To keep up with the ever-changing technology industry, Microsoft announced last Monday that it will now be offering weekly updates to their newest version of Windows, Windows 8. Microsoft believes that this will help them not only keep up with competitors, but possibly stay ahead of the curve as well in some areas. Microsoft has historically released a...
Read MoreTwitter, in an effort to connect news with tweets, is testing a feature that embeds 140-characters messages into longer stories that mention the tweet topic. Twitter says this is part of a larger, over-all strategy that will make Twitter more relevant in the news world. Since tweets can be updated real-time, any information that is contained in an...
Read MoreDo you have trouble mastering your inbox? You’re not alone: the average business owner receives 110 emails a day, and that number is supposed to increase to 125 by 2015 according to the Radicati Group study. So how does one conquer such a large pile of communication every day without missing anything? Mailstrom How many emails do you...
Read MoreUbisoft, the father of the famous Assassin’s Creed videogame series, is advising all users to change their passwords and, in some cases, email addresses immediately. Just yesterday, the large game company announced that its user database had been breached, exposing thousands of email addresses, encrypted passwords and user names. “We recently discovered that one of our Web sites...
Read MoreThe latest update to Skype has enabled a bug that allows users to bypass lock screens on Android devices. Currently, that amounts to 100 million devices that could be compromised. An XDA-Developers Forum by the name of “Pulser†said he tested the attack on the latest version of Skype (which was released Monday, the 1st of July). Pulser...
Read MoreLinkedIn has brought a new feature to the table, and it’s more important than ever that you learn how to use it. Now you get to tell your professional story in a series of pictures using LinkedIn’s Visual Profiles. Considering how much of the Internet is about pictures and images, LinkedIn made an excellent choice when it started...
Read MoreFacebook’s Graph Search has been highly anticipated. The advanced search feature began to roll out earlier this week after being announced in January of this year. While Graph Search is only available in American English at the moment, the company plans on porting it over to other languages soon so it can do a worldwide launch. Zuckerberg himself...
Read MoreHere is a new one for the statute book. It seems that Florida might have just made computers illegal. The state has recently passed a bill in an effort to curb gambling in internet cafes. Which, depending on your point of view, you might think a reasonable thing to do. However, it seems that the wording of the...
Read MoreDo you want a few easy ways to make your Twitter presence overwhelmingly powerful? While we all know how to use Twitter by posting “microblogs†to our Twitter feeds, do we really know how to use it to its fullest? Twitter is no longer an optional social media website like it once was. It has evolved to something...
Read MoreA new storage system breakthrough may change the entire way storage is done, researchers say. A new type of storage based on a glass medium will not only outlive a single person, but may outlive the entire world. This new system may be able to withstand temperatures up to 1,832 Fahrenheit, and can hold up to 360 TB....
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