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How to be a Password Ninja on a Mac, Windows or Linux

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You’ve heard about it, read about it but very few manage to have complex passwords for all your services – Email, Facebook, Twitter, et al. The consensus to have a safer online experience and hopefully, prevent hackers, crackers and script kiddies from gaining access to your accounts is to have a complex password – UPPERCASE [...]

Steve Ballmer’s “Re-imagining Microsoft” giving Microsoft a long-overdue Makeover

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Has hell indeed frozen-over? Quite possibly because Microsoft is giving itself a serious overhaul — get this — in response to market forces. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer recently announced that the Windows overhaul going on is mere foreshadowing of big changes to come from Microsoft as the companies aims to optimize all their software for [...]

Google’s Transformer product line is building a Microsoft-slaying open-source Optimus Prime

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If you’re a tech geek like me you undoubtedly follow Google – and you also probably know all the transformers by heart. By using Transformers as an allegory we can put Google’s transformation into context. Google has been acquiring companies, technology and people — aggressively, and now they are joining them all together to build [...]

Is Microsoft Playing Big Brother with their new Skype Acquisition?

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Microsoft bought Skype for $8.5 billion. To put this in perspective, this is 5x what Google paid for YouTube. Many industry analysts believe that Microsoft overpaid for the VoIP giant, especially since Skype was sold in 2009 for just $2.75 billion. Given the huge jump in price there was likely an unannounced bidding war. With [...]

Windows’ biggest challengers – Mac OSX & Linux

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According to Gartner‘s new released data – One of the toughest challenges that Microsoft windows has to face is, the new growing market for Mac OSX and Linux OS. Statistically, the revenues from global operating systems was estimated to be $30.4 billion in 2010 out of which Microsoft asserts their first position with a 78.6 [...]

Linux Splashtop beats Google’s Chrome OS to the Punch

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With all the Buzz about Google’s upcoming Chrome OS — Buzz… get it… a little Google joke, but with all the buzz about Google’s upcoming release of cloud-based operating system Chrome, people aren’t taking much interest in Linux’s already released cloud OS — Splashtop. The new cloud-based OS has yet to make a big splash [...]

Microsoft: “Oops we did it again” 6 More Critical Security Vulnerabilities

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The newest patch from Microsoft appears to b a Mac vs. PC commercial in the making. Don’t be surprised if the next mocking ad from Mac addresses the 900million people affected by Microsoft’s most recent security patch. The name of the release, Patch “Tuesday” which sounds more like an Irish celebration than a critical software patch…but then again maybe Microsoft was trying to lighten the mood.

Tech World’s Top 10 Mistakes – Series II

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Continuing from where I left off in my previous article, Tech World’s Top 10 Mistakes – Series I, let us now look at the remaining half of the technology world’s top ten blunders – counting down from number 5 to number 1: 5. IBM PS/2 a little too late IBM PS2 MCA Model 55 SX [...]

Tech World’s Top 10 Mistakes – Series I

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There can never exist an industry in this world that can survive from making mistakes. And an industry that needs to be very meticulous in fabricating every product, service or solution can also not escape the ugly part of making blunders – I am talking quite obviously of the technology industry. There can be errors [...]

Microsoft ‘Opens Up’ with Windows Azure

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This new development by Microsoft is a conscious attempt towards bridging the gap between Microsoft and Open Source Communities.