Job Seekers Getting Asked For Facebook Passwords

What would you think of an interviewer if they asked for your Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn account passwords? Sounds far fetched doesn’t it?  It isn’t though. Since the rise of social networking, it has become common for managers to review publically available Facebook profiles, Twitter accounts and other sites to learn more about job candidates. […]

Microsoft SMSG is banning Apple Hardware…

Well, it’s that much of a surprise that Microsoft would ban the purchase of Apple hardware with company funds from the Sales, Marketing, Services, IT, and Operations Group (SMSG). But, what is more surprising is that the groups that make up the SMSG, appear to be roughly 40,966 employees.  In other words, roughly 45% of […]

Netflix break up?

From the what are they smoking department…. Many members love our DVD service, as I do, because nearly every movie ever made is published on DVD, plus lots of TV series. We want to advertise the breadth of our incredible DVD offering so that as many people as possible know it still exists, and it […]

The History of Microsoft’s MS-DOS

MS-DOS is 30 years old today. Well, kind of. On 27 July 1981, Microsoft gave the name MS-DOS to the disk operating system it acquired on that day from Seattle Computer Products (SCP), a hardware company owned and run by a fellow called Rod Brock. SCP developed what it at various times called QDOS and […]

Kaba Faces Suit Over Push-Button Locks Breached With Magnet

Yeshai M. Kutoff was house-proud, having bought a home in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, for his family of five. And as an Orthodox Jew, he bought push-button locks for the doors — an accommodation for the Sabbath, when many of the devout do not carry keys. Yeshai M. Kutoff had push-button locks installed at his home […]

Engadget reviews the Dell XPS 15z

For about $200 less, you can get a fast machine, but with a cheap case and little battery life. We’d mentioned that Dell’s previous attempts at premium systems failed price, power and battery life tests. With the XPS 15z, well… two out of three ain’t bad. Despite the fact that the NVIDIA Optimus GPU turns […]

Epsilon Email Data Breach: List of Affected Companies Grows

We have news today of a huge data breach at Epsilon, a large email marketing company, which has stated that on Friday it suffered a data breach whereby emails were accessed without authorization. The company has now issued its corporate customers about the hacking with notifications of this security… via Epsilon Email Data Breach: List […]