by Joseph Forbes | Apr 14, 2013 | Cloud Apps, DATA, HARDWARE, KnowledgeBase (KB), NERD NEWS, SOFTWARE, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
The Kindle Fire HD is a cracking little tablet, but it’s very much Amazon’s way or the highway (the highway in this case being the Google Nexus 7) — you’re stuck with Amazon’s customized interface, Amazon’s choice of apps, and...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 14, 2013 | DATA, ENTERTIANMENT, GMAIL, HAPPINESS, HARDWARE, INTERNET, MONEY, NERD NEWS, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
from the beat-the-heat-stay-indoors-with-fiber dept. “With its technology-centric culture, the Silicon Hills of Austin, TX could have been the perfect city for the first iteration of Google Fiber. Austinites will just have to settle with being only the second...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 14, 2013 | DATA, ENTERTIANMENT, NERD NEWS, PIRACY, TECHNOLOGY
While Thou Shalt Not Steal is one of the best known ten commandments, there is no directive ordering Thou Shalt Not Copy. This glaring loophole in God’s law, which runs contrary to established entertainment industry doctrine, apparently allows priests to watch pirated...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 13, 2013 | DATA, HARDWARE, MONEY, NERD NEWS, TECHNOLOGY
from the year-of-the-linux-sorta-console-looking-thing dept. “Dell has launched a new Ubuntu gaming desktop (first ever?) . Alienware customers can now choose either Windows or Ubuntu when buying a new X51. Ubuntu option is initially available to U.S. customers...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 13, 2013 | DATA, HACKING, INTERNET, NERD NEWS, PRIVACY, SECURITY, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
from the please-see-previous-department-line dept. Recently, an article was posted on Slashdot about the claim that law enforcement made about being frustrated by their inability to decrypt messages using Apple’s iMessage. However, this article on Techdirt...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 13, 2013 | Blog Entry, HACKING, HARDWARE, INTERNET, SECURITY, Technical Support, Technicals, Web Hosting
As you may know, Tuesday, a widespread “brute force” attack against WordPress sites started impacting sites across the internet. This attack is leveraging a botnet which looks to have more than one hundred thousand different computers at its...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 13, 2013 | NERD NEWS, SECURITY, SOFTWARE, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
One patch may be the first ever for Web Apps 2010 Windows 8 and Windows RT are subject to critical vulnerabilities that will be addressed on Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday next week, both by virtue of supporting Internet Explorer 10. The bulletin for the...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 13, 2013 | SECURITY, SOFTWARE, Technical Support, Technicals
from the but-thanks-for-testing-it dept. Microsoft announced last night that it has stopped pushing a security update originally released on Patch Tuesday because the fix is causing some PCs to blue-screen. Microsoft recommends users uninstall the patch, which is also...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 12, 2013 | INTERNET, Malware Reports
from the sometimes-that’s-just-what-you-want-to-find dept. According to an 18-month study from German independent testing lab AV-Test, searches on Bing returned five times more links to malicious websites than Google searches. The study looked at nearly 40...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 12, 2013 | DATA, HARDWARE, INTERNET
from the get-off-your-duffs-and-invest-in-awesome-internet dept. Within hours of Google announcing that Austin, Texas would be the next lucky recipient of its Google Fiber initiative, AT&T released a statement indicating that it was willing to build a high-speed...
