by Joseph Forbes | Jan 26, 2013 | NERD NEWS
from the nickled-and-dimed dept. A speedbump on the road to a cash-free economy will go into effect Sunday in the USA, as retailers in 40 states will have the option of passing along a surcharge to customers who pay with credit cards. The so-called swipe fees arose...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 26, 2013 | NERD NEWS
from the struggling-to-find-a-reasonable-punishment dept. Andrew Auernheimer doesn’t appear suicidal, no thanks to U.S. prosecutors, yet he has been under attack for his act of altering an API URL that revealed a set of user data and posting details of same....
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 25, 2013 | NERD NEWS
from the dude-you’re-gettin-dell dept. We heard that Dell is in buyout talks with private equity firms. Now, the word is that Microsoft may invest one to three billion dollars in that buyout. For that amount of money, Microsoft isn’t going for majority...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 24, 2013 | NERD NEWS
from the all-a-mpaa-front-anyhow dept. Kim Dotcom launched his new project Mega on Sunday, claiming it was to be ‘the privacy company.’ But it might not be so private after all, as security professionals have ripped it to shreds. There are numerous...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 24, 2013 | NERD NEWS
from the my-decoy-phone-will-fool-them-all dept. Call it Google Analytics for physical storefronts: if you’ve got a phone with wi-fi, stores can detect your MAC address and track your comings and goings, determining which aisles you go to and whether...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 23, 2013 | NERD NEWS
from the savings-passed-onto-board dept. AT&T has purchased the U.S. retail wireless operations of Atlantic Tele-Network Inc. (ATNI) for $780 Million. Alltel operates under the Alltel brand in several markets. The acquisition includes wireless properties,...
