Google+ starts Name Verification

There are some really famous people reaching out to fans on-line, but if you just got a notification today that someone famous has added you to some circles what can you do to see if they are who they say they are? Until recently, there wasn’t much you could do since Google+ has been busy […]

Google+ Free For All

If you’ve been able to get on-line with all the outages this morning (EAST-1 was down for a bit) then you may have seen a number of links showing up for ‘free invites’ to Google+. I know we did an article about the rumor that Google+ was going to accept new sign-ons without invitations on […]

There’s no defense for popularity..

I was going to title this post with something a bit more ‘Apple’ but the real problem with malware is popularity. Recently Apple had to fight off a rather annoying malware attack from an application called Mac Defender that masqueraded as a useful utility for Apple’s OSX. Users duped into installing the fake application were […]