Business and Technology news of the day
According to reports, Microsoft is set to slash the price it charges OEMs for Windows 8.x. This doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll be able to pick up a copy of the tiled OS for any cheaper, but it does mean significant savings for (some) PC builders. At the moment, Microsoft charges Read more…
Below is the list of Top Level Domains that are under consideration to be released in 2014. I spoke with GoDaddy, Network Solutions, and ICANN to confirm that no such list is publicly available… so I (well, actually a good friend of mine at www.smarttowns.ca ) manually scraped the ICANN site Read more…
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=201032091529 I picked this domain up in December because I was going to setup a special blog but find I just do not have the time, so it now just points it to my primary site www.URTech.ca . In case you were not aware Windows Threshold is the code name Microsoft Read more…
There are three ready answers to ‘how often does group policy update? COMPUTER CONFIGURATION and USER CONFIGURATION changes automatically refresh every 90 minutes with a random offset of upto 30 minutes When you run gpupdate /force When you reboot All three of these assume you are on a single server Read more…
Apple Customer Experience Worse than that of Amazon, Microsoft, and Samsung [Survey] | iPhone in Canada Blog – Canada’s #1 iPhone Resource http://www.iphoneincanada.ca/apple/apple-customer-experience-worse-than-that-of-amazon-microsoft-and-samsung-survey/
Internet Explorer 11 will eventually appear in WSUS after being released directly to it by Microsoft, but until then you can still deploy IE11 using WSUS: Launch WSUS Click UPDATES (not ALL UPDATES but the root UPDATES) in the top left Click IMPORT in the top RIGHT of the Actions Pane Read more…
There is no set time for Microsoft to release patches on ‘Patch Tuesday’ to Windows Update but the pattern has been near 11:00am Pacific Standard Time (PST). Further I have observed over the last decade that Patch Tuesday patches do not appear to made available to WSUS (Windows Server Update Services) Read more…
Every year Google releases a list of their most searched terms. Below is the 2013 list for Canada: 1. Outlook 2. iPhone 5S 3. BlackBerry 10 4. GTA 5 5. Nexus 5 6. PS4 7. Songza 8. Xbox One 9. Samsung Galaxy S4 10. Vine
Gartner predicts Android will pass 1 billion users across all devices in 2014 | MobileSyrup.com http://mobilesyrup.com/2014/01/07/gartner-predicts-android-will-pass-a-billion-users-across-all-devices-in-2014/
Below is are simplified explanations of NSA ‘products’ used to spy: TYPHON HX: Fake cell towers – You think your cell has connected to a typical provider (Bell, AT&T, Orange…) but for just $175,000 each the NSA has developed fake mobile cell towers. …this type of hacking was spotted in action Read more…
…The Windows Phone Store is seeing “over 12 million transactions per day” and now has over 200,000 available apps to download. This number is up from 190,000 apps and 10 million Windows Phone Store transactions per day about 3-weeks ago… http://mobilesyrup.com/2013/12/17/windows-phone-store-has-200000-apps/
Just how bad is Apple security? MacBook Webcams can spy on their users without warning. Both teenage boys and the US federal government can remotely turn turn on your macbook camera without turning on the ‘in use’ light. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/12/18/research-shows-how-macbook-webcams-can-spy-on-their-users-without-warning/
A third of students using ‘distracting’ classroom iPads for play, not work: study “…Researchers surveyed 6,057 students, who were enrolled in Grades 6 through 10, and 302 teachers about their experiences so far in using tablets daily in the classroom. The report concludes that outfitting large numbers of students with Read more…
Crucial has posted a lovely infographic explaining that: DDR4 memory has the capability to double the available density per module DDR4 will use up to 20% less voltage than DDR3 DDR4 will enable mainstream data rates that are at least twice as fast as DDR3 memory
If you want to see what is happening with SHA or NAP take a look a this: ON THE USERS PC Check the EVENT VIEWER: Applications and Services Logs > Microsoft > Windows > Network Access Protection > Operational In a CMD (run as administator) window, run netsh nap client Read more…
…With mobile malware, this is also still growing,and at an exponential rate. The number of mobile threats tracked by Kaspersky Lab in 2011 was equal to the entire amount tracked in 2004-2010, and the amount in 2012 was six times higher than in 2011. In March 2013, over 9,000 new Read more…