Any person using WordPress and/or Joomla should tighten the security around their accounts, as the hosting provides have noticed a triple increase in the number of brute force attacks. According to The Next Web report, these attacks, which are being done with botnets, are slowing down or causing the accounts to become unavailable. The report […]
Come June 2013, Nintendo will delete some of the original Wii network services and channels due to their unpopularity. On June 28, several Wii services and apps will cease working because of their low participation rate, including the following: – Check Mii Out Channel – Everybody Votes Channel – Forecast Channel – Nintendo Channel – […]
Google has a new service that is assisting users to create an Internet will that lays out what happens to their information after they have died – either passing the information on to their loved ones (digital inheritance) or deleting it entirely. Google’s Inactive Account Manager allows its users to pick people they trust to […]
Professional social networking site LinkedIn is purchasing Pulse, a mobile news reader, for $90 million in an effort to assist the website to increase its mobile standing in content distribution for users. 10 percent of $90 million will come in the form of cash while the other 90 percent will be paid for in stock. […]
With less than a year left before Microsoft ends all Windows XP operating software support, Microsoft is telling businesses using the 10-year-old OS to upgrade their computers to Windows 7 or 8. Office 2003 support was recently cut. The company cited numerous reasons for the software upgrade such as no technical support should something go […]
Google is reportedly in talks with WhatsApp to acquire the popular cross-platform messaging application. That’s according to the latest Digital Trend report. According to the report, the two companies have been talking for about five weeks. A source close to the negotiations said WhatsApp is playing hardball, increasing the acquisition price to close to $1 […]
FixYa in its February 2013 Report titled “Smartphone by Manufacturer” has used a wealth of information the virtual community has accumulated in troubleshooting/repair of consumer electronic products to good effect, producing a head-to-head reliability comparison and summary of leading smartphone makers. The four smartphone manufacturers — Apple, Samsung, Nokia and Motorola who account for 72.51% […]
Facebook recently announced its big secret to its popular social network: graph search, which is a smart search engine. With graph search, users can conduct “natural” searches of content their friends share. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder and chief executive, said graph search is not a web search tool so it’s not a direct challenge to […]
Oracle, after a warning from the Department of Homeland Security to users, released an immediate fix on its Java software security flaw that made computers vulnerable to take overs by hackers. According to the agency, the Java 7 Update 10 and early has an undetermined susceptibility that allows a remote, unauthenticated invader to perform an […]
Reddit co-founder Aaron Swartz was found in his seventh-floor Brooklyn apartment in an apparent suicide Friday morning. According to police sources, he was found hanging by a belt and there has been no note recovered. Swartz, 26, was to face trial next month for his role in a controversial computer-hacking case. An autopsy will be […]