January 28, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
When a judge recently reduced the $1.92 million in damages from a jury verdict against a Minnesota woman accused of illegally sharing 24 songs, music pirates everywhere breathed a small sigh of relief.
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Tags: file-sharing, fine, Jammie Thomas-Rasset, Joel Tenenbaum, jury verdict, music
January 19, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
Well, it seems somewhat official: The Nexus One smartphone didn’t land much of a blow against its arch-rival from Apple, the iPhone.
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Tags: Android, Apple, fiasco, Google, iphone, Nexus One, smartphone
December 28, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
If you believe the folks at security firm Kaspersky Lab (and you probably should, since their prediction for 2009 was accurate) you’ll find next year’s big threat by following the users.
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Tags: 2010, botnets, Kaspersky Labs, malware, prediction, threats, viruses
November 18, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
A flood of bad publicity surrounding the shutdown of free WiFi service in the tiny Ohio town of Coshocton has apparently resulted in the service being reinstated — for now.
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Tags: access, Coshocton, free, Motion Picture Association of America, Ohio, Sony, WiFi
November 16, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
Okay, that recent story here on FinanceTechNews about how there’s no such thing as free WiFi was kind of a lie. There really was some free WiFi out there, but it doesn’t exist anymore.
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Tags: access, connection, Coshocton, free, Motion Picture Association of America, municipal, Ohio, OneCommunity, Sony Pictures, WiFi
November 12, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
Keeping servers from overheating means a lot to data center admins, but the folks at Google have some lessons in how cool they should be that may sound counter-intuitive to folks who manage server arrays.
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Tags: fail, Google, research, server, temperature
November 2, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
First the General Accountability Office sounded the alarm about a flu pandemic and its potential to cripple the Internet, and now one of the IT industry’s preeminent analyst groups is adding its voice to the alarm.
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Tags: flu, Gartner, General Accountability Office, Pandemic, swine flu, telecommuting, work at home
October 26, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
Well, you knew the free ride had to end some day. The video streaming ride, that is. And it looks like that day is here.
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October 6, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
The smartphone market is the tech hotbed of activity these days, but no new entry into the market’s made anything close to the iPhone’s impact over the past couple of years. In fact, the folks over at eWeek are warning IT pros to prepare for the unit’s ultimate domination.
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Tags: applications, carrier, eWeek, iphone, security, smartphone
September 18, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
As hurricane and flu season kick into high gear, small businesses are being warned to take a look at their disaster planning.
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Tags: disaster, planning, small business
