March Madness is around the corner and soon the water cooler conversations will turn to college basketball and bracketology. Besides impacting staff productivity, how does March Madness impact the computing environment for corporate IT? TekSystems created the following infographic which highlights the network impacts on bandwidth and security. (Credit: Teksystems) … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2016
HP JetIntelligence optimizes toner for LaserJet printers
HP's latest LaserJet printers are using a feature that they are calling JetIntelligence. Changing the chemical make-up of toner, HP has been able to use their JetIntelligence toner cartridges in new LaserJet printers that get 33% more pages per cartridge while printing the first page 40% faster and using up to 53% less energy. The ability to get more prints at lower … [Read more...]
Apple event March 21 – “Let us loop you in.”
Apple will be giving a live keynote on March 21st at 10am PDT. The live page has the teasing tag line "Let us loop you in." Invites have gone out to the press. The teaser is unclear if the event will talk about Apple Watch bands, Apple's spaceship looking headquarters currently under construction, or something else for the iPhone. You can watch the keynote live … [Read more...]
Microsoft updates IE New Tab page to nag for Windows 10
March's Patch Tuesday includes a bad example of Microsoft abusing the security update cycle. KB3139929 is an actual security update. It resolves remote code execution vulnerabilities. This security update resolves several reported vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. The most severe of these vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted … [Read more...]
Microsoft recalls KB3085515 after issues with Access 2010
KB3085515 was released on Patch Tuesday and was recalled when its side effects were brought to light. The update applies to Office 2010 but has been causing problems specifically to Access 2010 users. If you installed KB3085515 in the brief window that it was available, you might experience the following problems: Unable to open Microsoft Visual Basic-enabled … [Read more...]