by Joseph Forbes | Mar 5, 2013 | DATA, MONEY, NERD NEWS, Technicals
The launch of new and revised Office 365 software-by-subscription plans for businesses shows that Microsoft realizes its current licensing revenue is threatened by cost-cutting customers, an analyst said yesterday. “Microsoft wants to shift people to...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 5, 2013 | NERD NEWS
from the admiring-from-afar dept. LG’s reluctance to embrace Windows Phone 8 underscores the difficulties that the platform faces with both consumers and vendor partners. LG was one of the early partners that signed on with Microsoft, releasing the LG Quantum in...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 5, 2013 | NERD NEWS, SECURITY, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
San Francisco — Despite the best efforts of cloud service providers and industry groups like the Cloud Security Alliance, cloud security remains a troublesome issue for IT execs. At an RSA session devoted to cloud security, IT security pros complained about the...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 4, 2013 | HACKING, HARDWARE, INTERNET, NERD NEWS, POLITICAL, SECURITY
from the brought-to-you-by-c-sharp dept. Oracle has once again released an emergency Java update to patch zero-day vulnerabilities in the browser plug-in, the fifth time it has updated the platform this year. Today’s update patches CVE-2013-1493 and...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 4, 2013 | DATA, HACKING, INTERNET, NERD NEWS, SECURITY
The Chinese government has pointed out hundreds of thousands of hacking attacks coming from the US as it continues to defend itself against an analysis conducted by security firm Mandiant. At the same time, Team Cymru, a security organisation from the US, has...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 4, 2013 | Blog Entry, INTERNET, NERD NEWS, Technical Support
from the disk-write-error dept. A Stanford comp-sci student has found a serious bug in Chromium, Safari, Opera, and MSIE. Feross Aboukhadijeh has demonstrated that these browsers allow unbounded local storage. ‘The HTML5 Web Storage standard was developed to...
