Author Archives: Nick Carpenter

Windows 7 Looms in the Distance

By Nick Carpenter | Published: May 3, 2009

It’s been a long time coming, and still may be, as the world has been holding their breaths, waiting for a final release date of Microsoft’s latest soldier in the computer wars, Windows 7. A final release date has not been announced yet, but due to the fact that it looks like not much has [...]

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Microsoft Joins the Quest in Slaying the Koobface

By Nick Carpenter | Published: April 2, 2009

Koobface, sounds like that little guy you jumped on in Super Mario Bros. right? Nope, it’s a highly effective virus based out of social networking sites.

Effecting a large population of Facebook, they have now turned to Vista and XP producers, Microsoft. Now that the two companies are working together, Microsoft has been able to add [...]

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YouTube Gets It’s Ban On

By Nick Carpenter | Published: April 1, 2009

Germany, the land of Viennese Schnitzel, Lederhosens and free internet music videos.. wait! No more music videos you say? Forget the schnitzel, I’m unpacking my Lederhosens and canceling my travel plans!

Music videos, once a common part of the German YouTube scene, have recently been banned due to a falling out in talks between YouTube and Germany’s [...]

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China Bans YouTube!

By Nick Carpenter | Published: March 24, 2009

Well, the Vatican has joined the craze by creating their own YouTube channel, but chances are you won’t see the Chinese Government with one anytime soon.
It appears that, once again, the government of China is trying to block the world’s top video hosting site. It has been reported by The Wall Street Journal that the [...]

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Rumor Time: Apple a Gamer?

By Nick Carpenter | Published: March 16, 2009

As shown with the highly successful release of games in the app store, for the iPod touch and iPhone, Apple has begun emerging itself into the market of gaming. This makes sense as this industry is ablaze, all the while the world is entering a recession.
At the moment, the only way to experience gaming through [...]

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iTunes 8.1 Fixes Some Major Threats

By Nick Carpenter | Published: March 12, 2009

As Apple releases the latest update to it’s one-stop media station, iTunes, it also fixes up a few little “malicious” holes that were in the software.
One of the main problems, involved a user subscribing to a podcast that is malicious, which causes an authentication dialogue box to appear, and then prompt the user to enter [...]