T-Mobile confirmed that customers had experienced problems with its network on Friday morning, but didn't go into detail. The Web site downdetector.com T-Mobile's Twitter feed was busy responding to customer complaints, mostly advising customers to reboot their phones to take advantage of the fix. Downdetector reported that about 75 percent of the complaints were due to customers being unable to place calls, with most of the others reporting problems with the network's mobile data service.
You don’t realize how much you rely on your iOS devices until something goes wrong. That’s why, when your iPhone or iPad is lost, stolen, or damaged, many people panic, wondering if they have access to the data they need. Is it in the cloud? Can you pull it off a damaged hard drive? Do your backups cover everything? When was the last time you backed it up? There are plenty of different ways to prepare for an iOS disaster, each with its own merits. Here are some of the most bankable backup methods – each applicable to Windows and OSX - to ensure the important data on your iPhone or iPad is always at the ready, even in the event of a catastrophe.
A novel form of database that focuses on connections between entities, called a graph database, is finding a home in the health care industry. “In health care, it turns out, there are quite a number of problems that involve understanding the connections between things,” said Philip Rathle, vice president of products at Neo Technologies, which sells support subscriptions to its open source Neo4j graph database. Diseases may have multiple symptoms. Doctors may belong to multiple heath care networks. There are also relationships between different types of organizations, such as insurance companies and hospitals. In the realm of bioinformatics, multiple connections exist among genes and proteins.
Since the Nokia Lumia 1520’s six-inch display has the Windows Phone phablet market seemingly locked up, a number of Microsoft’s new Asian partners are going small. Three of Microsoft’s newest partners—BLU, Prestigio, and YEZZ—announced new Windows Phones at the Computex show in Taiwan, with several 4-inch phones leading the way. YEZZ even named its phone “Billy” after founder Bill Gates, according to Microsoft. In the United States, Microsoft’s own Nokia brand dominates the Windows Phone landscape, ceding just a small fraction of the market to HTC and Samsung. But the company’s market share is expected to be just
If you’re looking for a quick-and-dirty way to take notes on your PC, you can’t beat using your browser. No, I’m not talking about online tools like Google Keep, Word Online, or any other text-editing Web app. An easier way to turn your browser into a note-taking machine is to use a little snippet of HTML code that creates an offline notepad in your browser. Coding, you might ask with a shiver? Don’t worry, it’s beyond simple to use. This notepad trick works because of HTML’s “contenteditable” attribute that can turn any part of a web page into an interactive area for editing text. You can use it in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Opera.
After months of Unlike the Xbox 360 wireless controller, which required a separate dongle for PC use, all you need to use the Xbox One controller on PC is a standard Micro-USB cable. The wired connection provides the power, so you don’t even need batteries. Unfortunately, you can’t use the Xbox One controller wirelessly on a PC at this time.
EU justice ministers on Friday reached a partial agreement on planned new data privacy laws, but they still disagree about how to implement them. Ministers agreed on the rules that govern international data transfers and on the territorial scope of the data protection regulation. In short, EU data protection laws will apply to non-European companies if they do business in the EU. The existing laws weren’t clear on this point. The proposal for a Data Protection Regulation to update the old 1995 privacy directive was first put forward by EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding. She said on Friday that she was pleased the council of justice ministers had managed to make some headway.”It’s in the interest of companies to have legal certainty rather than having to spend money on costly lawsuits only to arrive at the same result at the end. Following today’s agreements, the data protection reform is on the right track,” she said in a speech.
Canon has quietly launched a new online photo storage and sharing service that is free for anyone to use worldwide. Called Irista, the new photo service offers a free option that includes 10GB of cloud storage with no limits on the number or size of your file uploads. Irista also offers paid options for extra storage, but currently that option is available only in Europe. Canon began developing Irista in 2012 under the name “Project1709.” Irista is very bare bones compared to other services such as Dropbox, Flickr, or OneDrive. It is also exclusively a photo storage site with no options to save other types of files. As far as photos go, Irista will only accept JPEG and RAW filetypes, and it will only take RAW if it is in Canon, Nikon, Olympus, Sony, Panasonic, or Samsung formats.
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Malicious advertisements on domains belonging to Disney, Facebook, The finding comes shortly after technology companies and U.S. law enforcement banded together in a large operation to Cisco’s investigation unraveled a technically complex and highly effective way for infecting large number of computers with ransomware, which it
The National Science Foundation has banned a researcher for using supercomputer resources to generate Bitcoin. In the Mining is a process to generate the digital currency that involves complex calculations. Bitcoin can be converted to traditional currencies, and 1 Bitcoin was worth roughly $654 on Friday, according to indexes on CoinDesk.
Verizon has threatened to sue Netflix after the video streaming company started displaying error messages that blamed Verizon for low-quality video streams. In a letter Thursday to Netflix’s General Counsel David Hyman, Randal S. Milch, Verizon’s general counsel referred to reports that Netflix was displaying The letted asserts that there is no basis for Netflix to assert that issues relating to playback of any particular video session are attributable solely to Verizon. Traffic on the Internet can be affected by other factors such as Netflix’s choices on how to connect to its consumers and deliver content, interconnection between multiple networks, and consumer-end issues such as home wiring, Wi-Fi and device configuration, Verizon added.
PC convertibles are not new, but Toshiba is releasing one that can change into seven different forms, thanks to its attachable keyboard and a 360-degree hinge. We had a chance to try out the Dynabook Kira L93 at this week’s Computex show in Taipei, and found it to be a cool concept, but unwieldy to use. It’s a high-end laptop, and will retail for about ¥220,000 (US$2150) when it goes on sale in Japan this month, according to information from two retailers. For that price, a consumer will get a device that feels and looks sleek in its sturdy metal casing. But the major selling point is
Flickr is one of Yahoo’s most popular services and since former Googler Marissa Mayer became CEO, Yahoo has been looking to capitalize on the photo-sharing site’s popularity. Last year, Yahoo tried to attract more users by offering “Starting this month, we will be requesting that everyone use a Yahoo username and password to sign in to Flickr,” Markus Spiering, Flickr’s head of product, said on the
Though it shoots for the mid-range of the smartphone market, the Kyocera Hydro Vibe boasts some premium elements to it—it’s waterproof and shoots 1080p video. But it also falls short where phones in its class can't afford to. The Kyocera Hydro Vibe is a bit smaller than rival phones, about the size of the
In the old days, getting your PC game on away from your desktop was easier said than done, limited to laptops that were portable in name only: thick, hulking behemoths stuffed with discrete graphics processors and large cooling components to match. Sure, you might coax World of WarCraft or some indie titles into running on CPU-integrated graphics, but most modern 3D games? Fuhgeddaboutit. That was then. This is now, and now, the
Live from San Francisco, we discuss Apple's announcements at its annual Worldwide Developer Conference, including Extensions, Continuity, OS X interface changes, and photo backup. With guests Myke Hurley and Stephen Hackett.
Jetzt nutzt auch der US-Geheimdienst den Kurznachrichtendienst Twitter. Zumindest erstmals offiziell.
Das 3-D-Projekt des Konzerns nimmt Fahrt auf. Google hat ein Tablet präsentiert, das seine Umgebung räumlich wahrnimmt. Wie das?
Motiv wünschen und dann zahlen: Dieses Riesenposter ist entstanden, nachdem Benjamin Redford via Kickstarter einen Aufruf startete.
konnte einen Prototyp des Surface Pro 3 kurz ausprobieren. Besonders auffällig ist das neue Format.
Kleines Budget, grosser Konkurrenzkampf: Laut einer Studie haben hiesige Anbieter gegen die grossen internationalen Händler auf dem heimischen Markt keine Chance.
Bei der Verbreitung der Spiele der Fussballweltmeisterschaft in die Schweizer Haushalte kommt es je nach Anbieter zu grossen Verzögerungen. Jetzt wurde nachgemessen.
Eine Uhr oder einen neuen Laptop hat der Konzern gestern nicht präsentiert. Dafür macht er mit neuer Software Jagd auf Google, Samsung und Co.
An seiner jährlichen Entwicklerkonferenz präsentiert der Konzern traditionell neue Soft- und Hardware. Die grosse Überraschung war heuer nicht dabei.
Tipps der Kummerbox beim Verbinden des Computers mit dem TV und bei Sortierfragen in Excel.
Wie lange gibt es noch UKW? Die Radio- und die Automobilbranchen warten auf ein klares Wort der Behörden. Erst dann wird sich das Digitalradio DAB durchsetzen – wenn es nicht das Internetradio tut.
Die grösste Lücke in der DAB-Versorgung soll rasch geschlossen werden, bis dann springt UKW in die Bresche.
Hackerangriffe und NSA-Affäre: Zürcher Forscher planen ein sicheres Internet unter regionaler Kontrolle. Dabei kooperieren sie mit Kollegen aus den USA und Fernost.
Youtube-Erfolg für den südkoreanische Popstar Psy: Kein anderes Video wurde auch nur annähernd so oft angeklickt wie sein «Gangnam Style».
Die DVD-Verkäufe brechen ein: Filme sieht man sich in Zukunft übers Internet an. Das ist gut für die Umwelt – aber nur vielleicht.
Das Google-Formular zur Löschung von Suchergebnissen ist online. Eine Gebrauchsanweisung.
Sünden aus seiner Studienzeit verfolgen den Chef der erfolgreichen App Snapchat. Dieser entschuldigte sich für die damaligen «idiotischen Mails».
Google hat das Formular ins Netz gestellt, mit dem Europäer die Löschung von Suchergebnissen beantragen können. Auch die Schweiz ist auf der Liste.
Das Schweizer Geschicklichkeitsspiel «Snail Crusher» – und fünf weitere Titel, die man nur mit guter Balance seines Geräts meistert.
Der Videotelefoniedienst von Microsoft kommt mit einem Übersetzer. Was der spontane Test auf der Bühne zeigte.
Der andere südkoreanische Technologiekonzern hat sein neustes Smartphone präsentiert. Es kommt schlicht daher.