Category: BlogTechnology

Here are couple of tech news tidbits that I ran across recently (translation: I am too lazy to do a real blog post):

According to Nielsen, by the end of the 2008, an estimated 20% of U.S. households will have ditched the phone company and will only have mobile phones (they will be years behind us […]

Secunia is reporting a vulnerability with Autodesk’s Design Review DWF Viewer which can lead to a compromised PC.
The vulnerability stems from a flaw in the ActiveX control including the insecure “SaveAs()” method. If exploited, arbitrary files on the compromised computer can be overwritten.
This vulnerability was originally discovered by “bruiser” from Nine Situations Group and outlined […]

For all you travelers out there with a bazillion pictures from the hundreds of trips you have taken, here is a pretty cool piece of software that will allow you to Geotag your photos with ease.
Microsoft Pro Photo Tools allows photographers to easily geotag photos, assign GPS coordinates, edit a picture’s meta data and lots […]

Well, it has been a while since there was a significant laptop recall, but you knew it would happen again.
Sony has issued a voluntary recall of 438,000 Vaio laptop computer due to the possibility of overheating that could potentially burn the user.
According to the statement by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Sony gotten 15 […]

Last month, the VP of Windows Vista marketing Brad Brooks openly acknowledged that Microsoft has felt the pressure from the negative publicity surrounding Windows Vista.
“We broke a lot of things. We know that, and we know it caused you a lot of pain.”
At the center of the negative publicity stood Apple with the “I’m a […]

Most new computers these days come preloaded with some form of Internet Security, usually McAfee or, *gasp*, Norton.  These are usually in the form of a trial version for up to 15 months with the hopes that, when the trial period is expired you will be so intimidated by the thought of installing a different […]

Best Buy is scheduled to start selling Apple’s iPhone on September 7.  This is huge for Best Buy because it makes them the first independent retailer to be allowed to do this and it makes them the first U.S. retailer to do so.
Best Buy already had an inside track due to the fact that they […]

If you use the combination of Microsoft Windows and ZoneAlarm, the Microsoft Windows update released yesterday (KB951748) will cause a conflict with ZoneAlarm which will prevent users from connecting to the Internet.
The Microsoft update makes changes to the way that your computer handles DNS requests and ZoneAlarm does not recognize those changes and therefore blocks […]

Thanks to open source the LiMo Foundation, the Android cats, and the Symbian boys are all working together on this one. Whether they know it or not a successful innovation by one will be quickly, and legally, cloned by the others.

Same message, new media seems to be the focus of the Internet Sexuality Information Services, or ISIS. Featured on NPR today, ISIS in particular is trying to reach out to kids with a “legitimate” message about the risks and benefits of sexual activity via media they use every day. I say “legitimate” not as a […]