Tag: Privacy
Weekly Wrap Up: Notebook, Tablet and Smart Phone News for April 29th
This week we saw a Verizon 4G LTE outage push back the Samsung Droid Charge, the release of new Dell Precision mobile workstations, release of the Droid Incredible 2 and much more. We also have a great roundup of Mother’s Day Tech Gifts that includes eReaders, smartphones and notebooks. This list includes Mother approved gifts [...]
How to Clear Notes from PowerPoint Before Sharing
If you plan on sharing your PowerPoint Slideshows, its best to leave out your added notes that you wrote while constructing the presentation since there might be information you might not want disclosed. Before Sharing, make a copy of the presentation so you can retain your original copy if you need to access your notes [...]
Samsung Notebooks Come with Key Logger Installed (Updated – False Positive)
Samsung is investigating the inclusion of key logger software on various Samsung Notebooks after Mohamed Hassan, an IT expert found the StarLogger key logging software on two different Samsung notebooks, purchased from two different locations. We have confirmed that the StarLogger is present on at least one other system which we have in for review. [...]
How to Create and Protect User Accounts in Windows 7
Even though we live in a modern world where most users have their own computer, there are still occasions where you might end up sharing or need to access a shared computer. When sharing your computer, it is always best to have a separate account to keep your personal files and settings private and secure. [...]
Popular Websites Caught Checking Your History, How to Stop Them Now
A new report issued by the University of California San Diego found that a collection of popular websites such as PerezHilton and YouPorn have been using a bug to look at the websites that their visitors had previously viewed. The report found that the bug was in use at 485 websites, a portion of which [...]
How to Disable Facebook Places
Facebook recently announced Facebook Places, a new feature that allows you to “check in” to locations that you are currently at. This allows your friends to know where you are at a given point in time. Many people have expressed concern over this new feature and would like to disable it. Here’s how to disable [...]
Lookout: Protect your privacy, data on smartphones
Today we can’t deny the power of mobile computing. Almost every major service has started coming to our cell phones. Activities like flight check-in, managing bank accounts, booking tickets, chatting and much more used to be confined to a computer, but is now a commonplace mobile activity. This, is just the beginning, a study by Gartner shows [...]
New Facebook Security Tool: Is it Enough?
Amid the critical mass of concerns over Facebook’s privacy issues, the social networking service has launched a new feature to ensure that users’ personal content is not stolen by anyone other than that person, according to a CNN article. The way it works, users can choose to only log into the service from phones and [...]
