BRUCEB NEWS
The Bad Guys Are Gonna Git You If You Don’t Watch Out
Be careful when you read your email! I’ve noticed an increase in phishing messages in the last few months. The bad guys continue to improve their grammar and the presentation of their fake messages, to make it more likely that you’ll be fooled into giving them a...
WIKIPEDIA
Wikipedia occasionally gets in the news when one of its entries is hijacked by pranksters or political operatives. As a result, there have been endless discussions in the media...
UNINTENDED SIDE EFFECTS
This is the year of unintended side effects. Let me tell four stories from the last two weeks. The common theme is that in each story, nothing is broken and nothing is at fault....
BETTING ON SONY
Sony is gearing up its marketing department behind Blu-Ray DVDs, its next-generation disc for high definition movies. Toshiba and its partners are lined up behind HD DVD, a...
WORD REDACTION TOOL
There have been several embarrassing incidents recently in which information was learned from electronic documents because they were not adequately secured. In some cases, the...
NEW DELL WIDESCREEN NOTEBOOKS
Dell will roll out new business notebooks today, the Latitude D620 and D820, with two interesting features. Here's an article about the rollout.First, they will have built-in...
WINDOWS LIVE ONECARE UPDATE
If you're using Windows Live OneCare, it was recently updated to include protection against spyware as well as viruses. Here's info from the Windows Live OneCare team about the...
WINDOWS DESKTOP SEARCH
Microsoft has released an updated version of Windows Desktop Search, its program for indexing files and Outlook folders for lightning-fast searches. Here's the home page for...
PLAYSTATION 3 DELAY
Sony confirmed today that the Playstation 3 will not appear until November - a potentially disastrous setback for Sony's struggling electronics division.Sony is having a bad...
WINDOWS LIVE
Later this year, Microsoft will roll out Windows Vista, the successor to Windows XP, as well as Office 2007, a dizzying array of familiar and unfamiliar business applications.The...
AOL OFFERS REMOTE ACCESS
America Online appears to be offering a useful service - words I have not spoken often in the last ten or fifteen years. For $6.95 per month, AOL's new service Link2PC allows...
WINDOWS LIVE SEARCH
Microsoft unveiled its latest Internet search page, yet another attempt to unseat Google. The "Windows Live" name is being attached to many web-based Microsoft projects right...
MYSPACE.COM AND INTERNET SAFETY
MySpace.com is the largest community of teens and twenty-somethings in history. There's roughly sixty million registered users. Its growth rate is mind boggling. It's one of the...
MICROSOFT OFFICE 2007
Microsoft announced product details and pricing for the various versions of Microsoft Office 2007, due later this year. Here's a summary of the various products.The theme in...
NEW PROCESSORS AHEAD
Pentium processors have gotten faster but the underlying architecture has been reasonably consistent for most consumer and small business computers for many years. Changes are...
WINDOWS DEFENDER – SUCCESSOR TO MICROSOFT ANTISPYWARE
Microsoft has released an updated version of its antispyware program, with a new name - Windows Defender. Here's the Windows Defender web site and here's an extensive review.You...