by Joseph Forbes | Feb 24, 2013 | Blog Entry
When PopClip was first released for the Mac, it was an interesting, but mostly cosmetic facelift to how copy and paste works. However, a recent update added support for extensions, and even if you’re a keyboard ninja the feature is a great addition to your...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 24, 2013 | DATA, HARDWARE, Technicals
Microsoft has been in business, in one form or another, for 37 years. In the tech world, that’s an eternity. Which isn’t to say Microsoft has remained static over that time. Regulatory pressures, strategic shifts in software and hardware, the rise of new...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 23, 2013 | NERD NEWS
from the poor-innocent-business-model dept. In 2012, Oracle took Google to court over the use of Java in Android. Judge William Alsup brought the ruling that the structure of APIs could not be copyrighted at all. Emerging from the proceedings, it was learned that...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 23, 2013 | Blog Entry, NERD NEWS
from the no-recess-and-nobody-judging-you-when-you-slack dept. The NY Times reports that while online college classes are already common, on the whole, the record is not encouraging because there are two big problems with online teaching. First, student attrition...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 23, 2013 | Blog Entry, HARDWARE, INTERNET, Technicals
Cisco chose the eve of Microsoft’s first Lync conference to attack the Microsoft unified communications platform as incomplete when compared to Cisco’s enterprise UC offerings. Cisco has launched what it calls a frank and direct conversation and a...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 23, 2013 | Blog Entry, INTERNET, NERD NEWS, Technicals
from the say-what-you-mean dept. “Google on Thursday released Chrome version 25 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. While Chrome 24 was largely a stability release, Chrome 25 is all about features, including voice recognition support via the newly added Web Speech API...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 23, 2013 | DATA, HARDWARE, INTERNET, MONEY, SECURITY, Technicals
Dell can trump Cisco in the information-technology security market, say Dell’s executives in describing how the company with its multifaceted approach will hold an edge against some powerful rivals that also include HP and IBM. Cisco is a great competitor, but...
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by Joseph Forbes | Feb 22, 2013 | DATA, HACKING, SECURITY
The website of the US television network NBC, NBC.com, has been hacked and the computers of visitors to it have been infected with malware. An NBC spokeswoman confirmed the incident in a statement to Huffington Post. According to various security researchers, a hacker...
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by Joseph Forbes | Feb 22, 2013 | Blog Entry, DATA, INTERNET, Malware Reports, SECURITY
Jean-Ian Boutin, who works for AV firm Eset, has discovered trojans that carry a valid digital signature. This potentially allows online banking spyware to pass superficial tests as harmless. Apparently, the certificate in question was issued by the DigiCert...
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by Joseph Forbes | Feb 22, 2013 | DATA, INTERNET, SECURITY
Escalating current events that involved several series of emergency patches and intrusions into prominent companies have slightly distorted our view of the bigger picture: it appears that companies are being spied on with a high degree of technological effort –...
