Most of us are middle class folk who work for a living. Between us, people hold various difference types of jobs but the lionshare of the jobs we hold are probably office-related — work we do at an office. Seeing as we spend...
Yesterday we learned Innovative Marketing, a firm that developed scareware programs, has to pay a fine of $163 million. In the comments of the article, Rob mentioned another scareware scam — “tech support” callin...
What happens when an entity loses a court battle in the United States? They appeal, of course. When Samsung lost Apple v Samsung and was handed a $1 billion fine in late August, we knew they would appeal. To no one’s surpris...
Tabs were invented to help make our browsing easier. For some people, like myself, they have actually made our browsing more hectic because we feel the urge to keep opening tabs and opening tabs and opening tabs and opening tabs&#...
Here on dotTech we have featured a photo of an aurora borealis before, and we aren’t strangers to odd phenomenon in the sky, dragons or otherwise. Despite all the exposure we have to amazing photos, the photo I have to share...
Yesterday I posted a tip about how Google is the best spell checker, ever. As is typical of dotTechies, some of you posted tips related to using Google for spell checking purposes. One of these very useful tips is to use ‘de...
In this day and age, most semi-tech savvy computer users know what scareware is. For those that don’t, scareware is not malware, per se, but it is software that make you think like you have a problem on your computer (when y...
Unfortunately for Apple, quality control on the iPhone 5 has fallen short of spectacular with iPhone 5 owners complaining of many issues ranging from scratches and scuffs on brand new phones to light leaks on screens to purple ...
We knew it was coming and it has arrived: Samsung has officially included the iPhone 5 in a lawsuit against Apple. In the lawsuit Samsung alleges the iPhone 5, among other Apple products, infringes on eight Samsung patents. As Ars...
Well now, what do we have here. In August Google’s subsidiary Motorola Mobility filed a complaint with the International Trade Commission alleging Apple’s iPhone, iPad, and Mac devices infringe on seven of MotorolaR...
I am notoriously bad at spelling. I heavily depend on spell check when writing articles. Most of the times, the spell checker built into WordPress and Firefox work well enough. However, there are times that I have absolute no idea...
Wikipedia is the world’s largest free encyclopedia. In fact I would venture to say it is the world’s largest encyclopedia period, free and paid. Aside from being filled with information, what makes Wikipedia great is i...
Today could be considered a space day here on dotTech. Aside from the space we are providing you for the next few days (see what I did there?), we have posted about a space video and will now show you an awesome shot of space. The...
We have already seen a time-lapse video of the space, as seen from the International Space Station. Today I have another space video to show you, although of a different kind. The following video is of the view astronauts have of ...
Hey dotTechies, I just wanted to give everyone a heads-up that there will be less activity on dotTech for the next few days as I assemble a new team of superheroes. This is, of course, temporary and I see us back at full throttle ...
