Monthly Archives: January 2015

Female androids that greet guests

For centuries, hospitality in Japan has meant kimono-clad innkeepers attentive to the last detail. Now androids from the company that licenses Hello Kitty will staff a new hotel.

A theme park near Nagasaki in southern Japan will open a smart hotel featuring female androids that greet guests, and robots that carry luggage and serve coffee.

Henn-na […]

By |January 29th, 2015|IT Solutions|Comments Off on Female androids that greet guests

7 Year old girl Hacks WiFi in 10 minutes!

The Experiment:
A public awareness campaign by VPN provider ‘Hide My Ass’ – provided seven year old British girl Betsy Davies with a laptop, a tutorial, and a subject willing to be hacked in an environment imitating that found in many of the United Kingdom’s 270,000 public Wi-Fi spots. Betsy completed the hack in just […]

By |January 23rd, 2015|Security|Comments Off on 7 Year old girl Hacks WiFi in 10 minutes!

Windows 10 upgrade

During yesterday’s press event for Windows 10, Microsoft delivered a huge number of announcements. Some small, some large. One of the most sought tidbits of information about Windows 10, has been price.

So, what will Windows 10 cost?

Terry Myerson, Microsoft’s Executive Vice President of Operating Systems, took the stage first yesterday and surprised the crowd by […]

By |January 22nd, 2015|IT Solutions|Comments Off on Windows 10 upgrade

NSA Hijacking malware

In addition to having its own arsenal of digital weapons, the U.S. National Security Agency reportedly hijacks and repurposes third-party malware.

The NSA is using its network of servers around the world to monitor botnets made up of thousands or millions of infected computers. When needed, the agency can exploit features of those botnets to […]

By |January 20th, 2015|IT Solutions|Comments Off on NSA Hijacking malware

Microsoft’s New Surface Support Channel on Twitter

Yesturday Microsoft has opened up a brand new way for Surface owners to get support. Available exclusively to Twitter users, the new operation has been moving along briskly since its inception earlier yesturday.

Limited on followers so far (614 as of this writing), the account is definitely not limited by activity. In just a few […]

By |January 15th, 2015|IT Solutions|Comments Off on Microsoft’s New Surface Support Channel on Twitter

Microsoft Patch Tuesday

Affected editions include the desktop-oriented Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 and 8.1, and Windows RT, as well as Windows Server 2003, 2008 and 2012.

The vulnerability marked as having a critical severity rating, MS15-004, is found in the Telnet protocol, used to provide terminal connections to remote computers. Microsoft typically marks vulnerabilities as critical when […]

By |January 14th, 2015|Security|Comments Off on Microsoft Patch Tuesday

Australian Forced to Hand Over Rackspace.xyz

An Australian man has been ordered to hand over his Rackspace.xyz domain name to Rackspace Hosting this week.

The domain was registered with GoDaddy by Russell Harrower in July, and used to launch an online directory of billiard halls in Australia on Dec. 11, 2014.

Rackspace Hosting filed the complaint with the National Arbitration Forum in November, […]

By |January 12th, 2015|IT Solutions|Comments Off on Australian Forced to Hand Over Rackspace.xyz