As CEO Rory Read promised, AMD returned to profitability in the third quarter, driven by its success in the game console market. AMD reported net income of $48 million on revenue of $1.46 billion, versus a loss of $131 million in the same period last year on revenue of $1.27 billion. Analysts had expected AMD to turn a profit, barely, with a consensus forecast of 2 cents per share, according to compiled by Yahoo Finance. They expected AMD to see sales of $1.42 billion. Executives had previously said that the third quarter would be critical for AMD, with Read pegging it as the time when his company would return to profitability. “Looking ahead, we will continue to deliver a strong value proposition to our established customers and also reach new customers as we diversify our business,” .
Myst fans, celebrations are in order. Earlier this month at the IndieCade conference in Los Angeles, Myst co-creator Rand Miller confirmed that his development studio Cyan hoped to launch a Kickstarter for a “ .” Well, that Kickstarter is here. Meet , Cyan’s first substantial project in almost a decade (Myst V: End of Ages came out in 2005). “Lately a lot of you have been asking about Kickstarter. So here we are. It’s taken us a while because we didn’t want to do this lightly. We wanted to make sure we thought this out and did the right thing for a Kickstarter,” says Rand Miller in the project’s Kickstarter video. “The theme that seems to come through, from what we’re hearing, is ‘Why don’t you do what you ?’” Obduction’s a sci-fi adventure game that, “harkens back to the spirit of Cyan’s earlier games Myst and Riven,” according to the Kickstarter page. This is an entry in the Myst franchise; it’s an entirely new property.
Heeding the call from enterprise customers who clamor for more immediacy in their data-driven reports, Oracle has updated its data-integration software portfolio so that it can more rapidly deliver data to data warehouses and analysis applications. The newest version of Oracle’s extract transform and load (ETL) software, Oracle Data Integrator 12c, has been configured to work with the newest version of Oracle’s database replication tool, Oracle GoldenGate 12c, so that the two programs can work in conjunction to provide near-real-time data to analysis systems. Oracle also gave Oracle Data Integrator 12c an easier way to build and maintain data workflows and provided GoldenGate 12c with a quicker way to inject data into replicated Oracle databases, said Brad Adelberg, vice president of development at Oracle. Typically, customers have used Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) to extract data from multiple data sources to feed into data warehouses and business intelligence applications. The data extraction tended to be scheduled during an organization’s off-hours, so the operation wouldn’t slow database performance during hours of peak usage, Adelberg said. Typically, this would happen overnight.
China’s Lenovo Group is considering a bid for struggling smartphone maker BlackBerry, according to The Wall Street Journal. The newspaper, quoting “people familiar with the matter,” said the Chinese electronics company had signed a non-disclosure agreement with BlackBerry that allows it to examine the Canadian company’s financial accounts. BlackBerry declined to comment directly on the report. It said its special committee, formed to examine the future of the company, is looking at "strategic alternatives."
For consumers looking forward to 5G mobile technology for super-high speed, network giant Ericsson says there will be more to it than that—and less. A 5G mobile standard isn’t in formal development yet and isn’t likely to be in commercial networks until 2020, according to Vish Nandlall, Ericsson’s CTO and senior vice president of strategy, who spoke at the GigaOm Mobilize conference Wednesday. Even then, 5G won’t be totally at consumers’ beck and call to deliver their cat videos and social network feeds. More so than any previous generation of cellular gear, 5G will have to serve two masters, Nandlall said. With wireless sensors, industrial equipment, and an array of consumer gadgets, in a few years there are likely to be 10 mobile connections per person. If 5 billion humans join the mobile world, that’s 50 billion connections that 5G networks will need to serve. Not all of those devices will be hungry for megabits per second, Nandlall said. For example, remote sensors may need slow connections to achieve decades of battery life, while other pieces of the so-called Internet of Things may have to have much higher reliability than consumers get when they’re just making phone calls.
Twitter’s direct messaging feature appears to be experiencing technical difficulties by not allowing certain messages to be sent if they contain links. The issue was first noticed by some users Wednesday night, with tweets flagging the issue continuing to appear through Thursday morning and into the early afternoon. Apparently, whether a message can successfully be sent depends on the link it contains. In internal tests, messages containing links to Twitter.com, Facebook.com, YouTube.com and NYTimes.com appeared to work fine. But messages containing links to Google.com did not go through, and neither did messages containing links to Businesswire.com, Inquisitr.com, PCWorld.com or Computerworld.com. Twitter could not immediately be reached to comment on the issue, though in other reports the company described the problem as a “technical issue with URLs.”
, is officially available for sale in the U.S. Just days after making a similar European announcement, LG has revealed that the new tablet will be available at bestbuy.com starting immediately. The tablet will roll out to physical Best Buy stores and other offline merchants on November 3. With a retail price of $349.99, LG is targeting midrange consumers, but it isn’t skimping on features. The centerpiece of the tablet is its 8.3-inch IPS screen, which features an impressive 1920x1200 pixels of resolution (more detailed than 1080p High Definition). At the same time, the smaller screen means the tablet is compact enough to fit (albeit just barely) in a single hand. 600 processor with quad-core CPU, features 2GB of RAM, 16GB of ROM, and a microSD slot that allows for memory expansion of up to 64 additional gigabytes. The camera is a standard 5 megapixel model, and Android Jelly Bean 4.2.2 is installed under the hood. A beefy 4600mAh battery should offer ample running time for a full day’s worth of adventures. LG has enhanced the G Pad 8.3 with a few sweet software extras, including QPair connectivity. This software lets G Pad users open a window into a paired Android smart phone. With QPair, you can access recent apps directly through the tablet, read your incoming text messages, and even see who’s ringing when a new phone call arrives. Notes written on the G Pad can also be quickly synced to your phone with the tablet’s QMemo software. Best of all, these tools are manufacturer agnostic and don’t require an LG brand secondary device in order to work.
BitTorrent search engine isoHunt.com will shut down operations next week in a settlement with U.S. movie studios that have long accused the website of copyright infringement, the studios said Thursday. The , including Columbia Pictures, Disney Enterprises, Paramount Pictures and Twentieth Century Fox Film, have also asked a California court to enter a $110 million judgment against the site and its operator, Gary Fung. Under the settlement, the site will shut down next Wednesday. The settlement is “a major step forward in realizing the enormous potential of the Internet as a platform for legitimate commerce and innovation,” Chris Dodd, chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America, said in a statement. “It also sends a strong message that those who build businesses around encouraging, enabling, and helping others to commit copyright infringement are themselves infringers, and will be held accountable for their illegal actions.”
If you installed the preview edition of Windows 8.1, then a game, . Do not upgrade to the final version of Windows 8.1 until you manually back up your saved games. When Microsoft released the for more.) Regardless, during the Windows 8.1 Preview-to-GA upgrade process, Microsoft warns that it will keep settings, documents, and user accounts—and implies that everything else is toast. We can confirm that, by and large, what Microsoft says is true.
An examination of the latest Google Glass firmware hints at what features may come to Google's high-tech specs.
The new version of Microsoft’s smartphone platform contains a variety of updates and new features—many of which will make Windows Phone smartphones better for business users. This isn’t a comparison against rival platforms. The barometer for “better” in this case is simply how it compares to the current or prior versions of the Windows Phone OS, and the value the new capabilities have from a business user perspective, not whether or not it’s “better” than Android or iOS. That said, for businesses or individuals weighing a decision for a new smartphone, these features could potentially sway you to choose Windows Phone. You can enable driving mode to block incoming calls or text messages while you’re behind the wheel. Driving mode will respond on your behalf to let the other party know that you’re busy driving, and deliver your missed calls and text messages once you turn driving mode off. This may seem counter-productive, but you should be focused on driving safely, not on business calls and certainly not texting anyone. It can wait. As a rule, smartphones don’t have a ton of storage capacity. Most have a mere 16GB or 32GB—some have an option to expand capacity via a microSD memory card. No matter how much storage your smartphone has, it never really seems to be enough.
VMware is hoping to persuade more enterprises to make the leap to virtual desktops by improving graphics capabilities and allowing them to circumvent Microsoft’s licensing terms. The company is hosting VMworld Europe in Barcelona this week, and desktop virtualization is one of the big themes at the event. Along with its plan to take over the whole data center, including storage and networks, VMware has accelerated its desktop push. This week, . But its bread and butter is still the Horizon View platform, which will soon be upgraded to version 5.3, Pat Lee, director of product management, said in a Running the most advanced 3D graphics applications has been the holy grail for desktop virtualization platforms and VMware is adding vDGA (virtual Dedicated Graphics Acceleration) to make that possible, according to Lee. The feature is based on VMware’s DirectPath I/O and Nvidia’s Grid technology, which together allow users to run their applications on a dedicated GPU.
BitTorrent is shedding its bad reputation and working hard to become a content distribution platform.
The city by the bay is getting ready for a disaster by launching a social initiative, SF72, with ties to Facebook, Twitter, and Airbnb.
Oracle has acquired Compendium in an effort to offer a more complete platform for online marketing. Oracle didn’t announce any financial details, but its acquisition of the Indianapolis-based company has closed, it said on Thursday. Oracle was attracted to Compendium’s data- driven approach to marketing, which lets companies plan, produce, publish and promote relevant content, and then analyze its performance. Enterprise buyers are increasingly self-educating themselves on products and services using a variety of channels and online sources before making a decision, and vendors have to adapt to keep up, according to Oracle.
According to reports, the curved Round is a limited run only for the Korean market.
Interested parties, including Apple, may comment on a proposal from Samsung to refrain from seeking injunctions for five years against any company that agrees to a licensing framework regarding mobile standard essential patents in Europe. Thursday that it would allow the market to “test” what are called “commitments” made by Samsung with the aim of avoiding sanctions over injunctions the South Korean company brought against Apple for using essential patents in several E.U. member states. Holders of standard essential patents are required to license them on fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory, or FRAND, terms. However, Samsung had sought to stop Apple from using particular patents, which the Commission decided was an abuse of Samsung’s dominant market position. As a result, Samsung dropped requests to ban Apple products in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands. The company has now offered to abstain from seeking injunctions for mobile standard essential patents for the five-year period when any company agrees to a particular licensing framework.
Your Moto X can come prestocked with your iPhone contacts if you use the Moto Maker website.
. If you don't know what's going on, these files can be confusing--and even scary. A file appears in your Documents folder without you intentionally creating it. Aside from the strange punctuation, the file name looks familiar. The icon and, if visible, the extension tell you that you can open the file in a common application. But when you double-click the file, or try to delete it, you get an error message. Then the file disappears as inexplicitly as it appears. Except for those occasions when it doesn't disappear at all.
Verizon Communications’ profit and sales rose in the third quarter of 2013, with the growth driven by higher mobile and broadband numbers. The company said on Thursday that it posted a 4.4 percent increase in revenue and a 30 percent increase in net income compared with 2012’s third quarter. Revenue came in at $30.3 billion for the quarter ended Sept. 30, and net income was $5.6 billion. Earnings per share grew 39.3 percent to $0.78. On a pro forma, adjusted basis, earnings per share were $0.77, up 20.3 percent year-on-year and topping analyst consensus estimates by 3 cents.
Hackers managed to steal a database containing customer credentials and contact information from PR Newswire, a major press release distribution service that’s used by tens of thousands of companies and public relations agencies. . including Dun and Bradstreet, LexisNexis and Kroll Background America. . “The database date appears to be from March 8, 2013 but it is unclear yet if the breach had happened at the same time or at a later date as the archive was created on April 22, 2013.”
, its chief security officer said Thursday. The social networking site has continued upgrading its security infrastructure, said Joe Sullivan[cq], who spoke to IDG News Service by phone from the Hack in the Box security conference in Kuala Lumpur. Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden’s disclosures “maybe made it a little bit easier to have that conversation publicly and show the effort that has been going on behind the scenes all along,” Sullivan said. that the NSA was collecting email and instant messaging address books as the lists are transmitted on the Internet from services including Facebook, Yahoo, Microsoft, and Google.
A close look at Apple's iMessage system shows the company could easily intercept communications on the service despite its assurances to the contrary, researchers claimed Thursday at a security conference.
Behind the scenes of House of Cards? It could happen.
A lot of people are particular about how they prepare their coffee, so it's a confident company that suggests to them they're doing it wrong. But Nuroast is sure there's a better way to get a great-tasting cup of coffee and demonstrated its prototype home roasting system at the Demo conference on Wednesday.
For all the improvements Microsoft has made in bolstering the Windows Store's app selection, one insistent question has held back the company's dreams of grandeur: "Yeah, but where's Facebook?" Indeed, the largest social network in the land has been a conspicuous no-show in Microsoft app market—until now. . After playing around with the app for a while, I can safely report that it's well, pretty much exactly what you'd expect; Zuckerberg didn't rewrite the rule book with this one. That said, the Windows 8.1 Facebook app is extremely functional, rocking a three-pane design with your settings, groups, and viewing options on the left, your main news feed front-and-center, and a list of your Friends and their chat availability on the right. The exact look varies slightly depending on the menu you're on, but the options pane remains consistent on the left side. Writing something new or uploading a picture coaxes a Charm-style pane to slide in from the right side of the screen, where you're free to spill your heart's innermost secrets.
Microsoft’s Windows 8.1, the “do-over” operating system that Microsoft hopes will win back its fan base, is finally here. to its two IT channels, TechNet and MSDN. There will be no automatic update: Microsoft representatives told PCWorld that consumers must manually visit the Windows Store and download Windows 8.1 themselves. dubs it “the great compromise,” Windows 8.1 is chock-full of user-friendly features, updates, and general improvements. We can recommend it unreservedly. (Update 5:23 AM PT: Windows 8.1 is available for download, as expected, and I've had no issues downloading the update via a home broadband connection. However, my Surface Pro running Windows 8.1 Preview has not been able to find the update via the Windows Store, even via the direct download link.)
Es wird grösser als das Pentagon und teurer als das World Trade Center. Der Stadtrat von Cupertino hat den Bau des neuen Apple-Hauptquartiers bewilligt.
Ab sofort steht das neue Microsoft-Betriebssystem Windows 8.1 zum Download bereit. Rechtzeitig zum Start liefert auch Facebook eine eigene App fürs Kachel-System.
Beiträge von Minderjährigen waren bis anhin nur begrenzt sichtbar. Jetzt kippt das Online-Netzwerk diese Begrenzung und lässt auch 13- bis 17-Jährige öffentlich Inhalte teilen.
Social-Media, Unterhaltungs- und Lifestyle-News: Der Blinkfeed verwandelt den Homescreen neuer HTC-Handys in einen Fluss aus Informationen. Neu ist auch 20 Minuten vertreten.
«Metal Gear Solid»-Erfinder Hideo Kojima will mit erotischen Gameheldinnen zum Cosplay inspirieren. Für «Metal Gear Solid 5» kündigte er per Twitter die Sniperheldin Quiet an.
Schweizer Ingenieure haben den berühmtesten Berg der Schweiz mit Drohnen abgeflogen. Vermessen wurde dafür eine Fläche so gross wie die Stadt Frauenfeld.
Simpel und genial: Zwei Entwickler verwandeln mit ihrer App und der löchrigen iPhone-5C-Hülle das Gerät in eine moderne Version des Spiels «Vier gewinnt».
Die Gerüchte um ein Amazon-Handy reissen nicht ab: Der weltweit grösste Online-Händler bastelt angeblich mit HTC an einem Gerät, das Apple und Google die Stirn bieten soll.
Mit der Mobilbonus-App sammelt man beim Zugfahren Kilometer, um Gutscheine abzugreifen. Mit Apps, die den GPS-Standort verändern, können Zugfahrten ganz einfach simuliert werden.
Google experimentiert gern mit neuer Hard- und Software. Wenn es um die interne Benutzung fremder Programme und Geräte geht, ist man restriktiver.
Apple hat für den 22. Oktober die Medien an einen Event geladen. Erwartet werden unter anderem neue iPads. 20 Minuten wird live für Sie vor Ort berichten.
Facebook will Werbung künftig zielgerichteter gestalten. Nutzer des sozialen Netzwerks sollen gleichzeitig mehr Kontrolle darüber erhalten, welche Anzeigen sie sehen.
Die über 400 durchgestylten Stores sind das Aushängeschild von Apple. Für die Führung des Bereichs holte sich das Unternehmen die Chefin der Modemarke Burberry, Angela Ahrendts.
Pro Jahr trägt der US-Geheimdienst NSA eine Viertelmilliarde Kontakte aus Adressbüchern zusammen. Das Archiv ist so umfangreich, dass die Speicher teils an ihre Grenzen stossen.