Mit der Software 3-Sweep scheint Bildbearbeitung ein Kinderspiel: Wenige Klicks «zaubern» aus Fotos Objekte in der dritten Dimension.
Sie arbeiten rund um die Uhr und beackern Millionen Einträge: Die Zensoren des Twitter-Pendants Sina Weibo löschen alles, was in China als anstössig oder politisch inkorrekt gilt.
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In zehn Monaten gewann das Netzwerk LinkedIn, im deutschsprachigen Raum 35 Prozent mehr Mitglieder. Nun soll eine neue Funktion die Profile glaubwürdiger machen.
Gehasst, geliebt und nicht mehr wegzudenken: Der Gamedienst Steam wird 10 Jahre alt. Wie aus einem kleinen Update-Programm der grösste Game-Downloadservice wurde.
Der Microblogging-Dienst geht an die Börse. Es dürfte kein Zufall sein, dass dieser Entschluss jetzt gefasst wurde, wo die Facebook-Aktie einen neuen Höchststand erreicht hat.
Die Entwicklung und Vermarktung von Grand Theft Auto 5 soll rund 270 Millionen Dollar gekostet haben. Ab 17. September steht das teuerste Computerspiel der Welt in den Läden.
Apple schmeisst die SBB-Uhr aus dem System: Für iOS 7 wurde die App neu gestaltet. Damit dürfte Apple künftig Millionen an Lizenzgebühren einsparen.
Dank neuer Technologie schneller surfen: Ab 2014 sollen bei der Swisscom Geschwindigkeiten von bis zu 100 Mbit/s möglich sein. Auch wird weiter in das Glasfasernetz investiert.
Talkmaster Jimmy Kimmel konfrontiert Passanten mit dem neuen iPhone. Diese geben hochinteressante Antworten - denn in Wahrheit halten sie ein iPad Mini in den Händen.
Innerhalb von 15 Monaten rund 20 Prozent mehr Nutzer: 800 Millionen Menschen auf der ganzen Welt nutzen Yahoo. Jetzt fehlen nur noch mehr Werbeerlöse.
Sogar Vergleiche mit Crocs und den Powerrangern werden gemacht: Die Netzgemeinde lacht über die beiden neuen iPhone-Modelle 5S und 5C. Auch die Apple-Konkurrenz macht sich lustig.
Wenn die Beantwortung einer SMS mal wieder länger dauert, könnte am anderen Ende ein digitaler Pinocchio tippen. Das sagt eine neue Studie aus den USA.
Gekrümmte TV's, intelligente Uhren oder Stifte zum 3-D-Drucken. Die Technikmesse IFA bot eine Welle an neuen Produkten. Wir haben die hervorstechendsten Geräte zusammengetragen.
The harrowing tale of how Nokia once considered ditching Microsoft for Google.
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission will sell 10 megahertz of spectrum in the 1900MHz band for commercial mobile services in an auction beginning Jan. 14, the agency announced Friday. of $1.56 billion, with some of the money funding the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet), a government board building a nationwide broadband network for public safety agencies. The auction will help mobile providers address a predicted spectrum shortage, said Mignon Clyburn, the FCC’s acting chairwoman. The auction “will help close the spectrum gap as well as contributing to the goal of making mobile broadband available to our nation’s first responders,” she said in a statement. Congress, in the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012, required the FCC to license 65 megahertz of spectrum, including the 10 megahertz in the H block, by February 2015.
Who wins, loses, or draws in the aftermath of Twitter's IPO.
Getting Outlook.com to work with email client applications via IMAP is proving to be a challenge for some users of the Microsoft webmail service. in the blog post Microsoft published Thursday announcing the new IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) support in Outlook.com. To their credit, Microsoft officials are clearly monitoring the feedback very closely, as evidenced by their frequent replies to the comments being posted. “We’ve seen a handful of reports of users running into the error 9 so we’re looking into this with high priority,” wrote Ben Poon, an Outlook.com program manager with Microsoft, referring to a server timeout error some users are experiencing.
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More than a year after Microsoft introduced its revamped, modern-style webmail service, Outlook.com finally—finally!—supports IMAP. The IMAP protocol allows standalone email clients to access messages stored on a remote mail server, meaning any changes you make to your inbox appears on other devices, too; if you mark a message as read on your PC's email client, for example, it shows as read on your phone, too. That's pretty handy in a multi-device world, and IMAP is a veritable email staple of most client software. Outlook.com has relied on Microsoft's own Exchange ActiveSync technology to fill the real-time hole, but some email software (including many Mac programs) simply doesn't support EAS. Outlook.com users relying on EAS-less clients have had to fall back on the inferior POP protocol, which downloads messages to your local machine rather than managing them on Outlook.com's servers. That was lame—but that ended on Thursday, too. If you want to use IMAP with Outlook.com, here are the settings to use in your email client:
You've bumped your phone, you've bumped your had NFC all the way back in January.) While the mere concept brings to mind ridonkulous visions of people trying to slam their M70 PC against NFC-enabled printers, Asus says the desktop was designed primarily to play nice with Android phones. The company's packs some truly handy-dandy one tap features. With it, you can: The mobile-friendly tricks don't end there, though: Asus says the M70 PC will also wirelessly charge mobile devices via a Qi-compatible charger tray. The computer also ships with Asus' Ai Charger software, which helps your USB 3.0 ports deliver juice to iPads, iPhones, and iPods at . Configurations can include a full range of Intel Core processors and low-end Nvidia graphics cards, while an uninterruptible power supply protects against blackouts. Asus kept mum on the other technical details, including key points like pricing and a release date.
Microsoft's new attack ad lacks imagination and innovation. Sound familiar?
Couchbase is launching a version of its namesake NoSQL open-source data store that can run on mobile devices, called Couchbase Lite. It is also releasing companion products, Couchbase Sync Gateway, which synchronizes data between a mobile device and a cloud service, and Couchbase Cloud, an online sandbox for developers to try Couchbase Lite. . is a key/value document store that sends and receives data through the JSON (JavaScript Object Notation), a protocol for exchanging information between two systems that is fairly easy for developers to understand and work with.
Intel successfully managed to overclock an SSD by 10 percent at its Intel Developer Forum, but it’s unclear whether or not the company will ever formally release the technology to market. Intel representatives successfully dialed up the clock speed on the memory controller governing its SSDs from 400MHz to 625MHz at the and the risk of melting down the processor itself. OEMs and consumers alike already select SSDs for speed. Intel’s SSD 530 series reads and writes data sequentially at 540 Mbits and 480 Mbits/s, respectively. Random accesses of data, however, are where an SSD truly shines, with 41 million reads and 80 million writes per second. Performance hard drives like Western Digital’s Black line are at 1,100 Mbit/s for sequential data streaming, like video, but can’t keep up with SSDs on the random reads and writes that typify normal computing. With SSDs and hard drives, however, the risk is losing a user’s data—all at once, catastrophically. Drive failures posed a real problem in the early days of SSDs, and damaged their reputation.
More battery life is always good, we just wish the Droid Maxx had done something else to help it stand out from the Android crowd.
A U.S. surveillance court has ordered government agencies to review the court’s own opinions related to the legality of a massive telephone records collection program at the National Security Agency in preparation for possible publication of those opinions. The U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) on Friday to review the court’s opinions related to the scope and constitutionality of Section 215 of the Patriot Act, the statute that the NSA has cited as its authority for its mass collection of U.S. telephone records in recent years. At the request of the American Civil Liberties Union and Yale Law School’s Media Freedom and Access Information Clinic, the court ordered the U.S. government to review the court’s opinions for possible declassification, giving lawyers until Oct. 4 to do so. Despite government objections about the ACLU’s standing in the case, the civil rights group does have an interest in seeing the court decisions, wrote FISC Judge Dennis Saylor.
The cassette tape turns 50 today. Here's ways to keep that box of old tapes in your mom's basement from going to waste.
Google has pushed out updates for the iOS and Android versions of Chrome, as the company continues beefing up its browser for use with tablets and smartphones. Chrome 29 for iPhones and iPads now understands pronouns in voice search mode, so that a query asking who is the U.S. president can be followed by another one inquiring who is "his" wife, Google in a blog post. The update also sharpens the process of toggling between websites and search result pages, and adds a feature that shows users data cost savings realized via the bandwidth management tool. Finally, Chrome 29 for iOS also features unspecified single sign-on improvements with other Google web applications, as well as bug fixes and security improvements, according to the company.
French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault warned government ministers this summer that they and their staff should only use approved smartphones to discuss sensitive matters, a French magazine has revealed. For matters classified secret, Ministers and government officials should use a feature phone called Teorem from French aerospace and defence equipment manufacturer Thales, Ayrault’s chief of staff told his counterparts in the various ministries in this week. Teorem is a hybrid device compatible with public landlines and with 2G or 3G mobile networks. It exchanges keys via a central server in order to authenticate itself and encrypt transmissions—but it can only communicate with similarly secured devices, and it won’t run apps or exchange email. The government has ordered 14,000 Teorem phones, half of them for the armed forces, according to Thales. Not all ministerial discussions are secret, but most should at least be considered sensitive, and for those, only landlines or smartphones with a security system approved by the French National IT Security Agency (ANSSI) should be used, the letter said.
Using Twitter Music directly in Spotify actually fixes some of the most glaring flaws of the service.
Writing can be hard enough, and editing's no cakewalk, but editing your own writing...whew. After the Deadline helps you get the job done, bringing the full complement of editing tools found in office suites to browser-based applications and blogging software. Available as an add-on for Chrome, Firefox, OpenOffice, and Wordpress (as well as some lesser-known programs), After the Deadline goes well beyond the basics of spelling and grammar checks. It conducts stylistic analysis, outlining passive voice usage and other pitfalls common to fiction writing. Its implementation is very unobtrusive, with suspect words or phrases underlined in red for spelling errors, green for grammar suggestions and blue for style issues. After the Deadline is free for personal use and requires an Internet connection. The Download button takes you to the vendor's site, where you can download the desired add-on.
All the major U.S. carriers have the iPhone 5c up for preorder, but the details differ. Here's everything you need to know.
Ray Dolby, an American inventor known for leading work in the area of noise reduction and surround sound, died Thursday at the age of 80 at his home in San Francisco. Dolby, who had been living with Alzheimer’s disease in recent years, was diagnosed in July with acute leukemia, according to Dolby Laboratories, the company he founded 48 years ago. Holding over 50 U.S. patents, Dolby transformed the company in line with market changes, and its technology has made its way into cinema, homes, PCs and mobile entertainment. Chinese vendor ZTE, for example, acquired in June a worldwide patent license for Dolby’s portfolio covering High-Efficiency Advanced Audio Coding (HE AAC), an international standard used and licensed from Dolby by a number of mobile vendors. SingTel said in January it will use Dolby Digital Plus technology to deliver cinema-quality surround sound on Mio TV, its IPTV platform.
Dropbox takes a peek at some kinds of uploaded files. That’s normal, the Web storage service says. The disclosure comes after a test of the service found that several “.doc” files were opened after being uploaded to Dropbox. . The experiment involved uploading to Dropbox “.zip” HoneyDocs folders with embedded “.doc” files. HoneyDocs lets users set up a “sting,” or a notification that is sent by SMS or email when a file has been viewed. Where the file has been viewed from is plotted on a map.
Leaked images show a new gold-colored smartphone from HTC.
too and the Windows maker is gunning for the iPad. Microsoft recently introduced a new trade-in deal, offering a minimum $200 store credit to users surrendering their gently used iPads at U.S. and Canadian Microsoft Store locations. The deal only covers the iPad 2, 3, and 4, and Microsoft requires the iPad power cord and a non-password protected device. Microsoft did not mention the iPad Mini in its trade-in deal. From the sounds of it, anyone seriously contemplating this deal should restore their iPad to factory conditions before swapping it for Microsoft bucks. The Microsoft Store deal lasts until Sunday, October 27 and is in partnership with gadget trade-in site CExchange. .” (Microsoft’s iPad swap deal follows a similar deal from Best Buy in July.)
Vodafone is close to acquiring Kabel Deutschland, Germany’s largest cable operator, for €7.7 billion ($10 billion). [] The minimum threshold of 75 percent of shareholders agreeing to the deal has been met, the company said in a news release Thursday. Vodafone expects to complete the acquisition by the end of the month. The deal still needs antitrust approval from the European Commission. Phase one of that review is expected to close by Sept. 20, Vodafone said.
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Now that Apple has pulled back the curtain and shared the , it’s decision time. If you decide you want one, though, the next question is whether or not you’re locked in to the smartphone you have now and whether or not there is anything you can do about it. To be fair, there is nothing groundbreaking . If you already have an iPhone 5 or some other premier smartphone like a Samsung Galaxy S4 or a Nokia Lumia 928, there may not be much to compel you to run out and get an iPhone 5s or iPhone 5c. The truth is that most of the cool stuff is actually a function of iOS 7 rather than the specific iPhone model, but some iPhone models will not be able to use all of the new features of iOS 7. From a business perspective, though, the fingerprint sensor on the iPhone 5s is intriguing, and might be a reason to make the switch. If you already have a smartphone, and your contract isn’t up yet, and it’s not new enough for you to be enrolled in a program like T-Mobile Jump or Verizon Edge that allow you to upgrade more frequently, then what?