by Joseph Forbes | Feb 5, 2013 | HACKING, NERD NEWS, SECURITY
from the too-much-effort dept. Last year, Rackspace planned to support third-party OpenStack distributions as part of its private cloud offering. That was then. ‘Things have evolved quickly as enterprises start evaluating their options in the cloud generally and...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 5, 2013 | HEALTH
Jennifer Cain Flu season came early this year, and it’s not only worse than expected, but it’s also the worst flu season in years. The mayor of Boston declared a public health emergency in the city due to the high number of cases—over 700—there. And dozens...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 4, 2013 | HARDWARE, NERD NEWS
from the run-an-android-emulater dept. Software that allows Windows apps to run on Android devices was demoed at the Fosdem 2013 open source conference this weekend. The demo by Alexandre Julliard, one of the original developers of Wine, showed Wine running on an...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 4, 2013 | INTERNET, LAW, NERD NEWS, POLITICAL, SECURITY
from the oh-don’t-you-worry dept. Leading privacy expert Caspar Bowden, warned European citizens not to use cloud services hosted in the U.S. over spying fears. Bowden, former privacy adviser to Microsoft Europe, explained at a panel discussion hosted at the...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 4, 2013 | Blog Entry, HEALTH
If America’s shorelines begin shrinking at an alarming rate, it may not be due to global warming. It may just be that we’re so fat we’re in danger of sinking an entire continent. Okay, a hyperbole perhaps, but the report just out, from non-profits Robert Wood...
