by Joseph Forbes | Feb 24, 2013 | DATA, HARDWARE, Technicals
Microsoft has been in business, in one form or another, for 37 years. In the tech world, that’s an eternity. Which isn’t to say Microsoft has remained static over that time. Regulatory pressures, strategic shifts in software and hardware, the rise of new...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 23, 2013 | Blog Entry, HARDWARE, INTERNET, Technicals
Cisco chose the eve of Microsoft’s first Lync conference to attack the Microsoft unified communications platform as incomplete when compared to Cisco’s enterprise UC offerings. Cisco has launched what it calls a frank and direct conversation and a...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 23, 2013 | DATA, HARDWARE, INTERNET, MONEY, SECURITY, Technicals
Dell can trump Cisco in the information-technology security market, say Dell’s executives in describing how the company with its multifaceted approach will hold an edge against some powerful rivals that also include HP and IBM. Cisco is a great competitor, but...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 22, 2013 | Blog Entry, HARDWARE, NERD NEWS
from the only-765-fps-in-pong dept. A big shift in the way graphics cards and gaming performance are tested has been occurring over the last few months, with many review sites now using frame times rather than just average frame rates to compare products. Another...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 20, 2013 | Blog Entry, HARDWARE, MONEY, Technicals
I have a good pile of old computer equipment too, some of which is probably only valuable to people who really really want them at this point. IDE hard drives? Sure, I have those. AGP graphics cards? Maybe one or two left lying around in case an old system fails. The...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 15, 2013 | Blog Entry, HARDWARE
from the internal-struggle dept. When it comes to RAM, as every geek knows, 1 GB does not mean 1 billion bytes.. it means 2**30 (1,073,741,824) bytes. However, several decades ago “they” decided that GB, MB, and KB would be interpreted differently when it...
