Unwanted robocalls and text messages were among the top consumer complaints to the FCC in 2011, the agency said.

“The new rules are necessary because telemarketers are abusing the system,” said Julius Genachowski, the FCC’s chairman. “Despite these clear ground rules, too many telemarketers, aided by autodialers and prerecorded messages, have continued to call consumers who don’t want to hear from them,” he said. “Consumers by the thousands have complained to us, letting us know that they remain unhappy with having their privacy invaded and their time wasted by these unwanted calls.”

CTIA, a trade group representing mobile carriers, praised the decision. About 80 percent of mobile complaints are related to unsolicited third-party phone calls and text messages, the group said. Customers are the “winners” in the FCC’s decision, according to the trade group.

The new regulations will allow telemarketers to get online permission from consumers. The rules don’t apply to informational calls, such as automated calls related to school closings or flight changes.

The rules now require telemarketers to provide an opt-out mechanism during each robocall so that consumers can immediately tell them to stop calling.

Highlights of the study include:

Looking at the first 3 years of ownership, 31% of laptop owners reported a failure of some kind. Two-thirds of this failure (20.4%) came from hardware malfunctions, and one-third (10.6%) was reported as accidental damage.

Netbooks are projected to have a 20% higher failure rate from hardware malfunctions than more expensive laptop computers. Netbooks, which are normally made of cheaper materials to push the price below $400, not only face the highest first-year failure rate but are disproportionately more likely to break down in three years; about 25.1 percent should stop working in the period, the analysts say.

Budget but full-size notebooks, which dominate the lineups of Lenovo, Acer and its sub-label Gateway are also more likely to break and face a 20.6 percent failure rate. HP is the worst at having more than a quarter of their PCs (25.6%) failing within 3 years.

Premium notebooks over $1,000, like many of those from Apple and Sony, face the best chances with a lower initial failure rate and an 18.1 percent anticipated malfunction rate.

ASUS and Toshiba were the most reliable manufacturers, with fewer than 16% having a hardware malfunction over 3 years.

Original Article: http://www.squaretrade.com/pages/laptop-reliability-1109/.

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One of the seven updates was tagged “critical,” the highest threat ranking in Microsoft’s four-step system, which is to fix a remote code execution issue in Media Player.  The others were marked “important,” the second-highest rating, even though some of them could conceivably be exploited by attackers to plant malware on users’ PCs.

Microsoft declined to confirm that the January 10^th update will include a patch pulled at the last minute a month ago.  Given how some of the updates may require a system restart, don’t be surprised if your computer has re-booted if you have automatic windows updates turned on.

January 2012 promises to be a busy month for software patching so be on the lookout for updates from Adobe on January 10 with fixes for gaping holes in the Reader X and Acrobat X software products and Oracle Critical Patch Updates, which are the primary means of releasing security fixes for Oracle products to customers with valid support contracts, on January 17^th.

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