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27 Feb
For the last 20 years, the only quick way to make your computer faster has been a ‘RAM’ upgrade. The computers ‘ram’, or short term memory’ speeds up computers because it is the component that stores everything the user is doing at any given moment. Browsing the web? It’s in the RAM. Writing an...
23 Jan
Protect Your Business From IT Downtime Weather the storm! For the next 48 hours, the entire Mid-Atlantic will be hunkered down to endure “Jonas,” a blizzard that is at once unexpected yet statistically inevitable as time passes. Jonas threatens to pile as much as two feet of snow on our homes and businesses, with...
04 Oct
Mary Galligan used to work for the FBI. She shares her tips on how to protect your privacy and online identity. If anyone knows about cyber surveillance, it’s Mary Galligan.Until recently, she led the cyber and special operations team at the FBI’s New York office — the agency’s largest surveillance operation. That includedcatching hackers...
04 Oct
RememberGoogle’s smart contact lenses? Well, now the giant Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis is turning them into a commercial reality. The two companieshave announcedthat Novartis is licensing Google’s technology to create special contact lenses for diabetic patients. The new lenses will analyze tear fluid in the eye and provide real-time, constant measurement of an individual’s...
04 Oct
Apple and IBM todayannounced plansfor an exclusive partnership that will see them teaming up to “transform enterprise mobility” through a series of new business apps and services for iOS devices that will undoubtedly skyrocket Apple’s enterprise sales. IBM will begin selling iOS devices to its corporate customers and will also create more than 100...
04 Oct
Google is the default search engine in Chrome’s “Omnibox,” the text field at the top of your browser where the URL appears and where you type search terms. But you can add a limitless number of other, site-specific search engines to it as well. This comes in handy if you’re looking for particular...
04 Oct
Services likePocket, Reading List in the Safari browser, andInstapaperhave been giving us a place to safely store long reads and other interesting tidbits for from the Web for years now. But there are still plenty of people who don’t know about or use them. And a large cross section of those people are...
04 Oct
Whitehat hackers have struck back at the operators of thepernicious CryptoLocker ransom trojanthat has held hundreds of thousands of hard drives hostage. Through a partnership that included researchers from FOX-IT and FireEye, researchers managed to recover the private encryption keys that CryptoLocker uses to lock victims’ personal computer files until they pay a...