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How To Change The Login For Your Microsoft Personal Account
If you use the same email address to log into your Microsoft business and personal accounts, this article will show you how to change the address on your personal account. This is likely only to be true for people in small and medium businesses. You only have a...
NETWORK NEUTRALITY AND THE FUTURE OF THE INTERNET
AT&T Chariman Ed Whitacre made seemingly outrageous comments in November about imposing additional charges on consumers or Google or Yahoo if we used "his" Internet pipes for...
WINDOWS LIVE SAFETY CENTER
Here's a web site that may come in handy: Microsoft's new Safety Center lets you run free scans for viruses and other malicious software. It also includes maintenance tools for...
BRUCEB.COM OUTAGE
Something took down all the web servers at XO Communications at 2pm yesterday. That's why you couldn't bring up the bruceb.com favorites page until about 9pm last night. The...
GOOGLE PACK
Google unveiled an eccentric collection of programs at this year's Consumer Electronics Show under the umbrella name Google Pack. It's described as a free collection of safe and...
BE ANNOYING, GO TO JAIL
Annoying someone via the Internet is now a federal crime.Last week President Bush signed a law authorizing stiff fines and two years in prison for posting "annoying" Web messages...
DELL 30-INCH MONITOR
Apple introduced a 30-inch flatscreen monitor a while ago, and now Dell has brought one to the PC world. Here's the details on the Dell 3007WFP, in case you feel like giving...
MICROSOFT ISSUES PATCH FOR WMF FLAW
Microsoft has issued a patch for the WMF vulnerability that surfaced last week. Here's an article about the early release and here's Microsoft's updated security...
ANTIVIRUS VENDORS CATCH UP TO WMF BUG
The major antivirus programs - Windows OneCare, Symantec, McAfee, and more - now catch malicious files exploiting the Windows WMF vulnerability. Here's an article about the tests...
WMF EXPLOIT – MORE INFO
If you want to stay up to date, Brian Krebs maintains a blog on computer security at the Washington Post where he's reporting daily developments in the race to get a patch...
WMF WINDOWS VULNERABILITY
Windows computers are under attack from a previously unknown security vulnerability in WMF code. "WMF" is a file format that's been used for more than ten years; although it...
BRUCEB.COM UPDATES
You might notice a few changes on the staggeringly useful bruceb favorites page. Just trying to keep your Internet world organized. If you're looking for sleep aids, you could...
COMCAST SPEED INCREASE
Comcast has increased speeds for its cable Internet subscribers in Sonoma County.Speed increases have been rolled out across the country by Comcast; Sebastopol got the higher...
TRACKING SANTA
If you have Google Earth installed, then clicking on this link will allow you to track Santa Claus as he delivers presents around the world. at 3:00pm PST, he's travelling from...
GOOGLE ZEITGEIST 2005
Google Zeitgeist studies the aggregation of search queries for the year and comes up with some interesting lists - top news searches, top gainers in 2005, top shopping searches....
GOOGLE BUYS STAKE IN AOL, SELLS SOUL
Google's agreement to purchase a five percent stake in AOL was widely reported, but I missed the important detail: as part of the deal, Google agreed to start putting...