by Joseph Forbes | Mar 31, 2013 | DATA, HARDWARE, INTERNET, MONEY, NERD NEWS, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY, Web Hosting
from the say-goodnight dept. Virtualization, cloud services and software-as-a-service (SaaS) is making it much easier to shift IT infrastructure operations to service providers, and that is exactly what many users are doing. Of the new data center space being built in...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 30, 2013 | Blog Entry, ENTERTIANMENT, HARDWARE, KnowledgeBase (KB), NERD NEWS, Technical Support, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
The iPhone and iPad are fantastic gaming devices, but unfortunately a lot of games still try to emulate gamepads with onscreen buttons on the touch screen and it just doesn’t work that well. Thankfully, a jailbreak app called Blutrol lets you turn a handful of...
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 28, 2013 | Blog Entry, HACKING, HARDWARE, INTERNET, Internet Scam Notices
The security presentation had a provocative title Source: Uli Ries At the Black Hat Europe conference that is currently in progress, Russian security expert Nikita Tarakanov has presented the results of his analysis of the driver software that Huawei ships with its...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 28, 2013 | Blog Entry, DATA, HARDWARE, MONEY, NERD NEWS, TECHNOLOGY
from the reducing-complexity dept. In what I see as a refreshing change, T-Mobile, the fourth largest carrier in the U.S., has made sweeping changes to its service, ending both phone subsidies and service contracts. Its CEO said, ‘Here’s the deal: If we...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 27, 2013 | Blog Entry, DATA, HARDWARE, INTERNET, TECHNOLOGY
from the meanwhile-my-att-dsl-crawls-along-poorly dept. The TCP protocol is closely coupled with the underlying IP protocol. Once a TCP connection has been established through one IP address, the other packets of the connection must be sent from this address. This...
