by Joseph Forbes | Apr 10, 2013 | DATA, GMAIL, HAPPINESS, INTERNET, MONEY, NERD NEWS, TECHNOLOGY
from the assuming-north-korea-leaves-it-intact dept. As earlier rumors suggested, Google Fiber will indeed roll out in Austin, Texas, with the first homes receiving service in mid-2014. The delay is due to the need for a whole new fiber network to be deployed for the...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 10, 2013 | MONEY, NERD NEWS
Knowing how much to charge somebody is easy for full-time jobs—it was figured out the day you were hired. What if you have a job, but you’re also working freelance: on the side, on weekends, or for one-off projects? It can seem much trickier, but there’s...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 9, 2013 | DATA, LAW, MONEY, NERD NEWS, POLITICAL, PRIVACY, TECHNOLOGY
from the hidden-in-congressional-offices dept. According to the CBC, there was a massive leak of “files containing information on over 120,000 offshore entities — including shell corporations and legal structures known as trusts — involving people in over 170...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 9, 2013 | DATA, LAW, MONEY, NERD NEWS, SOFTWARE, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
from the there-should-be-blood dept. Rackspace has come out fighting against one of the U.S.’s most notorious patent trolls, Parallel Iron. The cloud services firm said it’s totally fed up with trolls of all kinds, which have caused a 500 percent rise in...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 8, 2013 | MONEY, NERD NEWS
Early last year, I started renting a desk at Studiomates while working remotely for Adobe. With the majority of mates either running their own companies or freelancing, I felt the itch to follow suit. This feeling has been with me ever since I first started working...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 7, 2013 | HAPPINESS, MONEY, NERD NEWS, POLITICAL
When it comes to education, most people agree, more is better. No one embodies that principle at least in regard to IT certifications better than Jerry Irvine. CIO of IT consulting firm Prescient Solutions and member of the National Cyber Security Task Force, Irvine...
