Items tagged with Forbes

by Sean Knight - Thu, Nov 27, 2014

Hacked Message Appears On Major News Webites Courtesy Of The Syrian Electronic Army

On Thursday, some people visiting a selection of major news websites were surprised by a rogue popup saying that they have been hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army. The attacks seemed to have been focused on North American and British media organizations by the hacker group that is linked to the Assad... Read more...

by Seth Colaner - Mon, Feb 17, 2014

SEA Hacks Forbes Website, Emails And Passwords Stolen, You Know The Drill

Another day, another hack. This time it was the Forbes website that was compromised, and once again it’s the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) that claimed responsibility for the hack. Forbes posted a message on Facebook announcing the hack and said that anyone who’s registered with the site should change their... Read more...

by Joel Hruska - Mon, Jan 21, 2013

Forbes Columnist Claims Microsoft Will Sell Xbox To Sony -- or Barnes & Noble

Forbes contributor Adam Hartung dropped a bomb on the business world this morning when he forecast the complete collapse of Microsoft's business and the company's sudden exit from the entertainment market. Hartung draws on Surface's mediocre sales and the PC market's woes to claim that "Microsoft makes nothing from... Read more...

by Joel Hruska - Mon, Jul 25, 2011

Researcher Claims Apple Batteries A Potential Security Risk

Of all the hundreds of thousands of computer viruses, trojans, rootkits, and worms that have been written since 'Elk Cloner' first appeared in the wild in 1981, the overwhelming majority of them have targeted computer software. Attacking computer hardware directly isn't impossible now (and wasn't then), but it tends to be extremely difficult... Read more...

by Michael Santo - Fri, Mar 11, 2011

Forbes Rich Folks List Now Includes Six Facebookers

The Forbes Rich List for 2011 is out, and not only has Carlos Slim retained his title as the world's richest person, he's extended his lead of his closest rivals. Once again in second place is former Microsoft CEO BIll Gates, and Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway is in third. Carlos Slim easily holds the Forbes Rich List #1 slot with a... Read more...

by Joel Hruska - Tue, May 04, 2010

NVIDIA VP Declares CPU Scaling, Moore's Law, Dead

Bill Dally, chief scientist at NVIDIA, has written an article at Forbes alleging that traditional CPU scaling and Moore's Law are dead, and that parallel computing is the only way to maintain historic performance scaling. With six-core processors now available for $300, Dally's remarks are certainly timely, but his conclusions are a bit... Read more...