Looking at the latest leaked interface mockups of Nokia's rumored device, you can't even tell that it's not a Windows Phone.
Let the streaming begin! One of the first GM models equipped with OnStar 4G LTE, this luxury coupe promises connectivity speeds of up to 20Mbps in the city. Apps will load much faster, and passengers will be able to share a hotspot.
Chip makers like Qualcomm, Nvidia and Samsung Electronics are working on components that will increase processing power, add more memory and increase screen resolution of next-generation smartphones. The year has only started and 2014’s most exciting smartphones—including successors to Apple’s iPhone 5s, the HTC One and the Galaxy S4—still haven’t been announced, but upcoming processors, memory modules and screens hint at what can be expected. Here are some components that will help improve smartphone performance in 2014: The Snapdragon 800 processor dominated the high-end smartphone market last year, and powered products like the . There is very little to suggest that the successor, the Snapdragon 805 won’t be a popular option this year.
Facebook wants to be a global town square, too. So the network made conversations more easily searchable with trending topics.
BitTorrent has its fair share of pirates, but don’t believe the hype: plenty of artist-approved content also circulates on the file-sharing network.
It's probably aimed at the developing world, but everyone deserves a front facing camera, no matter where they live.
More than a year after early hints that , Google's digital personal assistant has finally hit Chrome's alpha build. For anyone that wants to try it out, Google Now is available as an option in the latest . Canary is Google’s experimental version of Chrome, chock full of cutting-edge features and more instability than the official version of the browser. To enable Google Now in Canary for Windows, make sure you're signed in to your Google account. Then, copy and paste . The setting you're looking for.
We reviewed the $1299 iMac when it was first available. We finally got our hands on the other three standard configurations of the new iMac.
You have to give spammers credit for effort: Symantec found a spam campaign that manages to abuse three Web services at the same time. It starts on Snapchat, where some users receive an unsolicited photo message asking the person to add a contact as a friend on Kik Messenger, an instant messaging application, Snapchat on Monday for spam problems, saying it was the consequence of a fast-growing service. It recommended that users only allowed their approved friends to send them photos rather than receive unsolicited ones. Narang wrote that if the spammy contact is added on Kik, a spam “bot,” or a program designed to automatically chat with contacts, would send some canned text and a link shortened by Bitly. The links lead to sites trying to sign up users for adult webcam entertainment.
Everyone, everywhere can listening to as many free tunes as they want with Spotify, if they do it through the web client.
You too need a password manager, and if you're not yet using one, you should. A good password manager makes it simple to securely store your most important information, and access it whenever and wherever you need it. An excellent password manager is both easy to use and secure, with smart cross-platform features that streamline your password usage without compromising your safety. . The new F-Secure Key's challenge is to do it better. F-Secure Key (free for basic version, $16/year for Premium) is a new password manager by security company F-Secure. The free PC edition of F-Secure Key—editions for Android, iPhone, and Mac exist as well—is a local one with no online synchronization. The interface is clean and simple, and creating new password entries is intuitive. Importing a database from another manager is also easy enough, providing you know how to export an XML file from your old manager. Similar to other password managers, F-Secure uses the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES-256) algorithm for its password encryption. With its icons and colors, F-Secure Key is much nicer to look at than most password managers. Each F-Secure Key entry can get one of several dozens of icons, as well as a color code. The password generator can help you with secure passwords of up to 32 characters, using any combination of letters, numbers and symbols. It is, however, limited when compared to other managers. The entire interface, complete with cute little icons and color codes, is visually pleasing, but unfortunately, there's no way to use these icons or colors to your advantage. Your password list is searchable by keyword, but you can't filter out a color or a certain icon. There are no password groups or categories, and no way to sort the list or otherwise filter certain types of passwords from the mass.
Back in the days when mechanical hard drives with spinning platters were the norm, you could simply hand your old hard drive to a deserving relative or friend as an upgrade, get a thank you, and call it a day. It’s not so simple with today’s solid-state drives. In many cases, used SSDs simply aren’t as fast as newer ones. The biggest issue in retasking, reselling, or even maintaining an SSD for a prolonged period stems from an inconvenient characteristic of NAND flash memory: Previously written cells must be erased before they can be rewritten with new data. If the SSD is forced to reuse cells rather than use new ones while storing data, performance will plummet. To avoid this problem with NAND flash memory, , including building in extra capacity that users can’t touch—a technique known as over-provisioning. There’s also a command called TRIM that tells an SSD when blocks of memory are no longer needed and can be consolidated and erased. Sounds good, right? But there’s a catch.
If technology is supposed to make our lives simpler, why do our lives seem more stressful than ever? One reason might be the endless digital drudgery that dominates our workdays—too much time spent on menial, manual tasks better left to the robots in our midst. But with a little help from our favorite task-automation service, , you can put mundane chores on autopilot and spend more time on the interesting stuff. IFTTT stands for. It’s a free service that lets you build simple, automated processes to handle various online situations. From performing automated Craigslist searches and sending you the relevant results to automatically emailing your colleagues when your plane lands in their area, IFTTT can make you instantly more productive with almost no effort on your part. IFTTT does its thing by connecting to a whole bunch of cloud-based services, ranging from Dropbox and Google Drive to iOS Reminders, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. You can link your cloud accounts to your IFTTT account and then watch for events that can trigger actions. The heart of IFTTT’s automation strategy is the —a fairly simple set of instructions that tells IFTTT to watch a channel (such as Gmail) for an event (like, say, a message containing a specific word in the subject line) and, when that condition is satisfied, to trigger a customized response (such as sending you a text message or formatting the contents of a qualifying email message into a document).
