Die App Power Sleep nutzt in der Nacht die nicht benötigte Rechenpower von Smartphones für Gutes: Die leistungsfähigen Geräte sollen so einen Teil zur Krebsforschung beitragen.
22,5 Grad - in diesem Winkel steht ein Mauszeiger im Betriebssystem Windows. Doch wieso ist er eigentlich nicht gerade? Der Grund ist heute kaum noch nachvollziehbar.
Die Razzia bei dem wegen Copyright-Verletzungen angeklagten Internetunternehmer Kim Dotcom in Neuseeland war doch legal. Zu diesem Schluss kommt ein Gericht in Wellington.
Nicht ungefragt filmen, nicht zu lange ins Display starren: Google sagt, wie man sich in der Öffentlichkeit nicht unbeliebt macht, wenn man eine Datenbrille auf der Nase trägt.
Früher als erwartet hat Sony mit der Playstation 4 die Marke von fünf Millionen verkauften Geräten geknackt. Diese Woche kommt die Next-Gen-Konsole in Japan auf den Markt.
Statistiker als Liebesorakel: Facebook-Wissenschaftler behaupten, dass sie schon 100 Tage im Voraus wissen, wer sich ineinander verlieben wird. Dafür wurden 18 Millionen Posts analysiert.
Facebook und der SMS-Dienst WhatsApp haben sich auf eine Übernahme verständigt. Der Kauf solle mit vier Mrd. Dollar in bar und Facebook-Aktien im Wert von zwölf Mrd. Dollar bezahlt werden.
Grosses Geld mit kleinen Apps: Das Smartphone-Spiel «Candy Crush» hat rund 93 Millionen Nutzer - pro Tag. Jetzt wollen die irischen Entwickler den Schritt an die Börse wagen.
Eine Zürcher Immobilienfirma bietet virtuelle Rundgänge für Gutbetuchte durch Luxusvillen an. Alle anderen können mit dem neuen Angebot ihren Voyeurismus ausleben.
Gemäss einer Umfrage legen Frauen bei ihrem Smartphone Wert auf Display-Grösse, Design und gute Multimedia-Funktionalität. Tablets erachten sie als unnötige Geräte.
Klick und weg: Mit Pipe kann man Dateien von bis zu 1 Gigabyte über Facebook versenden. Das Start-up, das die neue App entwickelt hat, bediente sich bei Technik von Google.
Suchmaschinenriese Google hat die Firma Slicklogin gekauft. Das israelische Start-up hat ein Verfahren entwickelt, das Passwörter mit Hilfe von Ultraschall sicherer machen will.
Die Orientierungshilfe aus dem Hause Google kann mit zwei simplen Tricks auch offline verwendet werden. Im Gegensatz zu Screenshots kann man in die Kartenausschnitte hineinzoomen.
Bei den Winterspielen in Sotschi bandeln Olympioniken über die Dating-App Tinder mit anderen Sportlern an. Die Tinder-Welle ist auch in der Schweiz angekommen.
The number of mobile apps infected with malware in Google’s Play store nearly quadrupled between 2011 and 2013, a security group has reported. In 2011, there were approximately 11,000 apps in Google’s mobile marketplace that contained malicious software capable of stealing people’s data and committing fraud, according to the results of a study published Wednesday by RiskIQ, an online security services company. By 2013, more than 42,000 apps in Google’s store contained spyware and information-stealing Trojan programs, researchers said. Apps designed to personalize people’s Android-based phones were most susceptible, as well as entertainment and gaming apps. Some of the most malicious apps in the Google Play store downloaded since 2011 were Wallpaper Dragon Ball, a wallpaper app, and the games Finger Hockey and Subway Surfers Free Tips.
This year, the company is changing the registration process by approving individual applications.
For decades, Intel chips would be unboxed and put straight into computers. But the chip maker is now trying to tie software closer to hardware before it starts producing chips, said CEO Brian Krzanich on Wednesday. "For companies like Intel that are for the most part hardware companies, we tend to use software as a driver for hardware, and we tend to think of software as helping drive [the] need for hardware,” Krzanich said in a In driving his point home, Krzanich invoked former Intel CEO Andy Grove. Grove said that software and hardware were complementary, and “drove each other,” Krzanich wrote.
Normally, phones and tablets suffocate in large crowds, as their close proximity causes their data streams to become lost. A new startup, called Artemis, promises to eliminate that problem by actually using wireless interference to its advantage. The founder, Steve Perlman, is relatively infamous in Silicon Valley circles: he launched WebTV and later OnLive, the cloud-gaming startup that turned inside-out when
Though video production software isn’t generally thought of as a business tool, in today’s video-centric advertising, training, and general communications environment, it should be. Apparently, as evidenced by the release of their simple-to-use, but effective Reveal 11 Business automated video production software, Muvee Technologies feels that way as well. With Reveal, basically all you do is provide the pictures, video, and text; arrange their sequence; pick a style template; and let the program process it into a complete production. Beyond that—butter. The number of style templates, which contain the background music, FX and transitions melded into a “look and feel” are what differentiate the regular $80 version of Reveal 11 and the $500 Business SKU. The regular version has only a few styles, while the business version has over 40, plus 2000 musical renditions that you may use royalty-free. Functionally, both versions are identical.
Faster and more flexible mobile networks enabled by small cells, virtualization and next-generation LTE are expected to highlight infrastructure trends at Mobile World Congress next week. New smartphones will get more attention, but mobile infrastructure announcements will have as big an impact on telecommunications, with direct and indirect repercussions for consumers and enterprises. Two technologies that fall in the former group are LTE-Advanced and small cells. LTE-Advanced consists of a number of different technologies designed to help improve performance, and the most important of these is carrier aggregation. It allows networks to devote more resources to some users by treating two or more channels in the same or different frequency bands as if they were one.
Microsoft published 147 vulnerabilities in 2013 that were rated as Critical. Critical, however, is a relative term, and there is one simple thing anyone can do that would guard against almost every single Critical vulnerability according to a In its
BitTorrent isn’t exactly known for its apps, but the company is beefing up its smartphone presence for on-the-go, peer-to-peer file-sharing. A
The end-of-life writing is on the wall for Intel’s high-end Itanium chip, with the launch this week of the high-performance usurper, the chip maker’s 15-core Xeon E7 v2 chip. Intel’s Itanium is found mostly in Hewlett-Packard servers running the HP-UX, OpenVMS or Linux operating systems. But the Xeon E7 v2 chip, which is based on the x86 instruction set architecture, is slowly encroaching on the market occupied by Itanium, with Intel positioning it as a high-performance alternative that can run Windows and Linux. With the E7 v2, Itanium is a step closer to meeting its eventual end, analysts said. The new Xeon E7 v2 chips have the throughput and performance to run in-memory applications, and also RAS (reliability, availability and serviceability) features, which were originally introduced in Itanium.
Chinese phone makers BQ and Meizu will make the first handsets
Your light switches and thermostats are safe, for now.
ISPs like Verizon want Netflix to pay for the massive amount of video traffic flowing across its networks. But Netflix is reluctant to do so.
For all the talk about Windows Phone's "app gap" and that big But the dark days are coming to an end. Leaked screenshots long ago revealed that an "Action Center" is indeed finally coming in the impending Windows Phone 8.1 update—you know, the update Microsoft's kept mum about, but
You're an Explorer now, son. You have new responsibilities, and it's time to take them seriously.
Opera's data compression app for Android is now available to anyone in the U.S. that wants to try it, but you may have to wait to start using it.
Laptops come in so many flavors: There are thin-and-lights, convertibles, desktop replacements, 2-in-1s, gaming rigs, and even portable workstations. But all laptops can be lumped into one of two buckets: Consumer or business. I'll show you what makes them different, and help you decide which is right for your needs. Laptop manufacturers make it easy to tell which machines are built for business use and which are more suited for consumers by putting different labels on them: Lenovo sells IdeaPads to consumers and ThinkPads to businesses. Dell’s XPS and Inspiron models are aimed at consumers, while its Latitude lineup is targeted at businesses.