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Category: Apple

Security Slimebags or How to be forced to pay for security

Posted on October 5, 2015 By Michael Kavka No Comments on Security Slimebags or How to be forced to pay for security

Android is the most popular mobile OS in the world. It also has some of the most frightening security holes, currently Stagefright. The carriers know this and use it to legally to seemingly extort their customers. Apple has one thing that Android doesn’t have, and that is a decent patch cycle. You can see people…

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Android, Apple, Google, Mobile Computing, Rants, Security

There are 3 tablets, which one I prefer

Posted on November 12, 2012 By Michael Kavka No Comments on There are 3 tablets, which one I prefer

I have in my possession a Surface, an iPad, and an ASUS T300 Android Tablet. After having spent time with all three, I look at the pluses and minuses of them, from my perspective, which means that there are opinions in here that are just that, opinions. Tablets are the new big thing. Everyone wants…

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Android, Apple, Hardware, Microsoft, Reviews, Tablet/E-readers

The OS future

Posted on September 14, 2011 By Michael Kavka No Comments on The OS future

Windows 8 has been unveiled, OSx is Roaring, and Ubuntu is trying to create a Unity. These new OS’s give us a peek at the future, but what does it really say? Over on ZDNet Ed Bott wrote a nice article on Windows 8. I’m not going to go into it in detail, but the…

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Apple, Computers, Linux, Microsoft, Software

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