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At Google I/O, expect Android, Chrome, and some privacy questions about Glass
Google kicks off its I/O developer conference next Wednesday and if there's one thing that could steal the limelight from Android, Chrome and all the other Google projects, it's Glass. Glass is a head-mounted computer worn like regular glasses that can serve up data and record a potentially limitless stream of...
pcworld.com (7 days ago)
iTunes snub is another nail in the Windows RT coffin
Windows RT just can't catch a break. Friday's big news- Apple's refusal to create an iTunes Windows 8 app -was another blow to the beleaguered OS, for even though Microsoft's finger-friendly software are dubbed "Windows 8 apps," they're truly "Windows RT apps." The ARM processors poweringWindows RT tablets can't run...
pcworld.com (7 days ago)
Smartphones driving violent crime across US
On Feb. 27th in the middle of the afternoon, a 16-year-old girl was walking through San Francisco's Mission district when she was ordered at gun point to hand over her cellphone. The robbery was one of 10 serious crimes in the city that day, and they all involved cellphones. Three were stolen at gun point, three at...
pcworld.com (7 days ago)
HP Q&A: Converged Cloud is company's chief initiative
Saar Gillai, named head of Hewlett-Packard's cloud operations in January, is on the hot seat. Turmoil in the upper ranks has caused consternation among customers over the past few years and while Amazon made early inroads in dominating the market for cloud services, HP has been relatively late to the game. The...
pcworld.com (7 days ago)
Wall Street Beat: Rise in markets could fuel tech M&A
Increasing confidence in the economy and a rising stock market could lay the groundwork for a revival in tech-sector mergers and acquisitions as companies embrace cloud technology and pursue game-changing software, particularly for the mobile market. On Friday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the Standard and...
pcworld.com (7 days ago)
Review: Give Gmail an extreme makeover with Gmail Offline
The Web interface for Gmail has a very distinct look. Your office mates can probably recognize it at a glance. This Chrome extension, however, might cause a few double-takes in your office: Gmail Offline, an extension by Google, puts a completely different face on Gmail, making it more similar to the tablet version...
pcworld.com (7 days ago)
Appeals court ruling could be 'death' of software patents
A U.S. appeals court has ruled that an abstract idea is not patentable simply because it is tied to a computer system, signaling what one judge described as the "death" of software and business method patents. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled Friday that four patents held by electronic...
pcworld.com (7 days ago)
Review: Notion 4 shatters your musical notation notions
When I first heard that Notion Music had dropped the price of its musical notation editor and scoring package from $249 to $99, I thought that the company was getting ready to close shop and having a fire sale. Or they'd gone crazy. Apparently, however, the company's experience with the iPad version of Notion has...
pcworld.com (7 days ago)
Bing brings more of Facebook to search
Bing is adding some new social features to its search engine, by letting users comment and "like" their Facebook friends' posts directly on the site. The new tools constitute yet another expansion to the Microsoft search site to make it more interactive and useful as the company seeks to distinguish itself from...
pcworld.com (7 days ago)
Wi-Fi in the sky may get a speed boost thanks to the FCC
Stuttery YouTube videos begone! Frequent fliers may eventually get a reprieve from subpar in-flight Wi-Fi, if the government allocates more wireless spectrum for airplane-friendly services like Gogo. The Federal Communications Commission has proposed auctioning off the rights to an additional 500 MHz of spectrum...
pcworld.com (7 days ago)
Syfy’s Defiance Renewed
The announcement comes after airing only four episodes, with Syfy citing great ratings in its Monday night time slot. Production is slated to begin in August, and Season 2 is expected to make its premiere in 2014.
pastemagazine.com (7 days ago)
Korora Linux 18 aims to deliver a friendlier Fedora
There's no doubt that desktop Linux has become increasingly user-friendly over the years, but it's equally true that some distributions focus more on ease of use than others do. Ubuntu and Linux Mint are two examples at the forefront of this usability trend, but recently I came across another that has put...
pcworld.com (7 days ago)
Nokia reboots Windows Phone push in the US but success will still be hard-won
Nokia's is rebooting its U.S. Windows Phone push with the arrival of the low-cost Lumia 521 on T-Mobile and Lumia 928 for Verizon Wireless, but increasing sales to meaningful volumes in the very competitive U.S. market will not be easy. Windows Phone has so far seen little success -- during the first quarter its...
pcworld.com (7 days ago)
Academic institutions urged to take steps to prevent DNS amplification attacks
Colleges and universities are being encouraged to scrutinize their systems to keep them from being hijacked in DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks. The Research and Education Networking Information Sharing and Analysis Center (REN-ISAC) advised academic institutions this week to review their DNS (Domain...
pcworld.com (7 days ago)
SAP expands reach of app store, looks to improve reviews
You know you're not in iTunes anymore when the app you're eyeing has a US$1,050 price tag, but SAP is nonetheless expanding its online shopping experience in a bid to entice its customers to purchase enterprise software the way they shop on their smartphones. SAP has made some changes and additions to its enterprise...
pcworld.com (7 days ago)
Nokia's Lumia 928 to sell via Verizon on May 16
Nokia has announced the long-rumored Lumia 928, which will be an exclusive to Verizon Wireless when it goes on sale next week. The phone is part of Nokia's effort to improve its fortunes in the U.S. market, where it only sold 400,000 phones during the first quarter of the year. The 928 is an improved version of the...
pcworld.com (7 days ago)
How to undo accidental browser zoom
Earlier today my dad called the Hassle-Free Hotline (also known as my home phone number). The poor guy seems to encounter more than his fair share of inadvertant computer problems. For example, somehow, while using his laptop's touchpad, he'd made everything in his browser bigger. Consequently, he had to scroll...
pcworld.com (7 days ago)
Microsoft desperately wants a Windows 8 iTunes app, but Apple's in no rush
For the past ten years, Apple’s iTunes has been the go-to music and video manager for Windows and Mac users. If you use a Windows RT tablet or are partial to the Windows 8 modern UI, however, iTunes is not available to you; a touch-centric version of Apple’s desktop software has yet to appear in the Windows Store....
pcworld.com (7 days ago)
Talisman: Prologue (Multi-Platform)
Talisman: Prologue is an outstanding digital translation of the Talisman board game.
pastemagazine.com (8 days ago)
Review: Acer's Predator is relatively toothless
Acer got a few things right and a number of things wrong with the Predator (specifically, Predator model AG3620-UR12). On the “right” side of the ledger, it has one of Intel’s better processors-a 3.4GHz Core i7-3770-and 32GB of DDR3/1600 memory. With those components, the asking price of $1299 is very reasonable....
pcworld.com (8 days ago)
The 10 most important milestones in Web browser history
Okay, say you have this shiny new car. It looks great, it performs like a demon, it features all the latest safety gadgets, and it's crawling with creature comforts. Just one problem, though. The local tinkerer, clearly consumed by jealousy, comes by sometime during the night to disassemble the entire thing....
pcworld.com (8 days ago)
Intel CEO's legacy: PC glory, smartphone grief
Today ends the last full week of Paul Otellini's reign as Intel's CEO. When Otellini passes the torch to current COO Brian Krzanich at next Thursday's annual shareholder's meeting, he'll be stepping away from a stratospheric eight-year run that saw Intel truly cement its position as Chipzilla, the 800-pound beast...
pcworld.com (8 days ago)
Reports: Icahn, Southeastern make alternative bid for Dell
Investor Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management have made a counter-offer for Dell that would keep the computer company still publicly traded, according to reports. The two key shareholders in the company have in a letter to its Board offered to give Dell's shareholders the option to keep holding stock in the...
pcworld.com (8 days ago)
New York man pleads guilty to illegally selling Intuit software
A former support employee in Rochester, New York, has pleaded guilty to illegally selling Intuit software through eBay, taking advantage of the software company's policy to supply free replacement disks of its products at the request of customers. Raymond Locklin, 29, a former employee of outsourcer Sutherland...
pcworld.com (8 days ago)
Salesforce.com to buy Clipboard, shutting down service
Salesforce.com is to acquire Clipboard, a Web clipping and sharing service, and is closing down the service. Clipboard decided to shut down the service as "it was essential to focus on a singular platform for building new capabilities within Salesforce, which is not something that we could do while keeping Clipboard...
pcworld.com (8 days ago)
Payment card processors hacked in $45 million fraud
A vast debit card fraud scheme that allegedly netted US$45 million has been linked to the hacking of credit card processors in the U.S. and India. Federal prosecutors in New York indicted eight men on Thursday whom they accuse of a scheme centered on raising the limit on prepaid debit cards and then withdrawing the...
pcworld.com (8 days ago)
The Onion explains how its Twitter account was hacked
Hackers who commandeered The Onion's Twitter account used simple but effective phishing attacks to obtain passwords, according to a writeup by the publisher's technology team. The Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), a group supporting embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, has also compromised prominent Twitter...
pcworld.com (8 days ago)
Twitter buys Ubalo to speed up its back-end
Twitter has acquired Ubalo, a company that provides various services aimed at speeding up the coding process, the social network announced Thursday. "We've got some exciting news: The Ubalo team is joining Twitter," the site announced in a tweet. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Ubalo describes its business...
pcworld.com (8 days ago)
YouTube rolls out paid subscription channels
Not everything on YouTube is free any more. The video-sharing website will now charge users a monthly fee to view certain content offered through subscription channels, the Google-owned site announced Thursday. More than a million channels already generate revenue on YouTube through advertising, "and one of the most...
pcworld.com (8 days ago)
Canonical staff to get working Ubuntu phones by late May
Canonical on Wednesday announced its next moves on the way to market with a Linux-powered phone. By the end of this month Canonical plans to equip its employees with early versions of its widely hyped “Ubuntu phone” for testing and refinement. “We should drive as hard as we can to making it so that we can use our...
pcworld.com (8 days ago)
