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.
Well it’s about time(line)! After months of legal battles over trademark use of the name “timeline” Facebook is finally ready to unleash Timeline worldwide. Are you ready for it?
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It’s the holiday season and Microsoft has some presents for you! Patches to fix holes and flaws in its software—just what you wished for. You’ve all been good this year so the much anticipated patch to plug up the Duqu exploit is in your stocking. So get to decking those halls and patching those holes!
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The Kindle Fire is only a month old and already people are digging it a grave. Reviews have been unkind, people are complaining and some are returning theirs. Where are all of the features? The ones we’ve come to know and love on the iPad. Well it’s not an iPad. Does that make the Fire a failure?
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Is it really paranoia if the world is out to get you? The latest scandal to hit headlines is Carrier IQ. It’s software used to diagnose network, hardware or application failures on mobile devices. The issue is that it sends this info to your carrier, without your consent. Does that mean its evil?
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We’ve all been told to not judge a book by its cover. But what if you only buy the book for the cover? If the book is a tablet and the story is Windows 8, Forrester says many people don’t care anymore.
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If you can’t beat them, join them. Or at the very least let them join you. That’s the word coming from Research In Motion today as it announced BlackBerry Mobile Fusion—a service coming this March that will allow iPhones and other mobile devices access the BlackBerry network. Yay?
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The mobile market really is heating up, and it looks like another Big Bad wants to get in on the action. Mashable reports Facebook is creating its own smartphone, and integrating the social network far deeper than on any other phone before. How far? Further than any hellmouth—this phone is code named “Buffy”.
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Android has been making headlines a lot lately. Have you noticed? Some of the news has been good—Android phones were the top selling mobile devices last quarter. But you can’t have fame without some costs. In Android’s case the bad news is that it also tops the charts for mobile malware.
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Gartner said that mobile would be big in 2012. The 440.5 million mobile devices sold in the third quarter of this year proves it. Who do we owe that to? It’s not Apple. It’s Google’s Android software.
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If you’ve updated to iOS 5, you more than likely have noticed that your battery drains faster than a Kardashian marriage. The iOS5.0.1 update saw improvement for some, but not all. While Apple works on it you can see what’s draining your battery—with an app!
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For years Adobe defensively backed Flash’s true place at the head of the mobile device dinner table. Today Adobe had a reality check and announced that it’s throwing in the towel with its mobile version of Flash. Moving forward Adobe will focus its attention on Adobe AIR and HTML5.
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A report is shining some light on the dark issue of online bullying. An alarming 88% of teens today have seen cruelty on both Facebook and Twitter. Even worse, 90% of teens opt to ignore cruelty when they see it.
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