Computers-Plus

Apple truly changed the way we looked at tablets with the release of their iPad, and I would safely venture out to say that the iPad proved to be the death knell for netbooks. After all, how many folks do you know still tote around netbooks with the tablet market growing so rapidly? Of course, the same can be said for the smartphone industry when Apples iPhone arrived back in 2007, rapidly changing the way we see multi-touch surfaces on a portable device.

Having said that, the iPad as well as its sequel, the iPad 2, proved to be quite the retail hit, helping Apple achieve record quarterly profits not to mention having their stock touch the $500 mark recently, marking a new high for Cupertino. Read more…

I-O Data is getting ready to drop another Full HD monitor called the LCD-MF234XPGBR on the Japan market. The new LCD-MF234XPGBR features a IPS panel with a 23-inch LED-backlight display with 19201080 Full HD resolution. Specifications of the LCD-MF234XPGBR includes a 1000:1 contrast ratio, a 250 cd/m2 brightness, 178/178 degree viewing angles and a 14ms response time.

The Full HD Monitor also comes with two built-in 1.5W speakers and a few connectivity options including a mini D-Sub, DVI-D and 2x HDMI connectors. Read more…

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Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for February 2012
Issued: February 14, 2012
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This bulletin summary lists security bulletins released for February 2012.

The full version of the Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for February 2012 can be found at http://technet.microsoft.com/security/bulletin/ms12-feb.

With the release of the bulletins for February 2012, this bulletin summary replaces the bulletin advance notification originally issued on February 9, 2012.

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The world’s largest BitTorrent site, The Pirate Bay, as reported previously, will stop linking to .torrent files shortly and TPB told TorrentFreak that one of the advantages to a “magnet site” is that it requires little bandwidth to host a proxy site. A proxy site is required as TPB is blocked in many countries, and is of course, going to increase. Think it can’t happen? Well, Pirate Bay user “allisfine” was intrigued by this idea, and has decided to find out just how small a copy of TPB would be. He told TorrentFreak:

I did a complete snapshot of ALL the Pirate Bay torrents, in case somebody wants to close it or something similarly crazy.

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