by Joseph Forbes | Apr 24, 2013 | DATA, HARDWARE, HEALTH, INTERNET, MONEY, NERD NEWS, PRIVACY, SECURITY, Technical Support, TECHNOLOGY, Web Hosting
But the majority of US health providers are in smaller practices that have been slow to embrace electronic medical records Nearly a decade after research firms predicted major cost savings and clinical benefits from the use of health-IT, adoption rates among U.S....
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 24, 2013 | NERD NEWS, SOFTWARE
from the houston-we-have-a-problem dept. Thousands of PCs have been crippled by a faulty update from security vendor Malwarebytes that marked legitimate system files as malware code. The update definition meant Malwarebytes’ software treated essential...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 23, 2013 | HARDWARE, NERD NEWS, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
If you’re building an HTPC, a small workstation, or you just don’t want your rig to take up tons of space under or on top of your desk, you need a smaller PC case. Something that fits the important stuff, but doesn’t waste a lot of space on expansion...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 22, 2013 | DATA, LAW, MONEY, NERD NEWS, POLITICAL, PRIVACY, TECHNOLOGY
A House committee doesn’t change the cyberthreat sharing bill enough to win support from some digital rights groups A U.S. House of Representatives committee failed to make the changes necessary to allay fears about government surveillance in a controversial...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 22, 2013 | NERD NEWS, TECHNOLOGY
from the back-by-popular-demand dept. According to media reports about leaked Windows 8.1 code, the next incarnation of Microsoft’s flagship operating system will have an option to boot directly to the desktop. People have discovered ‘references to a...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 21, 2013 | DATA, NERD NEWS, SECURITY
In the next couple of days Microsoft plans to introduce an extension that will make the login process for Microsoft accounts more secure. The method, called “two-step verification” in a blog post, will require not only a conventional password, but also a...
