Just how much do people hate Windows 8?

Apr 6, 2013 by

Just how much do people hate Windows 8?

Some of you don’t like Windows 8. And thanks to Internet comments and social media, you have lots of ways to express your loathing. But a closer look at one well-known real-world rating says Windows 8 might be more popular than you think. Just how much do people hate Windows 8? Written by Ed Bott for The Ed Bott Report / Courtesy of ZDNet Windows 8 might be the most polarizing product that...

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Modern life halted as Netflix, Pinterest, Instagram...

Jun 30, 2012 by

Modern life halted as Netflix, Pinterest, Instagram down

An outage in Amazon’s cloud means that some of the world’s greatest and most frivolous entertainments are suddenly not available. Immediately, customers whine. Written by Chris Matyszczyk / Courtesy of CNET.com   Some clouds can simply eliminate others. At 11.21pm ET last night, as the deep and the desperate began to settle down for a weekend of streaming movies and retro...

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Windows 8 Computers to Have Remote Kill Switch

Feb 25, 2012 by

Windows 8 Computers to Have Remote Kill Switch

The Kill Switch Comes to the PC A feature common in phones will let Microsoft remotely disable malware By Jordan Robertson / Bloomberg Business Week   Janne Kytömäki, a Finnish software developer, was cruising Google’s (GOOG) Android Market for smartphone apps last year when he noticed something strange. Dozens of best-selling applications suddenly listed the same wrong publisher. It was...

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Spammers Exploit Facebook & Amazon Cloud

Jan 28, 2012 by

Spammers Exploit Facebook & Amazon Cloud

One of our favorite security blogs, F-Secure, recently posted the following informative article regarding some new malicious methods of Facebook spammers. Firefox and Chrome are used as avenues to further spread the scam via Facebook by use of a fraudulent YouTube browser plugin. A fake Facebook page displays a plugin installation if visited from either of those two browsers. Facebook is recently...

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