False promises abound in Silicon Valley, especially when it comes to free products going paid. But what can you do? Nothing really, and that’s a problem. Silicon Valley works well with false promises. But what happens when those false promises cover free products that eventually require payment? In other words, who gets hurt? You might recall that in 2014, Microsoft […]
On March 21, users all over the world reported that there was a problem while signing in to Skype, OneDrive, and Outlook along with various other Microsoft accounts. A similar problem had plagued users a few days ago, when they were unable to sign-in to their cloud services. Even the Xbox Live site recorded signing in issues, along with limited access. The users faced issues while purchasing and […]
SHANGHAI U.S. short-term rental giant Airbnb Inc will triple its China staff this year as it targets the country’s millennial consumers, its chief executive said on Wednesday, even as the Silicon Valley firm faces competition from local rivals. Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky said China was a key market for the firm to achieve its global ambitions. He was talking at an event in Shanghai to […]
One week after the start of Microsoft’s rollout of its Teams service to Office 365 business users, Microsoft has started delivering Teams to Office 365 Education customers. Microsoft Teams will be a free add-on to Office 365 Education users if they have an Education, Education Plus, Education E3 and/or an Education E5 suite plan. Microsoft is not making Microsoft Teams available as a standalone offering. As of […]
The biggest challenge facing Joel de la Garza, chief security officer for file sharing giant Box, is juggling the need to be secure with the need to allow for innovation. Speaking with ZDNet in Sydney, the California-based CSO explained that as a security professional, it is always hard for him to say anything positive after spending 20 years exposed to the cybersecurity threat landscape. He said he […]
The net worth of U.S. President Donald Trump has slipped, dropping by $1 billion according to Forbes’ latest list of the richest people in 2017. Released on Monday, March 20, Forbes’ new world’s billionaires list estimates that Trump’s net worth has dropped from $4.5 billion in 2016 to $3.5 billion this year. This $1 billion decline also translates to a considerable drop down the list, as Trump […]
This photo provided by Apple shows the family of iPads, from left, the iPad mini 4, the new iPad, the 9.7-inch iPad Pro and the 12.9-inch one, along with the Apple Pencil. On Tuesday, March 21, 2017, Apple cut prices on two iPad models and introduced red iPhones, but the company held back on updating its higher-end iPad Pro tablets. (Apple via AP) Apple is cutting prices […]
By Robert Iafolla | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON U.S. Supreme Court justices expressed support on Tuesday for Microsoft Corp’s (MSFT.O) bid to fend off class action claims by Xbox 360 owners who say the videogame console gouges discs because of a design defect. Microsoft told the court in oral arguments that the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ 2015 ruling allowing console owners to appeal the dismissal […]
Two weeks after a variety of online services from Microsoft suffered outages for several hours on Tuesday across Western Europe and the Eastern United States, Outlook and Hotmail appear to be having another outage across the US. Services like Xbox Live, Outlook.com, Skype, OneDrive, and Microsoft’s Windows Store are currently not allowing users to sign into accounts. Zero Hedge has tested a number of accounts, and can […]
Adobe is launching its Experience Cloud, which combines parts of its marketing, analytics and content tools, with the aim of broadening its footprint for more roles and functions of an enterprise. And with the launch of Experience Cloud, Adobe is going to compete more directly with the likes of Oracle and Salesforce, two marketing and analytics players focused on customer experiences. Kevin Lindsay, head of product marketing […]
Augmented reality will soon be part of everyday life, if we are to believe Tim Cook. Cook, Apple’s CEO, is excited about the future of augmented reality and Apple together. He is psyched that the company is exerting its technological resources to research, develop, and apply AR technology on Apple products, particularly its flagship iPhone. If that happens, then AR can be Apple‘s “next big thing.” While […]
Samsung, whose booth at this year’s Mobile World Congress is shown here, is unveiling a new personal assistant ‘Bixby’ that will challenge rivals including Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa Samsung announced Monday that a voice-powered digital assistant named “Bixby” will debut with a flagship Galaxy S8 smartphone set to be unveiled by the South Korean consumer electronics giant. Bixby enters a crowded field of digital assistants powered […]
Education technology in the classroom is a waste of time and money. This is the dominant debate at the fifth Global Education & Skills Forum (GESF). Introducing the motion, moderator Dino Varkey, Chief Executive Officer of GEMS Education, said education technology spending globally will reach US$19 billion by 2019, according to Fortune magazine. At that cost, expectations of measurable returns are increasing. “While many sing praises of […]
(Image: Sighthound) Palo Alto, Calif.-based Sighthound has released an emotion recognizer on its Sighthound Cloud API for developers. The recognizer has a Detection API for person, face, gender, and facial landmark detections, and a Recognition API that developers can use for face and vehicle recognition applications. Its Cloud Recognition API makes it easy to add face recognition to applications. Currently, the API only supports Objects with a […]
20 March 2017Research Nester has recently announced its latest Industry research on “Medical Robotics Market: Global Demand Analysis & Opportunity Outlook 2023”. Medical robots allows surgeons to carry out operations in more precise and less invasive way, medical robots increases accuracy of the operation along with wide range of advantages such as decreases risk of infection, decreases post-operative pain and reduces risk of patients life. Along with […]
On the third day of the Pwn2Own hacking contest in Vancouver on Friday, a Windows guest on a VMware Workstation host was escaped from twice. A team from Chinese security firm Qihoo 360 began with exploiting Microsoft’s Edge browser and chained together two more vulnerabilities to escape from the VMware virtual machine, and picked up $105,000. “In a first for the Pwn2Own competition, they absolutely succeeded by […]
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Microsoft’s Surface Book wowed many with its sleek and unique design. However, it may have found its competition in the ultra-stylish laptop department with Porsche Design’s 2-in-1 Book One laptop. Unveiled at the Mobile World Congress last February, Porsche Design’s Windows-powered laptop grabbed many people’s attention with its ultra-stylish design that’s reminiscent of the Surface Book. It does, however, have its own unique style that may just […]
Tim Byrnes is an unlikely symbol of China’s bid to become the world’s high-tech superpower. For a start he is Australian. Yet the 39-year-old quantum physicist’s decision to swap a research post in New York for Shanghai goes some way to explaining the lengths to which Beijing is going in its efforts to upend the world order. “Quantum physics is very strong in China,” says Mr Byrnes. […]
Getty Images/iStockphoto More companies are moving applications into the cloud, but the pain of the migration is holding them back from doing more. Nearly nine out of ten companies are now using cloud-hosted applications or services, a number that has been steadily rising in recent years: in 2010 less than half said they were using such services. But further examination of the data from tech industry group […]
It’s the end of the line for Windows 7 on the latest PC designs. Anyone running an older version of Windows on new hardware received a rude shock this week when the latest Patch Tuesday updates rolled around. Instead of receiving the latest security updates for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1, those customers saw an error message instead. Unsupported Hardware Your PC uses a processor that isn’t […]
A security researcher has published a way to gain the highest level of a network’s access — without needing a password. Alexander Korznikov said in a blog post that a privileged user, such as a local administrator with system rights and permissions, can use built-in command line tools to hijack the session of another logged-in user who has higher privileges. He said that if that other logged-in […]
Given the distinctly MacBook-like look and feel of many Windows ultraportables, we were pleased to see that Acer’s new Swift 5 manages to make a more individual design statement — while still keeping its prices attractively competitive. Even better is the fact that the Swift 5 pulls off the difficult balancing act of delivering affordable ultrabook functionality — including good performance and portability — without making too […]
Are you sick and tired of opening a new web page and being greeted by a loud, obnoxious advertisement? I sure am. Pop-up and pop-under ads were bad enough, but now it seems like I can hardly go to a site without having a video start up with a blaring voice braying about a great diet, deal, or the like. I’m looking at you, Facebook. It’s easy […]
