by Joseph Forbes | Mar 30, 2013 | Blog Entry, Cloud Apps, DATA, INTERNET, MONEY, NERD NEWS, TECHNOLOGY, Web Hosting
Expion wins our test of eight enterprise-grade social media monitoring tools As businesses make more use of social networks, the number of engagement, analysis and monitoring tools has exploded. Enterprises are trying to understand their return on social media...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 29, 2013 | DATA, INTERNET, Malware Reports, Microsoft's Malware Protection Center, SECURITY, Technical Support, Technicals
We recently came across the file 1ac150ddb964722b6b7c96808763b3e4d0472daf during the course of regular research. We detect this file as Trojan:Win32/Preflayer.A. The file had been distributed with the file name FlashPlayer.exe and not surprisingly, when executed, it...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 29, 2013 | DATA, HARDWARE, NERD NEWS, TECHNOLOGY
An early build of Microsoft’s big Windows 8 update has hit the web After an abundance of rumors, whispers, and slip-ups in job postings, we now have more concrete evidence of Microsoft’s secretive Windows Blue operating system: An honest-to-goodness leak...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 29, 2013 | Blog Entry, DATA, HACKING, INTERNET, MONEY, NERD NEWS, SECURITY, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
from the what’s-to-blame dept. Despite the headlines, the big denial of service attack may not have slowed the Internet after all. The argument against the original claim include the fact that reports of Internet users seeing slowdowns came not from service...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 29, 2013 | DATA, INTERNET, MONEY, NERD NEWS, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
More than two years after LibreOffice came into being, it’s hard to call the open source office software anything but a success. There are possibly tens of millions of people who use it—or at least have it installed on their computers. But how close is...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 28, 2013 | Blog Entry, DATA, ENTERTIANMENT, MONEY, NERD NEWS, PIRACY, TECHNOLOGY
NBC Universal is one of the copyright holders involved in the “six strikes” copyright alert system but the warnings it sends out to subscribers of non-participating ISPs stand in stark contrast to the educational approach of the program. A threatening email warns the...
