by Joseph Forbes | Mar 10, 2013 | DATA, LAW, NERD NEWS
from the new-life dept. Katherine Rosenberg reports that the Texas Department of Public Safety has unveiled a new web site dedicated to unsolved cold case homicides to make sure the victims are not forgotten and to try to catch a break in even the coldest of cases....
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 10, 2013 | SECURITY
Microsoft’s SharePoint, drawing application Visio get patched Internet Explorer vulnerabilities warrant notice in this month’s set of Microsoft Patch Tuesday bulletins and need to be fixed quickly even though the sheer number of patches may seem daunting....
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 10, 2013 | DATA, HARDWARE, TECHNOLOGY
from the mourn-the-spinning-platters dept. We are going stop building our notebook 7200rpm hard disk drives at the end of 2013,’ said David Burks, director of marketing and product management at Seagate Technology, during a conversation with X-bit labs. The...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 10, 2013 | Blog Entry, DATA, HARDWARE, NERD NEWS, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
Forget tablets and economic woes. “Good enough” computer performance might be the real reason for lackluster PC sales. While rumors of the PC’s demise are greatly exaggerated–an industry that moved more than 350 million units in 2012 is not...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 10, 2013 | DATA, MONEY, NERD NEWS, TECHNOLOGY
from the because-business-love-change dept. It appears Microsoft is following Chrome’s agile development model like Mozilla did. At a recent tech conference, Kurt DelBene, president of the Office division, said they have mechanisms in place to update Office on a...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 10, 2013 | DATA, HACKING, LAW, NERD NEWS, SECURITY
from the answering-questions-of-patriotism dept. Bradley Manning, the 25-year-old U.S. Army soldier who allegedly leaked hundreds of thousands of internal memos about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, has been held by the government for two and a half years. On...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 10, 2013 | Blog Entry, NERD NEWS, TECHNOLOGY
from the also-a-reservoir-of-hipness dept. After noticing artifacts and a 1600 × 900 image in the output from Apple’s new Lightning Digital AV Adapter, the Panic Blog sawed it open and found an ARM chip inside. They suspect that video bypasses the cable entirely...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 9, 2013 | Blog Entry, DATA, LAW, MONEY, NERD NEWS
from the let’s-also-tax-keystrokes-and-thinking-about-cats dept. The Berkeley, CA city council recently met to discuss the closing of their downtown post office, in attempt to find a way to keep it from relocating. This included talk of ‘a very tiny...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 9, 2013 | DATA, NERD NEWS, TECHNOLOGY
from the in-the-cloud dept. Now that President Obama’s federal health care reform is past its major political hurdles — and with renewed focus on out-of-control costs in healthcare — companies that sell ‘big data’ software are licking their chops....
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 9, 2013 | INTERNET, KnowledgeBase (KB), NERD NEWS, Technical Support
Recently Facebook decided that in addition to visual notifications, it would start making a “beeping sound” when you receive a new notification. This brief tutorial will show you how to disable that annoying beep. Note: this “feature” hasn’t been rolled out across all...
