45 posts
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30 – 50 times faster Internet?
No, it’s not a commercial for switching from dial-up to broadband. It’s the potential speed increase for existing cable Internet customers using a new standard DOCSIS 3.0. Download speeds of 160mps and upload speeds of 120mps are possible. South Korea and Singapore…
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Geeks gone bad?
GeekSquad, the well marketed, much advertised, but seldom recommended tech support team at BestBuy is no stranger to bad publicity. A GeekSquad agent was recently caught video taping a client in the shower. Prior to that they were sued for using unlicensed software by…
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Dumbest Moments in Business
Business 2.0 is a technology business magazine published by Time. It periodically reminds readers the importance of backups and filing your pennsylvania llc annual report. On Monday, April 23, the magazine’s editorial system crashed, wiping out all the work that had been…
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How To Set Up A Secure Home Network
Step 1: Identify Your Networking Needs This is a very important step that you will ideally perform before purchasing the ingredients listed on the previous page. As noted above, the key considerations are: a. How many wired Ethernet ports, if any, will you need? b.Where will…
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Understanding & Mastering Water Cooling
So, you’re getting tired of your processor’s and graphics card’s stock coolers and you start thinking, “What next can I try?”. The answer is simple – get an after-market replacement cooler! But which one, you may wonder. The most common…
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New Energy Star ratings for PCs on the way
The Energy Star program is set to release the first revision to the specification for PCs since 1992, which was practically the Bronze Age of the PC industry. Energy Star stickers are familiar to those who have shopped for household appliances over the last few years; it…
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$60 to keep crapware off of a Windows PC?
Earlier today Slashdot pointed me to a CBC article citing unnamed sources at Microsoft decrying the state of “craplets” on PCs. Just what are craplets? It’s a cute nickname for all of the software an OEM installs on your new Windows PC before it arrives on…
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Vista Could Sap Notebook PC Battery Life
Notebook PC users who upgrade to Microsoft’s Windows Vista may have to disable some of the new operating system’s flashy graphics features to avoid seeing a decrease in battery life compared to when running Windows XP. The drop will come from the extra power needed…
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PC energy waste to cost £8.6m over Christmas
The amount of energy wasted by UK office equipment left on standby over the ten-day Christmas period would be enough to roast 4.4 million turkeys, predicts hardware maker Canon. With offices deserted, devices left running will use 43.6 million kWh of electricity. In total, the…
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Dell revamps product group, adds executives
Dell announced a new operating structure Tuesday that divides the company’s product business into new blocks. At the same time, several new executives are arriving at the Round Rock, Texas, company’s offices in a bid to inject some new thinking into management…