Read the full blog here: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2016/06/01/opening-windows-holographic-to-partners-for-a-new-era-of-mixed-reality/
As part of the 2016 - Geelong Small Business Festival, Jonathan Harris will be presenting "iPhone & iPad Your Business On The Move". How to stay in touch and manage your business with an iPhone or iPad while on the move Stuck in your office, when you should be out seeing clients? Come and learn how to stay connected. What apps should I use to save me searching through thousands of options? Where to store your business data; server – cloud – laptop – iPad. How to manage 100’s of different passwords securely. How to synchronise your eMail, calendar and documents.
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Sticky Notes
Since Windows 7, we have had
access to this great little accessory.
If you are not already using it – read
on to see if it might help you.
Instead of 20 different post-it notes
stuck around the outside of your
monitor, you can use Sticky Notes to
have them appear on your computer
desktop. Less chance of one of them
falling off and not getting done.
You can do away with putting
passwords on a post-it note, instead
hide it in a Sticky Note.
But what I use it for is my current
ToDo list, and my “Don’t forget these
things” list.
"You can change your PC's display language to any supported language that has been added to your computer. To do this, click the language you want to use and clickOptions. UnderLanguage options, clickDownloadto download the basic language pack (not all language packs are available). Once the language pack has downloaded, go back to Region & language, click the language and clickSet as default.
You'll see a notification appear under the language that reads Will be display language after next sign-in. Sign out of Windows and sign back in, and your new display language will be set."
Read the full story here: http://www.cnet.com/au/how-to/windows-10-settings-menu-the-time-language-tab/
"When you delay restarting your computer, the operating system keeps unnecessary apps, temporary files, disk caches, page files and other functions running up in the background.
If you don’t already want to put your fist through the screen over the slow performance, failing to close down the system also leads to memory problems.
Apps and software you may have used weeks ago can clog up the memory and cause your computer to crash or freeze regularly."
"The Samsung UBD K8500 Ultra HD Blu-ray player is selling in Australia for $599, however the range of 4K Blu-ray Discs available to play on it will initially be quite limited.
Just a dozen are available now, with 30 titles expected to be released by August and 100 by the end of the year.
Panasonic will launch a competing 4K Blu-ray player, though not until September.
Both devices will be able to play 4K HDR, or High Dynamic Range, discs that will deliver a greater colour range and contrast on screen.
The Blu-ray players will also provide the first access to 4K content outside YouTube and Netflix in Australia, which is only available to viewers with internet connections faster than 25 megabits per second."
"Word has an auto-save feature, but there are times when your documents don't show up in the recovery pane when you open Word. Maybe your computer shut down unexpectedly or you accidentally clicked "Don't Save" as you closed your document. We've all been there." Read the full story here: http://www.cnet.com/au/news/find-an-unsaved-word-document-in-windows-10/
"In the article snippet below, you’ll notice quite a number of inconsistencies:
Apple Gets Desperate. Liquidates Overstocked iPhone 6S for €1.(TNReport)—People in the United Kingdom will be shocked to hear that Apple is running a special customer
appreciation event and offering a huge discount to new and existing customers—by selling the iPhone 6S for $1
(that's 99% off the original price!)For only the month of March, Zuuvu has partnered up with trusted Apple iPhone 6S distributors to provide this limited time deal to customers. This is not a mistake: $1.All of this is a part of an aggressive marketing strategy. Why are they offering such an incredible deal to United
Kingdom residents? The Apple marketing team explains: "Last year, the United Kingdom market share may have
dropped 35% and is losing to Samsung's Galaxy products worldwide. Apple retailers need to capture United
Kingdom users by liquidating extremely low-priced iPhone 6S devices. In this way, people can become repeat
customers who will spread the brand loyalty to their friends."
When users click any of the links on the fake news article, they are redirected to several destinations before ending up on a page at zuuvu[DOT]com, as shown below:"
"The black market for stolen account details was also gaining traction, Mr Savvides said, with everything from Netflix to stolen credit card details earning criminals cash.
“A Netflix account now sells for 25c. They sell these accounts to a bad guy in lots of one thousand, and he sets up a pirate network and sells access to the service for $1 a month,” he said.
“You can buy PlayStation accounts for $7 each and then there’s credit card details. If you get extra information like CCV numbers and expiry dates, you can get $40 per account for that information.”
Mr Savvides said the introduction of a cash price for accounts was one of the reasons online threats were becoming so sophisticated, with call centre-like setups, ransomware help lines for hackers, and a more nine-to-five style of operation.
“We were tracking one group and watching their activity,” he said. “You can see them take weekends off. They’re operating as a business.”"
"Locky is usually delivered via downloader in MS Office document (i.e. DOC) or JavaScript – e-mail attachment in a phishing campaign. The payload is a 32-bit Windows executable, containing the malicious corepackedin a crypter/dropper (they are various, with various icons).
After being deployed it disappears and runs its dropped copy (renamed to svchost.exe) from the %TEMP% folder."
"Consumers will this year face a choice of Ultra HD Premium, Dolby Vision, or 4K HDR televisions, in addition to OLED or LED-backlit LCD televisions, and Ultra High-Definition or full high-definition screens.
New TV buyers will also have to find a source of HDR content to make the most of the televisions, with only streaming TV service Netflix offering it so far.
Australian TV buyers are already choosing big screens with Ultra High-Definition resolution, however, with LG reporting UHD screens made up 42 per cent of television value last year, up from 25 per cent in 2014."
"First and foremost, make sure that your iCloud account has a very secure password. Longer is better. As long as your password is long, and is not a quote from a book, movie, song or other media, and it’s not a common expression, and it’s not something that could be guessed with a little cyberstalking, it does not need to be horribly complex.
A password like “horse airplane rutabaga flashlight” is far more secure than a complex but shorter password like “h@c|<me.”
Second, DO NOT use the same password on any other site!
Ideally, every online account should have a different password, and you should be using a password manager (like 1Password or LastPass) to keep track of all of them. This prevents situations where a server gets compromised and leaks your password, and then the hacker is able to use that password to access all your other accounts."
"The outage caused Telstra CEO Andrew Penn to issue a grovelling apology, saying he accepted full responsibility for the problem and offered customers another data free day on April 3.
Thousands took to social media after being unable to access their services around 6pm last Thursday.
While services were restored within four hours, some customers complained of ongoing problems into the next day.
At the same time, other Telstra users complained of poor internet speeds, broken landlines and failure to access various websites with the finger being pointed straight at the Telco."
Google is investigating whether the encryption used for emails as part of its End-To-End project can be applied to other products. Snapchat, the photo- and video-sharing service, is also at work on a more secure messaging system, The Guardian added.
Encryption has been a hot-button topic lately because of Apple's battle with the US Department of Justice. The DOJ has been trying to force the company to unlock an iPhone 5C used by one of the shooters who killed 14 people in the San Bernardino, California, massacre in December. But the renewed encryption efforts by Facebook and the other tech companies started before Apple's fight with the DOJ, The Guardian said.
"After attempting to find an interested buyer to keep the business afloat, receivers Ferrier Hodgson announced in late February there was no white knight on the horizon and that theDick Smith would have to be closed for good. The announcement was grim news for roughly 3,000 staff working in Dick Smith's 363 stores across Australia and New Zealand, who were told their stores would be shuttered by late April.
As part of the closure process, Ferrier Hodgson announced a fire sale to clear excess stock, fixtures and essentially anything that wasn't bolted down, all in order to raise money for creditors.
Now, it seems, there's more up for grabs.
The receivers placed an advertisement in a New Zealand newspaper on Wednesday, seeking urgent expressions of interest for Dick Smith's digital business, including its brands and trademarks, and website and domain names."
Read the full story here: http://www.cnet.com/au/news/dick-smith-receivers-ferrier-hodgson-advertise-sale-of-customer-database/
"According to Xiao, the Transmission app – a BitTorrent client – was infected to include this ransomware. The infected app was distributed from the official Transmission website, but with a different code signature than the normal one previously used to sign the Transmission app, implying that the app itself had been modified and re-signed by the attacker (although this has not yet been confirmed).
The modified copy of Transmission includes a file named General.rtf, which is actually an executable file rather than the rich-text document it pretends to be. When the app is launched, this file is copied to a file named kernel_service in the user Library folder (which is hidden by default on recent versions of OS X)."
Read the full story here: https://blog.malwarebytes.org/mac/2016/03/first-mac-ransomware-spotted/
"In addition to raw speed, Telstra will be improving video and media broadcast capabilities, with LTE-Broadcast technology. Initially this means better live video and match updates in sporting stadiums and other arenas, but with the rollout of the related Media Optimised Network (MON) you could see easier access to software updates and even something Telstra is calling "content prepositioning": Pre-loading content on your phone so it's already there if you decide to access it.
High-quality video calling over LTE (ViLTE) is also on the cards, joining the already-launched Voice over LTE (VoLTE) for compatible devices. Voice over WiFi is coming in the first half of 2016, with customers using VoLTE soon able to have voice calls swap seamlessly from mobile data to home fixed broadband."
Read the full story here: http://www.cnet.com/au/news/telstra-5g-2018-1gbps-4g-upgrade/
Tuesday, 1 March 2016
"Following the Netflix business model,YouTube Red will attempt to attract customers by offering original content, such as film, TV shows and documentaries unavailable elsewhere.
YouTube chief business officer Robert Kyncl said the service — which launched in the US in late October for $US9.99 a month — hoped to rival Netflix, Stan and Presto."
Read the full story here: http://www.news.com.au/technology/home-entertainment/tv/australian-launch-of-youtube-red-on-track-for-release-later-this-year/news-story/add4db0a214878554c93d59975919b6d
