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by Joseph Forbes | Mar 11, 2013 | Blog Entry, HARDWARE, INTERNET, NERD NEWS, Technicals
It’s tempting, isn’t it? 802.11ac is a hot new wireless technology that boasts faster and at longer ranges than 802.11n, the current king of wireless standards. It does promise some seriously impressive speed improvements over 802.11n though, but because...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 10, 2013 | Blog Entry, INTERNET, MONEY, NERD NEWS, PRIVACY, SECURITY, TECHNOLOGY
from the message-deleted dept. The Federal Trade Commission today said it has filed eight court cases to stop companies who have sent over 180 million illegal or deceptive text messages to all manner of mobile users in the past year. The messages — of which the FTC...
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by Joseph Forbes | Mar 10, 2013 | INTERNET, Malware Reports, SECURITY
F-Secure’s latest Mobile Threat Report for the last three months of 2012 names Android as the home of 96% of the new “mobile threat families”. Of 100 new threat families detected in that quarter, 96 of them were based on Android, up from the previous...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 9, 2013 | INTERNET, KnowledgeBase (KB), NERD NEWS, Technical Support
Recently Facebook decided that in addition to visual notifications, it would start making a “beeping sound” when you receive a new notification. This brief tutorial will show you how to disable that annoying beep. Note: this “feature” hasn’t been rolled out across all...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 9, 2013 | Blog Entry, INTERNET, Technical Support, Technicals
from the at-least-you-get-ipv6 dept. I’ve recently learned that our neighborhood is getting a fiber optic network, with a 100Mbps connection in each subscriber’s home. IPv6 connectivity is included, but unfortunately, the only IPv4 connectivity they offer...
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by Joseph Forbes | Mar 9, 2013 | DATA, INTERNET, NERD NEWS, SECURITY, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
Java is indeed a pain. But, the good news is few people actually need it in the first place. Here’s what you need to know about what it does, what its problems are, and how to get rid of it. What Is Java? Java is a programming language that developers use to...
