May 31, 2011 · Cybersecurity & Malware
The rash of cyber attacks across the country recently have prompted some strong words from the United States government. The US Department of Defense has ruled that any attack on computer networks or sabotage of information systems stemming from other countries officially constitute an act of war and can be responded t
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May 25, 2011 · Managed IT & On-Site Support
HP has been making technology news a lot recently. They have just unveiled a few new nice computer products as well as a couple of LED computer monitors. However, the company that sits among the top of the technological world is making news for a different reason. Hewlett-Packard is planning on acquiring Printelligent.
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May 16, 2011 · Computer Repair
So, computer outages are seriously a pain in the derrière, in my opinion. I live and die by my computer as it is my primary source of income so a computer outage is never something that needs to happen to me. The good news is, residential computer outages are few and far between. You usually hear
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May 12, 2011 · Managed IT & On-Site Support
If you are one of the many people out there that is currently having problems installing Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2, then your problems may soon be solved as Microsoft has just released a patch that is designed to fix all of those problems and make it smooth sailing. Microsoft
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May 2, 2011 · Managed IT & On-Site Support
Columbus, Ohio, may be placing a lot of sensitive data in danger of theft when it retires old computers, according to one security expert. Columbus’ Department of Technology receives guarantees from its computer disposal vendor that all of the hard drives and other parts that may contain sensitive data have been destro
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April 28, 2011 · Managed IT & On-Site Support
NASA has just awarded HP, one of the largest computer companies in the world, an enormous $2.5 billion contract for desktop computers, devices and services according to a report from HP today.
Read more →April 18, 2011 · Managed IT & On-Site Support
A computer hacker recently posted online screenshots as well as data to a hacking mailing list stating that he was able to and had hacked into a wind turbine facility in New Mexico. However, one day after this was reported, the company that is in charge of the turbines has reported that they have seen
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April 14, 2011 · Managed IT & On-Site Support
A company out of Las Vegas, Nevada, has just bought the trademarks and service contracts for Unix, a computer operating system that is used by large corporations. Unix has also been the center of a large legal battle for the past few years.
Read more →April 5, 2011 · Microsoft, Windows & Software
So, it would seem that Google has become so powerful that it merely needs to think about something and it becomes a reality within a matter of days. Well, that’s how it seems considering the fact that the Institute for Creative Technologies decided to go right ahead and make the company’s April Fool’s prank, Gmail moti
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March 30, 2011 · Cybersecurity & Malware
So, when we think of NASA, we usually think of how smart people are that work there and how advanced they are technologically. However, the network that NASA uses to control the International Space Station and the Hubble Telescope has some unpatched vulnerabilities which could be exploited via the internet according to
Read more →March 22, 2011 · Managed IT & On-Site Support
Google has recently reported that there have been some email disruptions over in China stating that people are having trouble accessing Google’s Gmail program. Sporadic access to the email system has been experienced by users in China for weeks. Access has been reported as sporadic for some but completely blocked for o
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March 16, 2011 · Managed IT & On-Site Support
Windows 7 debuted back in 2009 and it is starting to show its age, if only just a little. One sign of this is the fact that Microsoft has released the first Service Pack for the operating system. If you don’t already know, a service pack is a collection of updates, bug fixes and enhancements
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March 8, 2011 · Computer Repair
The Adam’s County Sheriff’s Office out of Adam’s County, Mississippi, is more than ready tho throw out a newly purchased $109,000 computer system due to the fact that it doesn’t work, according to ACSO Major Billy Neely. Neely addressed the Adams County Board of Supervisors at their most recent meeting about the faulty
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March 4, 2011 · Cybersecurity & Malware
A computer virus attacked 40 computers in Seoul, South Korea today which included the presidential Blue House, the Foreign Ministry, the country’s biggest bank, the two largest search engines, a major online auction house and some military sites for both Korea and America. The source of the attack was not immediately c
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February 22, 2011 · Managed IT & On-Site Support
No company likes to miss the mark when it comes to earnings and that is exactly what happened with computer giant Hewlett-Packard. HP recently reported that for the first quarter of 2011 they brought in a revenue of $32.3 billion. Sounds good right? Well, even though it is an increase of 4% from last year, it
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