BRUCEB NEWS
Experian Knows Data Breaches, You Betcha!
You know the big three credit bureaus, right? It’s always entertaining to watch the gyrations of the random number they assign to each of us called a “credit score.” It’s the credit bureaus that cause your blood pressure to spike when you find out how inaccurate their...
NETWORK SCANNING
I have long insisted that scanners had to be tethered to a computer because it wasn't feasible to control a scanner across a network.That began to be eroded by the floor-standing...
WEBMAIL ADVANCES
Many of us cannot imagine life without Outlook. In addition to e-mail, it handles our calendar and address book and to-do list; it fills our handheld devices and addresses...
MEDIA IN THE LIVING ROOM
Here's an article that describes the struggle to involve a computer in the living room, delivering photos, music and movies. The struggle is not going well. Hewlett Packard just...
PEARLS BEFORE BREAKFAST
This has nothing to do with technology - it's just a fascinating, thought-provoking story. The Washington Post arranged for violin virtuoso Joshua Bell to play in a DC subway...
“NETWORK OR FILE PERMISSION ERROR”
All right, now I'm getting angry.Like most of my business clients, my documents are stored on a network server. When I click on "My Documents," I'm taken to...
MOSSBERG ON NEW COMPUTERS
Walter Mossberg is an influential tech columnist for the Wall Street Journal. Today's column is a well-justified complaint about the process of setting up a new computer.Mossberg...
BLOGS & TUMBLR
Many people feel left out by the world of blogs, unsure how to find blogs to read and completely adrift about how to start writing one.Want to read some blogs? You could do worse...
KODAK PRINTERS & REALITY
Kodak announced its new line of photo printers with bold promises - here's my writeup about an exciting world where photos could be printed for half the cost of materials...
AMICUS V SUPPORT ENDING
Law office alert: According to this blog, Gavel & Gown will be ending technical support for Amicus Attorney version V on June 1, 2007.That creates a business-critical problem for...
OFFICE 2007 MOMENTS
The "ribbons" in Microsoft Word 2007 and Excel 2007 are better organized than the menus and toolbars in Office 2003, but I'm also going through odd moments of confusion or...
GOOGLE ANNOUNCES FREE WIRELESS BROADBAND
A potentially world-changing announcement from Google today - the launch of Google TiSP, a free in-home wireless broadband service that delivers online connectivity via users'...
MICROSOFT DEEPFISH
If you've ever looked at Engadget or Gizmodo, you know there are an overwhelming number of new products appearing all the time. Here's one that looks like it might be...
COMPARING PDFS
PDF has become the standard format for most documents exchanged in the business world, and it is increasingly used to exchange documents during negotiation or collaboration....
GOOGLE TEXT LINK ADS
Google announced a new advertising program last week and the reports focused on a new Google policy that doesn't affect us directly. (Briefly: Google sends money to advertisers...
PRINTING OUTLOOK MESSAGE HEADERS
Two clients reported problems printing e-mail messages from Outlook 2003 - the message headers weren't printing, the part that shows Date:, To:, From: and Subject. In each case,...