The first-ever small-screen Windows tablet made a brief appearance on Amazon.com today, before quickly being yanked from the online retailer's e-shelves. While in New York Friday, the 8.1-inch Acer Iconia W3-810-1600 was briefly available for perusal in the digital realm. Why does that matter? Because all Windows 8 tablets released thus far have packed 10-inch or larger displays, as Microsoft's operating system was engineered before diminutive tablets like the Nexus 7 and Kindle Fire became all the rage. Microsoft has tweaked a bevy of features and specs since the release of Windows 8 to sported a Snap feature that works just fine on tiny tablets. (Previously, Snap only worked on displays with that 1366-by-768 resolution.)
Most people just want their smartphones to take great pictures of their dogs or their kids’ soccer games. NASA is a bit more ambitious. The space agency Friday released photos that operating system was the photographer. NASA combined multiple photos from the orbiting , called PhoneSats, to create images of Earth as seen from space.
Version X6 of Corel VideoStudio brings the super-intuitive and easy-to-use video editor/producer within into a virtual dead heat with the feature sets offered by its competitors. New tricks in its bag include animation overlays, controlling DSLRs for stop motion animation, free-form motion editing, layer swapping, motion tracking, support for 2K and 4K video, and variable speed. VideoStudio X6 also supports 50p/60p editing, AVCHD 2.0, 3D, surround sound, Blu-ray and most everything you could ask for. One cool new feature for subtitling is a form of audio beat detection that allows you to sync subtitles to speech more easily. There's even a whiteboard capture for animation overlays. Creatively, the VideoStudio X6 is very well-rounded. . It helps tremendously that Corel hasn't sized the icons for microscopes and has used them sparingly. VideoStudio X6 also has a nice simple storyboard view that makes adding and arranging items a more intuitive process. You then use the timeline to tweak location and lengths, and add audio, multi-tracking, subtitles, and the like. I've only mentioned a few of the logical interface design decisions, but all told, they make VideoStudio X6's interface friendlier and more intuitive than just about anything out there.
SAP is hoping to sow more seeds of interest in its newest technologies, including the HANA in-memory database, through a new online training program available at no charge. Dubbed openSAP, the program’s first course will provide an introduction to developing software on top of HANA, and is scheduled to begin May 27, according to the . It’s not surprising that HANA is openSAP’s first area of focus, given that SAP is positioning it as the go-forward platform for all of its development efforts. HANA places data in RAM rather than reading it off of disks, delivering performance that SAP has described as astounding. While initially aimed at analytic processing, HANA also supports transactional workloads and has been ported to SAP’s Business Suite.
An Algerian man accused of helping to develop and distribute the SpyEye computer virus has been extradited from Thailand to the U.S. to face criminal charges, the U.S. Department of Justice announced. Hamza Bendelladj, also known as Bx1, faces 23 charges in an indictment returned in December 2011 and unsealed Friday. The 24-year-old man is charged with one count of conspiring to commit wire and bank fraud, 10 counts of wire fraud, one count of conspiracy to commit computer fraud and 11 counts of computer fraud. He faces arraignment Friday in U.S. District Court in the Northern District of Georgia. Information on Bendelladj’s attorney wasn’t immediately available. , to steal online banking credentials, credit card information, usernames, passwords, PINs, and other personally identifying information.
If you’re only using LinkedIn as a glorified business-card collector, an email replacement or some kind of Facebook counterpart for business contacts, you’re missing out on its recruitment potential. The free version of LinkedIn may not cut it for finding suitable employees, but that's not the case for the premium LinkedIn Talent Finder. Businesses can use Talent Finder to contact all LinkedIn members with the InMail feature, see expanded profiles, get more search filters and results, and even discover great candidates who aren't actively seeking a job.
Office 365 users will increasingly be able to import contacts from external applications after the suite’s initial rollout of this capability for Facebook and LinkedIn. Microsoft recently implemented a feature in Office 365 called Connect that lets some editions of the suite grab contacts data from third-party tools. The first supported source was LinkedIn in late February and more recently Microsoft has added Facebook. More contact repositories will likely be added to the mix. “Currently, the feature supports only LinkedIn and Facebook, but we are always looking at ways to connect additional services to Office 365,” a spokeswoman for Microsoft said via email. is available worldwide to all Office 365 editions that have the Exchange Online component.
Retailers share part of the blame for poor Windows 8 sales and the ensuing decline of PC shipments, analysts contended today. Microsoft’s radical overhaul of Windows has been cited by some to explain plummeting PC shipments, but the very organizations whose best interest is served in selling those systems were at least partly at fault. Tuesday. “[So] how did big-box retail respond? The same way they have for the last 20 years.” Moorhead was critical of big retailers—Best Buy is the largest in the U.S.—for not modifying how they sold PCs when Windows 8 landed on their stores’ shipping docks.
can be challenging. . But sometimes your best bet is a cheat-sheet—something you can keep right beside your keyboard for at-a-glance information. . It's a colorful two-page guide to Windows 8's most commonly used areas. And if you don't mind sharing a bit of personal information, it's free. .) You'll need to include a valid email address so you can receive a download link for the card, which is provided as a PDF.
Bitcoin. Everybody?s talking about it. What?s true, and what?s hype? Perhaps the only thing that?s clear about Bitcoin is that it?s not going away anytime soon. Who am I to say? I?m not an economist; I?m a hacker, who has spent his career exploring and repairing large networks. And networks may very well be how the world works ? financial, social, electronic, even physical.
A remembrance of the first webmail service for millions of people: Hotmail. RIP buddy.
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The Silicon Valley automaker, citing the wave of less-than-glowing publicity that followed its outlandish leasing program, is reworking the terms of its Model S financing. The new plans could bring monthly payments down, while providing a much-needed reality check.
On the latest episode of the show, staff writers Christina Bonnington and Roberto Baldwin stare at the screen of the new Kobo Aura HD e-reader and the front-camera support update of the Vine app.
Bertrand Piccard is somewhere high over central California right now, flying southward in a giant airplane powered only by the sun.Piccard is the co-founder and pilot of Solar Impulse, a solar powered airplane that left Moffett Field south of San Francisco shortly after 6 a.m. PDT today to begin an eight-week journey across the country. ...
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A 24-year-old Algerian man has been extradited to the U.S. on charges that he was one of the masterminds behind the SpyEye trojan.
Over the next 15-20 years, the U.S. and China are headed for a confrontation in the western Pacific, with Japan caught in the middle. And China, currently the underdog, could very well come out on top.
Growing up in the 60s, Rick Doblin embraced the counterculture and protested the Vietnam war and the military-industrial complex behind it. Wednesday he visited the Pentagon to try to persuade military medical officials to permit a clinical trial that would test MDMA, the active ingredient in the party drug Ecstasy, in active duty soldiers with post-traumatic stress disorder. In a Q&A with Wired he discusses his military mission and what it says about shifting attitudes towards psychedelic drugs..
?Inside each envelop is a two-month severance check. If this is not the job you want, if you don?t wake up in the morning to walk into this room to build a better company, go cash it.?
If you were a rat living in a completely virtual world like in the movie The Matrix, could you tell? Maybe not, but scientists studying your brain might be able to. Today, researchers report that certain cells in rat brains work differently when the animals are in virtual reality than when they are in the real world.
The Pentagon is set to approve a security review for Apple smartphones and tablets, allowing their use alongside BlackBerries and the Android-powered Samsung Knox.
As launch costs to low Earth orbit plummet thanks to a number of new launch companies, space has become a newly accessible domain for a range of activities. Next week, the Space Hacker Workshop will bring citizen scientists, academics, and entrepreneurs together. Wired Science blogger Jeffrey Marlow explains why.
A weekly roundup of odd ways humans and wild animals crossed paths this week compiled by Jon Mooallem, author of the upcoming book
Lasers! They're not just for shooting down drones or annoying your cat. They're coming to your car this year, transforming pock-marked pavement and potholes into a smooth ribbon of asphalt.
Searching for terms like "facebook login" can expose you to a host of scam sites that try and get you to click on advertising links or install shady toolbars and questionable apps. Login scammers probably aren't making much money, but they could injure the reputations of social networks among less savvy users.
iOS 7 will be flat, as in flat design. After months of speculation on where Jony Ive would drive the look of the system software after the company famously ditched iOS VP Scott Forstall last November, the word is that a blocky, bold-colored look will be replacing the faux stitched-leather-and-aluminum skeuomorphism of current and previous OSes.
North Korea is barely connected to the global internet. But it's trying to step up its hacker game by breaking into hostile networks, according to the Pentagon.
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IBM sparked a revolution in personal computing when it unveiled the IBM PC in 1981. But the IBM PC wasn't IBM's first personal computer. Six years earlier, Big Blue unleashed a machine called the IBM 5100. It wasn't just personal. It was also portable -- at least by the standards of the day. It weighed 50 pounds, and it didn't work unless you plugged it into the wall.
This week, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm just invested millions in a hair dye startup. Because, you know, your hair is in need of a little disruption.
Some small towns bring in big awards, and when it comes to photography, Jasper, Indiana has had more than its fair share of trophies. They can throw another one on the pile now that Dave Weatherwax has won NPPA's Photographer of the Year award for the second time in a row.
May 4th is Free Comic Book Day, and we've sorted through the 50-plus comics and selected the 10 gotta-read books for you to grab on Saturday.
Summer movie season kicks off this weekend with the release of Iron Man 3, the perfect inspiration to build your own suit of power armor and recreate iconic superhero scenes. TheRPF will show you how with some amazing fan-made examples.
Mobile games are transcending their screen-only roots. Developers are bringing the action into the real world.
If you?re the owner of a Nook HD or HD+, get ready to enjoy all the Android apps. Barnes & Nobles announced today that the Nook HD tablet line will get access to the Google Play store.
Making sense of a Yelp review is a tricky proposition that is not for the gullible or the stupid. It helps to have a flowchart that helps you separate the truly helpful from the unbearably awful. Hint: Avoid anything that rhymes.
Now that you and all of your friends can start tagging people in Instagram shots, it's only inevitable that you'll get tagged in a photo you don't like. Here's how to hide and de-tag those photos.
A new avian flu, H7N9, is emerging in China. In Saudi Arabia, seven cases of a mysterious coronovirus have just been reported -- after five of the people had already died. Wired Science blogger Maryn McKenna addresses the issue of government transparency in reporting disease outbreaks.