by Joseph Forbes | Mar 6, 2013 | Blog Entry
from the give-the-people-what-we-have dept. Chris Welch at The Verge tells us: ‘Speaking at the Morgan Stanley Technology Conference moments ago, Time Warner Cable’s Chief Financial Officer Irene Esteves seemed dismissive of the impact Google Fiber is...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 6, 2013 | Blog Entry, The Daily WTF
Some terrible code arises out of terrible business rules which no one truly understands. Some terrible code arises from laziness, sloppiness, or the need to just get it done now. But there’s a special class of awful code that arises for a complete misunderstanding of...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 6, 2013 | Blog Entry, DATA, HACKING, HARDWARE, INTERNET, Malware Reports, NERD NEWS, POLITICAL, SECURITY, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
from the no-u235-for-you dept. Symantec researchers have discovered an older version of the infamous Stuxnet worm that caused the disruption at Iran’s nuclear facility in Natanz: Stuxnet 0.5. According to a whitepaper released by the researchers at RSA...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 5, 2013 | DATA, MONEY, NERD NEWS, Technicals
The launch of new and revised Office 365 software-by-subscription plans for businesses shows that Microsoft realizes its current licensing revenue is threatened by cost-cutting customers, an analyst said yesterday. “Microsoft wants to shift people to...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 5, 2013 | Blog Entry
Facebook is using you, whether you know it or not. Sometimes it’s obvious: you like a page, you click share, Facebook benefits. Other times, you have no clue until a friend asks you about a photo they saw that you liked. The unfortunate side-effect to all of...
