by Joseph Forbes | Mar 22, 2013 | Cloud Apps, DATA, INTERNET, NERD NEWS, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
Cloud-based subscription service for Office 365 Home Premium offers good value and convenience Microsoft has been dishing out various flavors of Office 2013 since November 2012, when enterprises with volume license plans got first access to the finished software. In...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 22, 2013 | HACKING, HARDWARE, NERD NEWS, SECURITY, Technicals
It appears that iOS 6.1.3 presents yet another opportunity for attackers to bypass the passcode lock and access the telephone app – which includes information such as the user’s call history and address book data and allows intruders to open the photo gallery...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 21, 2013 | LAW, POLITICAL, PRIVACY, TECHNOLOGY
from the redacted-redacted-redacted dept. The Boston Globe reports that the estate of Aaron Swartz filed a motion in federal court in Boston Friday to allow the release of documents in the case that has generated national controversy over the U.S. attorney’s...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 21, 2013 | DATA, SECURITY
Apple has released iOS 6.1.3 for iPhone (3GS and later), iPad (2nd generation and later) and iPod touch (4th generation and later) devices. The company says that the update offers improvements as well as bug fixes – including code to fix the vulnerability that has...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 21, 2013 | HARDWARE, MONEY, NERD NEWS, PIRACY, TECHNOLOGY
from the annoying-as-many-people-as-possible dept. Ian Hickson, author and maintainer of the HTML5 specification, comments about the real reasons for DRM. They’re not what you might think. Ian nails it in my opinion. He wrote, ‘The purpose of DRM is not to...
