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Backing up your Android’s mail: An important chore

Wright PC Consulting, LLC — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 18:31:05 +0000

Personal and professional emails that you send and receive from associates, friends, and family buzz between your Android device and the Google servers with ease, and you rarely, if ever, think about what would happen, if someday, that relation ship were to fail.

Google Green?

Wright PC Consulting, LLC — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 18:15:47 +0000

Google is many things… an advertising company, an ISP, email provider, a cloud pioneer and even a mobile phone maker (almost), but one thing it is not is an energy waster. To prove that, they recently unveiled Google Green – The Big Picture, a website that highlights the many ways that Google uses its brain [...]

In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

Wright PC Consulting, LLC — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 20:13:57 +0000

Few outsiders get an opportunity to pierce the guarded armor of Google known as simply “The Plex” to most. However, Steven Levy is one of the few non-Googlers who has been granted what seems to be unprecedented access to The Plex and many of those who call it home, including the two that started it all: Co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. From dorm room [...]

Google Releases Latest Transparency Report

Wright PC Consulting, LLC — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 18:21:35 +0000

Google has released its latest Transparency Report

Android Trojan: GGTracker

Wright PC Consulting, LLC — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 00:20:45 +0000

New Android based Trojan, GGTracker, pretends to be Android Market...

Better DNS Servers (Part 2)

Wright PC Consulting, LLC — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 22:52:28 +0000

Some may remember my post in February of 2010, “Better DNS Servers for faster browsing” in which I briefly described what DNS is and how it may impact your surfing speed. While I still recommend OpenDNS (See my posts: OpenDNS: Better, Faster, Safer? and OpenDNS Protects Surfers from DNS Flaw) for many of my customers who are looking [...]

Backupify Offering a Free Year

Wright PC Consulting, LLC — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 22:45:38 +0000

Backupify is offering one year free for the Pro 100 plan for those who simply ask (using pro code savegmail)! The cloud based backup solution uses Amazon Web Services’ S3 service to backup you Google account Email, Docs, Calendar and other Googlified data. So, why the generosity? According to their blog post, it seems to [...]

Automattic Releases “Critical” WordPress Update

Wright PC Consulting, LLC — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 18:16:04 +0000

Automattic has release what they call a "critical" update to their popular WordPress blogging platform

Chile Earthquake Search Engine Poisoning

Wright PC Consulting, LLC — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 02:47:45 +0000

The Sans Institute is reporting yet another search engine poisoning surrounding a major event. This time, it is the recent earthquake in Chile. According to the Institute, unsuspecting searchers looking for information about the devastating 8.8 earthquake find malware laced sites rather than information. “Search Google for “Chile Earthquake” and you will find a number [...]

Search Poising latest Olympic Tragedy

Wright PC Consulting, LLC — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:01:53 +0000

The SANS Technology Institute is reporting that many unsuspecting Olympic searchers are finding malware rather than Olympic news through Google search results poisoning. According to SANS: “…the killed Georgian luge athlete is used to redirect unsuspecting users to fake anti virus and other malicious content. The redirect is browser dependent. Firefox is usually redirected to [...]