8 out of 10 customers choose Windows 7, says PC builder

Given the choice, Puget Systems’ customers ignore Windows 8 and buy Windows 7 machines instead.

Given a choice, customers of a Pacific Northwest PC system builder overwhelming pick Windows 7 over the newer Windows 8, the company’s president said Thursday.

“Windows 7 is known, it has years of solid reputation behind it, but Windows 8 has gotten a mixed reaction in the press and social media, and the lack of a Start menu is a hot-button issue among our customers,” said Jon Bach, president of Puget Systems, an Auburn, Wash. independent PC builder. Read the rest of this page »

Microsoft speeds up IE10 Flash patching, matches Google

Out-of-nowhere update for Flash likely triggered by upcoming $2 million “Pwnium” hacking contest that Google kicks off Wednesday, says expert.

Adobe today issued a surprise update IE10 Flash patching, for Flash Player that patched 25 critical vulnerabilities in the ubiquitous media software.

The California company urged Windows users to apply the update in the next 72 hours after rating the fix as “Priority 1″ in its three-step system. That ranking indicates “vulnerabilities being targeted, or which have a higher risk of being targeted, by exploit(s) in the wild.” Read the rest of this page »

Asperger’s study asks: Are hackers cognitively different?

Hackers are frequently assumed to have Asperger’s syndrome. Psychologists set out to see if this assumption might be true and studied HOPE and Defcon attendees over 10 years.

Hackers perceive and experience the world differently than mainstream society, for a lot of reasons. Some people have postulated those reasons may be attributed to neurological conditions, such as Asperger’s Syndrome. Read the rest of this page »

Summary: For Windows 8, Microsoft has completely rewritten its license agreements, replacing legalese with plain language and for the first time allowing retail customers to legally install cheaper OEM versions. Here’s what’s new.

With Windows 8, Microsoft has completely overhauled the license agreements it presents to customers. Read the rest of this page »

Copyright removal requests to affect Google search ranking

The goal is to reward sites that use content to which they’re legally entitled to the copyright.

August 10, 2012, 5:24 PM — When assigning search result rankings, Google will now take reports of copyright violation into account. Read the rest of this page »

Woz: Cloud computing is a nightmare

Speaking after a performance of Mike Daisey’s one-man Steve Jobs show, Steve Wozniak says he foresees nightmares caused by data stored in remote servers used in cloud computing.

“I think it’s going to be horrendous.”

This is how much Steve Wozniak is sitting on the fence, when it comes to cloud computing. Read the rest of this page »

Search Engine Optimization — An Introduction and Easy Guide

Search engine optimization, basically it is a technique in which you can integrate negligible adjusts to the website in such a mode so that the content is effortlessly perceptible and indexed by the search engines. Websites which use excess Flash and Java images are not picked up by the search engines. As a result they are not indexed and the effort of spending time, money and energy in building a website goes in vain. What is the use of building a website, when it fails to attract the target audience for its business?

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In IT News, Facebook engagement among brands up 338%, says Adobe.

In breaking IT News — If your business doesn’t have a Facebook Page yet, you’re losing out. Read the rest of this page »