Microsoft to open Apple-like retail shops

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Our sources close to Microsoft have confirmed that the company wants to reach out for the retail market presence. Microsoft wants to open and create many retail shops dedicated exclusive to Microsoft and its products. This is something that Apple did with its many Apple retail stores around the world. Microsoft ...

BT Home Hub Wi-Fi Security Easy to Crack

Monday, April 14th, 2008

A security researcher claims to have found a significant weakness in the wireless encryption of a DSL home gateway made by Thomson and distributed to broadband subscribers in the U.K. by network operator BT. Exploiting the weakness could enable someone to connect to a victim's Wi-Fi router for malicious purposes such ...

NVIDIA takes off with more video cards

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

NVIDIA is at the top of its game, and looks set to remain so in the meantime as they prepare to saturate the market with even more graphics cards for gamers of every strata and level of society. The new products will be from the GeForce and nForce lines, including ...

How to Choose a Home PC Backup Method

Friday, April 11th, 2008

It's not only mission-critical business information that should be backed up. The data on your home PC needs to be backed up as well. But how should you choose between the traditional method of saving files on storage media yourself and a newer method of storing your data offsite with ...

Data Security Tips for CIOs: Wiping the Hard Drive

Friday, April 11th, 2008

Security issues are on the minds of all CIOs these days. Whether the CIO of a 1,300-student liberal-arts college or that of a 13,000-employee Fortune 100 company, never before has the issue of data security been more important. Besides a record-breaking year of data breaches, legislation such as Sarbanes-Oxley, Gramm-Leach-Bliley ...