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Windows Mobile 6.5 Challenges iPhone & Android Operating Systems
Mar 10th
The strength of the Apple iPhone and Google Android operating systems in the mobile phone market gives Microsoft a significant challenge to force their way back into the reckoning. Its latest Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system is set for release, with mobile consumers looking on intriguingly with interest as Microsoft seeks to find its place in the market.
As a multimedia mobile device, the iPhone and the latest Google Android handsets such as the HTC Magic and HTC Hero are very highly rated and enjoy a stronghold with users that wish to enjoy compatibility and flexibility both in the home and More >
Secure USB
Mar 10th
Also called USB thumb drives, USB sticks are highly compact. Thanks to their small size, chances of them getting stolen are high. If your USB drive contains extremely private and sensitive information, go in for USB data security. These measures would help prevent anyone from accessing your personal details.
How to secure USB
Majority of modern USB Stick are now accompanied with specific pre-installed security features enabling users to prevent unauthorized access and password protect their data. If you have private information stored inside, simply password-protect the USB drive.
Using encryption, you can add extra security to the data. Some software use More >
Are Wifi Internet Connections Open?
Mar 10th
Did you know that your wireless internet access signal can extend beyond your house walls and out on the streets? Your next door neighbor and anyone parked nearby can open their laptops and see your wireless signals.
Routers and broadband modems have pre-installed user name and passwords known to every hardware and software engineer. They are easy to guess based on the SSID of your wireless signal. One a wireless signal is detected and connected, knowing its IP is very easy. Jumping from one IP to another and tracking its router just takes a few seconds. Sitting in one city a More >
Mobile Data Security – How Encrypted Volumes Can Keep Your Data Safe (and Out of the News)
Mar 10th
Most of us are aware of recent high profile cases where highly confidential information made it into the public domain as a result of sloppy laptop security. These cases led to significant public embarrassment for the companies (or governments) involved and called into question a lack of internal procedures for operating a secure environment.
This problem of security (especially on laptops and removable media) is not just confined to the realm of commercial enterprise and anyone who travels with a personal laptop or netbook will be exposed to the same dangers.
Can you afford to have your confidential information make it into More >
Virtualization For People Who Roll Their Eyes When the Geeks Start to Explain How Simple it Is
Mar 10th
Take a computer, any computer and do stuff with software so that to people it appears to work as more than one computer. That’s virtualization.
What’s so great about that? ( What I’m about to say next might sound very boring, but really it affects you personally. I’m mean it. No joke!) (I’ll talk about company computer issues a bit as they relate to YOU and then tell you the good news about your workstation or home PC! )
Well when companies need a new computer service ( that’s email, database, accounting package, website, you name it) they tend to buy a More >
