I.T. & Business Solutions
Last weeks 24 hour service outage of popular voice and video chat software provider Skype left many users wondering what had occurred.
Lars Rabbe, CIO of Skype, describes in great detail what caused the day long problem, and what Skype engineers will do in future to limit such outages from occurring.
Follow this link to read the complete article.
Microsoft has released an update to its free security product, Security Essentials. To date, Microsoft hasn’t published much information as to what it has improved in this version.
This new version will work on Windows XP, Vista & 7.
Click here to read about, and download the new version.
Tech giant Microsoft is off to a flying start with sales of 1.5 million phone handsets using their Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system since the products release, only six weeks ago.
Microsoft is fighting hard for market share with its main rivals, Apple (iPhone) and numerous handset manufacturers using Google’s Droid operating system.
Consumers are now spoilt for choice in the smartphone market.
Read more on Microsoft’s press site, in and interview with Achim Berg, Microsoft’s vice president of business and marketing for Windows Phones.
Apple has released version 10.1.1 of iTunes.
Several bug fixes have been taken care of, along with some new features including:
Read more on the Apple site. support.apple.com/kb/DL1103
What is the world coming to? Mark Zuckerberg has been announced the Time Magazine Person Of The Year for 2010.
What has he done for the world that is so remarkable? Saved countless lives, cured cancer or Alzheimer’s disease? No, he created a website, facebook. A phenomenally popular site with over 500,000 users, but however just a website.
Is he really a worthy recipient of such a grand title? According to Time Magazine, yes. According to me… no.
Here is the list of security updates that Microsoft released in December 2010.
Please ensure to patch your software as required.
Here are the new security updates:
Latest Security Updates
Go to the Microsoft site for further information.
Xmarks, the popular bookmark syncing site has been acquired by LastPass, who is the company responsible for the leading cross platform password manager.
A statement from the company said that, “It’s a great opportunity that ensures the survival of Xmarks as the same service that you know and love.”
Xmarks has had a huge uptake globally with 4.5 million users regularly syncing their 1 billion bookmarks and LastPass is committed to keeping Xmarks a free service, which is great news for it’s huge user base.
The LatPass and Xmarks services still require separate installations, but plans are in the pipe to integrate them in the future.
Read more on the Xmarks blog. blog.xmarks.com
Wonder what the top Google search terms have been in 2010? Wonder no more. Google has published the list.
