The cost of a data breach increased last year to $204 per compromised customer record, according to the Ponemon Institute’s annual study. The average total cost of a data breach rose from $6.65 million in 2008 to $6.75 million in 2009. The Ponemon Institute based its estimates on data from 45 companies that publicly acknowledged [...]
The Guardian is reporting that Google China is investigating its staff about The Incident. “”We’re not commenting on rumor and speculation. This is an ongoing investigation and we simply cannot comment on the details,” a Google spokeswoman said. Security analysts told Reuters the malicious software or malware used in the attack was a modification of [...]
The Consumerist deconstructs the appalling ‘optimization’ service that Best Buy has been pushing on consumers in recent weeks. The retailer charges 40 bucks to give you a slower PC and makes bizarre claims that it makes it go 200% faster. ‘We ran the 3DMark 2003 graphics benchmark on each laptop, comparing optimized and non-optimized settings. [...]
Google is opening up its Docs hosted office productivity suite so that users can store any type of file in it, giving the popular software-as-a-service product an important online storage component.
The functionality will be rolled out over the coming weeks to all Docs users, both the ones who use the stand-alone suite as well as [...]
Ymax, the inventor of the magicJack, told attendees at the recent Consumer Electronics Show that it will develop a consumer femtocell that will allow consumers to place cell-phone calls without using their minutes.
The unnamed femtocell will be priced at about $40 and be available during the second quarter, a company spokeswoman said Monday.
Femtocells essentially are [...]
At LA PC Fixer we also try to stay on top of coming developments in the IT industry that is just beginning to radically change our ways of doing business and interacting with one another.
Toward that end, we’ve been following developments at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to report back to our [...]
