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BlackBerry loses its exclusive toehold at the Pentagon
In what many analysts are seeing as another setback for beleaguered BlackBerry, the US Department of Defense has now announced that it will start allowing the use of iPhones and Android devices in a space that was once the domain of BlackBerry devices. In the early days of mobile email delivery, BlackBerry devices were designed
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Six Strikes program goes into effect
As of February 26, 2013, five of America’s largest internet service providers will be putting into effect a copyright policing and enforcement program aimed at curbing online piracy of copyrighted digital content. Officially known as the “Copyright Alert System” but dubbed “Six Strikes” by the media and watchdog groups, the program is the result of
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Fake Emails are getting harder to spot
Just this past week I received 2 emails that looked very legitimate, but were in actuality very cleverly designed phishing emails meant to trick unwary individuals into making some bad decisions. And when I say “cleverly designed” I mean that even to my experienced eye, the emails looked very real, with properly implemented graphics, clever
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Apple joins the ranks of hacked companies
In a rare public admission, Apple has indicated that some of its own internal Macintoshes have been compromised in a cyberattack that security researchers believe similar to the one that breached Facebook last week. Announcements from Apple of this type are very rare, as Apple has long touted one of the strengths of its platform
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Wishing doesn’t make Blackberry Z10 launch successful
Industry analysts are taking off their rose-colored glasses after examining the results of BlackBerry’s largely lackluster launch of their OS 10 platform. Original estimates had the newly renamed company (formerly Research In Motion) selling as many as 1.75 million new phones following the Jan 30 debut. Using words like “soft launch” and “modest demand”, analysts
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Microsoft makes a big play with Outlook.com
Microsoft is (re)launching Outlook.com and consolidating its various “free” email service domains under the Outlook.com brand in an effort to regain the former glory it once held with Hotmail.com which has since fallen to a distant third behind Google’s Gmail and Yahoo Mail. Microsoft estimates it will be spending anywhere from $30 to $90 million
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