iPAD 2 Parody Advert Video… Very Funny
This isn an excelled parody of the new campaign by Apple for the iPad 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW37nPzpAwY&feature=player_embedded#!
Bootable Suite of Disaster Recovery Tool For Corporate Administrators
This disaster recovery tool is often shown for only for Windows 7, Vista and XP (both 32bit and 64bit) but their site says it also works with Windows Server 2008 R2, 2008, 2003… This program can easily be used to recover lost data, backup or clone disks, edit the registry, undo Read more…
Electronic Whiteboard Options Everyone Can Use with Little Training
Below is a brief of 4 electronic whiteboard options I presented to a client a few months ago. You might find it useful with your clients: 1. Panaboard Whiteboard with scanner and printer Limited in size – no electronic copy – old style The most straight forward www.panaboard.com 2. SMARTboard Read more…
Exposed: Call Center for Identity Theft Crimials
“…When security company Trusteer spotted an advertisement offering on-demand calls at $10 a pop for cybercriminals to obtain missing pieces of information needed to execute identity theft, readers wanted to know about it. Illegal call services are not new. Their staff is trained to impersonate bank employees, computer technicians, travel Read more…
Seagate Completes Aquisition of Samsungs Hard Drive Business
The Seagate and Samsung strategic alignment benefits all our customers — from the consumer to the enterprise. Our combined strengths will allow Seagate to offer a more extensive portfolio of innovative storage solutions and to quickly develop new solutions that address the industry’s rapidly evolving storage needs. What’s more, Samsung Read more…
Seagate & Western Digital Reduce Their Warranty Period As of 2012
Western Digital – Effective date on January 2nd, 2012 Desktop and Mobile drives (Blue and Green family lines) change from 3 years to 2 years. Black product line will remain at 5 years warranty. Enterprise class products stay at 5 years warranty. Product Line Limited Warranty Period (as of Read more…
Windows 8 Beta, IE 10 and Office 2012 (15) Betas in February 2012
Many sites are now saying the Microsoft will not have betas of their core products, namely Windows 8, IE10 and Office 2012 at CES in January of 2012. Instead it appears that these products will go to public beta’s in February 2012.
Google Activates 486 Androids Per Minute
“…That’s 700,000 a day, 21 million a month or 63 million per quarter. What about iOS? Apple won’t likely reveal numbers until January, when announcing holiday quarter results. Don’t expect them to be anywhere near as high, but not trailing way far behind, either. Android activations are lopsided, mostly from Read more…
Microsoft Pulls Out of Future CES
“…It is a move sure to change the dynamics of the Consumer Electronics Show, and one the tech media may not have expected so soon. Microsoft announced Wednesday that CES 2012 is the last it will maintain a significant presence. After this January? No keynotes, no booth… …The company was Read more…
SOLVED: 4.2.1 Unable to connect.” Attempted failover to alternate host…
If you see the following error in your Exchange 2003, 2007, or 2010 queue, there are three things you should do to troubleshoot the problem: 451 4.4.0 Primary target IP address responded with: “421 4.2.1 Unable to connect.” Attempted failover to alternate host, but that did not succeed. Either there Read more…
Google Granted Patent For Driverless Car
Google has demonstrated their driverless or auto-mous car several times in previous years but now they apparently have a patent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EfcOvoQiX8& “…Google has been granted a patent for driverless car technology, which can fully take over the control of a vehicle from a human driver. This full-fat version of cruise Read more…
SOLVED: Mitel 5330 DHCP: DISCOVERY OPTION 128 MISSING
If you are trying to get your Mitel handset to function in Teleworker mode, and you see: DHCP: DISCOVERY OPTION 128 MISSING after connecting the Mitel phone to a network outside of your office, you likely need to specify the Teleworker servers address. Just unplug/replug the Mitel phone and hold down Read more…
So much for Apple, Samsung sells 300M handsets
“…(Samsung) in third quarter, Samsung sold 24 million smartphones — nearly 7 million more than Apple… While American bloggers and journalists obsess about iPhone, across the globe Samsung makes huge strides that eclipse Apple. While best known for Android phones like the S2, Samsung has a three-operating system strategy that Read more…
Canadians Watch Move Video on Smart Phones Than Anyone Else In The World
“…Canadians consume more video on the Web than any other nationality on the planet, according to the latest figures from comScore Inc. The average Canadian spends 16.8 hours per month viewing 221 videos on the Net, topping the U.S. average of 13 hours a month spent viewing 200 videos. And Read more…
Shaw WiFi Test Goes Live in Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver
Shaw has started providing WiFi service to its customers without additional charge (i.e. free) as part of their home internet packages. Any data you consume on the WiFi is simply counted against your home data plan, which is not a problem for most people. Apparently Shaw see’s this as competition to Read more…
Market Share of Operating Systems for Smart Phones
Note that these numbers are the share of operating systems in use… not selling today. In other words, Apple looks like the big winner here when in fact Samsun and HTC are outselling Apple most months, thereby eating into Apples iOS overall market share. Android 42% (HTC, Samsung, Motorola) Apple Read more…