by technicalguy | Jan 19, 2012 | Technology
Do you or your company own a .com website? If so then according to a proposed US law it could be taken down for infringement of US copyright law. You may have noticed that many webistes yesterday went dark; Google, Tucows, Wikipedia, for instance. This was a protest...
by technicalguy | Jan 18, 2012 | Security, Technology
Online shoe seller Zappos.com says a hacker may have accessed the personal information of up to 24 million customers. Zappos is an Amazon company and the hack does not include credit card and payment information. However names, phone numbers, email addresses, billing...
by technicalguy | Jan 17, 2012 | Apple, SmartPhone, Technology
Wind Mobile, Mobilicity and customers of other new Canadian wireless carriers may soon be able to get an iPhone from them. The reason the iPhone is not available to all carriers right now is becasue it only works with certain parts of the wireless spectrum. However,...
by technicalguy | Jan 11, 2012 | Tablet, Technology
At NVIDIA’s press conference today, NVIDIA had a couple little surprises. Little being the word, there — they announced a diminutive 7″ tablet to compete with the likes of the Nook Tablet and Kindle Fire. The price, $249, is certainly competitive. But the tablet...
by technicalguy | Jan 8, 2012 | Technology, Vancouver
Best Buy may now be our competitor as it buys Mindshift Technologies Inc. Getty Images Mindshift, of Waltham, Mass., was founded in 1999, and provides IT services to more than 5,400 small and medium-sized businesses throughout the U.S. Best Buy has more than 1,100...
by technicalguy | Jan 7, 2012 | Technology
Apple and Android are the top two players in the Smartphone market right now, but have you given thought to Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7? It certainly hasn’t caught on like others but it has a unique interface that will likely appeal to some of you out...
