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Internet Explorer users beware: if you’re using IE 6, 7, 8 or 9 you may be vulnerable to hackers. Microsoft confirmed this week that hackers have been able to gain access to and take over PCs by exploiting a security flaw in the versions of IE 6, 7, 8 or 9.  Only a small number [...]

Microsoft has announced the next version of Office and it’s pretty different.  Office 2013 has been revamped to fit in better with Windows 8, but it’s not just different visually, the pricing model will be different too. Office 2013 will be available by subscription for $8.33 a month or 100 bucks a year for the [...]

As expected, demand for the iPhone 5 was intense when it became available for pre-order last week. No official numbers have been provided yet, but Apple’s initial supply was exhausted less than one hour after the pre-sale began, and it was soon flowed by AT&T and Verizon. New orders are now extended by at least [...]

When Kansas City Chiefs fan Travis Wright Tweeted about his disappointment with the NFL team, he probably didn’t expect a response. He got one all right, and a nasty one at that. Whoever was manning the team’s Twitter account at the time sent Wright a very unprofessional direct message, and then blocked him from interacting [...]

Apple finally announced the iPhone 5 on Wednesday and it looks like a winner to me. It’s thinner than the iPhone 4S, at 7.6 millimeters and lighter too, weighing 112 grams. It has a four inch screen, which is half an inch bigger than any previous iPhone and the A6 chip inside makes it about [...]

On Tuesday, Mark Zuckerberg made his first public appearance since Facebook’s IPO.  Zuckerberg was interviewed at the TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, where he faced questions about his company’s strategy for generating revenue, the rocky debut of its stock and whether or not there will be a Facebook phone. Zuckerberg openly admitted that there have [...]

Did you notice that quite a few websites were unavailable during the day on Monday? You weren’t alone.  GoDaddy, one of the largest web hosts and the largest domain registrar, was hacked, allegedly by a member of the hacker group Anonymous.  GoDaddy hosts millions of websites, and while it’s not clear if all of the [...]

Is big brother watching too closely? Privacy groups fear it might be, with improvements and use of facial recognition technology on the rise. As part of a long overdue update to the national fingerprint database, the FBI has started to roll out a 1 billion dollar facial recognition program. That’s billion with a b. According [...]

Amazon has announced a slew of new Kindles and there’s one for every need. First there’s the cheapest Kindle ever, the updated basic model, which has improved text, new fonts and at 69 bucks is ten dollars cheaper than its predecessor. Next, there’s the Kindle Paperwhite, which has a brighter, front-lit screen and can last [...]

And so it’s begun… the wave of Fall product announcements kicked off with new phones from Nokia and Motorola.  Together with Windows, Nokia unveiled the Lumia 920 and it’s cheaper sibling, the Nokia 820. The phones will be the first with the new Windows 8 operating system. Stockholders weren’t impressed – after the announcement Nokia’s [...]

The hacker group AntiSec has released 1 million Apple unique device identifiers, or UDIDs. It says it has 11 million more, and correlating personal information, ripped from an FBI computer.  In most instances it’s pretty harmless for someone to have your UDID. The concern is the information that can come with a UDID – many [...]

In just a few short days, Apple will announce the iPhone 5. You know what that means: it’s time for a rumor roundup. Here’s what’s been said about the device so far: it will almost certainly have a larger, higher resolution screen then previous iPhone models. The iPhone has become one of the smaller smart [...]

I don’t like to discuss religion or politics in polite company. It’s pointless. Both subjects provoke passionate lectures espousing personal worldviews, and minds are seldom, if ever, changed. But … after watching some of the speeches at the Republican National Convention last week, and switching between pundit commentary on CNN, Fox News and MSNBC, I [...]

Brands on social media platforms are trying harder to get your attention every day and Twitter and Facebook have announced some new products to lend them a hand. Twitter has unveiled “interest targeting” a product that lets advertisers get promoted tweets out to a larger audience.  In the past, promoted tweets were only seen by [...]

The IFA consumer electronics conference is in full swing and Samsung and Sony have made some huge product announcements. Samsung introduced the Galaxy Note II, which has a 5.5-inch screen, making it the largest smartphone ever released and one of the most powerful. It also announced the first ever Samsung Galaxy Camera, a point and [...]