Over the span of a year and a half, I authored ~150 articles, kickstarting the Faronics blog. Topics included tech trends, I.T. security/support, social media and scam alerts, education, and classroom management.
With budgets shrinking faster than a Kardashian marriage, IT staff have had to learn to do more with less. If your staff or students have better gadgets at home than they do in the office or school, then bring them in! Use them! What could possibly go wrong with that plan? Lots.
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It’s no secret that Google and Facebook have one thing in common—their love of your info! It’s to serve you better, remember? While Google tried to dig into Facebook’s success by going social, Facebook is now trying to take a piece out of Google—by revamping its search.
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Another day, another data breach—at least it seems that way. With 70,000 new malware threats popping up each day, it makes sense. Threats must be getting sneakier, more complex and harder to stop, right? Wrong.
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The internet and social media has spread news faster than anyone could have ever dreamed. A scandal? We know about it. A sale! We know. A natural disaster? Can we about anything else? Are these things all happening more, or is it just hype and awareness?
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First there was “Antennagate” with the iPhone 4. Then “Batterygate” with the iPhone 4S. Now with the new iPad it’s “Heatgate”. Reports have been flooding the news that the latest and greatest iPad can heat up to 46°C (116°F). Is that too hot to handle? Apple doesn’t think so.
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The words “Google” and “change” have been pretty interchangeable these days. You think the change is over? It’s not. We haven’t seen anything yet. So much has changed that employees are even jumping ship—and not quietly. Is Google collapsing on itself and taking us down with it?
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Google has always cared about the security of your web browsing in Chrome. They’ve even dared the public to try and crack their browser in a contest. After years of unsuccessful attempts hackers got in. Chrome got pwned* — for the first time! Twice.
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If you’ve logged into Facebook over the last couple of days, you’ve seen at least one share about Kony 2012. It’s so popular that my gut says scam, but I haven’t been able to prove it. It’s so confusing these days!
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It seems like Google’s in a merging mood these days. The Android app store, Google Music and Google eBookstore just became one big cloud based service today—Google Play Store.
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On March 1, 2012 Google’s new and improved privacy policy comes into effect. All of your browsing habits and info will get dumped into a file labelled “all about you”. You can’t stop it, but you can impale it. Delete your browsing history. Now.
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There’s been a lot of talk lately about mobile computing. Yes, it’s a trend, it’s real and it’s taking the world by storm. Reports make it sound like once you go mobile, you never go back. Not true. Some of us can’t just unplug—and some of us won’t.
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We’ve all pocket-dialed someone at least once in our lives. Maybe been guilty of pocket-deleting an app or two. It’s no big deal, you just reinstall it. But what if it wasn’t you who deleted it? What if it was Google, Apple or Microsoft—using the “kill switch”?
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