Your BYOD category
This post is excerpted from BYOD For You: The Guide to Bring Your Own Device to Work, by Daniel J. Lohrmann. It is posted by permission of the author and publisher. All rights reserved.
Let's start by categorizing your BYOD...
WCIT-12: Just say no
By A.M. Rutkowski
It is 12 weeks and counting to WCIT-12 – to a treaty conference, where the nations of the world will assemble in Dubai to consider the continued existence of one of the ultimate anachronisms in international law,...
Why Office for iPad is inevitable
By Tony Bradley, PCWorld
The rumor is back. There are new reports that Microsoft is developing a version of the Microsoft Office suite for Apple’s iOS operating system--and perhaps the Android mobile operating system as well. I...
How safe is WPA2-secured Wi-Fi?
By Lincoln Spector, PCWorld
Darryl Boyett asked if his home Wi-Fi connection, which uses WPA2 protection, is safe enough for online banking.
I can't promise you that it is absolutely, 100-percent safe. But, yes, it is safe...
FCC publishes net neutrality rules
By John P. Mello Jr., PCWorld
After 10 months on the shelf, the Federal Communications Commission's rules on net neutrality were finally published today in the Federal Register.
As written, the rules do three broad things for...
Tired of patent wars? Use open source instead
By Katherine Noyes, PCWorld
As a geek and longtime tech reporter, there are few things I love writing about more than cool new technological innovations. It never ceases to amaze me what we humans can come up with, particularly...
Firefox numbering debate is a tempest in a teapot
By Katherine Noyes, PCWorld
Mozilla generated a virtual storm of controversy with the introduction of its new, Chrome-like rapid release schedule for Firefox earlier this year, and now it seems to be stirring up a fresh hornet's...
An easy way to keep neighbors from stealing your Wi-Fi
By Rick Broida, PCWorld
For many years, I didn't bother protecting my home network. Call me crazy, but I didn't see the need. All my neighbors, they had their own networks -- all of them password-protected, of course. So why would...
6 Black Hat demos you don't want to miss
By John P. Mello Jr., PCWorldThere are nearly 100 workshops and sessions planned for the Black Hat security conference at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas this week, so it's understandable if you have a difficult time choosing which...
Ubuntu Linux, Day 17: Exploring the top panel
By Tony Bradley, PCWorld
So far in the 30 Days With Ubuntu Linux series, there have been a number of things about the OS that I have struggled with as a Linux novice. One of the aspects of Ubuntu that I appreciate most, though, is...
Ubuntu Linux, Day 16: EXT4 vs. NTFS
By Tony Bradley, PCWorld
The default file system in Windows is NTFS, and the default file system in Ubuntu Linux is EXT4. The purpose of today's 30 Days With Ubuntu Linux post is to try and understand what the difference is, and...
Ubuntu Linux, Day 15: Cloud syncing and streaming with Ubuntu One
Just over a week ago Apple unveiled iCloud -- the new data syncing and streaming service that will keep all of your data, contacts, email, and music in sync across various devices. As awesome and revolutionary as iCloud seems,...
Day 14: I'm an Ubuntu Unity convert
By Tony Bradley, PCWorld
After poking around the Unity interface a bit, I had switched back to the Ubuntu Classic desktop at the urging of some reader comments. But, today I decided to take a close look at Unity, and what unique...
Day 13: Playing tunes in Banshee
By Tony Bradley, PCWorld
For Day 13 of 30 Days With Ubuntu Linux I decided to take a deeper look at Banshee. I dabbled with the music playing app installed by default with Ubuntu during my trials and tribulations trying to sync my...
Day 12: VPN success, finally!
By Tony Bradley, PCWorld
We'll call this Day 12.5 of 30 Days With Ubuntu Linux. It took me a while, but the good news is that I now have VPN connectivity with PCWorld so I can just write in LibreOffice Writer and post straight...
Day 11: Weighing LibreOffice as a Microsoft Office alternative
By Tony Bradley, PCWorld
Welcome back. For today's 30 Days With Ubuntu Linux post, I am taking a look at LibreOffice -- the open source suite of productivity tools that comes installed by default with Ubuntu Linux. I examine how...
Day 10: A look at the Ubuntu Software Center
By Tony Bradley, PCWorld
If you have been following along, then you know I have had my share of issues thus far in my 30 Days With Ubuntu Linux journey. One thing that stands out for me as a plus so far, though, for Linux -- or at...
Day 9: Testing out some Twitter tools
By Tony Bradley, PCWorld
Today was going to be about finally getting my Cisco AnyConnect VPN client set up in Ubuntu Linux so I don't have to work in Ubuntu, write in LibreOffice Writer in Ubuntu, then reboot into Windows to...
Day 8: Setting up email in Evolution
By Tony Bradley, PCWorld
Time to move on. No, I haven't actually resolved all of my issues with getting Ubuntu Linux to display the way I would like it to on my external monitor, but I have wasted enough time toying with that, and...
Day 7: Lessons from the Unity trenches
By Tony Bradley, PCWorld
Welcome back as we wrap up the first week of 30 Days With Ubuntu Linux. I guess it says something about the complexity of switching operating systems as opposed to switching office productivity suites that...
