Business and Technology news of the day
1. Windows Phone 7’s theme and UI Last week, Microsoft confirmed that Windows 8 will have a tiles-based interface. Called Immersive, this GUI is meant to be used in full-screen mode, and is probably targeted at tablets running Windows 8. 2. Ribbon User Interface in Explorer It looks like Microsoft Read more…
“…The in-house reputation system used in Internet Explorer 8 and 9 is markedly superior at blocking social-engineering attacks than the Google equivalent used by Chrome, Firefox, Apple’s Safari, an independent test by NSS Labs has found. Rating the browsers against a sample set of European malware URLs over 19 days Read more…
This CBC report shows that smart phone users have 21% more sick days. Always being connected is stressful and has real costs to an organizations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjqtGOpW6RU
This Windows 8 video previews / leaks the personalized tiles START screen, thumbs touch / thumbs type ergonmic keyboard At June 1, 2011 — in the D9 Conference, Microsoft demonstrated the next generation of Windows, internally code-named “Windows 8,” for the first time. A Windows 8-based PC is really a Read more…
6/3/2011 6:00:00 AMBy: Tony Bradley …Microsoft held its first major unveiling of what’s in store with Windows 8 at the D9 conference this week. Windows 8 looks bold. It looks slick. It looks impressively innovative. But, it also looks like it will be a major battle to convince business users Read more…
It doesn’t matter how you are paid; staff, contractor, agency… you customer will look to you for reliability and that means you need to be more than good, you need to be great. These are the rules I live by and judge others by. It you want to be a Read more…
…With the introduction of the virtual machine (VM) role on the Windows Azure platform, these powerful concepts come together to host virtual infrastructure in the cloud. You’ll soon be able to build VMs for Windows Azure and deploy them to the cloud where you can leverage the flexible, scalable infrastructure Read more…
In case you have not heard of this guy, he is the real deal. He has many such simple projects using consumer grade devices to make amazing things happen. Using infrared (IR) light pens and the Wii Remote, it is possible to create very low-cost multi-point interactive whiteboards and multi-point Read more…
Kaspersky TDSSKiller 2.5.0.0 was updated this week and is a popular free tool that will enable you to detect and remove an installed rootkit. Complements your existing security software. Talking of security software, Comodo Internet Security 5.4 was updated this week, along with Comodo Firewall 5.4 and Comodo Antivirus 5.4. Read more…
In addition to the “motivator / hygiene“ theory stuff many of us learned about in University, this presenter explains two additional and fascinating concepts: Over pay actually reduces performance Letting people work on their own corporate projects works for knowledge workers (but not labourers) and especially so, if you require staff Read more…
Up & Running Calgary Logo At Up & Running we are always working on new ideas but our logo has not changed in 10 years to reflect that. Today we are more connected that ever and the PC as a symbol is less useful than in the past so today Read more…
By Michael Robertson of Lindows/Linspire Apple is making a preposterous claim to the trademark office that they invented the app store concept and name and they’re asking a Judge to stop Amazon from even using the words “app store”. It’s baffling why such a phenomenal company who is trouncing the Read more…
I recently completed a Lunch & Learn on how to EASILY take any number of still photos / graphics and add it to video clips to make a single video using just FREE Microsoft software. The primary tool is Windows Live Movie Maker 2011 and this course covers: preparation adding Read more…
Up & Running has always provided high quality web and email hosting for clients in the Calgary region, but with our new partnership we have migrated to a new hosting platform. We now provide FULL line of web services on higly redundant server farm with FREE 24 hour real person, NORTH AMERICAN Read more…
Recently a popular website (gawker.com) had their user account database hackaed and 1.25 million encrypted accounts were “stolen”. The hacker then descrypted 185,000 of them and posted them for all to see. Most people trying to steal your data or money will often use a computer program to guess at Read more…