by Joseph Forbes | Feb 28, 2013 | MONEY, NERD NEWS, POLITICAL, TECHNOLOGY
from the sacred-cows-make-great-brisket dept. William D. Hartung, director of the Arms and Security Project at the Center for International Policy, writes that although we have been bombarded with tales of woe about the potentially devastating impacts of cutting the...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 27, 2013 | NERD NEWS, Technicals
from the double-digits-on-the-prime dept. Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 is out. Windows 8 may suck but now you can at least enjoy (most of) that version’s Internet Explorer. IE10 for Win7, originally not planned, has seen the light of day after all — four...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 26, 2013 | HACKING, NERD NEWS, SECURITY
from the join-the-crowd dept. Once upon a time, Microsoft claimed that falling prey to social engineering tactics and then being hacked was a ‘rookie mistake.’ But now is the time for companies to jump on the bandwagon, to admit they were targeted by...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 26, 2013 | HARDWARE, NERD NEWS, Technicals
from the where-credit-is-due dept. Microsoft Azure’s cloud outperformed Amazon Web Services in a series of rigorous tests conducted by Nasuni, a storage vendor that annually benchmarks cloud service providers (CSPs). Nasuni uses public cloud resources in its...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 25, 2013 | HARDWARE, INTERNET, NERD NEWS, Technicals
Dell is only one of top three OEMs to bundle Office 365 Home Premium with new consumer computers Some major computer makers are pushing Office 365 with their new PCs, but others have stuck with a more traditional bundling tactic of including a factory-installed,...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 24, 2013 | Blog Entry, HARDWARE, MONEY, NERD NEWS, Technical Support
Microsoft goes toe-to-toe with unified communications titans Cisco, Avaya It seems Microsoft’s unified communications system Lync is becoming so popular among businesses that it is the No.1 threat to the top vendors Cisco and Avaya. Cisco this week launched an...
