The smartpen maker came to Macworld/iWorld to show off its Livescribe 3 smartpen and tout the third-party apps that now work with the smartpen.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s first public appearance on Thursday was a hit with analysts, who gave him a thumbs up for his time on stage as the company unveiled Office for iPad. “He was very confident, obviously a whole different character than Ballmer. Much calmer,” said Carolina Milanesi, strategic insight director of Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, in an interview Thursday. “Both he and Julie White [a general manager for the Office technical marketing team] spoke very quickly, as if they had a sense of urgency, which they should have.” Milanesi praised Nadella, saying he “did a great job” in his opening remarks as he expounded on his “mobile first, cloud first” strategy. “For the first time I actually see a strategy,” Milanesi added.
If you can’t beat em, bait em. That seems to be the strategy Yahoo is considering in its attempt to take on YouTube, according to Citing “several sources close to the situation,” Recode reports that Yahoo may be looking to luring some of YouTube’s biggest names to a service of its own with promises of higher ad revenue.
Branding consulting firm CoreBrand released its yearly rankings of the That’s right: Apple is the 10th most powerful brand according to CoreBrand’s analysis, which it the most powerful tech brand. But it’s hardly the only tech company to hold down a spot in the top 100, as
Standing desks are growing in popularity, and the WorkFit lets you switch between standing or sitting.
The never-ending legal battle between Apple and Samsung enters a new phase Monday when lawyers begin selecting a jury for a new trial that will address new complaints against a different set of phones. But it could be more than simply a repeat of the previous two trials in California, and one expert noted that Apple’s victories to date don’t guarantee it another win this time around. Lawyers for Apple and Samsung will each get 25 hours to argue their case, taking the trial through most of April. Much time will likely be spent dissecting the ins and outs of smartphone operating systems, but the root of the case is the wider tussle between Apple and Samsung for share of the multibillion-dollar smartphone market.
Intel is making improvements to its smallest computer, called Edison, which is targeted at wearable devices and was introduced in January. Intel’s original Edison computer—which is the size of an SD card—had limited capabilities, which made it useful for a few wearable devices. The upgrade will make Edison usable in wearables with more sensors and wireless connectivity, said Mike Bell, vice president and general manager of the New Devices Group at Intel. “We decided to make Edison slightly better,” Bell said. “People came out of the woodwork to talk to us about what they can do with it.” Edison is intended for use in small, flexible electronics that can be worn around the body. While smartwatches, fitness trackers and health monitors are grabbing the most attention, Intel hopes Edison will be used as a launching pad to experiment with new wearable product designs. Intel is developing prototype devices wearable on the head, wrist and ankle, and earlier this week bought fitness tracker company Basis Science.
Microsoft will no longer go through email messages and other personal data that users of its online services have stored on its servers, a decision taken after being sharply criticized for accessing a person’s inbox as part of an internal investigation. “Effective immediately, if we receive information indicating that someone is using our services to traffic in stolen intellectual or physical property from Microsoft, we will not inspect a customer’s private content ourselves,”
The latest firmware in some Philips smart TV models opens an insecure Miracast wireless network, allowing potential attackers located in the signal range to control the TV remotely and perform unauthorized actions. Researchers from Malta-based vulnerability research firm ReVuln recently published a
BlackBerry continued to struggle during the company’s fiscal fourth quarter, experiencing a huge drop in revenue and a $423 million net loss. Revenue for the fourth quarter of BlackBerry’s fiscal 2014, which ended March 1, was approximately US$976 million, down 64 percent from $2.7 billion in the same quarter in 2013. The company’s $423 million net loss for the period compares to a $98 million profit for the year-earlier period. BlackBerry’s main problem continues to be that it doesn’t sell enough phones. The company sold approximately 3.4 million BlackBerry smartphones to end users last quarter, including about 1.1 million phones running the BlackBerry 10 OS. A year earlier, the company said it sold 6 million smartphones.
Attorneys say they’re making progress toward a possible settlement in Silicon Valley’s employee poaching case, in which Google, Apple and other companies are accused of conspiring not to hire employees from other tech giants. During a hearing on Thursday in a San Jose court, attorneys on both sides said they were working daily with a mediator to resolve the dispute, which involves alleged secret agreements among the firms not to poach each other’s workers. Those agreements would violate federal antitrust laws. “From our perspective, we don’t need any rulings,” said Robert Van Nest, an attorney for Google, during a case management discussion with Judge Lucy Koh of the U.S. District Court for Northern California. Discussions were ongoing with a mediator to possibly settle the claims, he said.
I’ve demonstrated the Windows Phone’s predictive, heuristic text entry and voice recognition prowess to nearly everyone who’s ever pulled up a barstool next to me, yet they still bang away at their iPhones and Android devices as if they’d never noticed. Go figure. Maybe Translator with Speech will get their attention. Not only does this app do a bang-up job of translating both text and speech input into other languages, it speaks the translations. So who cares if your translator speaks? Say you’re on business overseas and having a hard time being understood through your thick American accent. With Translator with Speech, you just type or speak the phrase you want to translate into the phone, turn on the speaker, and let the phone say it for you. Okay, it’s a bit geeky, but it works, dagnabbit. I tried this with both the Taiwanese couple who own the local coffee shop and my Spanish-speaking god-family. I possess smatterings of both languages (Mandarin, not Cantonese). All were in agreement—the phone was one heck of a lot easier on their ears than my ham-tongued linguistic efforts. I offered to make the phone their godfather.
Microsoft hasn't issued so much as a mutter about the next-gen Kinect for Windows since first announcing the device last May, but nearly a year later, the company's revealed the design of what's essentially the PC port of the Xbox One's powered-up Kinect. And, well, it looks a lot like the Xbox version, as you can see above. There are some minor differences. The PC version says "Kinect" on the top, while the glowing Xbox logo on the front of the console version has been replaced by a simpler, non-branded power indicator. The blog post also revealed the additional components needed to run Kinect for Windows: A power supply (duh) along with a power brick-like hub that accepts connections from the sensor and the power supply as well as a USB 3.0 connection for the PC itself.
Naysayers who expected It's no surprise: Demand for the touch-friendly suite has been building for years, and as senior editor Mark Hachman explained in
While NAS specialists such as QNAP and Synology pile on extras that cater to the myriad needs of small business and home users, Seagate focuses on smaller feature sets suited to workgroups, larger businesses, and users who want only simple network-shared storage. Its lean and mean Business Storage Windows Server—which runs Microsoft’s Windows Storage Server 2012 Workgroup—is a case in point. You don’t set up this box as you would a NAS box that runs on Linux, by connecting the device to your network, typing a predefined IP address into your web browser, and having at it. You must first attach a keyboard and VGA display, and then define a password using its local interface. Once that’s completed, you can remove the keyboard and display, connect it to your network, and administer the box via Remote Desktop from another Windows PC on your LAN.
Office comes to iPad, but does it matter? Also, the future of wearables and projectables, and Facebook buys a nice pair of VR glasses.
Wie jeden Frühling werden die Uhren in der Nacht auf den letzten Sonntag im März um eine Stunde vorgestellt. Eine neue Studie deutet darauf hin, dass die Zahl der Herzinfarkte am Montag nach der Umstellung zunimmt.
Die Besatzung des Sojus-Raumschiffs erreicht mit Verspätung ihr Ziel, die Internationale Raumstation. Aus der geplanten «Schnellreise» wurde unerwartet ein zweitägiger Trip.
Wegen einer Panne musste ein Raumschiff viel länger als geplant um die Erde kreisen. In der Nacht auf Freitag soll es nun an der Station ISS andocken, sagt Experte René Pischel.
Der Historiker Wladyslaw Bartoszewski über sein Verhältnis zur Schweiz, zu Auschwitz und zur Bergier-Kommission.
Der westafrikanische Staat Guinea leidet unter einer der heftigsten Ebola-Epidemien der letzten Jahre. Weil das Virus erst spät nachgewiesen wurde, haben sich mehr Menschen angesteckt.
Das Raumschiff hätte um 5.04 MESZ an der ISS andocken sollen, verfehlte allerdings das Ziel. Nun müssen die Astronauten 34 «Strafrunden» um die Erde drehen. Pikant: An Bord ist auch ein Amerikaner.
Die Eisbedeckung im September liefert Hinweise, wie kalt und niederschlagsreich der Winter in Europa sein wird. Wie ist das möglich?
Nach monatelanger Vorbereitung versuchten 1944 76 Luftwaffenoffiziere, durch einen Tunnel aus einem deutschen Gefangenenlager zu entkommen. Nur drei schafften die Flucht.
Rund jedes fünfzigste Kind wurde im Jahr 2012 im Reagenzglas gezeugt. In fast der Hälfte der Fälle war ausschliesslich die Unfruchtbarkeit des Mannes ausschlaggebend.
QR-Code: Wie ein Instrument der industriellen Logistik in unseren Alltag fand.
Die Luftverschmutzung sei das grösste Umweltrisiko für die Gesundheit. Zu diesem Schluss kommt eine Studie der WHO. Schlechte Luft löse nicht nur Atemwegserkrankungen aus, sondern führe auch zu Krebs.
Sehr, sehr kleine Diamanten könnten schon bald eine grosse Rolle spielen. Daran tüfteln nun Forscher - mit Laserstrahlen und Spinat.
Die menschgemachte Erderwärmung setzt sich fort, sagen die Klimaexperten der UNO. Damit steige auch die Zahl der Wetterextreme.
Bevor mit den Menschen neue Säugetiere nach Neuseeland kamen, mussten sich die einheimischen Vögel nicht vor Räubern mit gutem Geruchssinn verstecken. Deshalb verströmen viele einen strengen Duft.
Der Schweizer Supercomputer Piz Daint wird heute für die Nutzer freigegeben. Was kann er? Und wo steht er im Vergleich mit anderen Hochleistungsrechnern auf der Welt?
Kaum einer kennt Wrack-Bergungen im Meer so gut wie der Südafrikaner Nick Sloane. Im Gespräch sagt er, welche Probleme sich den MH370-Suchtrupps stellen – und wie er bei der Costa Concordia vorging.