Category Archives: Industry News

InfoManager for Monday, December 15th, 2014

by Lynn Wegley, InfoManager, with co-editor Fred Showker What’s Here: 01 ALERT: Bank of America Malware Phish attack 02 Facebook User Groups 12/13/14 03 iPhone InfoManager: A new iPhone, lots of apps, news and rumors 04 App Camp For Girls … Continue reading

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InfoManager for Monday, December 8th, 2014

by Lynn Wegley, InfoManager, with co-editor Fred Showker What’s Here: 01 Fun apps for the kids and the folks for the holidays 02 iPad InfoManager: Ready for December! 03 Safenetting Cybersecurity & Malware Report for December 2014 04 Macintosh User … Continue reading

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InfoManager for Monday, December 1st, 2014

by Lynn Wegley, InfoManager, with co-editor Fred Showker What’s Here: 01 BEWARE: Costco Spoof spam leads to big trouble 02 UGNN Facebook Update: Black Friday, Cyber Monday, who cares? Rumors, news and views… again 03 Apple InfoManager: News, views, reviews … Continue reading

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InfoManager for Monday, November 24th, 2014

by Lynn Wegley, InfoManager, with co-editor Fred Showker Happy Thanksgiving… What’s Here: 01 Net Neutrality: Obama, Wheeler, ICANN, Internet Freedom Act, FCC, FTC, and more 02 For your annual calendar, card or poster, try CollageIT PRO 03 User Groups on … Continue reading

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More on iCloud Security & the “Breach”

#128279715 / gettyimages.com First off, here’s a link to the post on the Apple Web site: Apple update on iCloud.com security. Next, Sean Gallagher, on Ars Technica, posted a great user-friendly summary of a piece on greatfire.org, which tells us … Continue reading

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iCloud Security Warning from Apple

Salient points from the article on the San Jose Mercury News: “We’re aware of intermittent organized network attacks using insecure certificates to obtain user information, and we take this very seriously,” the computer-maker said in a post Tuesday on its … Continue reading

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Faster than a…

#98570610 / gettyimages.com …speeding superhero? The FCC is contemplating cellular networks that will be able to provide gigabit or better speeds. Yes, there’s a catch (or three): if these high speeds can be implemented, it will be years before we … Continue reading

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Huge for developers. Massive for everyone else.

Which, of course, refers to iOS 8. As Ars Technica’s Andrew Cunningham put it, “Overuse of hyperbole is a pet peeve of mine, but after using iOS 8 for a couple of months, I have to say that it’s warranted … Continue reading

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A Rumor That’s Panning Out!!

According to a post from Andrew Cunningham on Ars Technica: From the post: If the rumor mill is to be believed, new iPads will be the headlining item for the event, and we’ll also supposedly be getting the public release … Continue reading

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Wired Ranks the Rumors

As Christina Bonnington reports in Wired: Each week, there are dozens of rumors, reports, and patent filings that hint at what’s coming out of Cupertino next. Some are legit, but many are totally bogus. As always, we’ve parsed the rumors, … Continue reading

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