by Joseph Forbes | Apr 16, 2013 | DATA, HARDWARE, MONEY, NERD NEWS, POLITICAL, TECHNOLOGY
No one is going to have a better pipe than Dish-Sprint, according to Dish chairman Dish Network has made a US$25.5 billion bid to acquire wireless operator Sprint Nextel, hoping to edge out a rival bid from Japanese operator SoftBank. The satellite service...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 15, 2013 | SOFTWARE, Technicals
No matter where you work odds are your company uses some sort of relational database. And nearly all of these use SQL for data retrieval. So it goes without saying that ultimatley if you want to play with data, you need to learn a little bit of SQL. You might argue...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 15, 2013 | Cloud Apps, DATA, INTERNET, Internet Scam Notices, SECURITY, Web Hosting
Researchers at Sucuri have found that version 4.0 of the WordPress Social Media Widget, also referred to as social-media-widget, has been injecting spam advertisements into sites. It is recommended that anyone using the widget, which has over 900,000 users, remove or...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 15, 2013 | DATA, GMAIL, HAPPINESS, HARDWARE, INTERNET, MONEY, NERD NEWS, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
from the bulldoze-away dept. A few years ago, when Google was determining which city to launch its pilot Google Fiber program, cities all over the country went all-out trying to persuade the search giant to bring all that fantastical bandwidth to their neck of the...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 15, 2013 | The Daily WTF
Kolby had gotten a stellar reputation as a developer able to solve difficult problems. His newest client was an international food supplier. “We’re so glad you’re here,” said Rita Manesh, the CEO. “The IFS Quality Control scheduler is too slow. It...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 15, 2013 | Blog Entry, HARDWARE, SOFTWARE, Technical Support, Technicals
The sun is shining and the bees are buzzing, which can only mean one thing: spring is here, and with that comes spring cleaning. In between emptying closets and decluttering your basement, give yourself some time to clean up your computer and smartphone, too. Here are...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 14, 2013 | Cloud Apps, DATA, INTERNET, Internet Scam Notices, NERD NEWS, SECURITY, Technical Support
from the stop-or-i’ll-say-stop-again dept. Social Media Widget, a free plug-in for the WordPress blogging platform with more than a million downloads, was restored to WordPress’s official plugin directory on Thursday, days after it was found injecting...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 14, 2013 | EDUCATION, HACKING, INTERNET, SECURITY, SOFTWARE, Technical Support, Technicals
from the you-put-me-right-off-my-fresh-fried-lobster dept. Two hundred hackers from around the world gathered at a Miami Beach hotel Thursday and Friday for the Infiltrate Security conference, which focuses on systems hacking from the ‘offensive’...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 14, 2013 | LAW, MONEY, NERD NEWS
from the what-have-we-learned dept. Last summer we followed the odd case of lawyer Charles Carreon, as he went after Matthew Inman, creator of The Oatmeal webcomic, with legal threats. Carreon had been hired by FunnyJunk, a website Inman accused of stealing his...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 14, 2013 | HACKING, HARDWARE, INTERNET, SECURITY, SOFTWARE, Technical Support, Technicals, Web Hosting
from the pressing-all-the-words dept. “Some of us have been experiencing attacks on WordPress sites for the last few days, but it’s now beginning to be widely reported that there’s a fairly large brute force attack happening on WordPress users on...
