by Joseph Forbes | Apr 8, 2013 | DATA, HARDWARE, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
from the coming-soon dept. Both Viking and Micron plan to ship cards that combine DRAM and NAND flash on a standard DDR3 DIMM. The cards will have twice as much NAND flash as volatile memory. For example, the non-volatile DIMMs will come in capacities ranging from 4GB...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 8, 2013 | DATA, EDUCATION, TECHNOLOGY
from the together-we-live dept. The edX project today announced that they are joining forces with Stanford and releasing the source to edX on June 1st. As part of the platform going Free, Stanford will be integrating features from their Open Source Class2Go project....
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 7, 2013 | DATA, NERD NEWS, SOFTWARE, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
A third of all Windows users could still be running XP when Microsoft pulls patch plug in 53 weeks The decline in usage share of Windows XP, which is slated for retirement in 53 weeks, has slowed significantly, hinting that millions of its users will hold onto the...
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 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...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 6, 2013 | DATA, HACKING, HARDWARE, INTERNET, POLITICAL, SECURITY, TECHNOLOGY
from the now-you’re-just-being-jerks dept. Emergency-service providers and other organizations are being targeted with TDoS (telephony denial of service) attacks, according to a security alert (PDF) from the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI, obtained...
