Microsoft's according to a report on mobile trends released by Forrester Research last week. The report, , which has a list price of $2495, is based on interviews more than 9700 information workers around the world. Nearly a third of those workers (32 percent) told Forrester's researchers that they want their next tablet to be a Windows slate. A similar proportion of the workers (33 percent) said they want their next smartphone to be an iPhone. Only 10 percent of the workers said they wanted a Windows Phone handset in their future.
A recent push in the information technology industry to collect and monetize big data is headed for a clash with privacy concerns from Internet users and potential regulation from some governments, according to tech analyst firm Ovum. Internet and other companies that depend on the collection of personal data online should prepare for a "rebalancing" of the relationship between themselves and Web users, with Web users having more control of their data, said Mark Little, principal analyst at the U.K. tech and business analysis firm. Web users are becoming of privacy tools and appear ready to use them, Little said. "More and more consumers are deciding to effectively become invisible in data terms on the Internet," he added. "It will shake the Internet economy as more and more users decide they don't want to be tracked." Ovum, in a recent survey of about 11,000 people across 11 countries, found that 68 percent said they would use a do-not-track feature if it was easily available on a search engine. Just 14 percent of respondents said they believe Internet companies are honest about their use of personal data.
Oracle isn't done releasing patches for Java SE this month, as another batch will arrive February 19, according to a . On February 1, Oracle on the February release, which had originally been scheduled for February 19, due to a serious vulnerability that affected Java at the browser level. As a result of the hastened release, Oracle didn't manage to include a "small number" of fixes that had been planned for inclusion, according to the blog. Critical patch releases for Java SE are cumulative in nature, meaning that any user who didn't apply the group released on February 1 will get everything at once in the February 19 batch, according to the post.
Financial malware authors are trying to evade new online banking security systems by returning to more traditional phishing-like credential stealing techniques, according to researchers from security firm Trusteer. Most financial Trojan programs used by cybercriminals today are capable of tampering in real time with initiated by victims on their computers. This includes the ability to execute fraudulent transactions in the background and hide them from the user by modifying the account balance and transaction history display in their browser. As a result, banks have started deploying systems to monitor how customers interact with their websites and detect anomalies that might indicate malware activity. However, it seems that some malware creators are returning to more traditional techniques that involve stealing credentials and using them from a different computer in order to avoid being detected. Trusteer researchers have recently detected changes in the and Tilon financial Trojan programs designed to prevent victims from accessing the real online banking websites and replace their log-in pages with rogue versions.
IBM’s Watson supercomputer has gone from game show king to doctor’s office helper. . . For the cancer program, Watson analyzed 1,500 lung cancer cases from medical records, plus millions of pages of medical text. It also is able to learn when corrected for generating a wrong answer. Armed with all this data, Watson will suggest to doctors which treatments will most likely succeed, prioritized by its level of confidence in them.
Facebook wants to help you express yourself more deeply. The online social network is looking to overhaul the range of emoticons that users can add to their posts to convey different feelings. Symbols that show a smiley face for happiness or a frown for sadness are among the most common. Get ready for perhaps contemplation, determination and resignation. . He’s qualified, of course, because of how Pixar studies people’s expressions and movements so as to make amazingly realistic animations. Jones is reportedly working independently with Facebook and not on behalf of Pixar.
, the 128GB version of the tablet sold out online. Shoppers for $1000 tablet at the online outlets of Best Buy and Staples, as well as Microsoft's own web store, began seeing "not available" or "out of stock" notices just hours after midnight Eastern Time when the Windows 8 slate went on sale. technology writer Ed Bott.
Mobile engineers have successfully demonstrated the handoff of a voice call from LTE to 3G, a capability that may prove critical in carriers' plans to put voice on their new, fast data networks. Engineers from Telefonica Deutschland used SRVCC (Single Radio Voice Call Continuity) to move a call without disruption from an LTE to a 3G network. The test took place in a lab and was carried out over equipment from at least six different vendors in an effort to emulate mixed real-world networks, according to Telefonica. Keeping a subscriber's call going as they move out of an LTE coverage area will probably be (voice over LTE), a technology that breaks a voice call into packets and transmits it as data traffic. Carriers that can't fill their whole coverage area with LTE will need a way to make the handoff. SRVCC, part of the 3GPP family of standards that underlies GSM and LTE, has wide support to become that mechanism. Products from Ericsson, Huawei Technologies, Nokia Siemens Networks, Acme Packet, Qualcomm and Sony Mobile were included in Telefonica's demonstration network. However, the need for SRVCC is expected to trail demand for VoLTE itself, which is only slowly emerging. Even most carriers that have extensively deployed LTE are still transmitting voice over their older 3G networks, which are expected to remain online for many years.
A video camera board has been developed for the popular cut-price computer. The HD camera, whose specifications are still to be finalized, is expected to be available to buy in early spring, . The first cameras are expected to come with a 15-centimeter (just under 6 inches) flat cable and sell for around $25. The lens on the camera is similar to those found on many camera phones and is expected to provide 5 megapixels. Raspberry Pi developers claim the camera board has been developed as an alternative to using USB cameras with the Raspberry PI, as it provides a better quality resolution at a cheaper price when compared to USB solutions.
Microsoft's SkyDrive cloud storage service now has one billion Office documents stored in it, the company announced Friday. While a billion may seem like a lot, the most popular consumer cloud storage service, Dropbox, has more than a million users. According to the , users save one billion files to Dropbox every 24 hours. But along with Microsoft's upload milestone news, Microsoft said it has added that will make it easier to share content with others. "Recently, we reached a big milestone; our customers are now storing over a billion Office documents on SkyDrive! We're really excited about the feedback we've seen around the new version of Office and the deep integration of SkyDrive," Sarah Filman, a lead program manager on SkyDrive, wrote .
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