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These five tips can help you rejuvenate your Zoom call with friends

June 4, 2020

As the lockdown rages on - albeit in a more reduced fashion - people have started getting a bit more inventive with how they communicate with each other. Bearing in mind that the novelty of the Zoom app - which...

Are Consoles Turning into PCs?

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March 25, 2020

Image: "Alignment" (CC BY 2.0) by Clint_2013 There is a commonly reported idea in modern gaming that consoles are abandoning their roots as they essentially turn to small computers. This is a concept that ha...

German Firm Finds Major Security Hole in TwitterKit

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November 5, 2019

The Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology SIT in Darmstadt has discovered serious flaws in the TwitterKit for iOS 3.4.2 that can result in account abuse and data loss. The TwitterKit is an end-...

Edison Mail App Releases New Dark Mode for Android

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October 29, 2019

Today Edison Mail, the award-winning AI-based independent mail app offering private and secure mailbox management, released a new version of its app offering Dark Mode for Android. The update is available immed...

Edison Mail Adds New Focused Inbox Feature for iOS

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August 20, 2019

Mentally, everybody assigns different emails different levels of importance. Emails from that store you shopped at once? Ignore. Emails from your dentist about an upcoming check-up? Something you should probabl...

OMG Twitter is Down!

John M. Guilfoil

July 11, 2019

You read that right. Twitter is down and the social network is experiencing a "service disruption" according to the official Twitter status page. " We are currently investigating issues people are having ...

Market Research: Augmented Reality, fueled by Gen-Z, will hit 6.5 million units in six years

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April 24, 2019

Parks Associates research finds more than 60% of US broadband households are interested in receiving some sort of information enhanced by augmented reality (AR) on a handheld device or headset, with the most po...

What Can We Learn About Cybersecurity from the Equifax Breach?

John M. Guilfoil

January 16, 2018

Those credit card users who have a credit card report most likely had their personal data exposed because of the Equifax data breach. Affecting over 143 millions of consumers in the US, UK and Canada, the attac...

College Cybersecurity Survival Guide

John M. Guilfoil

August 30, 2016

As students, teachers, and educational admins gear up for the school year, they should have more than new books and a fresh wardrobe in mind. Higher education leaders at EDUCAUSE said that their top IT concern ...

10 Legitimate Free and Paid Antivirus Products that Work

John M. Guilfoil

January 27, 2015

One of the biggest concerns I hear from family, friends, and clients is "Legitimacy." How do I know this is real antivirus software and not a virus, itself?

Floppy Discs Surprisingly Still Serve an Important Purpose

Beth DeMilt

April 29, 2014

Most people think that the government uses cutting-edge technology to remain prepared for major threats that could impact National Security. In most cases, this is probably true. When it comes to messages ab...

Facebook to Lose 80% of Users by 2017?

Aneri Pattani

February 3, 2014

Facebook will lose 80 percent of its users by 2017, according to a study by Princeton University researchers. The study followed assumptions from “Epidemiological modeling of online social network dynamics” by...

Worldwide Gmail outage reported Friday

John M. Guilfoil

January 24, 2014

Second update: As of 3:20 p.m., Gmail appears to be back up and running. Update: As of 3 p.m., Gmail appears to up sporadically. The App Status Dashboard shows Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Talk, Google Dri...

Graphic: Cross-Platform Malware: A Growing Threat For Computers

John M. Guilfoil

December 10, 2013

By: Computer monitoring Software MobiStealth Cross-platform malware is a huge issue today, and it will continue to be a menace in 2014. Perhaps the most dangerous cross-platform malware came up in 2009. ...

5 cases for the 2014 computer

John M. Guilfoil

November 9, 2013

As I've been saying for months now, computers aren't dying. Now we're getting into some computer cases that prove this fact. Today, I want to discuss a little cyber-surgery. It's not cheaper to build your ow...

The Computer Is Not Dying — 10 Reasons Why

John M. Guilfoil

October 13, 2013

We're starting a little series here, in an attempt to explain why the Personal Computer is not, in fact, dying. We have some hardware to look at, some reasons to give you, and when we're done, we hope you'll...

Get Serious. Get Carbonite.

Joe Sinicki

May 16, 2013

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