by Joseph Forbes | Mar 1, 2013 | Blog Entry, HARDWARE, Technical Support, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
Macs are notoriously hard to upgrade, but it’s possible to eke out a performance boost pretty easily with a few simple upgrades you can do yourself. While you can’t go tossing a high end graphics card into your iMac, you can do a few other things to speed...
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by Joseph Forbes | Feb 27, 2013 | HARDWARE, SECURITY, Technical Support, Technicals
HTC America and the US Federal Trade Commission have settled over charges brought by the FTC that HTC failed to secure millions of its smartphones and tablets. As part of the settlement, HTC America will now have to develop and release software patches for...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 26, 2013 | HARDWARE, NERD NEWS, Technicals
from the where-credit-is-due dept. Microsoft Azure’s cloud outperformed Amazon Web Services in a series of rigorous tests conducted by Nasuni, a storage vendor that annually benchmarks cloud service providers (CSPs). Nasuni uses public cloud resources in its...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 26, 2013 | Blog Entry, HACKING, HARDWARE, Technicals
from the thanks-for-the-tablet-sirs dept. At last year’s RSA security conference, we ran into the Pwnie Plug. The company has just come out with a new take on the same basic idea of pen-testing devices based on commodity hardware. Reader puddingebola writes with...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 25, 2013 | HARDWARE, INTERNET, NERD NEWS, Technicals
Dell is only one of top three OEMs to bundle Office 365 Home Premium with new consumer computers Some major computer makers are pushing Office 365 with their new PCs, but others have stuck with a more traditional bundling tactic of including a factory-installed,...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 24, 2013 | Blog Entry, HARDWARE, MONEY, NERD NEWS, Technical Support
Microsoft goes toe-to-toe with unified communications titans Cisco, Avaya It seems Microsoft’s unified communications system Lync is becoming so popular among businesses that it is the No.1 threat to the top vendors Cisco and Avaya. Cisco this week launched an...
