Archive for January, 2012

$50 spy computer hides in offices, drops from drones – msnbc.com

Andy Greenberg/Forbes A prototype of O’Connor’s $50 F-BOMB with its case open. By Andy Greenberg, Forbes Even more embarrassing than a student discovering your GPS tracking device on his car, as the FBI found out last year, is having to ask him to give the expensive piece of equipment back. So security researcher Brendan O’Connor ...Read More

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Awesome stools made from recycled computer hardware – SlashGear

I bet many geeks are like me, when I replaced my old computer hardware and technology products, I tend to keep the old stuff. I keep that old stuff because it’s generally not broken, I just want newer, cooler gear, and you never know when something old and slow might come in handy. If you ...Read More

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Are we living in a post-PC and a post-Mac world? – The Guardian

[unable to retrieve full-text content] The Guardian Are we living in a post-PC and a post-Mac world?The GuardianRead Paul Robinson's comment on a Fraser Speirs' blog post: There will still be computers and laptops but we will return to a time when they are bought by programmers, hobbyists and tinkerers. Everyone else will buy a ...Read More

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Facebook’s Once-A-Decade IPO Will Kick Off The Fourth Era Of Personal Computing – San Francisco Chronicle

Facebook is widely expected to file for its IPO this week, with an actual offering date some time in May. It will be one of the biggest public offerings of any company in history — Facebook plans to raise up to $10 billion at a $100 billion valuation. But the fact that Facebook is so ...Read More

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New KDE tablet to liberate Linux enthusiasts from walled garden – Ars Technica

The Spark, the first tablet to ship with Plasma Active KDE developer Aaron Seigo has announced a new upcoming tablet computer, called the Spark, that will ship with KDE’s Plasma environment. The device, which has a seven-inch display and a 1GHz ARM CPU, will sell for €200 ($262). Underneath the shiny KDE surface, the Spark ...Read More

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MetaFlows launches low-cost SaaS product that unifies network security – Computerworld

Skip the navigation Computerworld White Papers Webcasts Newsletters Solution Centers BlackBerry: Navigating the future of mobile business HP SAP Business Intelligence Solution Center Quantum Data Deduplication Solution Center Riverbed WAN Optimization View all Solution Centers Events Magazine Latest Issue Subscribe Subscriber Services Twitter Facebook RSS Topics Operating Systems Networking Mobile and Wireless Security Storage Data ...Read More

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BIS Computer Solutions in La Crescenta Acquires ResultWorx Technology Group of … – MarketWatch (press release)

LA CRESCENTA, Calif., Jan 30, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — –All ResultWorx Employees Will Join BIS Computer BIS Computer Solutions, Inc., a 40-year old global supplier of information technology custom software and computer services, has acquired ResultWorx Technology Group, Inc., a Pasadena technology solutions firm for small to medium sized business in California’s San Gabriel Valley ...Read More

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Kindle Fire has lion’s share of Android tablet market – MyBroadband

Derrick Cramer Derrick joined MyBroadband in 2011 as a junior journalist with a strong background in computer hardware and gaming – he lives for that new motherboard… The Amazon Kindle Fire is outselling all other Android tablets despite being on the market for just three months The Kindle Fire tablet PC from Amazon has seen ...Read More

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Even with risks, the cloud offers advantages for small businesses – Washington Post

Just about every small business owner, and anyone else for that matter, has been hearing a lot about “the cloud” lately.  Internet behemoths like Google, Apple and Amazon are fighting it out for cloud superiority, as are other giant tech companies like Oracle and Microsoft. While the concept of delivering applications over the Internet is simple, ...Read More

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Apple iPad: Happy 2nd Birthday – InformationWeek

Apple’s iPad turns two on Friday, assuming we accept the late Steve Jobs’ announcement of the iPad as the device’s date of birth rather than its April, 2010 release date. The iPad’s gestation period was a long one. Computer pioneer Alan Kay had conceived of a tablet computer, the Dynabook, back in 1968, around the ...Read More

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