Being a hacker is one of those jobs that while immensely powerful, also requires a good amount of control and responsibility. Depending on how good you are at your job, you can have the power to do some really powerful (and nefarious) things. The other benefit, besides power, is the ability to make massive amounts of money. Exhibit A: The recently discovered Flashback Mac malware that infected some ~800,000+ machines. One might think that the relatively simple method in…

Itching to get the latest in home networking technology? Look no further than Netgear’s just unveiled R6300 802.11ac router which touts speeds of up to 1.3 Gbps on the 5 GHz band and up to 450 Mbps on the 2.4 GHz band. Like just about every other router, wired ethernet ports allow physical connectivity while a pair of USB ports aim to make any external hard drive you have lying around turn into instant network storage. Bonus: printers hooked up via the USB ports on…

Frequent Twitter? Glance at it once a week? Either way, you’ve no doubt seen a spam tweet (or 30), had an insane amount of spammers follow you (see Caleb’s predicament) or just been overwhelmed with reporting a ton of spammers as spam. That last point, marking people as spammers, has been a part-time job as of late for myself (and I’m sure others). Many times I felt that it was for naught; Twitter had so much other things to do and the bots were coming…

Pre-orders have gone live on AT&T’s website as of yesterday for the highly anticipated Knockia (Ballmerism?) Lumia 900 for only $99 with a new 2-year contract. AT&T’s website is showing the devices shipping on April 5th, most likely arriving before the April 8th launch day. And for those of you that are a new customer, you can use this online coupon to grab such a sexy phone absolutely free! We were impressed during our time with the device at CES…

We haven’t exactly hit April Fool’s Day as of yet, but that hasn’t stopped Google from jumpin on the lulz bandwagon. And I’ll have to say that this is, by far, one of the funniest April Fool’s Day gags I’ve ever seen. Combining the usefulness of Google Maps with the stability of the Nintendo Entertainment System, we are given what could be the only way we should map out our routes. In our pursuit of new digital frontiers, we realized that…

Microsoft needs all the good PR they can get for Internet Explorer. Despite making a fairly large stride in performance and reliability with IE9, and again promising an equally large jump with the upcoming IE10, the fact of the matter is that even when comparing paper specs between other top browsers such as Chrome, Firefox and at times even Safari, IE still falls short in day-to-day use. It simply feels slower and more cumbersome to use. Their Metro specific version of…