Business and Technology news of the day
We see benchmarks and anecdotal evidence of so called “browser speed” all the time, but what really counts is real live production data. How fast does each browser take to load real web pages? Tonight I was playing around with my GoogleAnalytics and checking a dozen or so sites I Read more…
There was always talk about the fact that hard disk drives are so cheap, that the profitability of the manufacturers is getting low enough to limit the R&D investments they would otherwise make… The Thailand flood came and went and we were left with the hard drive “crisis”. While the Read more…
Companies are notorious for providing questionable MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure). Disks are no exception to this rule. We found that www.behardware.com had acquired actual return rates and so we took their number and compiled the following list. The numbers are …taken from a large French etailer, whose database we have Read more…
…Microsoft finally gets to design things the way it wants. Too many OEMs make choices that favor their margins rather than the user experience Windows RT model: 10.6-inch ClearType HD display; 32GB or 64GB storage; microSD, USB 2.0 and Micro HD Video ports; 2×2 MIMO antennae; and Office 15. Weighs Read more…
I recently took a full day Windows Server 2012 course and I prep’d for it by installing the Beta and making the following list of questions, which Microsoft staff answered at various points during the day: Q: Can HyperV live migrate without System Center 2012 A: Yes, just right click Read more…
Microsoft will have Office365 Academic pricing available in Canada and U.S. this summer but does not have a fixed date yet. The pricing is astonishingly cheap; for about $5.50 per month per account, Education eligible organizations receive the $27 per month corporate package: the FULL Office 2010 suite (Outlook, Word, Read more…
To ensure you can not work on, enhance, or repair your Apple MacBook, Apple is now using their own proprietary screws, the “pentalobe”. Thats right, now there is virtually no way for you get inside the box. Its no surprise that they have become known as Apple’s “screw you, screws”. Betanews Read more…
Four out of five Facebook users have never bought a product or service as a result of ads or comments on the social networking site, according to an online survey of 1,032 Americans by Reuters and Ipsos Reid… …And a February study by eMarketer also found Facebook less effective than Read more…
Here it is from CRN: For years, Apple’s marketing has centered on the notion that Mac users are immune to the malware that routinely causes headaches for PC users. Here is how Apple used to phrase this: “A Mac isn’t susceptible to the thousands of viruses plaguing Windows-based computers. That’s Read more…
This interesting graphic is a simplified history showing the rise and fall of RIM. Research in Motion and the Blackberry are not done yet, but they are teetering on the edge. This graphic is courtesy of Julianna Davies and her team at MBAONLINE.com
As you likely already know System Center 2012 combines 5 older products into one new product. So System Center Virtual Machine Manager SCVMM, no longer exists as a standalone product. The difference between SC 2012 DataCenter and SC 2012 Standard boils down to just two things: Money: Datacenter is about $4000 Read more…
If you have a LinkedIn account, you should change your password today. Out of the approximately 150 million LinkedIn accounts, 6.5 million (5%) of them had their passwords, in an encrypted form, stolen on Monday. The hackers are now in the process of cracking that encryption and that is expected Read more…
You can download the latest build of Microsoft Windows 8 from windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/download . Keep in mind that you can download a SETUP or an .ISO. Personally, I would only work with the .ISO on a fresh harddrive (or fresh partition 🙂 ) The CD key for this is TK8TP-9JN6P-7X7WW-RFFTV-B7QPF And if Read more…
Our site will still be function but our home page will be changed to black and look like blackoutspeakout.ca/cms/uploads/files/website_en.jpg For more information on this see urtech.ca/2012/05/videos-canadas-new-online-privacy-act-c-38-is-crushing-your-rights/
Would you want up to three billion dollars of your country’s tax dollars spent on your own online surveillance? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dZILMivNgI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=balfXRHLNK4 Last week, Dennis Drainville, the bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Quebec wrote a scathing piece about the bill and how the Stephen Harper government is minimizing the role Read more…
There are several ready ways to add a live, updating stock information to your site: Wikinvest.com allows you to customize the chart and then provides ready access to the embed code, similar to a YouTube Embed. See blog.wikinvest.com/2008/08/01/finally-embed-a-real-stock-chart-on-your-blog-or-website If you want more information than just a chart, finance.yahoo.com/badges is a real winner. Read more…