by Joseph Forbes | Mar 11, 2013 | DATA, INTERNET, NERD NEWS, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
The popular game EVE Online is set to enjoy a boost from the world’s favorite file-sharing protocol. Developer CCP Games has announced that work is underway to improve the EVE Launcher so that EVE client updates may be rolled out more frequently and reliably. In...
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by Joseph Forbes | Mar 11, 2013 | Blog Entry, HARDWARE, INTERNET, NERD NEWS, Technicals
It’s tempting, isn’t it? 802.11ac is a hot new wireless technology that boasts faster and at longer ranges than 802.11n, the current king of wireless standards. It does promise some seriously impressive speed improvements over 802.11n though, but because...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 11, 2013 | HARDWARE, Technicals
from the keeps-getting-luck-on-the-saving-throws dept. As tablets and cell phones become more and more important to the computing landscape, Intel is increasingly having a hard time keeping its chips on the forefront of the industry, with x86 architecture failing to...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 10, 2013 | Blog Entry, INTERNET, MONEY, NERD NEWS, PRIVACY, SECURITY, TECHNOLOGY
from the message-deleted dept. The Federal Trade Commission today said it has filed eight court cases to stop companies who have sent over 180 million illegal or deceptive text messages to all manner of mobile users in the past year. The messages — of which the FTC...
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by Joseph Forbes | Mar 10, 2013 | INTERNET, Malware Reports, SECURITY
F-Secure’s latest Mobile Threat Report for the last three months of 2012 names Android as the home of 96% of the new “mobile threat families”. Of 100 new threat families detected in that quarter, 96 of them were based on Android, up from the previous...
