January 10, 2012

How Best Buy Can Wake Up And Whip Amazon

Best Buy has done an excellent job at becoming a showroom for Amazon.com. Now Best Buy is working hard at charging more than the competition, making poor service poorer and not stocking what customers want.

As a shopper, I gave up on Best Buy a long time ago in favor of Fry’s Electronics. Recently a Best Buy advertisement for a TV caught my eye. I happened to be right by a Best Buy store, so I decided to step in for the first time in several years.

I did not see the TV on display. It took about 10 minutes to get the attention of a person.… Please click here or the title below to read more.

January 10, 2012

Symantec Says Norton Is Safe After Lords of Kings Attack

Symantec, maker of Norton Antivirus, has admitted to a major security breach by a group called the Lords of Dharmaraja, which in English means ‘˜Kings of Religion’.

For background, please see my article from January 6^th, ‘œLords Of Kings Hack Norton Antivirus, Are You Safe?‘

In the last piece, I stated the key question, ‘œAre your computers and emails still safe if protected by Norton?’

Symantec has provided the answer in an email to The Arora Report as follows:

We investigated their claims to Norton Antivirus and found them not to be true and that Norton Antivirus is safe and there this incident has no impact on our consumer products and that are consumer customers are also not implicated and are protected.

… Please click here or the title below to read more.

January 10, 2012