Just when you’re ready to settle in for some egg and nog and whatever may accompany, Windows starts throwing poison frog darts. This month, a fairly boring patching regiment has turned topsy turvey with an unexplained emergency patch for Internet…
I don’t just write about how iPads can replace computers, I also spend a lot of time trying to figure out useful tips and thought it might be useful to pull together some of the best Mac tips I published…
Right now, there are three primary processing platforms in the smartphone, tablet, PC, and server space. ARM is mostly smartphones, tablets and moving to Always Connected PCs (ACPC). X86 is tablets, PCs, and servers. OpenPower is servers. But I was…
Apple’s plotted navigation into the consumer services market should generate a lot of cash for the company but enterprises in the media space will be asking for a little more than the company customarily gives. The percentages game Apple is…
Wireless as an industry has been growing and changing, year after year for decades. However, wireless is going to take a major leap forward in 2019 on several different fronts. Let’s take a closer look at what we can expect…
Everybody’s talking about ambient computing. And there is so much to talk about. But with all this chatter comes confusion. People disagree on what ambient computing is, how it works and what it’s for. So let’s bring clarity to this…
Google’s Chrome OS platform sure has come a long way. From the early days, when Chrome OS was little more than an experimental “browser in a box,” to today — with the platform powering first-class hardware and supporting a diverse…
It’s tough to talk about Android security without venturing into sensational terrain. A large part of that is due to the simple fact that the forces driving most Android security coverage are companies that make their money by selling Android…
Yesterday, Microsoft’s “B Week†Patch Tuesday, we saw a fairly small set of patches — “small†being a relative designation. There are 194 December updates in the Microsoft Catalog, with 39 separately identified security holes (CVEs), and with every supported…
Android security is always a hot topic on these here Nets of Inter — and almost always for the wrong reason. As we’ve discussed ad nauseam over the years, most of the missives you read about this-or-that super-scary malware/virus/brain-eating-boogie-monster are…
