High-tech device theft has claimed its latest victim in San Francisco—and he’s just 2 years old. On Thursday evening, thieves stole a tablet PC from the hands of a toddler while he was sitting in the back of a car in the city’s Mission district. The incident is the latest in a growing number of thefts that have targeted people using smartphones and tablet computers in San Francisco and across the U.S. The robberies are sometimes violent, involving a gun or knife, and cellphone carriers are coming under increasing pressure to come up with a technological solution that would render stolen handsets useless. Lawmakers in California last week proposed a state law that would mandate a “kill switch” that would disable stolen phones, reducing their value and the incentive for theft, and Wednesday similar legislation was introduced in the U.S. Senate that would take effect nationally from 2015.
Organizers of The Day We Fight Back, a protest Tuesday against U.S. National Security Agency surveillance programs, called the effort a “tremendous success,” with nearly 100,000 phone calls made to U.S. lawmakers and 185,000 people signing up to send email blasts to their congressional representatives. Participants in the protest
If you’ve ever felt fried at the end of your work day yet couldn’t account for how you got to that state, you’re not alone. One task blurs into another leaving no record of how you spent your time. That’s where a time tracker can help. Whether you just want to track your professional tasks to assess your productivity or you actually bill clients by the hour, these tools can help you reclaim lost time and develop more efficient work habits.
Are the people in your social media sphere yammering on about House of Cards or the Winter Olympics before you've had a chance to watch? We've looked at some apps that can silence them until you can get to a TV.
Windows 8 isn't quite the next Vista after all. Microsoft announced that it has sold 200 million Windows 8 licenses in about 15 months. That's way ahead of Windows Vista, which only hit 180 million licenses after 18 months, but well behind Windows 7, which only took a year to reach 240 million licenses sold. Windows 8 had originally been
Tired of waiting to get through all the legal hurdles, De La Soul is taking its music straight to the fans via the Internet.
The Chromebook has found its sweet spot, and it's around the $279 range where the Toshiba CB35-A3120 Chromebook resides. It sure isn't down in the dumps with the $200-or-so cheapies, with their clackety plastics and sorry little screens. Nor is it in the 1-percenter fantasyland of the gorgeous and expensive
Comcast’s proposed The $45.2 billion offer comes as cable TV operators face a growing number of new channels for the kinds of content they used to deliver almost exclusively. Online video providers such as Netflix, Amazon, YouTube, and Hulu (part-owned by Comcast’s parent company) now offer alternatives to cable that can travel over any reasonably strong Internet connection, and the makers of video content look to them as alternatives to cable operators. If Comcast boasts more customers, it may be able to get better deals.
The Taiwanese company that makes the display used in Google’s Glass head-mounted display says it’s working with multiple big-name electronics companies on head-mounted gadget products. Himax executives wouldn’t divulge the identities of the companies they are working with, but said they are big and sales should increase this year. “We continue to work with multiple customers, quite a few of which are top-notch names in IT or the Internet space,” said Jordan Wu, president and CEO of Himax, in a conference call with analysts. “Let me put it this way, they are all number one of something, and we have customers from all leading countries in the consumer electronics space.”
Hackers are circulating credentials for thousands of FTP sites and appear to have compromised file transfer servers at The New York Times and other organizations, according to a security expert. The hackers obtained credentials for more than 7,000 FTP sites and have been circulating the list in underground forums, said Alex Holden, chief information security officer for In some cases, hackers used the credentials to access FTP servers and upload malicious files, including scripts in the PHP programming language. In other instances, they placed files on FTP servers that incorporate malicious links directing people to websites advertising work-at-home schemes and other scams.
Now users can choose from 50-something custom gender identity expressions on the social network.
In appearances in September and October, Steve Ballmer said Microsoft would build native Office editions for iPads and Android tablets, but the company’s marketing chief spoke with much less certainty when asked about this on Thursday. At the Goldman Sachs Technology & Internet Conference, Marketing Executive Vice President Tami Reller was asked about Microsoft’s willingness to “repurpose” Office for other platforms, even if this means hurting Windows’ appeal. Microsoft must make sure its most important brands are differentiated in the market, and Windows is no exception, Reller said . "With Windows, we’re obviously spending a lot of time thinking about how do we continue to differentiate the full Windows experience,” she said.
The agent offers menu choices on a HUD for controlling navigation, phone, and other in-car systems
Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller is among the witnesses that lawyers for Samsung plan to call when the two companies return to court in California in late March. Schiller was the highest-profile witness to take the stand during the first jury trial in the patent infringement case between the two companies in August 2012 and a partial retrial that last November. In March, the two companies are due back in court for the next round of their battle. It’s a different case involving different phones, but covers much the same ground: allegations of patent infringement by Apple against Samsung for elements of its smartphone design. "Mr. Schiller will be called to testify regarding design, development, promotion, marketing, advertising, consumer demand for, and sales of the iPhone, iPad, iPod, and other Apple products, including the features accused of infringing the Samsung feature patents, the smartphone and tablet markets, the Apple brand and Apple’s marketing and advertising efforts,” Samsung said in a filing Thursday with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
Bei den Winterspielen in Sotschi bandeln Olympioniken über die Dating-App Tinder mit anderen Sportlern an. Die Tinder-Welle ist auch in der Schweiz angekommen.
Sony Computer Entertainment will die Playstation 3 noch mindestens zwei Jahre mit neuen Games versorgen. Hier sind 20 Gründe, die Konsole noch nicht zu verschrotten.
In die Haut eines Paarhufers schlüpfen: Eigentlich als Scherz gedacht, wird das Game «Goat Simulator» nach positiven Rückmeldungen der Internetgemeinde nun veröffentlicht.
Ein Jahr lang hat das soziale Netzwerk daran gearbeitet. Jetzt steht englischsprachigen Nutzern ab sofort die Option offen, ihr Geschlecht mit «trans-» oder «bi-gender» anzugeben.
Der Anteil an Android-Geräten, die mit der neuesten Version 4.4 laufen, ist klein. Nun setzt Google Handy-Hersteller unter Druck, um die Verbreitung von Kitkat zu fördern.
Die niederländische Polizei hat die Website Utopia abgeschaltet, auf der Drogendeals und Auftragsmorde angeboten wurden. Utopia galt als bester Klon der legendären Silk Road.
Bilder eines unbekannten Twitter-Nutzers zeigen angeblich das iPhone 6. Bereits ist aber von gefälschten Bildern die Rede.
Egal ob klobig oder filigran: Datenbrillen gehört die Zukunft. Davon sind viele Hersteller überzeugt, auch Epson. Im Frühling bringt der Druckerkonzern die Moverio BT-200 auf den Markt.
Apple will komplett auf den Einsatz von Rohstoffen aus Konfliktregionen verzichten. Laut einer Expertin ist der IT-Riese in Sachen Nachhaltigkeit aber keineswegs ein Vorreiter.
Wie fühlt es sich an, drei Tage lang ohne technische Geräte in seinem Zimmer zu verbringen? Der 16-jährige Michael Helbling ist überzeugt, dass er die Langeweile überleben wird.
Studenten haben ihr Start-up für eine halbe Milliarde Dollar an Google verkauft. Jetzt ist bekannt: Einer der Gründer und drei Mitarbeiter doktorierten an der Uni im Tessin.
Das Hit-Spiel «Flappy Bird» wurde aus allen Stores gelöscht die Internetgemeinde rätselt über die Gründe. In einem Interview spricht der Entwickler nun erstmals Klartext.
Bis zu 30 GB Daten fliessen pro Sekunde über das Netz der Swisscom. Um sich für die Zukunft zu rüsten, setzt der Branchenprimus auf neue Technologien zur Tempoerhöhung.
Trotz der geplanten Übernahme durch Microsoft arbeitet Nokia angeblich an einem Smartphone mit Googles Android-System arbeiten. Schon Ende Monat soll es vorgestellt werden.