Yahoo takes cue from Facebook in website revamp
(Reuters) – Yahoo Inc is rolling out a revamped look for its website aimed at making the Web portal more modern and attractive to users. “We wanted it to be familiar but also wanted it to embrace some of the modern paradigms of the Web,” Chief Executive Marissa Mayer said…
Sega netbook in Saturn, Mega Drive and Dreamcast theme
A recent collaboration between Sega and a Japanese PC maker has produced a series of cool Sega console-themed netbooks, although we understand they are currently aimed at the Japanese market. Fans of Sega’s past systems in this territory will be able to own a netbook with themes from the Mega…
Southwest Airlines’ on-demand WiFi video reaches all capable aircraft (video)
Majority of Fleet Now Equipped With Variety of Inflight Entertainment Options DALLAS, Feb. 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Southwest Airlines (NYSE: LUV) announced today that movies on demand are now available on all WiFi-equipped Southwest aircraft for only $5 per movie, per device. The airline also announced an upgrade to their “Providing a comprehensive…
HTC launches smartphone with revamped software to take on Samsung
LONDON/TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan’s HTC Corp has unveiled the new smartphone that it hopes will set it apart from the crowd of Google Android devices on the market and help it make up ground lost to Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and Apple Inc. It has distinguished the phone, the…
SwiftKey 4 released for Android (hands on): Best keyboard for Android
I have been using the SwiftKey keyboard on both Android phones and tablets since its first version. SwiftKey learns how a user writes over time to provide predictive text entry that is uncanny in its accuracy. SwiftKey 4 has just been released that adds Swipe-like entry called SwiftKey Flow that I…
Jeep joins Burger King in Twitter hack club
Just a day after Burger King’s Twitter account was hacked and renamed McDonalds, Jeep is suffering the same fate but the takeover hoax isn’t credited to the fast food empire this time. Jeep’s hacked account says it’s been bought by Cadillac, of all things. The account was briefly rebadged, so…
Samsung Galaxy Camera Gets Affordable WiFi-Only Model
Samsung Electronics’ Android-powered Galaxy Camera will soon escape its mobile carrier shackles and be available in a more affordable WiFi-only model. Previously available from cellular carriers for about $499.99 (or $599.99 in an unlocked configuration), Samsung is wisely making the Galaxy Camera available to the masses not concerned with an Now for…
Exclusive: Apple, Macs hit by hackers who targeted Facebook
BOSTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Apple Inc was recently attacked by hackers who infected Macintosh computers of some employees, the company said Tuesday in an unprecedented disclosure describing the widest known cyber attacks targeting Apple computers used by corporations. Unknown hackers infected the computers of some Apple workers when they…
The Office for iPad Myth Lives On
Oct 20: Becoming a Security Detective – Gathering and Analyzing Security Intelligence in the Enterprise In this all-day virtual event, experts will offer detailed insight in how to collect security intelligence in the enterprise, and how to analyze and study it in order to efficiently identify new threats as well as…
How Google Retooled Android With Help From Your Brain
When Google built the latest version of its Android mobile operating system, the web giant made some big changes to the way the OS interprets your voice commands. It installed a voice recognition system based on what’s called a neural network a computerized learning system that behaves much like the…
