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11 May

Marc St-Pierre

American Dental Association sends malware-infected USB drives to its members

While fewer than 10 incidents have been reported thus far, the event sheds light on security awareness in the healthcare industry. The American Dental Association unwittingly sent malware-infected USB thumb drives to dental offices nationwide, the ADA confirmed today in a statement. In a statement supplied to Healthcare IT News, the ADA, which...

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06 May

Marc St-Pierre

Windows 10 adoption hits 300 million as Microsoft warns the free upgrade will end soon

If you haven’t upgraded from Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 by July 29, expect to pay more than $100 to do so later. Microsoft says that 300 million devices now run Windows 10. And if yours isn’t among them, time is running out. On Thursday, Microsoft began showing potential customers of Windows 10 the...

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27 Feb

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Turbo Charge Your Computer with Solid State!

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...

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23 Jan

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Is Your Business Ready for the Storm?

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...

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11 Nov

Marc St-Pierre

Still using Windows XP or Mac OS X Mountain Lion? Say goodbye to Chrome

If you’re still using and old version of Windows or Mac OS X, your days of using Google’s Chrome browser are numbered. Google announced Tuesday that in April 2016, it will end support for Windows Vista and XP, as well as Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), 10.7 (Lion) and 10.8 (Mountain Lion)....

Tech News

04 Oct

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5 Online Privacy Tips From An Ex-FBI Agent

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...

Tech News, Tips & Tricks

04 Oct

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Google’s Smart Contact Lenses Are Going To Become A Real Thing

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...

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04 Oct

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Apple and IBM Team Up For Major Enterprise Mobility Partnership

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...

Tech News

04 Oct

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A Chrome Shortcut That Makes Searching Your Favorite Sites Easy

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...

Geek News, Tips & Tricks

04 Oct

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Facebook’s Save Button Is Actually Useful

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...

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American Dental Association sends malware-infected USB drives to its members

Windows 10 adoption hits 300 million as Microsoft warns the free upgrade will end soon

Turbo Charge Your Computer with Solid State!

Is Your Business Ready for the Storm?

Still using Windows XP or Mac OS X Mountain Lion? Say goodbye to Chrome

5 Online Privacy Tips From An Ex-FBI Agent

Google’s Smart Contact Lenses Are Going To Become A Real Thing

Apple and IBM Team Up For Major Enterprise Mobility Partnership

A Chrome Shortcut That Makes Searching Your Favorite Sites Easy

Facebook’s Save Button Is Actually Useful