Windows 8.1 Update 1 is due out the day XP dies: April 8, 2014. Coincidental? What do you think. Anyway, those of you who have Windows 8 / 8.1 might be interested to know that Microsoft is working hard to make Windows 8 more like Windows 7 — really. The more they change Windows 8, the more like… Read More »
Lawsuit: Sprint charged US gov’t $21 million too much for spying expenses US files suit against Sprint, says carrier’s surveillance fees too high. The US government today filed suit against Sprint, alleging that the company overcharged government agencies when submitting expense reimbursement requests for wiretap operations that spied on Sprint customers. Sprint “knowingly submitted false claims to federal… Read More »
Mistake after mistake, patch after patch, Microsoft will soon be annoying Windows XP users with a warning that their operating system support will end on April 8, 2014. Do you think there are any XP users out there who don’t know that by now. It seems to me that Microsoft is stooping to new lows to try to… Read More »
The following article comes to us from Digital Trends, usually a good source of geek news and trends. Read the article, in its entirety, then come back and take our poll (at the very bottom of this post). Apple and Chrome have already made their operating systems free — will Microsoft make Windows 8 free? Would it make… Read More »
From VentureBeat comes this article, which makes me wonder what on Earth is going on! The world’s sure gone crazy! “There’s something happening here / What it is ain’t exactly clear…” (Buffalo Springfield, “For What It’s Worth”) Buying a gun on Facebook takes 15 minutes Fifteen minutes. That’s all it takes for children, felons, and people without IDs… Read More »
Normally, only rich folks read “Forbes” and I am not one of them. So it was pure serendipity that I happened to stumble upon this “Forbes” article this morning. You knew something like this was coming. There’s always someone out there figuring out a way to ruin a good thing: Wi-Fi is a good thing, right? This is… Read More »