Tips & Tricks Archive
04 Apr 2015
Finger Mounted Camera Turns Any Book into Audiobook
Finger Mounted Camera Turns Any Book into Audiobook Technology has dramatically evolved over the years and it has paved way for endless possibilities. Camera technology is no different in that regard. Take FingerReader for that matter that hints at that very fact. It’s a prototype, developed by Media Lab at MIT especially for the
03 Apr 2015
Kingston Launches High Performance Predator PCIe SSD
Kingston Launches High Performance Predator PCIe SSD While Samsung and others have already announced the high speed next-generation PCIe SSDs, it is Kingston with its HyperX Predator M.2 SSD which will be the first wide-scale commercially available SSD to use this tech. It is still in its nascent stages and as you would expect,
03 Apr 2015
Apple Drifts Away From Jobs
Apple Drifts Away From Jobs Steve Jobs’ Apple displayed a rather fascinating balance between design and utility. Granted, it often shifted more toward the design side, which resulted in problems like Antennagate, but that tended to happen when Jobs wasn’t around. He made sure the products worked well and looked good — he understood
03 Apr 2015
Twitter’s Periscope Allows Live Stream Replays
Twitter’s Periscope Allows Live Stream Replays Twitter on Thursday unveiled Periscope, the live-streaming app developed by a company it acquired earlier this year, reportedly for just under US$100 million. It’s a big bet for an app that’s in a genre that already has matured, but Twitter is counting on the mobile world’s appetite for
03 Apr 2015
Facebook Invites App Devs to Join in Messenger Family Planning
Facebook Invites App Devs to Join in Messenger Family Planning Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg this week told an audience at the F8 conference for Facebook developers that the company’s future lies in its family of apps and in giving the network’s members the ability to share what they want, where they want. “We’re building
03 Apr 2015
BlackBerry, IBM, Samsung Come Together on High-Price, High-Security Tablet
BlackBerry, IBM, Samsung Come Together on High-Price, High-Security Tablet BlackBerry subsidiary Secusmart on Monday introduced the SecuTablet, a high-security tablet based on the Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5, at the CeBIT 2015 trade show in Dusseldorf, Germany. Developed in collaboration with IBM, the tablet targets national and international public sector markets and enterprises. IBM
03 Apr 2015
New Facebook Marketing Tool Chews Up Data, Spits It Out
New Facebook Marketing Tool Chews Up Data, Spits It Out Fa cebook last week launched Topic Data, a new service that reveals to advertisers the subjects users discuss, the brands and products they use, and the activities they follow. Marketers will be able to sift through data compilations of what users say about events,
03 Apr 2015
Windows Hello Waves Off Passwords
Windows Hello Waves Off Passwords A new feature in Windows 10 addresses a common frustration among gadget lovers: the inconvenience and insecurity of passwords. A biometric system like Windows Hello has security and usability advantages over conventional passwords, noted the FIDO Alliance’s Brett McDowell. “Just imagine logging into your device by looking at it
03 Apr 2015
Amazon Fires 1st Shot in Storage Price War
Amazon Fires 1st Shot in Storage Price War Amazon is offering unlimited data storage — that’s right, all the photos, videos, movies, music and digital miscellany anyone cares to hoard — for the stunningly low price of $59.99 per year. So what’s next? Amazon’s cloud competitors can easily match or undercut its pricing, said tech
03 Apr 2015
Compliance Mindset Can Lead to Epic Security Fail
Compliance Mindset Can Lead to Epic Security Fail Although compliance rules are supposed to set minimum standards for protecting data, many companies treat them as maximum benchmarks. “Cases like Premera and thousands of others are proof that if you follow compliance — the checkbox approach to security — it doesn’t mean you’re more secure,”