​Facebook​ , the leading social networking site with over 845 Million users, has finally decided to get serious about all of the malware and virus links that masquerade as cute videos about kittens and offers for free stuff that lure unsuspecting users into clicking links that infect their computers. The company announced Wednesday that [...]

Google is finally revealing one of its worst kept secrets: Google Drive exists and it’s ready to grant you your free 5gb of storage! Google is throwing its hat into the increasingly crowded Cloud Storage arena with Drive, ready to take on competitors like Dropbox, SugarSync, Microsoft SkyDrive, Adobe Creative Cloud and many more. Still, [...]

Hello and welcome back to the lightshield.net Tech News Daily Roundup for Monday, April 23rd 2012. Here are some of the day’s top tech stories:     Super app Dropbox, which I have mentioned in a previous Daily Roundup, got even more super-er today with an update that allows the sharing of public links for [...]

Here’s a story you might be interested in, because you may be one of the unlucky hundreds of thousands who will suddenly find themselves without Internet access on July 9th and be wondering “What the heck is going on?!” Well, as with most instances of internet-related problems with your computer, you may be infected with [...]

We’re gonna play some word association: Han Solo and Chewbacca (Star Wars) Frodo and Sam (Lord of the Rings) Bumblebee and Sam Witwicky (Transformers movies) Harry and Ron (Harry Potter) House and Wilson (House M.D.) Captain Ben Sisko and Dax (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock (Star Trek) Merry and Pippin [...]

I decided to take the night off from the Internet last night, so I apologize for there not being a Daily Update.  Today I rolled Thursday and Friday together into one update, recorded in my car from my iPad.  I’ve recorded ALL of these updates on my iPad, but usually with a Turtle Beach headset [...]

As I mentioned in, the number of Mac computers infected with the Flashback Java virus has fallen considerably since the virus was first discovered last week, starting with over 500,000 Macs infected at the start to 100,000 yesterday, and only about 30,000 today. I would like to think my mention of it during yesterday’s Update [...]

Here are the tech stories you may have missed today, in a convenient bite-sized audio file that will play on your computer OR your Smartphone!  If you’re reading on your phone, just tap the link below and it will begin playing. Hello and welcome to the lightshield.net Tech News Daily Roundup for Wednesday, April 18, [...]

Brent Schlender at Fast Company has posted a fascinating story today encompassing 25 years of audio interviews that he had conducted with the late Apple CEO and former Pixar owner Steve Jobs. The opening line of the article sums things up pretty well: If Steve Jobs’s life were staged as an opera, it would be [...]

Hello and welcome to the Lightshield.net tech news daily roundup for Tuesday, April 17, 2012. Here are the tech stories you may have missed today: If you are an android owner, I offer my sincere condolences. But if that is what you’ve got, you may have noticed that the built in Android web browser may [...]