by Joseph Forbes | Apr 28, 2013 | DATA, HACKING, HARDWARE, SECURITY
from the insufficient-forethought dept. Using a Samsung Galaxy SIII — one of the most popular smartphones available in Canada — and a free app downloaded from the Google Play store, CBC was able to read information such as a card number, expiry date and cardholder...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 28, 2013 | HAPPINESS, MONEY, NERD NEWS, TECHNOLOGY
It’s the most common question I receive from aspiring freelancers of all types: How much should I charge? The question comes packaged in various different guises—whether it is a beginner dipping their toes in the freelancing waters for the first time or someone...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 28, 2013 | Data Recovery, HARDWARE, Technical Support
Russell Chozick owns a small company in Austin. TX, called Flashback Data that recovers data from messed-up hard drives. And SSDs and Flash memory, too. How badly damaged does a drive have to be to defeat Russell and his crew? Apparently, smashed to bits. Not long aqo...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 27, 2013 | Blog Entry, MONEY, NERD NEWS, TECHNOLOGY
For many customers, cable may be getting even more expensive. A new FCC ruling lets cable providers require customers to rent set-top boxes for their basic tiers (including local stations). With HD boxes running around $10 a month for each TV and using more power than...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 26, 2013 | Blog Entry, NERD NEWS, TECHNOLOGY
The iPhone has a pretty beautiful home screen, but it looks the same as every other iPhone out there. If you want a phone that’s truly yours, here’s how to customize the look of your home screen from top to bottom. Note that for all the tweaks below,...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 26, 2013 | DATA, HARDWARE, MONEY, NERD NEWS, TECHNOLOGY
from the on-my-own dept. There are rumblings around this week’s OpenStack conference that companies are moving away from AWS, ready to ditch their training wheels and build their own private clouds. Inbound marketing services company HubSpot is the latest to...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 25, 2013 | Cloud Apps, HACKING, HARDWARE, INTERNET, SECURITY, Web Hosting
from the protect-ya-neck dept. On Friday Linode announced a precautionary password reset due to an attack despite claiming that they were not compromised. The attacker has claimed otherwise, claiming to have obtained card numbers and password hashes. Password hashes,...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 25, 2013 | Blog Entry
from the for-your-fashion-needs dept. Google has issued the specifications for its spectacles. The search-engine giant’s Google Glass, an augmented-reality headset that allows wearers to view information on a tiny screen embedded in one of the lenses, features a...
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...
