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...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 10, 2013 | DATA, MONEY, NERD NEWS, TECHNOLOGY
from the because-business-love-change dept. It appears Microsoft is following Chrome’s agile development model like Mozilla did. At a recent tech conference, Kurt DelBene, president of the Office division, said they have mechanisms in place to update Office on a...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 9, 2013 | Blog Entry, DATA, LAW, MONEY, NERD NEWS
from the let’s-also-tax-keystrokes-and-thinking-about-cats dept. The Berkeley, CA city council recently met to discuss the closing of their downtown post office, in attempt to find a way to keep it from relocating. This included talk of ‘a very tiny...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 8, 2013 | DATA, INTERNET, MONEY, NERD NEWS, PIRACY
from the except-for-the-deep-packet-inspection dept. “It’s been well-established all over the Web that the just-implemented ‘Six Strikes’ system is bad… horrible, worthy of death to those who created it. But let’s take a deep breath...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 7, 2013 | MONEY, NERD NEWS, TECHNOLOGY
from the capitalist-robber-barons-wanted dept. “MIT researchers looked at 150 of the school’s spin-out companies in manufacturing businesses over a decade, and found many of them hit the same chasm: Once it was time to ramp up to large-scale production,...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 7, 2013 | Blog Entry, LAW, MONEY
from the hello-sir-madam dept. A New York Times consumer columnist tracked down the people who run a ‘This is your second and final notice” robocall operation. The calls came from Account Management Assistance, which promises to negotiate lower credit card...
