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 | 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 26, 2013 | Blog Entry, HACKING, HARDWARE, Technicals
from the thanks-for-the-tablet-sirs dept. At last year’s RSA security conference, we ran into the Pwnie Plug. The company has just come out with a new take on the same basic idea of pen-testing devices based on commodity hardware. Reader puddingebola writes with...
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 | DATA, HARDWARE, Technicals
Microsoft has been in business, in one form or another, for 37 years. In the tech world, that’s an eternity. Which isn’t to say Microsoft has remained static over that time. Regulatory pressures, strategic shifts in software and hardware, the rise of new...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 23, 2013 | Blog Entry, HARDWARE, INTERNET, Technicals
Cisco chose the eve of Microsoft’s first Lync conference to attack the Microsoft unified communications platform as incomplete when compared to Cisco’s enterprise UC offerings. Cisco has launched what it calls a frank and direct conversation and a...
