One year ago this week...
As beta programs go, Windows 8 seemed like a smashing success. The engineers and designers putting the new operating system together hit their deadlines like a finely tuned machine, and the code was ready to release to manufacturing one year ago this week, on August 1, 2012. Hardware partners...
Microsoft's Bing will display warnings when users attempt to search for images of child abuse.
The notification will tell users that child abuse is illegal, and provide a link to the Stop It Now counselling service.
"If someone in the UK tries to use search terms on Bing which can only indicate they are looking for...
Twitter is under pressure to make it easier for users to report abuse after more than 54,000 people petitioned the company over the case of a feminist campaigner who says she was repeatedly threatened with rape.
Caroline Criado-Perez helped lobby the Bank of England to make a woman the new face on the country's £10...
Based around the firm's in-house Asha platform, the Nokia Asha 501 is the newest addition to Nokia's range of handsets aimed at "emerging markets" – cheap phones intended for sale in territories such as India and South America. Unusually, the 501 is also making its way to the UK, and although there's no official pricing yet,...
In recent time the most valuable and demand able thing is iPhone .The iPhone is a smartphones designed and marketed by Apple inc.six year ago in june 29 ,2007- was the first time that anyone other than Steve Jobs and a handful of Apple employees got their hands on an iPhone.But in 2004 when Apple started...
Windows tablet makers are trying different forms and styles of units
to try to make a model that will appeal to consumers. Some of them seem
to work OK while others miss the mark. Lenovo has chosen to make a
simple slate model in the ThinkPad Tablet 2, and it is by far the best
of the lot.
I was impressed with the ThinkPad...
Ubuntu Forums suffered a massive data breach, the company behind the Linux open-source based operating system said on Saturday.
In an announcement posted on its main forum page, Canonical confirmed there had been a security breach and that the team is working to restore normal operations.
The notice said "every user's local username, password and email
address" from their database was stolen....
The next device rumoured to be joining Apple's lineup will be a supersized iPad, according to reports.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Apple and its component suppliers in Asia are now testing larger iPad and iPhone screens.
The companies are looking into a 13-inch screen for the iPad, which
is almost a quarter larger than the current largest iPad display of 9.7
inches,...
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Nokia Lumia's
The handset maker reveals a loss of 115 million euros and up to 440 job cuts.
Nokia sold 7.4 million Lumia phones in the second quarter of 2013. Sales of the Windows Phone devices climbed by a third, although the total number of Nokia phones sold declined, leading to an overall loss of 115 million...
Google Glass
Lookout Security discovered a method by which hackers could take control over Google Glass by creating a malicious QR Code.
Google has patched a security vulnerability that could have left Glass users with some major issues.
Lookout Security discovered a flaw in Google Glass back in May that would allow a...
It is time to enable the Google two-step authentication feature. If the website is providing you additional security feature, it is always good to use that feature. This news will help you to understand the risk of ignoring the additional security feature.
Cybercriminals hacked the Gmail account of a Dubai...
Matthew Weaver, a former Cal State San Marcos student was sentenced one year of prison for stealing almost 750 students password and using 630 of those accounts to cast the ballots.
22 years old Mr. Weaver was a third year business student when he planned to win election as president of the school's student council.
A...
Short on friends? James Clegg can sell you a few. How about a thousand or so followers on Twitter, delivered overnight for about a penny apiece?
Clegg (not his real name) is part of a growing and extremely profitable underground that thrives on the sale of followers on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and other social networks....
Get excited, mobile gamers. As expected, Rovio and Lucasfilm on Monday morning confirmed they are gearing up to launch a sequel to the mega-popular Angry Birds Star Wars game.
Angry Birds Star Wars II, launching on Sept. 19 in app stores worldwide, will follow the story of the three prequel Star Wars movies,...
Electronic Arts' Peter Moore hints that his company may not bring other games to the Nintendo console.
Nintendo's Wii U is in developer crosshairs after a less-than-stellar start.
Speaking to GamesIndustry.biz in an interview published on Monday, Electronic Arts COO Peter Moore confirmed that his company -- one of...
At the company's annual shareholder meeting, one investor calls the U.S. launch a "disaster." BlackBerry says it has learned its lessons from the Z10 debut.
BlackBerry investors aren't happy about its progress in the U.S., and let it be known during the company's annual shareholder meeting on Tuesday.
The company's...
The T440s would be the first ThinkPad equipped with Intel's fourth-generation Haswell processor.
Lenovo has outfitted its newest ThinkPad with Intel's latest processor technology.
Unveiled via a new Lenovo Web page, the T440s is touted as a 14-inch business ultrabook. The new ThinkPad is powered by Intel's fourth-generation...
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The lineup would include a new version of the 7-inch Kindle Fire and Kindle Fire...
