The Internet of Things The world is full of cool names for things; I suppose it has always been so. I know for a fact our grandparents had cool names for things. For instance, I can remember when people say – “Hey get Gary on the horn.” The Horn was a cool name for a telephone. And speaking… Read More »
Alleged tech support scammers come up with all kinds of alibis to counter complaints Companies sued by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Microsoft for allegedly defrauding consumers with worthless Windows technical support have spun tales involving flakey Internet connections, it’s-not-us-it’s-scammers, new management software and unanswered emails to counter hundreds of consumer complaints this year, Better Business Bureau… Read More »
Rumors Say Microsoft to Replace Internet Explorer With “Spartan” Browser It’s no secret, at least not to most of you, that Chrome and Firefox have stolen the crown from Internet Explorer. Whether they are better browsers, more functional or less troublesome, is up to the user. However, there may never been another Internet Explorer as IE fans have… Read More »
Look Before You Leap – Two Tools to Help You Determine If a Web Site is Safe It’s really hard to tell by looking at a web site whether it’s safe or not. And nobody wants to be constrained to visiting only sites they know are safe. Part of the fun of the Web is scouting and finding… Read More »
Good Email Manners Matter We’ve had hundreds of readers send pet peeves. Do you know what most of them are? They’re about email. Yes, about junky forwards, forwards with everyone else’s address showing up in the cc: field, etc. We started thinking that perhaps many people really don’t know what good email etiquette is, so here are a… Read More »
‘Tis the Season for Telephone Scams We wanted to pass this on to you from Microsoft — this article originally appeared in Microsoft security newsletter. Since so many of our subscribers have written to us concerned about phones calls they received from people claiming to be from Microsoft — it’s especially important that we pass this information along… Read More »