Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, stating the obvious for emphasis, called the Sidekick outage ‘not good,’ but said he thinks all data will be recovered and that Microsoft will need to repair confidence as it ramps up its hosted services.
The iPhone 3GS’s internal hardware indicates that Apple is still at the leading edge of smartphone innovation, say the electronics repair specialists at Rapid Repair.
An astronaut had to resort to brute force today to free up a balky bolt that nearly derailed the repair of a key instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope.
The personal computer division of JapaneseFujitsuPremiumCareCentre electronics giant Fujitsu will be opening a new 1,400 sq ft (130 sq m) repair centre in Singapore's Funan DigitaLife Mall this Thursday. The facility will be almost 70 per cent larger than Fujitsu's former repair centre, which was also located in the same mall.
Next week's Patch Tuesday will feature a fix for a vulnerability in Internet Explorer that came to light at the celebrated Pwn2Own hacking competition held earlier this year at CanSecWest.
Reports that Apple's iPhones are draining their batteries so fast that some users can't make it through the day without recharging likely point to a problem in the iPhone OS 3.0 software, an Apple hardware repair expert said.
The iPhone 3G S' hardware, including a faster microprocessor and a faster graphics processor than in last year's model, supports Apple's claims that the new device is two to three times faster overall, a tear-down by Rapid Repair shows.
The screwdriver compulsives at iFixit.com have destroyed one new iPad to tell the world what's inside it. In terms of third-party repair-ability, iFixit gives the new iPad a score of only 2 on a 10-point scale.
Are there any workarounds to stop the most recent Windows animated cursor exploit? Do you know when we can expect Microsoft to release a patch to repair the problem?
As noted in the last newsletter, the Mean Time to Repair (MTTR) of application performance issues can be quite lengthy. One of the factors is that the issues are often improperly diagnosed. In particular, in many IT organizations, when an application is performing badly the general assumption is that the WAN is the cause. However, our research indicates that in only a minority of cases is the WAN at fault.
In a series of recent newsletters (see the list at the end of this newsletter), we’ve discussed the fact that the Mean Time to Repair (MTTR) application performance issues can be quite lengthy and we described some of the reasons why.
We continue to receive feedback on our recent series of newsletters about the lengthy Mean Time to Repair (MTTR) of application performance issues. We pointed out that in the vast majority of instances, the network is assumed to be the cause of any degraded application performance, even though it is the cause in only a small minority of instances.
IT managers and analysts are expressing surprise at the amount of time it appears to be taking officials at the City of San Francisco to regain full control of the city's FiberWAN network after a disgruntled network administrator allegedly locked access to it by resetting administrative passwords to its switches and routers.
Most enterprises have many, many remote offices. Sometimes these offices help companies reach out effectively to customers in a particular area - a local office for insurance estimates or a regional repair depot, for example. Sometimes remote offices exist to service some localized talent pool (often the case after an acquisition).
If Microsoft executes effectively on its new interoperability promises, it could repair its tarnished reputation in the technology industry and help the company get out of its own way to compete more effectively with Google.
Microsoft is set to release five security patches for its products next Tuesday, including a highly anticipated Internet Explorer (IE) fix that will address a bug that hackers have been exploiting over the past two weeks. Along with the critical IE patch, Microsoft will repair three other issues in its Windows operating system, as well as an unspecified problem in Office that is rated moderate.
The tear-and-repair enthusiasts at iFixIt jetted to Australia, traveling forward in time by 17 hours, to buy a new Apple iPhone 5S before anyone in the U.S. today. And then destroyed it.
Flag Telecom will start repairs next week on a damaged submarine telecommunications cable linking Egypt and Italy. A repair ship is expected to reach the site of the damage, 8.3 kilometers from Alexandria, Egypt, on Tuesday. The repair will take a week to complete, Flag Telecom said Friday.
Yikes. Newly discovered (but yet to be disclosed) flaws in the TCP/IP protocol - the backbone of the Internet - could be exploited to launch denial-of-service attacks against virtually any device running any operating system, including firewalls and other security measures. According to reports, the researchers that discovered the flaws are working with vendors to repair the issue before releasing their findings to the general public. iPhone users weren't so lucky: A frustrated security researcher detailed
Microsoft released 10 security patches, including three deemed "critical," for bugs in a variety of the company's products. Released Tuesday as part of the company's monthly updates, the critical patches repair flaws in Windows and Internet Explorer that could allow attackers to take complete control of a computer, Microsoft said.
Out-of-band management facilitates centralized control and repair of local and especially remote IT infrastructure devices such as servers, network routers or environmental sensors. The OOB market has been growing as an isolated IT management niche for many years to reach an estimated revenue of $1.12 billion last year. Even prior to the recently skyrocketing energy costs and renewed shortages of appropriately skilled IT personnel, the remote control and repair capability drove the OOB market to experience