Do you ever use Google+? Probably not. Google+ is the world’s second largest social network, not because so many people use it, but because so many people have Gmail accounts and everyone with a Gmail account automatically gets a Google + account. It’s kind of like the days when Internet Explorer was the most used browser by far… Read More »
Repair scams: Let’s take a look at iYogi All Windows users iYogi is a remote support outfit whose home office is in India. They have “local headquarters” in the USA, United Kingdom, and elsewhere around the world. “Local Headquarters” is in quotes because iYogi does not have a physical presence anywhere other than India. Now before we get… Read More »
With the Americas running out of IPv4, it’s official: The Internet is full In April, ARIN, the (North) American Registry for Internet Numbers, announced that it had reached “phase 4” of its IPv4 countdown plan, with fewer than 17 million IPv4 addresses remaining. There is no phase 5. APNIC, the Asia-Pacific registry, reached the 17 million (one “/8”… Read More »
Too Big to Comply? NSA Says It’s Too Large, Complex to Comply With Court Order In an era of too-big-to-fail banks, we should have known it was coming: An intelligence agency too big to rein in — and brazen enough to say so.In a remarkable legal filing on Friday afternoon, the NSA told a federal court that its… Read More »
Google unseats Microsoft as the U.S. browser powerhouse Google’s strength in mobile browsing pushes it past Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Google has unseated rival Microsoft as the leading browser maker in the U.S. for the first time, Adobe said this week, citing data from its analytics platform. The rise in Google’s domestic fortunes followed Microsoft’s reduction to second fiddle… Read More »
Many of you who are using Windows 7 have written to us asking if you should upgrade to Windows 8.x in light of the recent revelations that Microsoft has released fixes for Windows 8 for zero-day vulnerabilities but not for Windows 7. According to Microsoft, Windows 7 with Service Pack One (SP1) will be supported until January 14, 2020 (extended… Read More »