Dell is late to the cheap Windows tablet scene, and the $200 starting price for its Venue 8 Pro 3000 series is much higher than that of some competitors, but Dell’s offering boasts some superior specs. For starters, the Venue 8 Pro has an 8-inch IPS display with 1280x800 resolution, and it packs 32GB of storage. Beyond that, the differences between the Dell and other cheap Windows tablets are few. The Venue 8 Pro uses the same processor as the Encore Mini—a Bay Trail-class Intel Atom Z3735G—and it offers the same skimpy 1GB of memory.
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Samsung seems to be doing some soul-searching as profits from its smartphone business slip away. In an earnings call on Thursday, the company’s head of investor relations, Robert Yi, said Samsung’s response to cheaper handsets from Chinese brands like Xiaomi “was not quick enough,” and promised more “efficiency” in the future, On the same call, Samsung’s senior mobile communications vice president Kim Hyun-joon called out “somewhat weak” high-end smartphone sales. “We will fundamentally reform our product portfolio,” he said. In other words, Samsung is finally acknowledging the squeeze that industry observers have
A full disclosure is likely to be published in January.
Taking a page from the Snapchat playbook, BlackBerry will let BBM messaging service users control how long messages and pictures can be viewed, hoping the feature, along with other new capabilities, will result in a new revenue stream. The BBM upgrade will be available for BlackBerry’s own smartphones as well as for Android and iOS over the next couple of days. The company didn’t say when the Windows Phone version would be updated. By setting a timer, users control how long messages and pictures can be viewed by their contacts. The new BBM message type is hidden until the recipient touches and holds on the chat. Then, once the timer has expired or when the recipient takes their finger off the screen, the message is gone, according to BlackBerry. The user also receives a notification if BBM detects that a screenshot of the image or message has been taken.
Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg was sentenced Friday by the Court of Frederiksberg in Denmark to three and a half years in jail for Svartholm Warg A 21-year-old Danish accomplice who was sentenced to serve six months in prison was released Thursday. Sørensen ordered news outlets not to publish the man’s name to protect his privacy. Since he was in custody for 17 months, he might be eligible for compensation for the additional months he was jailed.
Google plans to remove support for the aging Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) version 3.0 protocol in Google Chrome 40, which is expected to ship in about two months. The decision comes after Google security researchers recently Even though POODLE is the biggest security issue found in SSL 3.0 so far, it is not the protocol’s only weakness. SSL version 3 was designed in the mid-1990s and supports outdated cipher suites that are now considered insecure from a cryptographic standpoint.
Browser extensions excel at making your browser more useful, but these customizations often aren't about improving the actual That makes sense: Browser aesthetics are pretty clearly defined, with not a whole lot to improve— Chrome's new tab page.
Systemd is one of the most controversial projects in Linux-land right now. How controversial? So controversial that Lennart Poettering, one of systemd’s developers, even All this backlash is a reaction to systemd’s success. It has been—or is being—adopted by Linux distributions from Fedora and OpenSuSE to Ubuntu, Debian, and even Arch Linux. GNOME is becoming more dependent on it over time—one of Debian’s stated reasons for
