Back on October 7th, 2007 I wrote a piece about Dell closing a U.S. call center in which 500 folks lost their jobs. [ Original post here ] Some people responded to the article in a negative tone citing their unfortunate experiences with Dell. The main focus was of those who commented was to share th...

Sexting is sharing nude or partial nude photos of yourself with others on your cell phone. Teens are doing this but do not understand the dangers of doing it. Case in point is what happened to one teen who sent nude photos of herself to her boyfriend. Cute at first until they broke up. The boyfriend...

Microsoft is currently testing a new search engine called Kumo to replace their failing Live Search. The testing is currently being tested internally by Microsoft employees, before going public. Microsoft has struggled to get their search vehicle to be used by the public, and is currently in third p...

When Vista was getting ready to hit the streets, Microsoft promised that Vista Ultimate would be cutting edge technology. They promised us that for those who chose to purchase Ultimate at a reasonable $399 per disk, they would be blessed with technology features beyond your wildest dreams. OK. I mad...

Over at Gartner they are reporting big news in that PC sales will suffer a decline for the first time in history. No duh! We are in a recession people. Folks are fearful of losing their jobs. The stock market is in a steep down turn. Unemployment is on the rise. So making a prediction like this is a...

For those of us using Vista, we are experienced in using the ‘Windows Experience Index’, which seems to provide lackluster results. Since the WEI score is based on lowest of ALL scores, this doesn’t seem to provide any benefit to the user. But Windows 7 may change the way WEI works...

The folks at Marvell have a new miniature computer that is about the size of a network power adapter. The mini computer uses any Linux based operating system which uses the 2.6 kernel. The small computer uses a Marvell Kirkwood processor running at 1.2 GHz, 512 MB each of flash and DRAM. Also includ...

The sky is falling! Google Gmail servers were down for a few hours. After reading some of the blog reports concerning what happened, Google having issues was a great catastrophe. Over at the Google blog they reported the following: If you’ve tried to access your Gmail account today, you are probab...

I am still evaluating Windows 7 beta and continue to compare it to Windows Vista. I wish  I could compliment Microsoft for the new and improved Windows operating system, but I personally don’t find the newer OS that much different than Vista. I know, there are differences, but nothing major is be...

I had previously wrote about building a new gaming rig, in which I had described some of the parts I had purchased. One of the parts I used was a case that came with a 585 watt power supply at $69.95 and free shipping. The unit [power supply] failed within a week of use. This is a link to the item I...