Will Two AMDs Be Better For You?

Posted by karl on Oct 7, 2008 in Hardware, Technology | 0 comments AMD has announced a splitting off of it’s manufacturing to Advanced Technology Investment Company of Abu Dhabi. http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=10328&tag=nl.e539 While that is good for their books (they have been loosing the battle against Intel for some time now) and shareholders…what does it mean for the many people out there with AMD products and those who prefer AMD over...
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Data Leakage And You

Posted by karl on Sep 28, 2008 in Blog, Security, Technology | 1 comment All businesses have sensitive data. While it’s assumed that the employee list, profit margins, and customer purchasing information is sensitive most business forget things like their client lists, vendors and suppliers, and marketing data when considering what is key data. Never believe that your business data isn’t of interest to people outside your business. In today’s world...
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Firefox 3 – A Browser That Works

Posted by karl on Jul 14, 2008 in Application | 0 comments The latest version of Firefox is a welcome upgrade to most browsers. The reduced system resources load and improved rendering engine (making pages load significantly faster ) is well worth the upgrade by itself. Firefox 3 looks slightly different than its predecessor (minor changes to the user interface similar to the minor changes from version 1 to version 2). However, in version 3 the browser...
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How Many Security Holes Do You Have?

Posted by karl on Jun 9, 2008 in Security, Services, Technology, Trends | 0 comments I’ll bet more than you think. The average small business has no security policies or procedures in place to identify and close security vulnerabilities. I’ll mention some classic ones here that will hopefully show areas that are needed to be looked at, if not closed outright. USB ports – Today a 4 gigabyte usb memory stick costs less that $50. Most people move their USB memory...
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The Social Networking/Desktop Tool Data Dilemma

Posted by karl on May 12, 2008 in Technology, Trends | 0 comments Came across this great article regarding the “applications” you can load for social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace. You can read the article online here. One important note: this applies to google desktop gadgets (think vista sidebar) and yahoo widgets as...
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It’s Actually EASY To Be PC Green!

Posted by karl on Apr 28, 2008 in Hardware, Technology, Trends | 0 comments With all of the talk of being “green” in the IT industry, it sometimes seems hard to think that you can be have a green system. Here are some ways that you can be green. Of course, the most costly (upfront) method is to get a new less power consuming PC. Unfortunately, this may not recoup anything for the individual consumer – even if you run your PCs continuously (at $0.14/kWh,...
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