Technology News Archive
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
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
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,”
02 Apr 2015
WhatsApp for Android now allows all users to make voice calls, iOS coming soon
WhatsApp for Android now allows all users to make voice calls, iOS coming soon If you’ve been wondering when, oh when, someone will ring you via WhatsApp so you’ll get its new voice calling feature, you won’t have to sit by the phone any longer. Updating to WhatsApp version 2.12.5 via Google Play does
02 Apr 2015
Google’s Inbox email app adds support for custom Snooze times
Google’s Inbox email app adds support for custom Snooze times One of the most useful features in Google’s new Inbox email client is the ability to set Snooze times for when you want to save some email to read for later. Google’s now making the tool a little more versatile. Previously, you could only assign
02 Apr 2015
Microsoft updates Outlook for iOS and Android with a new address book and calendar improvements
Microsoft updates Outlook for iOS and Android with a new address book and calendar improvements microsoft has updated itsOutlook email apps for iOSand Android with a raft of new features, rounding out the address book, calendar and search functions. The People section has evolved from displaying only your top contacts to a full-blown address
01 Apr 2015
Microsoft releases a new build of Windows 10, without its new browser
Microsoft releases a new build of Windows 10, without its new browser Microsoft has delivered a new preview build of Windows 10 to testers today. Unfortunately, while the build includes a number of minor interface tweaks and fixes it doesn’t include the company’shighly anticipated new browser just yet. Improvements include better virtual desktops, Cortana