L&C Tech Talk

Top Five Most Anticipated Tech Releases for 2011

Frances Locke — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 20:33:31 +0000

2010 was a banner year for technology. This was the year of the iPad, 3D television and motion controls in basically every video game system. Keeping that in mind I expect no less from the coming year’s new tech wonders. Here are my top five most anticipated releases for the New Year. 1.) Chrome OS notebooks Google announced Chrome OS was not [...]

Stupid iphone apps (second edition)

Frances Locke — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 02:40:46 +0000

1.) Coin Flip DIY (Free) Have you ever had a tough decision to make? A decision so important that only an old fashioned coin toss could help you make it? Neither have I, but at least this app is free. You can choose between making your own coins from images on your iphone, or you can pick from a list [...]

Support Team L&C Sunshine for the American Cancer Society Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk

dondavanzo — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 04:41:20 +0000

Hello- Just a quick message to let everyone know that we’ve signed up for the American Cancer Society Making Strides Against Breast Cancer. We know you’re busy so I’ll keep it quick. Please support Team L&C Sunshine with a donation of any amount! OK, that was the really quick (and honest) version, but if you have another minute, I’ll tell you a little [...]

Google censors cougarlife.com

Frances Locke — Mon, 24 May 2010 03:16:28 +0000

America’s puritanical values strike again! From Steve Jobs using the whole “think-of-the-children” routine, to now Google and their apparent problems with older woman and younger men (what would Ashton Kutcher say?) - Google has banned so-called “cougar” dating sites from advertising through its network, which is bad enough. Meanwhile it doesn’t seem to have the same problem with ads where older men [...]

Php List Cron Job to Process Queues and bounces via CPanel in Two Steps- How To

dondavanzo — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 02:48:45 +0000

So our Parent company Integrated Business Technology Inc. of Cincinnati, Ohio recently deployed PHP List to managed their large email marketing lists. As the lead systems engineer on this project our main goal was to automate processing the message queue and bounce messages via the AptHost.com CPanel Cron Job / Cron Tab interface. I spent hours searching PHP-List’s forum and documentation [...]

Google Inc & Topeka Kansas switch Names – Google re-branding to Topeka

dondavanzo — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:32:08 +0000

Many of you may have noticed that today Google Inc has announced they will be changing their name to Topeka in light of Topeka Kansas changing the name of the city to “City of Google” as part of a nation wide competition started by Google, in which the winning city will receive High speed fiber optic internet to every residence. “We’re planning to build [...]

Sorry Google; The internet does not equal democracy

Frances Locke — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 21:41:42 +0000

“Imagine if the internet took hold in China,” George W Bush said in 1999, “Imagine how freedom would spread.” It turns out he was wrong about that one. Google, after four years of running its search engine in China, relocated to Hong Kong last week. On the mainland, Google had been censoring its search results to in accordance with Communist Party restrictions. [...]

Chinese Government Issues a Warning to Google

Frances Locke — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:14:43 +0000

The Chinese government has issued a warning to Google this week. Speaking to reporters at the National People’s Congress on Friday, the Chinese Minister of Industry and Information Technology Li Yizhong said he hopes Google will respect China’s rules and regulations. But, according to several press reports, he cautioned the company: “If you insist on taking this action that violates [...]

Apple censorship threatens freedom of the press

Frances Locke — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:36:09 +0000

The App Store is currently at war with the mainstream German media—whose iPhone apps have been censored because of content. And from the looks of it no one is surrendering. For once I think everyone agrees that this is a war the German’s actually deserve to win. The censorship issue is not only about the 5,000 plus titillating applications that were [...]

Steve Jobs’ diabolical plan to acquire Adobe

Frances Locke — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 01:42:51 +0000

Lately there has been some speculation about Apple’s aggressive stance towards Adobe. For years the companies have been on (to put it lightly) not so friendly terms with each other. Currently the bickering is about the alleged “bugginess” of Flash. According to Apple head honcho Steve Jobs, Flash is responsible for the majority of crashes on the Mac and it uses [...]

Ruling Against Google Threatens Internet Freedom

Frances Locke — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 19:52:40 +0000

Three Google executives were convicted of violating privacy laws in Italy on this month. This is the first case to hold the company’s executives criminally responsible for the content posted on its system. The verdict (subject to appeal), could have serious implications worldwide for Internet freedom. It suggests that Google is not merely a tool for its users, and is no different [...]

Several Major Electronics Companies Accused of Price Fixing

Frances Locke — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 19:26:00 +0000

An Electronics retail store has filed a class-action lawsuit against Sony, Samsung, Toshiba, Hitachi and several subsidiaries, accusing the Electronics manufacturers of conspiring to fix prices in the US optical disc drive (ODD) market. The suit claims the disc drive manufacturers used trade organization forums to meet and discuss agreements to keep prices of CD, DVD and Blu-ray drives in products [...]

Apple purges App Store of “Questionable Content”

Frances Locke — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:06:58 +0000

Apple has gotten rid of more than 5,000 “overtly sexual” applications after receiving complaints from parent activist groups and software developers that they were crowding out the popular App store. The move, however, has provoked anger among smaller developers, who point out that similar risqué content from bigger brands has not been ousted. The popular Apple App store has been [...]

Is Godaddy.com going to far with their TV Commercials & Gorilla marketing Tactics

dondavanzo — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:05:15 +0000

While many of you were watching the Super Bowl you might have seen the new Godaddy.com Commercials. Very scandalous, humorous, reveling, and directed at men, teens, angry wives, pretty much anyone willing to go to the site and entice their curiosity. For some strange and odd reason I have the craving, desire to get a massage and buy a domain name at [...]

Switching to VoIP can save a business money vs. Traditional copper telephone service – Simple Case Study (Part 2)

dondavanzo — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:54:50 +0000

L&C Sunshine Technology Services, a Cincinnati, Ohio based Computer Service & Technology Consulting firm that services Ohio, Northern Kentucky, Indiana, New York & New Jersey was hired by Statprofit & Recovery (Ozone Park, Queens, New York) to evaluate their current office technology infrastructure and expenses in order to reduce costs; but increase productivity. L&C evaluated several areas which will be [...]

How a Business Can Reduce Monthly Telephone Service expense by switching to VoIP (Part 1 traditional phone service vs. VoIP)

dondavanzo — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:32:56 +0000

With the end to the poor economy nowhere in sight, business’s have to reevaluate their previous years IT expenses and decide what and where they can reduce technology spending without feeling the pinch. Business executives and management have to sit down together and look at software, hardware, voice, and IT maintenance expenses to see if they can “take from Peter [...]

Emergency Data Recovery Tips

dondavanzo — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:33:47 +0000

Emergency Data Recovery is done / performed when someone needs fast assistance with recovering their files or data which is either lost of crashed due to Virus. If a computer crashes and if that particular person or company has access to the files on the computer as soon as possible, then emergency Data Recovery can be performed. Cincinnati Data Recovery [...]

WordPress Google Analytics Dashboard Plugin – simplefilecache.php Warning / Issue

dondavanzo — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 03:56:02 +0000

Recently many users have started to experience a issue with regards to WordPress Google Analytics Dashboard Plugin simplefilecache.php warning / issue. I my self have rated this plugin 5 stars and feel it is great to track your indivdual articles and site traffic via Google Analytics. Reference site: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/290417?replies=2#post-1360125 I have resolved the issue and implemented the changes on all [...]

Google China Under Siege – Cyber Criminals getting smarter – is your business servers and network secure?

dondavanzo — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 06:08:24 +0000

The recent intrusion into Google’s computer network via their office in China points to the rising sophistication and dedication of cyber black hat hackers. An attack on one of the world’s most secure network infrastructure proves that even the best security and experts on staff that money can buy have vulnerabilities they cannot foresee. Google’s situation brings to light the fact that [...]

Internet addiction recognized in China.

Frances Locke — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:59:19 +0000

“Feeling tense and angry because you cannot get online?” asks the state-run China Daily. Powerless to stop scouring eBay for second-hand bargains you don’t really need? It could be a sign of “internet addiction”, according to psychologists in China, which could become the first nation to classify the problem as a clinical disorder. A manual expected to be approved by the [...]