Sectera Edge: A BlackBerry Secure Enough For Obama?

The Sectera Edge from General Dynamics may be the device the National Security Agency has approved to replace President Obama’s Blackberry. What makes it so special, besides the price?

Posted on: January 23, 2009 9:00 am

Malware found in iWork copy distributed over BitTorrent

If you’re going to upgrade to iWork ’09 on your Mac, read this posting first.

Posted on: January 23, 2009 9:00 am

Cleaning Conficker: Keeping Your Network Safe From Windows Worm

With so many machines infected, cleaning them of the worm will become important. This article includes tips on protecting un-infected machines and links to instructions on how to remove the worm if you know the machine is infected.

Posted on: January 23, 2009 9:00 am

Sorry about the re-posts

We found what he hope is one last glitch in the Twitter posting code which caused a bunch of minor problems in our last three posts. This, hopefully, will clean it up. Thanks for your patience!

Posted on: January 23, 2009 9:00 am

It’s official: Barack keeps his BlackBerry

We now have some official confirmation that President Obama will be using a BlackBerry device in office. In the first of his Daily Press Briefings, newly minted White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs answered some questions about the President’s BlackBerry.

Our own David Gewirtz published the following article on CNN’s Web site:

It’s official: Barack keeps his BlackBerry.

There are some important warnings in the articles for us regular computer users, so read it and pay heed.

Posted on: January 23, 2009 9:00 am

Barack gets a superduper BlackBerry

We’ve got lots more interesting news on President Obama’s BlackBerry. ZATZ Editor-in-Chief wrote the following story early in the day, publishing on CNN.com:

Barack gets a superduper BlackBerry

Say you work for a new boss and want to keep your job. Now, say your new boss is the first-day-on-the-job President of the United States. Now, let’s say your boss, the President, tells you that not only are you not going to take his BlackBerry from him, you’re going to find a way to make sure he can keep it. What do you do? What do you do?

Read the article and find out.

Posted on: January 23, 2009 9:00 am

ZATZ magazines now on Twitter

We’re proud to announce that we’ve not got Twitter feeds for each of the ZATZ magazines. If you want to subscribe, here are your URLs:

Computing Unplugged Twitter feed

Connected Photographer Twitterfeed

DominoPower Twitter feed

OutlookPower Twitter feed

WebSpherePower Twitter feed

This is definitely a beta service, so let us know if you run into any snags.

Posted on: January 23, 2009 9:00 am

Q&A: Microsoft defends return to DRM

While others have moved music downloads away from copy protection, Microsoft has returned to “digital rights management” (DRM), locking your downloaded tunes to a single device. PC Pro provides the questions they asked Microsoft and the responses.

Posted on: January 22, 2009 9:00 am

Google Docs Design Flaw May Fool You Into Making Your Docs Editable by Anyone

Permissions settings for files is a fine art because the directions often aren’t as clear as they should be. The folks at Wired.com found this out the hard way when they discovered they’d mis-set permissions on some Google Docs.

Posted on: January 22, 2009 9:00 am

Addicted to Facebook? Your Phone Is Calling

The INQ1 phone has a web-based operating system designed to interact with Facebook, and only Facebook. The IQN1 is not yet available in the United States .

Posted on: January 22, 2009 9:00 am