June 10, 2013
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There I was, innocently fiddling with my Gmail while waiting for a movie to start Friday night on my Motorola Droid 4 Android smartphone, when I tried to delete a message… and I discovered that the latest update to the Android Gmail program wasn’t letting me delete messages. What the heck?
How to restore the delete function to the Android Gmail app. More >
June 10, 2013
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If you buy cloud services without double-checking exactly what you’re getting and without a real service-level agreement (SLA) you might as well be buying a pig in a poke — in other words, you really won’t know what you’re buying until you’ve wasted your money.
Let’s say you want to use a public cloud for your company. They’re easy, they’re cheap, and they’re available. There’s only one little problem: What assurance have you that you’ll get the performance you need when you need it. The answer, without a detailed service level agreement (SLA) that covers quality of service (QoS), is none.
June 10, 2013
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One way to extend Internet wireless coverage has always been for users to share their Wi-Fi. On June 10th, Comcast started urging its Xfinity Internet customers to share their bandwidth with its ‘Neighborhood Hotspot’ Initiative. It’s not as open as it sounds.
June 8, 2013
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Is the National Security Agency (NSA) really “wiretapping” the Internet? Accused accomplices Microsoft and Google deny that they have any part in it and the core evidence isn’t holding up that well under closer examination.
Some, however, doubt that the NSA could actually intercept and break Secure-Socket Layer (SSL) protected Internet communications.
Ah, actually the NSA can.
And, you can too and it doesn’t require “Mission Impossible” commandos, hackers or supercomputers. All you need is a credit-card number.
How the NSA, and your boss, can intercept and break SSL. More >
June 7, 2013
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Thanks to technologies like Microsoft’s Kinect, we’re getting closer than ever before to being able to interact with our computers by simply waving our hands in the air. But what if you want to wave my PC on or off even if you’re not in front of a camera? Believe it or not, the technology may be coming soon and its core, Wi-Fi routers, are already likely to be in your home or office.
WiSee: Gesture recognition tech is closer than you might think. More >
June 6, 2013
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When Google announced on March 13th that it would no longer be supporting the CalDAV application programming interface (API), developers were not happy. In early June, Google reconsidered its position and re-opened CalDAV and, to top it off, Google said they’d be opening CardDAV’s API as well.
CalDAV, for the non-programmers among you, is an open extension to the Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) standard for Web-based calendar services. It’s used in Apple’s iCal; Mozilla’s Calendar Project-based programs; and it will soon be available in the next update to Windows Phone 8. It’s as close to a lingua franca for calendaring applications as we have today.