Mar 18, 2011

With $25 Billion IPO By  NetworkWorld    Mar 18, 2011 4:50 pm Groupon is in talks with banks for an initial public offering that places the value of the company as high as $25 billion, Bloomberg and others are reporting. If that occurs, the online daily deal provider would break the IPO record for venture-backed companies held by Google, Dow Jones...

Mar 18, 2011

Taken from XBMC XBMC (XBMP really) started as a program for modified XBOX consoles. In the following years, XBMC has grown into a multi-platform, multi-architecture media center that runs on most standard hardware. The hardware and legal limitations of the XBOX were always a concern and the Team has instead focused on running on the hardware that most people...

Mar 17, 2011

 Likewise Open Likewise Open simplifies the necessary configuration needed to authenticate a Linux machine to an Active Directory domain. Based on winbind, the likewise-open package takes the pain out of integrating Ubuntu authentication into an existing Windows network. Installation For Ubuntu There are two ways to use Likewise Open, likewise-open the...

Mar 16, 2011

For many people, the word “encryption” invokes images of spies, clandestine operations and World War II code breakers feverishly working to decipher enemy messages. Actually, encryption is a priceless security tool that any business can easily use to keep sensitive information confidential and safe from prying eyes. Unfortunately, many businesses...

Mar 16, 2011

This is the first in IT Security’s periodic list of free security tools. Be aware that these are by no means all the anti-virus tools on the market. For example, this list does not include major anti-virus vendors that provide paid individual and enterprise solutions. However, that does not mean that the included anti-virus tools are not worthwhile — the...

Mar 15, 2011

  By Michael Kassner March 15, 2011, 6:39 AM PDT Takeaway: The reason IPv6 is needed may cripple blacklisting. FUD or for real? Michael Kassner investigates the potential for harm that IPv6 could pose for fighting spam. Why is there so much negative karma surrounding IPv6? Case in point, last week, a colleague of mine called, “Have you read the Register...

Mar 15, 2011

Another Explosion at the Japanese Nuclear Plant Pushes Radiation Levels Up Briefly Kat Hannaford — After Saturday’s blast at Fukushima’s No.1 reactor and Monday’s blast at the No.3 reactor, we were hoping that’d be the end to the nuclear plant nightmares. Unfortunately a third blast occurred in the small hours of...

Mar 15, 2011

Missing Remote has a new feature out there for the HTPC user, this is just a taste of what the future has in store for us on the TV home front. This is a re-post from his website Similar to the NASA TV for Media Center I released earlier today, Starz Live for Media Center builds upon the discovery of others. Earlier in the year The Green Button forum...

Mar 15, 2011

If your using Linux then you know the benefits of the open source community,  if you do not know about Linux then you don’t know what you are missing. While I have used several distros, I keep finding myself going back to Ubuntu (Server). Which is why I am posting about Simple Invoice, the program is just like it says “simple” it has many key...

Mar 13, 2011

General Information Executive Summary This security update resolves one publicly disclosed vulnerability in DirectShow and one privately reported vulnerability in Windows Media Player and Windows Media Center. The more severe of these vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Microsoft Digital Video Recording...

Mar 13, 2011

  By Scott DiSavino and Fredrik Dahl NEW YORK/VIENNA | Sun Mar 13, 2011 7:27pm EDT NEW YORK/VIENNA (Reuters) – Pumping seawater into troubled nuclear reactors in Japan should keep them from a catastrophic full-scale meltdown, but conditions are still so volatile that it is far too early to declare the emergency over, nuclear experts said. It is probably...

Mar 13, 2011

Thanks for the help to one of my friends out there with the site logo creation, I think I worked all the little bugs out of the system but if anyone sees any errors please let me know and I will fix them. I am also open to suggestions on what might be a cool feature to add to the website, I will be adding a remote feature soon so I can help customers with...

Mar 12, 2011

(Reuters) – Japanese officials may only have hours to cool reactors that have been disabled by Friday’s massive earthquake and tsunami or face a nuclear meltdown. Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) (9501.T) is racing to cool down the reactor core after a highly unusual “station blackout” — the total loss of power necessary to keep...

Mar 12, 2011

SPH-D700 features Android 2.1Platform Android™ Market: 65,000 apps and rising. Here you’ll find useful apps for every aspect of your life – from popular games to travel guides to financial tools. Powered by the latest Google OS, the WiFi-enabled Epic™ 4G gives you Gmail, YouTube, Google Maps, Google Search and other great Google Mobile apps – not to...

Mar 12, 2011

IDG News Service – A massive earthquake shook a large part of Japan on Friday afternoon, sparking a major tidal wave that washed through coastal communities and leaving a death toll that by evening was mounting into the hundreds, according to police reports. A massive tsunami sweeps in to engulf a residential area after a powerful earthquake struck off the...

Mar 12, 2011

   Microsoft on Thursday said its Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) does not contain the bug exploited this week by an Irish researcher at the Pwn2Own hacking contest. But while IE9 is not vulnerable to attacks using the same Pwn2Own exploit, up to 99% of IE’s users may be at risk. On Wednesday, researcher Stephen Fewer of Harmony Security chained three exploits...

Mar 11, 2011

A website popped up earlier this week offering free Microsoft Points. Sites advertising this are common, and they usually exist merely to farm personal information out of web surfers and possibly hit them with a virus or something similarly sinister. This one actually worked though, as a group of hackers had discovered an algorithm that allowed them “to add to...

Mar 11, 2011

There was a time not long ago when computer hacking brought to mind an image of an anti-social teenager hiding in his parents’ dark basement cracking code for the thrill of it and later posting his exploits online under a dangerous sounding nickname like “Plague.” But recent hacks on some of the world’s most sophisticated technology companies have...

Mar 10, 2011

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