Apple recently released its eighth version of Max OS X with Mountain Lion. Priced at only $19.99 as an Apple App Store internet download, Mountain Lion promises over 200 innovative new features. The highlights include: Full iCloud integration for easy set up of your Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Messages, Reminders and Notes, and keeping everything (including […]
Like many people I know with small businesses, I signed up for an account with SquareUp (though back when I first used the service, the card reader was free). The payment system works well for me, but a recent Consumerist article warns of some surprising details hidden in the membership agreement. Not only does Square, […]
Since Apple’s release of the “world’s thinnest notebook” with the MacBook Air in January 2008, the competition rushed to offer comparable alternatives. Eventually, Intel coined the name Ultrabook to define any of these ultra lightweight, ultra-thin portables using their components. Even Lenovo, best known for continuing IBM’s ThinkPad line of durable but conservatively styled notebooks, […]
According to information posted on the cellphone discussion website HowardForums, July 9 marked the last day prepaid cellular carrier Boost Mobile allowed new activations of IDEN (Nextel) phones on its network. With Sprint anxious to shut down the Nextel network before the end of 2013, it’s understandable, but this marks the end of an era. […]
Now that the July 9 deadline has come and gone, it appears few experienced a loss of their internet connection after all. According to the FBI (who shut down its temporary replacement DNS servers at 12:01 AM on Monday, as expected), only about 41,800 infected computers were accessing them from the United States as of […]
As many long-time Apple iPhone users will attest, the phone’s glass front (and back on the 4/4s models) make a case almost a requirement. Therefore, I’m always techcited to find a new case to try out with mine, especially when it claims to add new capabilities. I was fortunate enough to receive one such case, […]
After over a year of uncertainty, Microsoft finally makes it official; Windows Home Server is no more. In a recently-released Windows Server 2012 Essentials FAQ, Microsoft says it’s “combining the features that were previously only found in Windows Home Server, such as support for DLNA-compliant devices and media streaming, into Windows Server 2012 Essentials and […]
Adobe announces today, via their blog, the discontinuation of support for its Flash video player for new Android devices. As of August 15, the Flash application will no longer be available for downloading from the Google Play store, except for Android devices that already have a previous version of the player on them. Adobe warns […]
BlueStacks has released a public alpha test version of its App Player for OS X at the Google I/O conference. The product was originally announced as a beta release for Windows users in March, allowing users to run any Android app without modification. The current attempt to extend this functionality to Mac OS X users […]
Only weeks after the FBI warned travelers of an increasing risk of data theft while using hotel internet connection, the FTC files a complaint against the Wyndham hotel chain for alleged failures in data security. Wyndham hotels had three security breaches within less than two years’ time, ultimately leading to hundreds of thousands of customer’s […]
