by Joseph Forbes | Feb 23, 2013 | NERD NEWS
from the poor-innocent-business-model dept. In 2012, Oracle took Google to court over the use of Java in Android. Judge William Alsup brought the ruling that the structure of APIs could not be copyrighted at all. Emerging from the proceedings, it was learned that...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 23, 2013 | Blog Entry, NERD NEWS
from the no-recess-and-nobody-judging-you-when-you-slack dept. The NY Times reports that while online college classes are already common, on the whole, the record is not encouraging because there are two big problems with online teaching. First, student attrition...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 23, 2013 | Blog Entry, INTERNET, NERD NEWS, Technicals
from the say-what-you-mean dept. “Google on Thursday released Chrome version 25 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. While Chrome 24 was largely a stability release, Chrome 25 is all about features, including voice recognition support via the newly added Web Speech API...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 22, 2013 | Blog Entry, HARDWARE, NERD NEWS
from the only-765-fps-in-pong dept. A big shift in the way graphics cards and gaming performance are tested has been occurring over the last few months, with many review sites now using frame times rather than just average frame rates to compare products. Another...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 22, 2013 | INTERNET, NERD NEWS, SECURITY
from the call-the-internet-police dept. Recently, I had found out (through my log files) that my wireless router was subject to a Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) brute force PIN attack. After looking on the Internet and discovering that there are indeed many...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 21, 2013 | NERD NEWS
from the must-increment-version-number-faster dept. Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley has been collecting tips on Microsoft’s accelerated Windows development schedule, codenamed ‘Blue.’ She reports that the program, which is attempting to replace the...
