by Joseph Forbes | Apr 28, 2013 | Data Recovery, HARDWARE, Technical Support
Russell Chozick owns a small company in Austin. TX, called Flashback Data that recovers data from messed-up hard drives. And SSDs and Flash memory, too. How badly damaged does a drive have to be to defeat Russell and his crew? Apparently, smashed to bits. Not long aqo...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 24, 2013 | DATA, HARDWARE, HEALTH, INTERNET, MONEY, NERD NEWS, PRIVACY, SECURITY, Technical Support, TECHNOLOGY, Web Hosting
But the majority of US health providers are in smaller practices that have been slow to embrace electronic medical records Nearly a decade after research firms predicted major cost savings and clinical benefits from the use of health-IT, adoption rates among U.S....
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 22, 2013 | SOFTWARE, Technical Support, Technicals
from the high-cost-of-upgrading dept. During a recent trip to an eye doctor, I noticed that she was still using Windows XP. After I suggested that she might need to upgrade soon, she said she couldn’t because she couldn’t afford the $10,000 fee involved...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 19, 2013 | Blog Entry, Data Recovery, KnowledgeBase (KB), SOFTWARE, Technical Support, Technicals
Windows 8 has been out for a while, featuring an interface that’s as cool as it is annoying . . . until you get the hang of it. But, like any computer operating system, it can fall over. Luckily, there is an easy way to solve the cause of most crashes; just call...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 19, 2013 | HACKING, HARDWARE, INTERNET, SECURITY, Technical Support
Wireless IP cameras from Foscam and other vendors have serious security issues, researchers said at Hack in the Box Thousands of wireless IP cameras connected to the Internet have serious security weaknesses that allow attackers to hijack them and alter their...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 19, 2013 | HARDWARE, INTERNET, KnowledgeBase (KB), Technical Support, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
There is, in fact, a difference between all those network cables. They look very similar from the outside, and any of them will plug into an ethernet port, but they do have some differences on the inside. If you aren’t sure what type of cables you have, look at...
