Managed Solutions

Office 2010 Beta is Public

Microsoft made a couple of big announcements today, first that the 2010 Beta is available and anyone can participate. The second big announcement was the Social Media Connector included in Office 2010. If you're interested in learning more check out this article on Microsoft's MSDN blog. If you'd like to skip the article and jump to the goods go download the beta from Microsoft's 2010 site.

Intel to Pay AMD $1.25 Billion Dollar Settlement

Rivals AMD and Intel have agreed today to end all antitrust and patent suits. Intel will pay AMD $1.25 billion dollars in the settlement, stemming from the 2005 suit that AMD filed citing Intel used its dominant position to unfairly compete. Intel and AMD have had ongoing legal battles dating back to the 1980’s.

Firefox and Safari More Vulnerable than Internet Explorer Q1-Q2 2009

According to an Internetnews.com article this morning a study released today by security vendor Cenzic Firefox accounts for 44% of all browser vulnerabilities for January through June 2009. Safari (Apple) is second at 35% and Internet Explorer (Microsoft) is third at 15%. If you follow the space this will not come as a surprise. My advice would not be to recommend changing back to Internet Explorer if you use Firefox or Safari and like it. The advice would be to minimize the add-ons you use and ...

Managed Solutions now hosted on WordPress CMS

Early this morning we successfully migrated our content to utilize  the WordPress platform. This change is strategic in that it will both allow us to produce relevant content more quickly but more importantly it will allow our readers and followers to interact and share this content. You know have many more options on where you can receive and view our content and what types of content you will have access to. This platform is very attractive to use because there are numerous developers creating...

Adware Firm Pays $3 Million In Settlement

Reuters reported on 11/3/2006 that Internet Advertising firm Zango, Inc. agreed to pay $3 million to the U.S. government to settle allegations that it's pop-up ad software was secretly installed on millions of unsuspecting users personal computers. This is a huge blow to the perpetrators of a crime that has up to this point been quite difficult to prosecute. While difficult to estimate there is no doubt that the impact of adware world-wide is in the billions of dollars. This resulting from lo...