Enhanced features will soon be available to developers using Google's APIs.
When the folks at Aomei contacted me about reviewing their Partition Assistant partition manager once again, I was less than enthusiastic. It was, and remains, a fine utility, but it’s a rare user that requires anything more than the old version or Windows’ own Disk Manager and Diskpart utility. Then a bit on the PR blurb caught my eye—creating Windows To Go drives (portable Windows) from any version of Windows 8. Formerly, this was only possible with the Enterprise version. Game on. Partition Assistant comes in two flavors—Standard (free) and Pro ($49). The standard version has everything the average user needs: partition splitting, copying, resizing, creation, deletion, formatting, property changes (e.g., active to inactive), and even secure wiping. There are also helpful wizards for copying, resizing, converting from NTFS to FAT32 and vice versa, plus migrating to a new hard drive or SSD. The program creates bootable Windows PE (Pre-install Environment) discs as well.
Now you can be annoyed by ads on Twitter in multiple languages. The social network Wednesday said that it would allow advertisers to Twitter already provides a host of tools to let advertisers target people by interest, keywords, gender, and geography. Language targeting constitutes a further expansion of the company’s advertising program globally, allowing Twitter to make more money from its vast user base in other parts of the world besides the U.S.
Older Samsung phones will have to wait a bit to get the latest enterprise security suite.
New app provides a continuous stream of videos, without the ads.
Google is adding more features to Chromebook applications so that they can be used without accessing the Web, addressing a common complaint among users who want the laptops to function more like traditional PCs. Although Web use remains a central feature of Chromebooks, Google recently added the ability to edit videos and watch full movies offline, for instance. A shorter update cycle means that the company can be more responsive to user demand. “The platform has evolved and keeps improving,” said Caesar Sengupta, vice president of product management for Chromebooks at Google. “It is an OS that updates every six weeks. It keeps getting better.”
A three-fold increase in Microsoft Windows computers infected with malicious software in late 2013 came from an application that was for some time classified as harmless by security companies. The finding comes as part of Microsoft’s latest biannual Security Intelligence Report (SIR), released on Wednesday, which studies security issues encountered by more than 800 million computers using its security tools. In the third quarter of 2013, an average of 5.8 Windows computers out of every 1,000 were infected with malware, said Tim Rains, director of Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing division, which tracks security trends targeting the company’s widely used products. That jumped to about 17 computers per 1,000 for the last quarter of the year.
While Microsoft's widely expected to reveal a long-rumored 8-inch Surface Mini at its Further details aren't specified. If the report is accurate, the Intel-based Surface(s) could be any number of things: A mere refresh of the Surface Pro 2, a new model entirely, or maybe even a "Pro" counterpart to the Surface Mini itself.
It happens to everyone: You go to a conference or a networking event and amass a pile of business cards. Everyone was so interesting, yet you can barely remember their faces, let alone the details of their work. And the business cards? If you’re honest with yourself, you know they’re going right in the trash can. It doesn’t have to be that way. Evernote has deepened its relationship with LinkedIn to turn those business cards into searchable notes. How it works: You tap the business card camera mode in Evernote’s
Samsung has made the second version of its Knox data and app security platform available worldwide, but only the new Galaxy S5 can take advantage of the improvements it offers for now. The popularity of Samsung’s smartphones has opened the door to the enterprise thanks to BYOD (bring-your-own-device) projects, but becoming enterprise-ready and earning the trust of IT departments is a long journey for the company. The Knox platform uses a security-enhanced version of Android, and creates an isolated “container” that separates work data and apps from personal data. Knox 2.0 is currently pre-installed on the Galaxy S5, and more devices will receive it via OS upgrades in the coming months, the company said without offering any details. To use Knox, IT departments first have to activate the functionality.
Smartphone display resolutions are going up, and up, and away, whether you like it or not.
An den diesjährigen Summer X-Games findet erstmals ein Turnier für Profi-Zocker statt. Die Organisatoren sind begeistert von ihrer Idee, Sportler weniger.
Das neueste Videospiel der «Halo»-Entwickler Bungie lässt sogar «GTA V» alt aussehen. Activision will sich den neuen Ego-Shooter eine halbe Milliarde Dollar kosten lassen.
Gameförderung spielt bei der Pro Helvetia eine wichtige, doch immer noch untergeordnete Rolle. Was tut die Pro Helvetia konkret für die Gameentwickler?
Der in Bangkok verhaftete Cyberkriminelle Mohamed G. hat Schweizer Kreditkartenbesitzern Millionen gestohlen. Ein IT-Sicherheitsexperte erklärt, wie man sich schützt.
In China wird das Netz von Pornografie gesäubert: Die Behörden schliessen erotische Websites und Online-Firmen suchen Porno-Aufspürer. Tausende bewerben sich um diese Jobs.
Totgesagte leben länger: In einem Versuch ist es gelungen, eine immense Datenmenge auf ein Magnetband zu speichern. An der Technologie könnte Facebook Interesse haben.
Hunderte nobler Häuser in sieben Königreichen: Bei «Game of Thrones» kann man schnell den Überblick verlieren. Abhilfe schafft eine Karte, die mithilfe von Google erstellt wurde.
Lego-Steine bis zum Abwinken: Nach «The Lego Movie» wartet nun mit «Lego: The Hobbit» eine weitere Ladung Klötzchen auf die Spieler.
Türme gegen feindliche Horden: Drei Ostschweizer wollen mit ihrem Strategie-Game das Genre revolutionieren. Knapp zwei Jahre dauerte die Entwicklung ihres ersten Spiels.
iPhone-Hersteller Apple hat den unter iOS 4 verbesserten Schutz von Nutzerdaten im Betriebssystem iOS 7 wieder entfernt, wie ein deutscher Sicherheitsexperte jetzt aufgedeckt hat.
Das erste Smartphone von Amazon will mit neuen Funktionen punkten: 3-D-Benutzeroberfläche, Infrarotkameras und eine Steuerung per Gesten. Im Herbst soll es auf den Markt kommen.
Der Kugel-Roboter Sphero 2.0 lässt sich über Bluetooth mit dem Smartphone fernsteuern. Der Ball kann weit mehr als nur herumrollen. 20 Minuten hat das intelligente Gadget getestet.
Keine Heizkörper, dafür viel nackte Haut und warme Farben: Ein US-Student hat eine Formel entwickelt, die die Beliebtheit von Fotos vorhersagt.
Attraktiv oder hässlich? Ein einfacher Versuch, der momentan auf der chinesischen Social-Media-Plattform Weibo für Furore sorgt, soll die äussere Erscheinung der Nutzer messen.