by Joseph Forbes | Apr 9, 2013 | DATA, LAW, MONEY, NERD NEWS, SOFTWARE, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
from the there-should-be-blood dept. Rackspace has come out fighting against one of the U.S.’s most notorious patent trolls, Parallel Iron. The cloud services firm said it’s totally fed up with trolls of all kinds, which have caused a 500 percent rise in...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 8, 2013 | DATA, HARDWARE, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
from the coming-soon dept. Both Viking and Micron plan to ship cards that combine DRAM and NAND flash on a standard DDR3 DIMM. The cards will have twice as much NAND flash as volatile memory. For example, the non-volatile DIMMs will come in capacities ranging from 4GB...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 8, 2013 | MONEY, NERD NEWS
Early last year, I started renting a desk at Studiomates while working remotely for Adobe. With the majority of mates either running their own companies or freelancing, I felt the itch to follow suit. This feeling has been with me ever since I first started working...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 8, 2013 | DATA, EDUCATION, TECHNOLOGY
from the together-we-live dept. The edX project today announced that they are joining forces with Stanford and releasing the source to edX on June 1st. As part of the platform going Free, Stanford will be integrating features from their Open Source Class2Go project....
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 7, 2013 | DATA, NERD NEWS, SOFTWARE, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
A third of all Windows users could still be running XP when Microsoft pulls patch plug in 53 weeks The decline in usage share of Windows XP, which is slated for retirement in 53 weeks, has slowed significantly, hinting that millions of its users will hold onto the...
