by Joseph Forbes | Feb 3, 2013 | NERD NEWS
Mobile devices like the iPhone 5 are embracing the 5GHz band, and that trend will expand as 802.11ac radios become prevalent even on smartphones starting in 2013. The FCC announced a New Year’s Wi-Fi gift during the International CES show earlier last month: a...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 3, 2013 | Blog Entry
If you like to pay with plastic at your local department store or independent retailer, get ready: you may be subject to new credit card fees up to 4% of your transaction. A recent legal battle between credit card companies and a group of retailers has ended, and the...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 3, 2013 | INTERNET, NERD NEWS, SECURITY, Technical Support
First of all, there’s probably no reason to worry about this! There are a number of normal things happening in the background on your home network, out across the internet at large, and between your cable modem and your ISP that make it look like there’s a...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 3, 2013 | Blog Entry, MONEY, NERD NEWS
from the we-enjoy-taking-your-money dept. Joel Runyon recounts a tale that will be familiar to many people who have bought secondhand smartphones. After his old dumbphone died a few months ago, Runyon picked up a used iPhone. He just needed it for basic phone...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 2, 2013 | HACKING
In its report of an attack by Chinese hackers on the paper, the New York Times stated that the anti-virus software it employed only detected one strain of malware among a list of 45 different malicious programs. The New York Times used anti-virus software by Symantec...
