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Microsoft’s Surface Pro 2: Bigger, Better, But Its Battery Still Sucks
While Nokia’s release of six new devices stole all of the headlines this morning ahead of Apple’s expected iPad 5 unveil later today, Microsoft’s Surface Pro 2 tablets are quitely hitting the stores this same day, promising a host of improvements over the original, somewhat disappointing models. Extra computing power, less weight and more functionality ...
Nokia Announces Six New Devices: Phablets, Tablets & More At Nokia World, Abu Dhabi
Nokia has finally unveiled its long-awaited entry into the phablet market with its new Lumia 1520, a 6-inch Full HD device running Windows Phone 8.1, with a monster 20-megepixel PureView camera that borrows the digital zoom feature of the company’s Lumia 1020. The biggest Windows Phone ever made, the Lumia 1520 runs on a Qualcomm ...
Shock, Horror! Americans Actually Like the iPhone 5c
When Apple launched its next-generation iPhone’s earlier this month, few were surprised to see the flashy flagship iPhone 5s outsell its cheaper, plastic-clad cousin the iPhone 5c. But in a shock new report from market analyst firm Localytics, it seems that American consumers at least are quickly coming round to the idea of the cheapish ...
Apple’s Hacked Off With iMessage Security Fail
Apple’s iMessage, the instant messaging service that was previously said to be unhackable by law enforcement agencies, is apparently not nearly as secure as we first thought, according to new research from the security firm Quarkslab. When the revelations over the NSA’s spying programs first surfaced this summer, Apple moved quickly to cover its tracks, ...
Lenovo Rekindles Interest In BlackBerry – Part Of It, Anyway
China’s Lenovo is believed to have rekindled its interest in buying the struggling smartphone maker BlackBerry, which despite the earlier Fairfax Financial deal, is still actively looking for buyers. However it’s not clear just what the Chinese firm might want out of BlackBerry, with the Wall Street Journal reporting that its bidding to take over ...
Windows 8.1 Lands In Windows Store Today
Twelve months after launching the heavily-criticized Windows 8, Microsoft has begun rolling out the operating system’s eagerly awaited update, officially known as Windows 8.1. As of 04:00 PST today, Windows 8.1 will be made available to download on the Windows Store, available for free for all existing Windows 8 users. The update brings a wealth ...
Yandex, Russia’s Biggest Search Engine, Offers Cocaine To Developers
Yandex, Russia’s most popular search engine, is now offering free Cocaine to developers. But before you go getting too excited, we’re (unfortunately for some) not talking class A drugs here. Despite the name, Cocaine is actually an open-source platform-as-a-service (PaaS) system that developers can use to build out their own app engines in which they ...
Music Industry Shoots Itself In Foot Over Illegal Downloads
So, perhaps the music industry should take a long hard look at itself. Always moaning about the widespread availability of illegal downloads online, and wondering why piracy continues to persist, well here’s one possible reason why that’s the case – apparently, most people don’t have the option of downloading content legally online anyway. At least, ...
How To Break Free From Google’s Latest Privacy Intrusion: “Shared Endorsements”
If you missed Google’s quiet announcement last Friday, when it posted an update to its Terms of Service related to its online ad campaigns, well, you’ll probably be in for a bit of a shock when your photo and name starts showing up in adverts scattered across the web. Under the new ToS, the search ...
Tighter BYOD Policies Needed To Fend Off Rising Mobile Malware Risk
Juniper Research published a report today that claims up to 80% of all smartphones are running without having any kind of protection against malware installed, even in spite of the growing awareness of security threats and the wide availability of mobile security software. According to Juniper’s researchers, of the 1.4 billion smarphones in the world, ...