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Bad news for Microsoft: ‘Edge’ browser is largely being ignored by Windows 10 users

Posted on October 7, 2015

When Microsoft launched Windows 10 a couple of months ago, they also launched their brand new Edge web browser along with it.

I believe Microsoft’s decision to create a brand new browser from scratch instead of simply updating Internet Explorer for the 1,000th time was a good one.

Over the years I.E. had earned a reputation for sluggish performance, buggy code and dangerous insecurity, and I don’t thing the company would have ever been successful at rehabilitating that poor reputation. [Read more…]

Scottrade offering clients free identity protection services after being hacked

Posted on October 7, 2015

Investment firm Scottrade has announced that hackers have breached a database containing the personal information of approximately 4.6 million of their clients.

The company is claiming that the affected clients’ social security numbers and various other sensitive types of information doesn’t appear to have been compromised even though that info is contained in the breached database. [Read more…]

Today only! Save $32 on an Amazon Prime Membership

Posted on September 25, 2015

Important: This post is no longer relevant since it discussed a one-day-only discount on an Amazon Prime membership. Also, the current annual price for an Amazon Prime membership is $119.

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If you’ve been wanting to take advantage of all the awesome benefits of an Amazon Prime membership, you now have a chance to sign up for only $67. That’s a whopping $32 off the regular $99 annual membership fee!

Amazon Prime provides way too many benefits to mention here, but I think the free 2-day shipping and free commercial ebooks are plenty enough to justify the regular price, let alone this discounted one. [Read more…]

Get ready: Facebook is planning to introduce a ‘Dislike’ button.

Posted on September 15, 2015

If you’ve been using Facebook for more than 10 minutes you’ve no doubt seen posts that made you so upset you wanted to click a button to “Dislike” it.

Well, before long you’ll be able to do just that.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has just announced that the company is actively developing a Dislike button, and it WILL be rolled out to users when it is ready. [Read more…]

If you’re staying with Windows 7 or 8.1 to avoid Windows 10’s privacy issues, you need to read this.

Posted on September 2, 2015

snooping By now you have probably heard that by default, Windows 10 is pretty nosy about your browsing and computing habits. After all, the new Windows’ privacy issues have been well documented.

If you’ve made the decision to skip the upgrade to Windows 10 in order to avoid those privacy concerns, guess what? A handful of recent Windows Updates have brought some of Windows 10’s nosy “tracking features” to Windows 7 and Windows 8.1. [Read more…]