accessibility and strongly customizable interface, the performance of this browser - even for systems on which such issues are a rarity - has been problematic.(read
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Adobe Acrobat Reader Could Stand To Shed A Few Pounds
By: gregg housh
When you are the standard, it is common to become comfortable, the popularity of your product trumping the need to introduce changes that are more than negligible. However, recognition is frequently the result of the familiarity of your product taking precedence over its reliability. In every industry, consumers exhibit their tendency to stay with the standard out of habit, ignoring glaring flaws that become acceptable in the face of the unknown.(read
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Windows 7 Makes Updating Windows A Lot Easier
By: gregg housh
For people familiar with Microsoft's Windows Operating System, you're totally aware of how vital is to keep your system updated with the latest patches released by Microsoft. As well as steeling you against any security issues, which arise on a daily basis, these updates have been proven to significantly improve the performance of the operating system.(read
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Advanced Tools For Use By The Normal User
By: gregg housh
With the release of Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system, a lot of the performance issues present in past installments of this computer mainstay have been addressed, showing a quantifiable improvement in areas that were once headaches for even the most capable machines. Still, regardless of what would appear to be Microsoft's welcome reply to the chorus of complaints about XP and Vista, the onset of issues is to be expected for even the newest release. No operating system is immune from the kind of error that results from any number of issues: viruses, malware, negligence, etc .(read
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What Data Does Google Store About Me?
By: gregg housh
Any ubiquitous business is going to face criticism -- some of it deservedly -- and Google is no exception. Where Microsoft's products are roundly lambasted for poor quality control in certain circles, it's Google's attitude towards information gathering that has some groups concerned.(read
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Protect Yourself From Email Scams
By: gregg housh
A lot of us are already well familiar with the frustrations of spam: unsolicited email ads.
In recent years, unwanted emails have evolved in an attempt to avoid increasingly specialized filters and wary
recipients. We have put together a list of red flags to help you quickly identify emails that may be
harmful to your PC and your bank account.(read
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