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InterOp New York (live blog) – DAY 1

First up on the coverage is XCOM GLOBAL at booth 525. We have an exciting audio interview with Joe Fennell, Chief Operating Officer at XCom Global. We discuss their new service offering to executives traveling abroad.

Intel releases their new Xeon E5-2600 V3 processors

Intel just released the all new Xeon E5-2600 series processors. These processors replace the V2 branded predecesors. They add more processing power for the buck as well as a series of updates including memory to power consumption. Highlights of the new platform Supports dual processors with 4 to 18 cores Socket R3 4x DDR4…

Seagate launches 8TB desktop drive

Seagate Technology plc (NASDAQ:STX) has just officially released an 8TB drive ahead of their competitors. As the amount of data increases for individuals and corporations alike new less expensive solutions are certainly welcome. Individual’s have more pictures, music and videos. Corporation are struggling to keep pace with retention laws and the production of more and…

5 Ways to test your Internet connection speed

There are many sites out there that allow you to easily test your internet speed. Why would you want to test? I see a lot of companies that pay for a speed that they don’t have or can’t reach because of hardware limitations. If you have an older firewall, for example, it may have a…

Internet Explorer 11 (IE 11) shows a blank page regardless of url you type

If you updated your Windows 7 with SP1 to Internet Explorer 11 (IE 11) and now find that every URL shows nothing but a blank page, here are some things to try. Please note you should have a backup of your favorites and configuration as these steps may result in loss of either.

Microsoft takes down several botnets

Microsoft is continuing their war on the cyber criminals. This week they took down several botnets by taking over domains owned by the well known free dynamic DNS provider “NO-IP”. No-IP stated that they were not notified of the malicious domains by Microsoft. As a result of the takeover, several legit no-ip customers have apparently…