70 Open Source Replacements for Small Business Software – Why buy pricey commercial software (and licensing) when you can get the job done as well and for less with open source software? We’ve got 70 ways to replace traditional SMB software.
Near-Bulletproof Qubes OS Goes Beta – Qubes is different from any desktop operating system you’ve seen before. It uses virtualization and sandboxing to create the most secure environment possible.
Malware authors target Google Chrome – Sorry, Windows users. Switching to a different browser than Internet Explorer won’t immunize you from malware attacks. The bad guys have begun preying on that misplaced confidence to push…
Why Apple Tracks You Via iPhone: It’s Not Why You Think – Wondering why your iPhone and 3G-enabled iPad are storing your general location in an easily accessible database on your PC? It’s simple. Apple uses this information to build a cell tower and Wi-Fi access point location database, and the company admitted as much last year. At least that’s my theory.
PlayStation Network Down For a Day (or Two) – Sony’s PlayStation Network is down, and it may not come back up for a couple of days, according to the official PlayStation Blog.
Interest in royal wedding abused by fake AV peddlers – As the day of the wedding of Prince William of England and his long-time girlfriend Kate Middleton quickly approaches, scammers have began to exploit the interest of Internet users around the world and pushing out a variety of poisoned links regarding the subject.
How Loud Is Too Loud for a Video Card? – Does the amount of noise a component makes affect your willingness to buy it? And should it? AMD’s and Nvidia’s new top- end video cards made us wonder.
Ubuntu Linux 11.04’s Target Audience: Casual Windows Users – Canonical has big plans for its Ubuntu 11.04 desktop Linux. It wants to capture casual Windows users using a first-person shooter game style desktop.
Michigan police refute ACLU’s data-collection claims – The Michigan State Police fires back at accusations by civil-liberties group that it is using data-extraction devices to secretly collect data from people’s cell phones during routine traffic stops.
Company News:
Microsoft Lync 2010: Unified Communications Comes of Age – Lync provides clear VoIP calling and crisp videoconferencing without requiring special network accommodations. It integrates with Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint, and Microsoft Office, bringing user presence information to Outlook and SharePoint team sites and allowing instant messages and phone calls to be initiated with a click.
IBM Releases Power7 Blades, Servers – IBM’s new blades and upgraded servers run on the company’s Power7 processors. Included in the launch is the Power 750, the server used in IBM’s Watson supercomputer.
Off Topic (Sort of):
Why do governments have trouble retaining cyber warriors? – Computer security professionals and attackers – two sides of the same coin, really – are mostly highly intelligent individuals who thrive on challenges and might sometimes chafe under the leadership of people who they believe know less about cybersecurity problems than themselves. And it is the somewhat eccentric personality of many of these individuals what makes them difficult to manage.
Should Government Observe Good Friday & Easter? – Do state and local laws or policies which create holidays on Good Friday violate the separation of church and state? Is making Good Friday a public or school holiday is unconstitutional, or can there be a secular purpose behind making Good Friday an official holiday? Indeed, is Good Friday still a religious holiday anymore or has it become a secular holiday? Some Christians want government should to make Good Friday an official public holiday, but others are pushing back.
Secret transcripts reveal the inner workings of soldiers’ minds – Newly discovered transcripts of secretly recorded conversations of German World War II prisoners of war provide an insight into how the logic of armed conflict turns men into killers. (submitted by Dar)
U.S. Rep: iPad Is “Responsible for Eliminating Thousands of American Jobs” – During the recent congressional budget debates, U.S. Representative Jesse Jackson, Jr., blamed the iPad for shuttering Borders bookstores and an overall assault on “jobs associated with paper.”
Today’s Quote:
“You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.”
– Olin Miller
Today’s Free Downloads:
SUPERAntiSpyware – Detect and Remove Spyware, Adware and Remove Malware, Trojans, Dialers, Worms, KeyLoggers, HiJackers, Parasites, Rootkits, Rogue Security Products and many other types of threats.
LibreOffice Productivity Suite – LibreOffice was developed to be a productivity suite that is compatible with other major office suites, and available on a variety of platforms. It is free software and therefore free to download, use and distribute.
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