APC is recalling 15 million computer surge strips due to fire hazard. These were very popular and there is a very good chance you own one! If you have one that looks like this, turn it over and check the model number and year of manufacture from this table and submit...
I'd like some of our clients to give serious consideration to retiring some aging hardware and software that is still out there: Server 2003 and Windows XP. Microsoft is ending support for XP on April 8, 2014. I still see hundreds of XP systems out there on...
Now is the time to have that chat with your CPA to see if spending any of your hard-earned profit this year may help lower your tax 2013 liability. In our case, we "saved" about 1/3 the cost on our taxes by spending some of it this year. The IRS ratchets up the...
I own two tablet devices. I have had an iPad for years, and a couple of weeks ago I was given a Windows 8 tablet (a Lenovo Thinkpad 2). I purchased the keyboard dock for the ThinkPad, which also came with a nice optical pointing device that is very similar...
During the economic downturn, many of our clients deferred server upgrades for longer than is wise or recommended. Now that the worst of the recession seems over, many companies are replacing aged file servers. In addition to the usual Windows Server...
A little over a month ago, my notebook crashed with a corrupted hard drive after an improper shutdown. I decided to take the plunge and go to Windows 8 instead of re-installing Windows 7 and all of my programs, because I had a good backup of all my...
Your smartphone just got passé. It started with Pebble, a smartwatch, that recently started shipping the fruits of a very successful kickstarter campaign. They were able to raise over 100 times their $100,000 goal last year. Now, Apple, Google, LG, and...
At the end of January it became illegal to unlock your smartphone for use on a different provider network. The expiration of exemption to part of the Digital Media Copyright Act (DMCA) by the Librarian of Congress meant people who purchased a smartphone could not...
Just want to keep you all up to date on our progress with Server 2012 testing: We've acquired some more hardware to continue our evaluation of Server 2012. Our lab environment includes two servers connected to a shared external SAS drive array, which allows for...
There was a major dust-up at the world's most valuable company, Apple, at the end of October. Two top company executives, mobile software head Scott Forstall and retail chief John Browett, were forced to step down from their position. They were both removed for...