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We recently found this neat software tool. As most of us simply click accept to most terms and conditions when installing programs, use this little program to quickly analyze those terms and ensure yo

COMPUTER PHONE SCAM ALERT We have had several calls the past few weeks from clients stating that Microsoft called them offering to help them clean their systems to some errors which were being reporte

A member of the Anonymous hacktivist group appears to have taken down GoDaddy with a massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS). Looks like GoDaddy, the world’s top domain registrar and web hosting

In a US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ruling, Verizon was ordered to stop charging users an additional fee for using their 4G smartphones and tablets as Wi-Fi hotspots, aka tethering. P. Mi

Despite repeated alerts, tens of thousands of Americans may still lose their Internet service Monday unless they do a quick check of their computers for malware that could have taken over their machin

Key Findings Google is cutting into Microsoft's business for both email and personal productivity suites (the latter, by slow attrition rather than direct replacement). Compared with Microsoft, Google

May 3, 2012 - The BBB of the Upstate is re-issuing the phishing scam alert originally posted on 04/03/2012 by the Council of Better Business Bureaus (CBBB): "For the past 4+ months, BBB has been the v

In the last 18 months of his life, Jobs, who died on Oct. 5 at age 56, was obsessed with crushing Android. He explained to his authorized biographer, Walter Isaacson, that the litigation against devic

The Justice Department jumped directly into the fight over the future of digital books on Wednesday — and Amazon came out the winner.Read Morehttp://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/11/justice-f

Apple solar array effort has already come under fire from a data center guru James Hamilton at rival Amazon, who said last month that it just may not make sense to use so much land for a solar array t

This week, security researchers discovered a new computer virus had infected half a million Mac users — about half of them in the United States. The virus is infesting users in the most surreptitious

Since they are small and nimble operations, small businesses are set up to move fast as they adopt and deploy the latest and greatest tech advancements. The only problem: The shoestring budgets they