by Joseph Forbes | Feb 2, 2013 | INTERNET, NERD NEWS, Web Hosting
from the click-here-to-subscribe dept. “Microsoft’s release of Office 2013 represents the latest in a series of makeover moves, this time aimed at shifting use of its bedrock productivity suite to the cloud. Early hands-on testing suggests Office 2013 is...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 2, 2013 | Malware Reports, NERD NEWS, SECURITY
from the watch-what-you-click dept. The popular belief is that security risks increase as the user engages in riskier and shadier behavior online, but that apparently isn’t the case, Cisco found in its 2013 Annual Security report. It can be more dangerous to...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 1, 2013 | NERD NEWS
from the touch-makes-life-more-bearable dept. The Register tells us that Microsoft has begun squabbling with PC manufacturers over the reasons behind the failure of Windows 8. Microsoft is ‘frustrated with major OEMs who didn’t build nearly enough touch...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 31, 2013 | HACKING, NERD NEWS, SECURITY, Technical Support
from the much-lower-than-expected dept. In a project that found more than 80 million unique IP addresses responding to Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) discovery requests, researchers at Rapid7 were shocked to find that somewhere between 40 and 50 million of those are...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 31, 2013 | Blog Entry, LAW, NERD NEWS
from the power-to-the-people dept. Now that the ridiculous phone unlocking law is a done deal, and we all understand exactly what that means (i.e., ‘fines of up to $500,000 and imprisonment of up to five years’), you might be left wondering what can you do...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 30, 2013 | INTERNET, NERD NEWS
One subscription serves up to five Windows computers Microsoft today rolled out its New Office software, presenting it as a family plan for its Office 365 cloud service for five machines rather than as a download or disk for just one machine. Called Office 365 Home...
