by Joseph Forbes | Apr 7, 2013 | INTERNET, SOFTWARE, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
from the jumping-ship dept. Google on Wednesday made a huge announcement to fork WebKit and build a new rendering engine called Blink. Opera, which only recently decided to replace its own Presto rendering engine for WebKit, has confirmed with TNW that it will be...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 7, 2013 | DATA, HARDWARE, NERD NEWS, Technical Support, TECHNOLOGY, Troubleshooting
A recent survey by the Pew Internet and American Life project found that 72% of Americans experience some form of dropped calls, and 32% experience dropped calls at least a few times per week or more. Like it or not, dropped calls are still a major problem for a large...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 7, 2013 | HAPPINESS, MONEY, NERD NEWS, POLITICAL
When it comes to education, most people agree, more is better. No one embodies that principle at least in regard to IT certifications better than Jerry Irvine. CIO of IT consulting firm Prescient Solutions and member of the National Cyber Security Task Force, Irvine...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 6, 2013 | EDUCATION
from the hook-them-young dept. Adafruit Industries just posted the first episode in a new educational series aimed at teaching kids about electronics. The episode is entitled ‘A is for Ampere’ and teaches the basic theory behind electrical current. The...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 6, 2013 | DATA, HARDWARE, NERD NEWS, TECHNOLOGY
from the not-unlike-an-aging-robocop dept. Seagate announced its third-generation hybrid drives last month, revealing a full family of notebook and desktop drives that combine mechanical platters with solid-state storage. These so-called SSHDs are Seagate’s...
