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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...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 10, 2013 | DATA, LAW, NERD NEWS
from the new-life dept. Katherine Rosenberg reports that the Texas Department of Public Safety has unveiled a new web site dedicated to unsolved cold case homicides to make sure the victims are not forgotten and to try to catch a break in even the coldest of cases....
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 10, 2013 | Blog Entry, DATA, HARDWARE, NERD NEWS, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
Forget tablets and economic woes. “Good enough” computer performance might be the real reason for lackluster PC sales. While rumors of the PC’s demise are greatly exaggerated–an industry that moved more than 350 million units in 2012 is not...
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 10, 2013 | DATA, HACKING, LAW, NERD NEWS, SECURITY
from the answering-questions-of-patriotism dept. Bradley Manning, the 25-year-old U.S. Army soldier who allegedly leaked hundreds of thousands of internal memos about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, has been held by the government for two and a half years. On...
