From InfoWorld: In a situation that may foreshadow Windows 10 patching problems, the Black Tuesday patch KB 2920732 has brought PowerPoint 2013 on Windows RT systems to its knees. Worse, because of the way Windows RT works, there's no way to back out the update. Your only solution, until Microsoft...
From PC World: Several wireless routers made by Netgear contain a vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive information from the devices, including their administrator passwords and wireless network keys.
The vulnerability can be exploited over local area networks, as...
From CNET: Samsung will remove many of its own programs in the upcoming version of its TouchWiz user interface, a new report claims.
The new version of Samsung's TouchWiz will be stripped down to not include any Samsung-built applications, Sammobile is reporting, citing people who claim to have...
From DailyTech: NVIDIA Corp. (NVDA) is stirring up controversy after it broke its silence on overclocking of its mobile GPUs, an increasingly popular practice in recent years, banning the practice the practice with driver updates.
The recent updates related to Maxwell mobile chips for laptop and...
There are just some things in life that are not meant to get a whole lot of attention. Things like computer power supplies and backup dancers come to my mind -- except, unless, you were really bad. Where am I going with this? Unless you have been completely cut off from TV or internet in the last couple of weeks or so, I think you already catch my drift. In the Super Bowl halftime show this year, the left shark behind Katy Perry became a total...
When Target Canada launched in 2013, there was a bit of excitement in the air. The store preceding it, Zellers, had sung its swan song, as it was unable to handle the competition. The first impressions I had of Target was generally a positive one. It was clean, updated, and felt fresh. However, as the months went by, the bottom line was not looking favorable for them. Worse yet, there were several clear signs targeting -- pun fully intended --...
From InfoWorld: Much to its credit, Microsoft yanked the bad Visual Studio 2010 patch, KB 3001652, within hours of its release yesterday. Reports of the patch's hangs and errors rapidly piled in from all over the Internet.
Today we have another version of the patch appearing in Windows Update, and...
From Mac World: Apple recently extended its two-step verification protections to two more services. The SMS-based security measure now covers FaceTime and iMessage in addition to iCloud and your Apple ID, as first reported by The Guardian.
The new security measure means that if you have two-step...
From CNET: Expedia has agreed to buy Orbitz for $1.3 billion, bringing together two pioneers of online travel.
The deal, announced Thursday, adds to Expedia's long list of travel sites, including Hotels.com, Hotwire and Trivago. The company also last month just finished its acquisition of Sabre's...
From DailyTech: Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) has at long last ponied up its promised public Technology Preview build of Windows 10 for smartphones. From a revamped set of core apps -- some of which are new -- to a host of new gesture, there's a lot of meat in this very rough early release.
To imagine...
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