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With the release of Microsoft’s Windows 10, many users of Windows have been or are being offered the chance to upgrade. Windows 10 will be offered to all Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 non volume-license users free of charge… Once registered for the upgrade, Windows 10 will

Microsoft has now publically announced that from July 7th, in a fairly short time frame, that it will be dropping the Skype for Modern Windows (aka Metro) App on Windows 8/8.1 platforms. Ever since these touch-enabled versions of Windows were released, Microsoft have been trying to convince

Canadian legislators have been working on new anti-spam regulations, enforced by CRTC (http://www.crtc.gc.ca) that will also include restrictions on software that installs without consent. These new Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL) are designed to prevent you visiting websites and having software installed without consent or for software updates

On several occasions in the past, I’ve avoided contact with a business competitor if I thought it would give them an advantage. Maybe they will analyse the way we do things, sell a product we sell or – heaven forbid – get close to a customer! Over

I read with interest an article proclaiming in its headline that “Startups Move away from the cloud”. In reality however the item should have had the less eye-catching, but more factually correct headline – “established businesses moving away from the PUBLIC cloud”. What is clear is that

We are all used to getting hoax emails, also known as “phishing”, but their sophistication and relevance to newsworthy events continues to increase. With Apple and iTunes in the news over the last 48 hours, mainly down to leaked (or more correctly hacked and stolen) celebrity photographs

A recent paper published by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) is damning in its finding that not only are broadband speeds and availability for small businesses poor but also that the commonly held conception that only rural areas suffer poor speed is somewhat of an incorrect

Over the last few days, one of the world’s worst computer security issues has come to light – a bug in the open-version of the technology that encrypts and verifies websites. Whether it is your online banking or webmail, the vulnerability has been shown to allow hackers

It’s a sad fact that many of the worlds passwords are “password”, “secret”, “123456” and in the western world, “QWERTY”. Luckily for us, many of the most critical sites we use won’t allow simple passwords but we should not rest easy if we have not given some

Last week celebrated the 25th Anniversary of the World Wide Web, the system designed by Tim Berners-Lee to share information – but that system has is under threat. Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s system to share information in an easily accessible way, using a textual language called “Hypertext”, went on