Wireless Internet Security: How secure is FTP, my email and passwords? What about WEP/WPA2 routers? Emails and passwords can be easily listened to through on a wifi network. Protected wireless networks can be cracked. Some more easily than others.
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Complete easy to understand instructions on “how to” set up your WiFi connection and secure it!
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Microsoft, HP, etc. finally acknowledge the patent infringement of wireless LAN technology taken from the CSIRO in Australia
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Short range wireless technology got a bit of an upgrade yesterday with the official release of Bluetooth Core Specification 3.0 + High Speed. The upgrade was scheduled to be released April 21st and, unlike other companies in the industry, actually adhered to its set date. Some of the features of the new Bluetooth 3.0 are higher speeds
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The release of an official Skype application for the iPhone appears to have been controversial for both mobile carriers and consumers. The Voice-Over-IP software allows iPhone users to make phone calls over Wi-Fi to other Skype users or even to regular landline phones. Obviously, such functionality could compete with mobile carrier’s own voice serv
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federal regulators this week took the first formal step into investigating complaints about how Internet service providers, such as Comcast, manage peer-to-peer file-sharing traffic on their networks.
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(wirelessandmobilenews.com) Wireless and Mobile News reports that Verizon will offer the Verizon Hub, a new touchscreen home phone system with a souped-up home communications system, bridging wireline and wireless connectivity using a broadband connections. Features include text messages, calendar, visual voice mail, calendar notification and directions for the whole family.
The record lows that Sprint has hit, put the American wireless economy at a turning point.
If you are a senior executive a company that accepts consumer payments, you understand that the easier you make the transaction process, the higher volume of sales you can incur.
…and PNC Bank is also on my list of financial institutions that could care less about the average Joe.
Apparently when you travel to a foreign country INCLUDING CANADA VIA turns off your ATM card. My wife is currently traveling in Toronto and has NO ACCESS TO HER ACCOUNTS.
When I called my BANK, PNC Bank based in Maryland, and D.C. all they could do was tell me to call a VISA 800 number.
This has been going on for TWO DAYS and she has yet to be able to access an ATM there.
This was NEVER a problem beofre and now it apparently is a VERY BIG problem.
I am POISED to take all of my accounts out of my current bank PnC Bank for their INABILITY and UNWILLINGNESS to help my wife access her funds a few hundred miles outside of the USA.
When you travel to Canada be SURE to call VISA AND TAKE AMERICAN EXPRESS. I am calling American Express Gold Card people next!
I am SO TIRED of being treated like SCUM by so-called American businesses. Damn tired.
The license terms for the company’s Safari Web browser on Windows include a curious restriction: “The software allows you to install and use one copy of the Apple Software on a single Apple-labeled computer at a time.”
(Smarmy marketing behavior 101: This ALL got started when Apple sent an install of Safari through the Itunes automatic update. Many of us didn’t really get it until it was done. I thought Safari was part of Itunes. Silly me. Safari is Apple’s browser! Itunes users everywhere were tricked into installing a new piece of software. Couldn’t Apple think of a better way to encourage others to use their browser using polite competitive marketing technique instead of trickery and deceit?
Interestingly the smarmy marketing people FORGOT to update the product eula that said Safari could be installed on Apple products only. Ooops they were caught! They changed the eula within hours of the world noticing the discrepancy. What was noticed was the trickery. Why does a big company marketing group behave in a smarmy way? Are there smarmy universities that teach smarmy? The world would be a much better place without smarmy.)
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WASHINGTON (AP) – Consumer confidence fell to an all-time low as worries about jobs, energy bills and home foreclosures darkened people’s feelings about the country’s economic health and their own financial well-being.
According to the RBC Cash Index, confidence tumbled to a mark of 56.3 in early January.
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A family in Framingham, Massachusetts says that after their father died late last month, Sprint refused to allow them to cancel his cell phone, and insisted that they had to continue to pay for the phone plan until the contract was over in September, 2008.
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Now wireless identity thieves called “skimmers,” can steal your personal information out of the air surrounding your purse or wallet using RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) interception technology. Read this article by Grey McKenzie and take action to protect yourself at http://www.nationalcybersecurity.com/blogs/233/
Let the medical community know who can answer questions about your medical history by prefixing contacts with ICE (in case of emergency) for those who can answer important questions about medical history or keep medical staff from using materials or drugs that you are allergic to. (It is also a great iea to put an ICE list on the refrigerator! Creating an ICE entry in your cellular telephone dial list is an excellent idea! It might save your life some day so take the time to create an ICE number.
People who text message, e-mail, and download files on mobile phones spend $14 a month more than people who don’t, says J.D. Power and Associates.
(PopWireless: This is where cellular companies are making their money now. New activations are way down compared to a few years ago. Everyone that needs a cellular telephone has one. Companies are focusing on encouraging consumers to move to their service from another and on selling add-on services like text messaging. )
Just needs final approval from Congress (which shouldn’t be hard) to make registration permanent.
(PopWireless: We certainly hope so! )
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