by Joseph Forbes | Mar 11, 2013 | HARDWARE, Technicals
from the keeps-getting-luck-on-the-saving-throws dept. As tablets and cell phones become more and more important to the computing landscape, Intel is increasingly having a hard time keeping its chips on the forefront of the industry, with x86 architecture failing to...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 10, 2013 | Blog Entry, INTERNET, MONEY, NERD NEWS, PRIVACY, SECURITY, TECHNOLOGY
from the message-deleted dept. The Federal Trade Commission today said it has filed eight court cases to stop companies who have sent over 180 million illegal or deceptive text messages to all manner of mobile users in the past year. The messages — of which the FTC...
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by Joseph Forbes | Mar 10, 2013 | INTERNET, Malware Reports, SECURITY
F-Secure’s latest Mobile Threat Report for the last three months of 2012 names Android as the home of 96% of the new “mobile threat families”. Of 100 new threat families detected in that quarter, 96 of them were based on Android, up from the previous...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 10, 2013 | DATA, LAW, NERD NEWS
from the new-life dept. Katherine Rosenberg reports that the Texas Department of Public Safety has unveiled a new web site dedicated to unsolved cold case homicides to make sure the victims are not forgotten and to try to catch a break in even the coldest of cases....
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 10, 2013 | SECURITY
Microsoft’s SharePoint, drawing application Visio get patched Internet Explorer vulnerabilities warrant notice in this month’s set of Microsoft Patch Tuesday bulletins and need to be fixed quickly even though the sheer number of patches may seem daunting....
