Computer Safety & News

John Maxwell shares a beneficial leadership article related on focus for the positive rather than negative side with both projects and people: http://www.johnmaxwell.com/blog/developing-a-powerful-positive-perspective STORY FROM WORLDS BEST HITTER TO BEST PITCHER — A young child tossed the ball into the air again, and took another mighty swing. The ball landed softly at his feet. “That’s […]

Microsoft is reorganizing resources into a new Artificial Intelligence with more than 5,000 team members working together.  This is outlined in following links: http://www.pcmag.com/news/348347/microsoft-bets-big-on-ai-with-new-division Microsoft might be putting its phone hardware business on the backburner, but it’s going all in on artificial intelligence with a new division focused entirely on the emerging technology.  Redmond’s new […]

At my local church, our youth have done an awesome job in skits and awareness related to dangers of Internet, social engineering, and telephone scams.  This may be some of best security awareness I’ve seen.  Below are a few ideas shared based on past experience in field of security.  This coming Sunday will be part two of the […]

Google has renamed and rebranded it’s cloud computing services. Instead of “Google Cloud Services” or “Google Cloud Platform”, it will simply be known as “Google Cloud”.  Related links are noted below http://www.pcmag.com/news/348336/googles-cloud-services-get-new-names https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/09/Google-Cloud-Platform-sets-a-course-for-new-horizons.html https://cloud.googleblog.com/2016/09/introducing-Google-Cloud.html For starters, Google’s cloud platform—”our user facing collaboration and productivity applications”— is now known as Google Cloud. It encompasses all the […]

Microsoft is virtualizing the Edge browser in Window 10 to improve safety for users as shared below: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2016/09/26/new-windows-10-and-office-365-features-for-the-secure-productive-enterprise/ Today we announced a new addition to the extensive Windows 10 security stack with a revolutionary security improvement to Microsoft Edge. Windows Defender Application Guard uses virtualization-based security technology to protect against advanced attacks coming from the […]

PC Magazine shares an in-depth review of their 2016 Readers Choice Awards for Digital Cameras and Camcorders http://www.pcmag.com/article/348243/readers-choice-awards-2016-digital-cameras-and-camcorders Recent product introductions like Apple’s iPhone 7 Plus with two lenses, a Hasselblad camera add-on to the Motorolo Moto Z, and a Huawei’s partnership with Leica might lead you to believe that all of the interesting developments […]

At the Ignite conference, Microsoft shares it’s future expansion plans for Azure Cloud data center growth as noted below: https://redmondmag.com/articles/2016/09/27/worldwide-expansion-plans-for-azure.aspx Microsoft Azure is the second-largest global public cloud by customer revenues, according to independent analyst estimates, and Microsoft now claims an Azure presence in twice as many regions as the public cloud market-leading Amazon Web […]

John Maxwell shares a good leadership article related on need to take these essential skills outside the office into society itself: http://www.johnmaxwell.com/blog/taking-your-leadership-out-of-the-office This has all kinds of practical applications in a business or office setting. You lead out when you change the status quo. You lead out when you encourage others to follow your lead […]

The latest count of Windows 10 devices was just shared at Microsoft’s Ignite conference: http://www.seattletimes.com/business/microsoft/microsoft-says-400-million-devices-using-windows-10/ ATLANTA — Microsoft says there are 400 million devices running Windows 10, the operating system the company released in July 2015.  That’s up from 350 million in June.  The updated figure, timed to the start of Microsoft’s Ignite information technology […]

The new FGPA technology is a highly specialized computer chip that can be custom programmed for highly demanding cloud based applications as described below: http://www.seattletimes.com/business/microsoft/microsoft-opens-a-gate-to-powerful-computing/ One of Microsoft’s major announcements this week at Ignite, the Redmond company’s annual information technology worker conference, was essentially a better supercomputer.  Burger, in a simulated demo on Monday, showed […]