by Joseph Forbes | Mar 14, 2013 | DATA, HARDWARE, NERD NEWS, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
The company said it was working to restore access, while users complained they were unable to use their accounts Microsoft experienced disruptions for several hours to its online suite of mail, calendar and storage services, leaving many users unable to access their...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 14, 2013 | DATA, INTERNET, KnowledgeBase (KB), NERD NEWS, PRIVACY, SECURITY, Technicals
Google wants to aid webmasters in identifying site hacks and recovering from them Google has launched a site for webmasters whose sites have been hacked, something that the company says happens thousands of times every day. The new site features articles and videos...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 12, 2013 | DATA, HARDWARE, INTERNET, Technical Support, Technicals
from the be-a-dear-and-install-the-cloud-on-my-computer dept. My mother uses a recent enough PC running Windows XP and has a broadband connection, but her primary method of interacting with the online world remains the AOL software. She also likes to download and use...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 11, 2013 | DATA, MONEY, NERD NEWS
from the using-their-keywords dept. Google senior vice president Amit Singhal, one of the executives heading up the company’s search-engine operations, sat down with Guy Kawasaki, former chief evangelist for Apple and author, at one of this year’s SXSW...
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by Joseph Forbes | Mar 11, 2013 | DATA, INTERNET, LAW, MONEY, NERD NEWS, PIRACY, PRIVACY, SECURITY, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
The launch of the six strikes anti-piracy scheme in the United States has boosted demand for VPN services and BitTorrent proxies. Data from Google reveals a big surge in searches for terms such as “BitTorrent VPN” and “BitTorrent proxy” over the past two weeks. Some...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 11, 2013 | DATA, INTERNET, NERD NEWS
from the listen-up dept. Nate Silver feels a little odd about his fame. That’s not to say that he hasn’t worked to get to his enviable position. Thanks to his savvy with predictive models, and the huge readership platform provided by The New York Times...
