Most of the focus on home networking is on the speed of the broadband connection from the ISP. That’s obviously an important factor, but most home networks include a variety of other elements that all contribute to the overall experience. The equipment you choose could enhance an otherwise sluggish broadband connection, or end up being a bottleneck that throttles your blazing fast broadband to a crawl. Ensuring you have a strong connection and purchasing top-of-the-line equipment are two important steps to optimizing your setup, but they don’t take you all the way; NAS (network attached storage) is also an important element of an efficient and convenient home network. A system like one of
Denim tuxedos and turtlenecks, the New England Patriots, Fresh off of a 2014 where Microsoft's Bing predictive search technology picked (and pretty much nailed) the winners of the World Cup, the company has gone big for 2015. On Wednesday, Microsoft predicted the Grammy winners, which movies will win the Golden Globes, food and fashion trends, and which team will win the Super Bowl. Pollsters like Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight blog and Microsoft Bing have discovered that social signals as much as anything are useful predictors of outcomes, even those that theoretically could go either way.
Apparently, Google isn’t done updating Lollipop. Citing two unnamed but “trusted” sources, The report says the Android 5.1 update will come bundled with a RAM management feature, enhanced stability, and a fix for sudden app closures (which I’ve personally been experiencing with the Nexus 9 on an almost daily basis). There’s also a change log associated with this news. The full list of features bundled with the update is rumored to include:
The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has filed a lawsuit accusing Sprint of illegally billing mobile customers for tens of millions of dollars in unauthorized third-party charges. Sprint operated a billing system that allowed third parties to cram unauthorized charges on customers’ mobile bills and ignored complaints about the charges, the CFPB alleged in its complaint. The complaint from the CFPB, an agency established by Congress in 2010 to protect customers of the U.S. financial sector, mirrors complaints made by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, the Federal Trade Commission and 51 state-level governments against AT&T earlier this year. In October, AT&T
Don't get your hopes up for watching Netflix on an airplane anytime soon. Speaking to Edwards said offline viewing was just a “short term fix for a bigger problem” of faster, more widespread Wi-Fi access. He expects that in five years, most people won't even care about offline downloads. It's a lovely sentiment, but it also seems like wishful thinking. Currently, most in-flight Wi-Fi on U.S. airlines is too slow for streaming video and doesn't work on transatlantic flights. While some airlines are starting to switch to faster satellite connections that work over water, it's unclear whether these connections will be the norm by the end of the decade, or how they'll even hold up if every passenger starts using them to stream Netflix.
Is Big Data – the science of extracting useful business insights from large, disparate information stores – only for large companies with hefty IT staffs? Not at all. Chances are your business already collects significant amounts of data every day. It may be in spreadsheets, accounting programs, or word processing documents. Until fairly recently, mining that data required too much investment in software and highly skilled staffers for smaller businesses. But the price of analytical tools is lower than ever, and while trained staff is a must, you don’t have to hire a PhD-sporting data scientist to get started on a big data project. "The history of information systems and business is that the rich tend to get richer," Tom Davenport, a professor at Babson College and a pioneer in helping companies understand Big Data, said during
Google is on a tear adding new features to Google Drive. The company recently rolled out an improvement to how Gmail handles Drive attachments, as well as some nice feature updates to Drive for Android and iOS. Two years after Google added the ability to
Mozilla has been running a fundraiser from within its Firefox browser, a program that will run through the end of the year. When users launch Firefox they may see a PBS-style pitch for money on the browser’s start screen, which normally is a minimalist display of a search field and a few tool icons. “Dear Firefox users: Mozilla puts the public good and user privacy before profit,” the screen states. “If Firefox is useful to you, take one minute to support the non-profit behind it. If everyone reading this donates $3, Mozilla’s fundraiser would be over within an hour. Thank you.” After clicking through to the donation page, users see choices ranging from $3 to $20, and will be asked to enter their credit card or PayPal account information. Although Mozilla also accepts Bitcoin donations, those must be processed through another mechanism.
The best thing about Android is that there are lots of choices. The worst thing about Android is that You've got metal phones, plastic phones, cheap phones, phones with a higher resolution than your TV, and phones as big as your head. You don't need to know what every Android thing on the market does, you just need to know what the There were many worthy Android products this year, but a few stood out for their excellent design, fantastic value, incredible hardware, or superb software. These are the best Android-based products of the year.
You probably think of Dropbox as a great place to store your digital stuff. And it is. But now Dropbox is Dropbox is a great tool for storing your digital files in a central location – especially digital photos that may be scattered across devices and various Web services. But it hasn’t always been a great place for viewing those photos or sharing them in a visually compelling way. Now,
Ein Ingenieur will auf Google Maps ein riesiges Seemonster vor der Küste Neuseelands entdeckt haben. Oder ist es letztendlich doch nur ein Boot?
Rockstar Games hat Details und einen Trailer zum kommenden Online-Modus für bis zu vier Spieler veröffentlicht. Das Add-on soll Anfang 2015 erscheinen.
Erstmals seit zwei Jahren hat der Foto- und Video-Sharing-Dienst Instagram neue Filter eingeführt. Zudem erhält die Smartphone-App ein Facelifting.
Apple hat seine Marktstellung mit dem iPod nicht missbraucht. Ein US-Gericht hat eine entsprechende Sammelklage abgewiesen. Es ging um 350 Millionen Dollar Schadenersatz.
Die Vertriebsplattform Steam Greenlight wird das Ultra-Brutalo-Spiel «Hatred» nicht verkaufen. Die Entwickler wollen das Game trotzdem nächstes Jahr veröffentlichen.
Um seine Schüler zu motivieren, hat ein Lehrer in Wien ein neues Bewertungssystem eingeführt. Es orientiert sich an bekannten Computerspielen.
Ein kleines Gadget kann Mobiltelefone mit einer Batterie verbinden und so den Handy-Akku aufladen. Das Projekt konnte dank Kickstarter erfolgreich finanziert werden.
Das Rennspiel «The Crew» buhlt um die Gunst virtueller Raser - mit Amerika-Rennen von Küste zu Küste und einer eher missratenen Story.
Telefongespräche über Skype werden ab sofort in Echtzeit übersetzt. Microsoft will damit global Sprachbarrieren überwinden.
Google will ins E-Commerce-Geschäft einsteigen. Laut dem «Wall Street Journal» will der IT-Gigant einen Kaufen-Knopf für seine Suchergebnisse einführen.
Nächstes Jahr kommt die Cyberbrille Oculus Rift in den Handel. 20 Minuten hat das 3-D-Headset schon jetzt auf Herz und Nieren geprüft.
Samsung, Sony und Apple: Nach Geräten dieser Hersteller haben die Schweizer dieses Jahr am häufigsten im Internet gesucht.
Mit dem Tornado 348 bringt das britische Unternehmen Kazam sein erstes Smartphone auf den Schweizer Markt. Das Android-Gerät ähnelt dem iPhone 6, ist aber dünner.
Michael Schumachers Unfall, das iPhone 6, Ebola und Conchita Wurst waren 2014 vielgesucht. Der meistgesuchte Begriff lässt jedoch auf fussballbegeisterte Schweizer schliessen.