by Joseph Forbes | Jul 27, 2013 | HARDWARE, HEALTH, NERD NEWS, SOFTWARE, TECHNOLOGY
from the siri-replace-team dept. Apple’s had a small, very secretive office in Cambridge, MA for a few months now. And we finally know what they’re doing: Building a team that works on speech technology for Siri. Sure, it’s interesting for Apple to...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 28, 2013 | DATA, HACKING, HARDWARE, SECURITY
from the insufficient-forethought dept. Using a Samsung Galaxy SIII — one of the most popular smartphones available in Canada — and a free app downloaded from the Google Play store, CBC was able to read information such as a card number, expiry date and cardholder...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 28, 2013 | Data Recovery, HARDWARE, Technical Support
Russell Chozick owns a small company in Austin. TX, called Flashback Data that recovers data from messed-up hard drives. And SSDs and Flash memory, too. How badly damaged does a drive have to be to defeat Russell and his crew? Apparently, smashed to bits. Not long aqo...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 26, 2013 | DATA, HARDWARE, MONEY, NERD NEWS, TECHNOLOGY
from the on-my-own dept. There are rumblings around this week’s OpenStack conference that companies are moving away from AWS, ready to ditch their training wheels and build their own private clouds. Inbound marketing services company HubSpot is the latest to...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 25, 2013 | Cloud Apps, HACKING, HARDWARE, INTERNET, SECURITY, Web Hosting
from the protect-ya-neck dept. On Friday Linode announced a precautionary password reset due to an attack despite claiming that they were not compromised. The attacker has claimed otherwise, claiming to have obtained card numbers and password hashes. Password hashes,...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 24, 2013 | DATA, HARDWARE, HEALTH, INTERNET, MONEY, NERD NEWS, PRIVACY, SECURITY, Technical Support, TECHNOLOGY, Web Hosting
But the majority of US health providers are in smaller practices that have been slow to embrace electronic medical records Nearly a decade after research firms predicted major cost savings and clinical benefits from the use of health-IT, adoption rates among U.S....
