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Due to the fact that updates are becoming a problem for many users, the folks at Avira Antivirus are changing the method and size of the updates, so as to make the system more reliable.
I have noticed the problem with my systems that run Avira in the last couple of weeks, but according to an [...]

The European Union has made the feelings known officially. It does not like the idea of Oracle purchasing Sun. The reason is said to be because Sun’s MySQL database would be purposely limited, and that would be unfair.
That would seem to eliminate the purchase of Sun by IBM, as IBM also has a database, DB2. [...]

It’s official, but I said it long ago. (Perhaps I am somewhat like Nostradamus.) It will take on more weight now that the industry big shots are speaking out – cloud computing is a bad name. It always was.
The Information Week article speaks out on the bad name, and other things-
Sure, Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd [...]

Back in February, an add-on was installed into many user’s installations of Firefox were ‘augmented’ by a Microsoft plug-in item. Those who knew about it, and are not afraid (some would say paranoid) of this type of addition, thought that it was an indication that Firefox had arrived – Microsoft was finally acknowledging that Internet [...]

Since no one really knows what will happen to Sun after it is swallowed up by Oracle (or, in the case of regulatory problems, if it will be) now might be a really good time to download the very latest version of the Solaris operating system, while it is available, and free.
Tech Connect expounds upon [...]

I have long been a fan of Grisoft’s AVG antivirus solution for Windows, but lately, I have stopped using it on my personal machines, instead using Avira Antivir.
Both of these are free, and for some, Avira might not be a great solution, as there is no e-mail component. If you open lots of untrusted e-mail, [...]

Larry Dignan seems to be unusually on top of this story, as he gives more insight to the Oracle buyout of Sun.
Stating that Oracle might have valued the hardware division at zero makes many wonder how all that Sun hardware will continue on. Will it be a third party picking up the pieces, or will [...]

Wow – it might be one of those times when Twitter could have been my friend. While I was writing about Sun, and what might happen, or should happen, Larry Dignan has taken a shot over my bow with the news above.
This must have been one of those hush-hush things, where the principals meet in [...]

I’ve haven’t watched that much television lately, as I have had other things to do, and so I had to look at YouTube to see the commercial with Lauren, the girl who had to have a laptop, but could only spend $1000. Well, I take issue with the idea that most everyone needs a laptop, [...]

Did anyone else catch the Leslie Stahl interview on 60 Minutes last night? Although everything was accurate, I would say that the intensity level was 11 on a scale of 10.
Anyone who might have never worked online before, but was considering it, will never do anything that silly again.
I wasn’t sure what it was that [...]

ZDNet yesterday morning had an article concerning the problems the IT industry faces when an employee is disgruntled, and has access.
The situation was one that could have been damaging beyond description, yet the story has a happy ending. It also has a lesson. How many IT managers will take it to heart, and then remember [...]

Visiting TechSpot today, I cam across this little jewel, which has made me wonder if AVG has a good idea or simply a way to waste CPU time and network bandwidth.
When software chews up website bandwidth for reasons other than people actually viewing content, the owners of those sites get a little upset. Many companies [...]