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The Year of the E-Reader

Oct 28th, 2009 | By Steve | Category: Digital Lifestyle

The first commercially successful E-book reader (E-Reader) was launched in 2007. The Amazon Kindle sold out in just over 5 hours and had only limited availability for the next 5 months. The market continues to be strong, and this holiday season looks to be very successful for these devices.



Phishing

Oct 7th, 2009 | By Steve | Category: Digital Lifestyle

You know it can’t be good when Microsoft reveals that more than 10,000 Hotmail users may have had their private information compromised through recent Phishing scams.
Phishing is the act of illegally attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames and passwords by posing as an otherwise trustworthy entity through email or other electronic communication. [...]



New Microsoft Courier – Tablet PC or Electronic Organizer?

Oct 1st, 2009 | By Steve | Category: Digital Lifestyle

Microsoft has been slowly releasing information on an interesting new product, but without a clear picture of its market placement. It looks to be basically a Tablet PC with 2 hinged displays that are multi-touch sensitive and no keyboard.
Some of its features are on display in a recently released video that show its usefulness [...]



Microsoft Security Essentials

Sep 29th, 2009 | By Steve | Category: Digital Lifestyle, Online Safety

Enhance your war on Spyware and Viruses.
Now available for download, Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) is a comprehensive Antivirus and Antispyware solution to keeping your PC safe from attacks.
This free application replaces Windows Defender and is a strong competitor for current antivirus applications. It has been in Beta release since June and has received mostly [...]



A Freeware PC?

Sep 22nd, 2009 | By Steve | Category: Digital Lifestyle, Freebies

For the last several months, I’ve been using a PC that does not have any commercial off-the-shelf applications. Other than the Windows XP operating system, everything else loaded on the PC is freeware.

I didn’t originally intend to do this, but after I loaded the OpenOffice suite, I thought what the heck, lets see how far I can take it.