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SAP updates line-of-business cloud apps
Selling SaaS (software as a service) applications aimed at specific lines of business is one way that SAP has tried to stake a claim in the world of cloud computing and during the Sapphire conference it unveiled a broad series of updates to the portfolio. For marketing purposes, SAP has oriented the line-of-business...
pcworld.com (9 days ago)
Russia signs international privacy pact
Russia on Wednesday took a step toward protecting private data by ratifying the so-called Convention 108, established in 1981 and legally binding in 45 countries. The convention was set up to safeguard the privacy of private citizens. It comprises rules ensuring that data is processed fairly and through procedures...
pcworld.com (9 days ago)
Google says it has 900 million Android activations
Google's Android OS has more than 900 million users, the company said Wednesday at its I/O event began in San Francisco. Google also announced several APIs that will let developers add more capabilities to their Android apps, including in the areas of location and improving battery life. "It's been an amazing year...
pcworld.com (9 days ago)
Epson brings hands-free YouTube to smart glasses
Epson America is bringing hands-free interaction with YouTube to its smart glasses, which could set the stage for improved usability of applications like augmented reality. Users wearing Epson's Moverio BT-100 smart glasses will be able to play, pause, rewind, fast forward or select a video by tilting or turning...
pcworld.com (9 days ago)
Tech Tip: Advanced Google search functions
Searching Google is a quick way to find information, but more advanced functions can help users find more helpful information faster. To see a video version of this Tech Tip, watch a video on YouTube. Travel is one category where Google is very useful. Type in a flight number such as "United 1111" and Google will...
pcworld.com (9 days ago)
Google launches multiplayer Android gaming API
Google has introduced new APIs to help developers build better games for its Android OS. The announcements were made at the start of Google I/O, which kicked off in San Francisco Wednesday. The APIs (application programming interfaces) include Cloud Save, which will save information about how far a player has...
pcworld.com (9 days ago)
Specter of ACTA hangs over TTIP negotiations
Intellectual property (IP) should be left out of current trade negotiations with the U.S. and a deal should not be reached in secret, European civil liberties representatives advised the European Commission's trade department Wednesday. The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP, formerly known as...
pcworld.com (9 days ago)
Testing firm: Internet Explorer tops browsers for malware protection
Mirror, mirror on the wall, what browser blocks malware best of all? The answer to that question is Microsoft Internet Explorer 10, at least according to the latest test results released by NSS Labs. In tests performed on the five top browsers on the market-IE 10, Google Chrome 25/26, Apple Safari 5, Mozilla Firefox...
pcworld.com (9 days ago)
Review: SafeWallet makes password storage pretty easy
I love password managers. When they work well, they make browsing the Web easier, faster, and more secure. And SafeWallet does, indeed, work well. It's not perfect, but SafeWallet has become my new favorite password manager.
pcworld.com (9 days ago)
Researchers uncover large cyberfraud operation targeting Australian bank customers
Security researchers from Russian cybercrime investigations firm Group-IB have uncovered a cyberfraud operation that uses specialized financial malware to target the customers of several major Australian banks. Over 150,000 computers, most of them belonging to Australian users, have been infected with this malware...
pcworld.com (9 days ago)
AMD launches the Radeon 8790M, its new(ish) notebook graphics flagship
Attention mobile graphics fiends: AMD says its claiming the crown for the “world’s fastest notebook graphics card” with its newly unveiled Radeon HD 8970M. The new GPU is targeted at desktop replacement gaming laptops, and it will be first found in the MSI GX70 gaming laptop, which starts at $1,100. The Radeon HD...
pcworld.com (9 days ago)
5 free remote desktop apps for Windows 8
You're away from the office when you get that sinking feeling. Maybe that file you need is locked on your desk PC in London while you're visiting Shanghai. You don't need to sweat, thankfully. Remote desktop apps let you log on to your PC or tablet and access a faraway computer as if you were there in person. Here...
pcworld.com (9 days ago)
SAP unveils 'consumer-friendly' Fiori app suite
SAP's software is known for its role running many of the world's largest companies, but not necessarily for its user-friendliness. As part of an ongoing effort to change this perception, SAP unveiled Fiori, a set of 25 lightweight "consumer-friendly" applications that can run on desktops, tablets and mobile devices,...
pcworld.com (9 days ago)
Syria disappears from the Internet again
Internet traffic to and from Syria, a country engulfed by civil war, again came to a halt on Wednesday, according to Internet monitoring company Renesys. “Syrian Internet down again since 07:01 UTC (10:00 Damascus time), Wednesday, 15 May 2013,” said Renesys in a blog post. The Google traffic report graph that...
pcworld.com (9 days ago)
Dell slashes the price of its Windows RT tablet to $300
Dell, following in the footsteps of many other PC retailers, just slashed the price of its only Windows RT tablet to a jaw-droppingly low $300. For a limited time-though we'll see if that holds true-you can snag the 32GB Dell XPS 10 for a full $150 cheaper than its original $450 asking price. If you’re willing to...
pcworld.com (9 days ago)
Lenovo and Apple grew as bottom fell out of PC market in Western Europe
PC shipments in Western Europe declined by 20.5 percent during the first quarter: The only vendors to see shipments grow were Lenovo and Apple, which returned to the top five. Shipments during the quarter dropped to 12.3 million, compared to 15.5 million units in the first quarter of 2012, according to market...
pcworld.com (9 days ago)
Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde to run for EU parliament
Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde is planning to run for the European Parliament in 2014. The Pirate Bay co-founder wants to run as a candidate for the Finnish Pirate Party, he said in a blog post on Tuesday announcing his candidacy to the European Union's directly-elected legislative body. "I am doing what I can to...
pcworld.com (9 days ago)
Ultimate tech tools for the household CTO
Cozi helps you juggle calendars.Running a household smoothly is like heading up a small business-even more so if you manage a home office on top of it all. You need to be detail-oriented, organized, and well equipped. Luckily, even if you lack those first two traits, the proper tools can go a long way toward filling...
pcworld.com (9 days ago)
In e-book case, Apple says publishers had already taken measures to counter Amazon
Concerned about Amazon.com's low pricing of e-books, publishers had taken measures as early as 2009 such as "windowing," a practice of delaying e-book releases to benefit sales of hardcover editions, Apple said in a filing in an e-book price-fixing lawsuit. The U.S. Department of Justice in an antitrust lawsuit in...
pcworld.com (9 days ago)
HP's latest hybrids sport Nvidia Tegra 4 and 3rd-gen Intel Core CPUs
Clamshell laptops will always have their place, but that form factor just can't deliver the versatility of a hybrid tablet with a detachable keyboard. Unfortunately, the designs we've seen so far have been hobbled by weak CPUs. HP currently has just one hybrid in the consumer market, the...
pcworld.com (10 days ago)
HP brings Android to laptops with SlateBook X2
Hewlett-Packard has given the "Android treatment" to its latest laptop-tablet hybrid, which is called SlateBook X2 and has a detachable 10-inch screen that can independently function as a tablet. The X2 is HP's second device with Android. Its first was the US$170 Slate 7 tablet that started shipping in late April....
pcworld.com (10 days ago)
US federal court order halts Dwolla wire transfers to Mt. Gox
A not-yet-public U.S. federal court order has apparently halted wire transfers between payments startup Dwolla and the largest bitcoin exchange, Mt. Gox. Dwolla, based in Des Moines, Iowa, offers inexpensive wire transfers. Mt. Gox, headquartered in Tokyo, runs a popular exchange where people can buy and sell the...
pcworld.com (10 days ago)
Foxconn's Hon Hai reports Q1 revenue drop, likely on weak iPhone 5 demand
Foxconn's Hon Hai Precision Industry posted a 19.2 percent year-over-year decline in revenue for the first quarter, with sales likely affected by weak demand for Apple's iPhone 5, according to an analyst. The Taiwanese contract manufacturer said on Wednesday its revenue for the quarter was NT$809 billion (US$27...
pcworld.com (10 days ago)
At Google I/O, attendees compete to save the world, virtually
Google I/O has not officially started, but the developers' show is already seeing some action. Two warring factions, the Resistance and the Enlightenment, are vying for control of various "portals" at key landmarks throughout San Francisco, which are leaking dangerous amounts of radioactive energy, to determine the...
pcworld.com (10 days ago)
Salesforce.com adds central file view to Chatter mobile app
Salesforce.com wants to simplify the way mobile users find, access and share files from its Chatter enterprise social networking (ESN) application. A new version of the Chatter mobile application for iOS and Android tablets and smartphones adds a central container of all files stored in Salesforce.com to which users...
pcworld.com (10 days ago)
Nine Ways to Stretch Your Battery To The Max
We all love our smartphones, and rely on them for a lot of daily tasks. But we’re all left with the same frustration when they run out of power in the middle of an important call or while watching a video. Fortunately, there are some easy steps you can take to extend the life of your battery. Here are nine of...
pcworld.com (10 days ago)
So Long, Cinnamon: Cinnarch Linux is reborn as Antergos
Regular PCWorld readers may recall Cinnarch, a Linux distribution I covered last fall that combined Arch Linux with the relatively new and alternative Cinnamon desktop environment. Cinnarch was just in beta at the time, but recently the project team behind it announced that they planned to abandon Cinnamon as a...
pcworld.com (10 days ago)
Microsoft takes the offensive against Google, and it's about time
Google was once a humble startup with a big dream-to be the David that takes down Microsoft’s Goliath. Google has become a tech force to be reckoned with, challenging Microsoft in almost every area including Web search, browsers, email, operating systems, productivity software and mobile platforms. Over time, it has...
pcworld.com (10 days ago)
U.S. carriers line up against texting while driving
The major U.S. mobile operators are all putting their weight behind a campaign against texting while driving that will include a blitz of advertising and a driving simulator touring the country this summer. On Tuesday, Verizon, Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile USA joined the "It Can Wait" campaign that AT&T began last...
pcworld.com (10 days ago)
Adaptive learning application lets parents track what kids have learned
A new feature released Tuesday from children's app maker Kidaptive lets parents track the progress of what their children are learning inside the company's first story and game application. Leo's Pad has been out for a year, releasing short story and game content it calls "appisodes." The new parental layer shows a...
pcworld.com (10 days ago)
