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How to Create a Secure Password

Creating a good password is very simple, but many people do not want to take a couple minutes to do so. A large social network applications website RockYou.com was recently hacked, and the results were posted online. This gave researchers something to think about, because there were 32 million email addresses, passwords, user names, etc. to be studied. Imperva compiled the results of their research recently, and they found that 30% of users had passwords of six characters or less and...

Xbox to Feature Streaming ESPN – Impact on Cable Providers

The NY Times is reporting that Microsoft is trying to expand the entertainment value of it's Xbox 360 console by offering streaming media such as live sporting events and movies. Microsoft is currently in negotiations with the Walt Disney Company (parent company of ABC & ESPN) to provide a per-subscriber fee for live sporting event streams similar to the ESPN 360 service offered to broadband users. Xbox Live users can already (for a monthly fee) get NetFlix movies streaming through their...

New York Times Charging for Content

The NY Times is not only one of the most popular influential newspapers in America, it is also one of the most popular websites. For quite a while you had to have a subscription in order to view articles on the New York Times, but for the past few years they have been fully ad supported, while giving out all of their content for free. This was the last straw for most other online publications, with the Wall Street Journal being the only major publication to continue charging for...

Computer Freezes on Startup – Computer Locks up on Startup

This is one of the most common issues for Windows users, and at the same time one of the most aggravating. Depending on how you phrase it, whether your computer freezes on startup, locks on startup or just plain doesn't work it nets the same result: pressing the power button and getting angry. I have been going around on Twitter @TailorMyPC helping strangers with their computer problems; one girl I met was having her computer freeze after 2-3 minutes of turning on her computer.  If this...

German Government Advises Against using Internet Explorer

Well, the pile of bad news continues for Microsoft as a result of the cyber attacks on Google by the Chinese government. It originally broke that this happened as a result of a security flaw in the Internet Explorer browser, which Google tried to sweep under the rug because this showed that their employees were not using Chrome or Firefox (the two browsers that they have supported). Now the German government is recommending to web users worldwide not to use the Internet Explorer browser due...