Oops! Deleted Our Own Blog

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By Michael Santo
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
Really, you have to watch that Delete key. Apparently Google deleted its own blog on Monday night … not only that, during that period, the blog address was claimed by another user. It wasn’t a hack, but a mistake.
“We’ve determined the cause of tonight’s outage. The blog was [...]

eEye Digital Security Fixes IE Vulnerability

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Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
Yesterday, I talked about the rise in the number of websites exploiting the latest Internet Explorer vulnerability, and the fact that Microsoft may not patch it until the next Patch Tuesday. Well, eEye Digital Security has issued work around for companies who are not able to disable active scripting.
This workaround is [...]

High-tech meets the restaurant industry

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Contributing Writer, RealTechNews.
Restaurants are using more gadgets as well as the Internet to help them retain and satisfy their customers. Quite a number of restaurants are using handheld devices that contain wine lists wiith applications that customers can use to choose the best wine for their meal and price [...]

Celebrate 10 Years with Palm’s Pilot

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By Michael Santo
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
It doesn’t seem like it’s been that long, but it has. I even remember buying a Pilot 1000 when it first came out. I subsequently remember breaking the screen on that device, but that’s beside the point.
I also remember buying (and using) a Palm III, [...]

Websites Using IE Vulnerability Continue to Grow

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Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
Websense and Sunbelt are reporting that the number of websites using the latest IE vulnerability is over 200, and these are not just hacker sites either. BTW, this is one of those exploits that would allow the attacker to execute code on your machine, just by visiting a website. Microsoft said [...]

Put the sparkle back in your iPod with iDrops

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By Jessamy Hawley, Contributing Writer
RealTechNews
Remember Apple Sauce, the micro-refining polishing goo for iPod? Well, iDrops is a souper-douper alternative that works on acrylic-coated laptops as well as Apple’s precious players. Plus, there’s only one step in this latest beauty regime…
iDrops cleans, polishes, protects and removes scratches. Squirt a few beads onto your lacklustre gadget [...]

Win! Win! Win!

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The GadgetCandy team wants to find out what floats your boat – besides Stella McCartney’s collection at H&M, of course – so we’ve gone and put together a short questionnaire with precisely that in mind. What do you get in return for us picking your brains? The chance to win this Olympus µ (mju) 720 [...]

Geocaching: New Game for Nerds

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Contributing Writer, RealTechNews.
GPS-Gadget-owning nerds have had a new game for a few years now: geocaching. Here’s how the game works: you lookup the locations of geocaches on various geocaching websites, find the geocache, take something from the cache, add something else and make a note in the frequently enclosed [...]