What do YOU do when PC frustration strikes? A) Fix the problem because you’re tech-savvy. B) Spend 3 hours trying because you’re not. C) Call a tech-savvy buddy and plead for help. D) Lug your PC to repair, then pay a huge bill. E) Read what follows.

February 23, 2012

In America today, 76% of us own computers. That’s nearly 237 million PC users! Yet while a couple million of us are tech-savvy, over a hundred million of us definitely aren’t.

Not sure which category you fit into? Then take the ten second test below to find out.

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Why hearing someone say, “I broke my computer.” breaks my heart.

February 15, 2012

Want to have an epiphany? Visit your Town Dump!

All across America and throughout many other areas of the industrialized world, a casual tour of the local recycling center, garbage depot or land fill provides you with a surprising revelation these days. Inevitably, piled high enough to rival an Egyptian pyramid, you now find discarded computers. Hundreds of them. All shapes, sizes, colors and ages. Why?

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Ending Android Anxiety.

February 8, 2012

Android, as Google’s multi-media ad campaign makes clear, is the operating system that powers millions of phones, tablets, and other devices.

But long before Google chose to anoint its product line with this name, you could have found the word “android” in your dictionary. Its meaning? A robot that approximates a human in form and speech. — Which instantly brings to mind such popular past androids as C-3PO, The Terminator, Blade Runner’s Replicants and even Maria the futuristic robot from the 1927 silent classic, Metropolis. Hmmm. All of whom, come to think of it, had one curious thing in common….

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VeriSign is the fourth big name this year to admit it’s experienced security breaches. Is this embarrassing? No, it’s much worse.

February 3, 2012

First came Symantec and Norton (January 18^th Blog). Next up was McAfee (January 20^th Blog).

Now it’s VeriSign’s turn.

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Have you heard? The Internet is a series of tubes!

February 1, 2012

Today, across America and all around the world, whenever you walk out your door there are thousands of laws, statutes and regulations to protect you. Yet, when you visit the virtual world of the Internet, the protection legislative and law enforcement bodies around the globe provide is scant. Why?

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