Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt shocked everyone last week by telling The Wall Street Journal that Google isn’t killing Google Glass. Schmidt’s comments were viewed as a surprise and a revelation, even though he was repeating what Google had said previously about its smart glasses project. People thought Google was …
Microsoft has done something a bit overdue: it has consolidated Kinect for Xbox and Kinect for PC into one device, so developers don’t need two separate devices when working on both Xbox and PC apps. The Kinect’s motion capture sensors are pretty powerful and comprehensive for such an inexpensive device, …
The U.S. widened its lead in mobile patents last year and IBM took the top spot in new patents granted in that space, according to a report this week that analyzed data from both the U.S. and Europe. While the number of mobile patents granted by the U.S. Patent and …
With the Apple Watch set for release on April 24, third-party application developers are rushing to write extensions that can run on the device. Now Instagram is sharing some code it wrote for its own app to help others. The Facebook-owned company has posted a set of Objective C code …
A handful of benchmark scores for Microsoft’s not-yet-released Surface 3 tablet hint that it’s between a third and half as fast as the company’s older 2-in-1, the more powerful Surface Pro 3. The scores also show that Apple’s iPad Air — which starts at the same $499 price of the …
Nissan hopes to have a car that can navigate Japan’s highways on its own next year, and the company plans to have a completely self-driving vehicle for urban areas by 2020. “There will be a Nissan product in Japan, which will carry autonomous drive,” Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn told reporters …
A start-up husband-and-wife team has combined classic album cover art printed on a fashion line of T-shirts with an attached QR or NFC code that can be scanned to download a matching album of music to a smartphone or other device. Fashion designer Astrella and her husband Jason Rothberg conceived …
Facebook today launched 11 interactive guides and how-tos to help users secure their social information. The new guides, which can be found on the Facebook Privacy Basics site, are designed to help users understand the best ways to create a strong password, how to handle suspicious messages and what to …
After two U.S. women were charged this week with conspiring to build bombs in support of terrorist groups, a U.S. senator wants two publications that include bomb-making instructions deleted from the Internet. Senator Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat, called for the 44-year-old Anarchist Cookbook and al-Qaeda’s Inspire Magazine to be …
A combination of new malware and old-fashioned social engineering has been used to rob companies of more than US$1 million, according to a new study from IBM. The attacks, dubbed “Dyre Wolf” by IBM, suggests the work of experienced online criminals brazenly attempting to rip off large organizations. “As we …
Once upon a time not so very long ago, Microsoft was widely considered the very antithesis of open-source software. Steve Ballmer called Linux “a cancer,” and Bill Gates shared similar views about the open-source philosophy in general. Today, it’s a different world. CEO Satya Nadella has openly declared a new …
After two U.S. women were charged this week with conspiring to build bombs in support of terrorist groups, a U.S. senator wants two publications that include bomb-making instructions deleted from the Internet. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat, called for the 44-year-old Anarchist Cookbook and al-Qaeda’s Inspire Magazine to be …
Microsoft today rolled back its commitment to the nearly-dead “Do Not Track” (DNT) standard, saying that it would no longer automatically switch on the signal in its browsers. “DNT will not be the default state in Windows Express Settings moving forward, but we will provide customers with clear information on …
Ruckus became the first enterprise wireless equipment vendor to roll out an 802.11ac Wave 2 access point, with the release of the ZoneFlex R710. The R710 features the multi-user MIMO capability characteristic of Wave 2 devices, using what Ruckus calls Beamflex technology — built around antenna polarization — to focus …
Deciding on a smartphone is kind of like dating: After a while, you figure out that no single option is ever going to be perfect. From the feel of its curves to the quirks of its personality and — oh, yes — even the power of its stamina, every fish …
Owners of Hyundai Motor’s upcoming Equus will be able to take their hands off the steering wheel and feet off the brakes as they’re traveling down the highway, and let their car do the driving. The South Korea-based automaker plans to integrate a host of self-driving features into its premium …
The way to reduce cloud computing costs is through efficiency. Your organization, whether it is an enterprise or a managed service provider, needs to put in place the right servers/storage/networks to execute specific workloads – and your organization needs to manage those resources properly. A couple weeks ago I visited …
Five years since the iPad first shipped in the U.S. on April 3, we look back on Apple’s achievement with a product that is now used by heads of state. Excitement There was a lot of excitement on launch. Apple boss Steve Jobs got to mention the Wall Street Journal during …
New Chromebooks and Chromebit HDMI sticks Google’s Chromebooks have long been burning up the sales charts on Amazon’s list of bestselling laptops. Now the company has announced four new Chromebooks, new HDMI sticks called Chromebits, and an update to its App Runtime for Chrome. Eric Brown reports for Linux Gizmos: …
Компания Nikon выпустила компактную не зеркальную камеру Nikon 1 J5. Фотокамера получила 20.8-Мегапиксельную матрицу BSI и поддерживает фотосъемку до 20 кадров в секунду с полной автоматической фокусировкой. Как и вся серия фотокамер Nikon 1, модель J5 получил ретро стиль и имеет изгиб для удержания камеры правой рукой. Характеристики Nikon 1 J5: …
Internet of Things devices aren’t terribly useful without apps and services. Apigee says it can help glue these elements together using APIs. Makers of connected gadgets like lightbulbs, thermostats and motion detectors know how to build objects that can talk to each other across a room, often through a hub …
Based on data collected by Google, less than one percent of Android devices had a potentially harmful application installed last year. This includes devices on which users have installed applications from outside the official Google Play store. The data was collected through a feature called Verify Apps that was first …
Based on data collected by Google, less than one percent of Android devices had a potentially harmful application installed last year. This includes devices on which users have installed applications from outside the official Google Play store. The data was collected through a feature called Verify Apps that was first …
Uber poaches Facebook’s Joe Sullivan for security chief In an indication that the ride-hailing app company is aware that it had better get security right, Uber Technologies has hired away Facebook’s head of security, Joe Sullivan, to be its first CSO. Sullivan has been fairly high profile as Facebook’s CSO …
Компания, разработчик игр для мобильных устройств, Rovio сообщила о выходе новой игры в серии птичек – Agri Birds, которая как и последние игры отличается от “разрушений из рогатки”. Судя по видео, это будет новый вид RPG, содержащий в себе стрельбу из ружья, эротическое белье и мистические темные комнаты. У знаменитых …
In a move that could yield even more automated suggestions and tips for LinkedIn users, the professional network has acquired California startup Refresh, the maker of an app that gathers news and insights about participants in meetings. Launched three years ago, Refresh is designed to be a “digital briefing book” …