Almost every few hours for a week I’ve been getting messages from my Facebook acquaintances with links to some phishing sites. These are not even very sophisticated messages — instead, they’re random links to utterly evil sites such as atreps.at, greenbuddy.be and nudz.ru. There have … Read More »
Archive for May 2009
According to a report in Friday’s Charlotte Observer, North Carolina lawmakers are falling over themselves to entice Apple to build a state-of-the-art server farm in their backyard — specifically, Catawba or Cleveland county. The carrot they’re dangling? In this case, nothing short of a multimillion-dollar … Read More »
The folks at Lenovo have kicked off the Memorial Day holiday with the release of some new notebooks and a new netbook. We had the opportunity to talk with them about these products, and they will certainly round out Lenovo’s consumer offerings. The new netbook pushes … Read More »
The high-profile success of services such as Salesforce.com and Amazon Web Services has led many businesses to undertake cloud computing initiatives. Moving to “the cloud,” however, entails a variety of security, management and compliance risks that corporate executives may be unwilling to assume … Read More »
Here’s an interesting tidbit I didn’t know about Palm’s Pre: The device can sync with multiple Microsoft Exchange accounts using ActiveSync. I haven’t used a Windows Mobile device in nearly two years, but unless I’m mistaken, not even those devices support multiple Exchange accounts. … Read More »
Today it’s the foundation for all modern pre-installed Windows systems. It replaced the aging FAT (File Allocation Table) file system with a leaner, meaner standard. It’s more secure, more flexible, and has more built-in gadgets than a Swiss Army Knife. It’s NTFS, of course — the … Read More »
After reading Aliza’s post about how she organizes her email, my biggest piece of advice in using Gmail is to embrace the organizational chaos. I’ve been using Gmail for over three years, and I use it as my primary email. I have a dozen or … Read More »
Initial public offerings as of late have been about as common as celebratory banquets for Wall Street bankers. Last week, however, after some nine months of an IPO drought, two venture-backed startups, software maker SolarWinds and online restaurant reservation system OpenTable, broke the mold … Read More »
As Lost nears its end in 2010, many of its mysteries have yet to be solved, like the strange numbers that seem to haunt Hurley and the rest of the castaways. But if you played 2006′s The Lost Experience, one of the show’s related alternate reality … Read More »
Cities have thrown down the gauntlet for electric car charging in recent months, and utilities are increasingly eager to tout infrastructure efforts. Among automakers, the Renault-Nissan Alliance has been out in front working to coordinate governments, utilities and charge station companies to develop regional networks … Read More »
Has a new day begun for Susan Boyle? By which I mean, a new level of viral glory? The “Scottish spinster” sang in the semi-finals of the reality show that made her a YouTube sensation, ITV’s Britain’s Got Talent, this Sunday. She then won … Read More »
This week was a big week for mobile tech news with the launch of the Palm Pre looming ever nearer. We covered a wide range of topics on jkOnTheRun, here are the top stories in case you missed them:
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