Over the past two years, it’s estimated 850,000 scams have perpetuated on Facebook. That’s a lot. The problem is that most Facebook users can’t tell what’s a scam and what’s not.
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I don’t even think of this, but why is the International Space Station literally littered with laptops? The answer is surprising.
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Microsoft and Dropbox are becoming BBFs.

Dropbox access will soon be integrated into Microsoft Office programs, allowing you to save documents to your Dropbox storage as easily as your computer’s own storage or to Microsoft’s OneDrive.

For mobile users, the Dropbox app will soon add features to help you edit and manage your Microsoft Office documents. That’s pretty keen.

Dropbox Blog

I don’t recall how many quarters I pumped into video game machines back in the 1970s and 1980s. Lots! Now those games are available free to play on the Internet.

Alas, I wasn’t able to get some of the games to work. Perhaps you’ll have more luck.

Archive.org

Researchers estimate that the world has one Wi-Fi hotspot for every 150 mobile data users, which includes phones, tablets, laptops, and you-name-it. France is number one for Wi-Fi hotspot availability, followed the UK and the US.

And in just four years time, the number of Wi-Fi hotspots could balloon to over 340,000,000.

Golly!

BBC

YouTube is allowing mere mortals to enjoy it’s 60 frames per second (FPS) video service. The service, originally announced a few months back, presents videos at a faster rate in either the 1080p or 720p video quality settings. The drawback is that only the Chrome web browser displays such videos.

Forbes

The statistics are out and Windows 8.0 and 8.1 have gained a wee bit of market share. Windows XP is falling. But the big dog remains Windows 7. Nifty chart at the link below.

VentureBeat

The Internet-ready TV is really amazing. I have one. Connected to it are a multitude of devices, each of which is also Internet-ready: The Blu-Ray player offers apps, Google’s Chromecast offers apps, the TV itself has apps, and I’m soonly obtaining Google’s Nexus Player, which offers apps. The kids want me to connect an Xbox One or Playstation 4, both of which offer apps, but I’m reluctant.

The TV is so Internet happy that when the Wi-Fi signal proved too weak, I crawled into the attic and hard-wired the TV with an Ethernet cable outlet. And, naturally, I had to add a hub to connect several other Internet gizmos as well.

Now comes this: Apparently your Internet-ready HDTV is doing more than showing you Netflix and Hulu. Yakov Smirnov joked that “in Soviet Russia, TV watches you.” Apparently, in the United States, Internet-ready TV watches you as well.

Salon