Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category

Better DNS Servers for faster browsing

I regularly have customers tell me that “their internet is slow” despite having such and such speed tier with their ISP. While there can be many causes for slow page loads including, viruses, spyware, network congestion and ISP network issues to just name a few, often the culprit can be narrowed down to just three [...]

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Blackberry Outages: Headaches for Everyone

For the second time just weeks, Blackberry’s across North America are falling silent as the data stops flowing. Once again, the ‘Net is abuzz with reports of an outage of Blackberry Internet Services (BIS), the consumer data gatekeeper for Blackberry users. So far, it seems that the outage is affecting all data services except for [...]

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Google Maps Navigation

Having the power of Google and “the cloud” on your dash or the palm of your hand when traveling to provide turn-by-turn guidance is coming to an Android smartphone near you! Recently Google announced the reality of such convenience on their blog. So, you too really can “get their from here.”

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3G Speed Tests: How Fast is Your Carrier?

According to Wired.com‘s recent speed test challenge, the carrier with “the most bars” is not the carrier with the most speed.  In fact, results pegged AT&T Wireless‘ 3G network speed  as the slowest while Verizon Wireless‘ testers found them to have the fastest 3g data transfers. See the test method here and the results here.

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Michael Jackson’s Death Inspires Spammers

With the reported deaths of Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson this week, it was only a matter of time before malware latent spam started making the rounds.

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