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 | Blog Entry, LAW, POLITICAL
from the keeping-‘murica-safe dept. Michael Arrington, founder of TechCrunch, lives near Seattle and bought a boat there. He ordered it from a company based near him, but across the border in Canada. Yesterday, the company tried to deliver it to him, and it had...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 25, 2013 | Blog Entry, HAPPINESS, HEALTH
(and Why It’s Healthier for You, Too) When dealing with jerks and trolls both online and off, you have a choice: you can engage and try to get them to see the error of their ways, or you can avoid them, ignore them, and move on with your life. Most of us already know...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 25, 2013 | Blog Entry, INTERNET, Internet Scam Notices, LAW, MONEY
A mysterious company using the name “Internet Copyright Law Enforcement Agency” is sending letters to home addresses of alleged BitTorrent users, asking them to pay a settlement fee of hundreds of dollars or face jail time. The outfit claims to work with law...
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 25, 2013 | Blog Entry
If you have an ARM tablet running Windows RT, (like the Microsoft Surface tablet,) you already know that you’re restricted to applications that Microsoft has approved and added to the Windows Store. Those kinds of restrictions have never stopped enterprising...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 24, 2013 | Blog Entry, HAPPINESS, TECHNOLOGY
from the gonna-ask-you-to-come-in-on-saaaaaturday dept. AllThingsD’s Kara Swisher reported and tweeted that Marissa Mayer (CEO since July 2012) has just sent an all-hands email ending Yahoo’s policy of allowing remote employees. Hundreds of workers have...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 24, 2013 | Blog Entry, HAPPINESS
The NY Times reports that a college degree is becoming the new high school diploma: the new minimum requirement for getting even the lowest-level job. Many jobs that didn’t require a diploma years ago — positions like dental hygienists, cargo agents,...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 24, 2013 | Blog Entry, HARDWARE, MONEY, NERD NEWS, Technical Support
Microsoft goes toe-to-toe with unified communications titans Cisco, Avaya It seems Microsoft’s unified communications system Lync is becoming so popular among businesses that it is the No.1 threat to the top vendors Cisco and Avaya. Cisco this week launched an...
