IBM has unveiled a fresh crop of apps resulting from the partnership it forged with Apple last year. Announced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the three new mobile apps for iOS target the banking, retail, and airline industries and join the Advisor Alerts, for example, is designed for enterprises in banking and financial services and aims to help financial professionals prioritize client-related tasks while away from the office. Powered by customized analytics, the app includes a personalized dashboard that displays recommended next steps and alerts about portfolio-affecting events; it also provides a platform for communication with colleagues back at the office.
Preinstalled apps can be a mixed bag, but Waze is one you should be happy to see waiting for you on your next phone. Google said Monday that Waze is now on the list of apps that phone manufacturers and carriers can preinstall on Android devices. The company refers to such apps as a Google Mobile Service. The Google-owned Waze is a social traffic app, which uses human reports to give a more detailed picture about your commute and potential traffic hazards. It's seriously useful for anybody who commutes. Waze announced the move at
Google has quietly backed away from a pledge that new Android devices running Lollipop would have full-disk encryption enabled by default. According to an
Google's The milestone jumps past last month's analyst estimate of about 720,000 Android Wear shipments, which many considered a sign that
"When's But Blizzard is adding a secondary subscription model that might interest the hardcore: WoW Tokens apparently function similarly to Plex in
Ikea is literally supercharging its furniture. The Swedish purveyor of do-it-yourself home decor says it’s debuting a new line of desks, lamps, and tables that will be able to wirelessly charge your phone or tablet. The furniture will use the
T-Mobile is moving forward with plans to offer LTE over unlicensed Wi-Fi bands, potentially improving coverage in areas where its regular network struggles. According The idea,
With all the tales of Kickstarter projects gone wrong, it's oh-so-refreshing when one of them turns out right. InXile announced recently that post-release support for "Part of the newfound freedom we’ve gained from being an exclusively crowdfunded company is that it allows us to offer a high level of post-release support," wrote
Samsung The new Galaxy S6 features the next iteration of Samsung’s TouchWiz UI—or TouchWiz Nature UX, or whatever it’s called nowadays. (I actually asked for clarification on the name of the overlay, and even Samsung couldn’t give me a straight answer.) It’s built on top of Android Lollipop and this time it’s been drastically scaled down, though Samsung still has a ways to go before it's no longer guilty of Blue-ing up the Android interface. I remember when I first fired up the Galaxy S4 and noticed its crowded application drawer. There were all sorts of apps in there I never planned to use, courtesy of Samsung and the carriers. What’s worse: I couldn’t actually delete them from storage, so all that extra space was taken up by apps I never intended to use.
GDC hasn't even officially started and already there's huge news for the game development community: Epic's esteemed Unreal Engine is now So how will Epic make money? Here's how it works, in "You can download the engine and use it for everything from game development, education, architecture, and visualization to VR, film and animation. When you ship a game or application, you pay a 5% royalty on gross revenue after the first $3,000 per product, per quarter. It’s a simple arrangement in which we succeed only when you succeed."
The Withings The wearables sport an old-fashioned analog watch, but they have the same kind of tracking capabilities as devices from the Jawbone or Fitbit line. Withings announced at
Qualcomm is hoping to take on Apple's Touch ID fingerprint sensor with “ Touch ID is generally regarded as the best fingerprint reader for mobile devices, as it can unlock iPhones and iPads with just a light touch in any orientation. But it does have one big weakness: The sensor has trouble recognizing damp fingers, so it can be frustrating to use on humid days. Qualcomm may have the opposite problem, as it uses an ultrasonic sensor that penetrates the outer layers of the skin and creates a 3D map of your finger's unique traits, including ridge lines and sweat pores. According
When it comes to smart lighting controls for the connected home, there have been just two basic choices: You can plug lamps into ugly wall-wart plug-in modules, or you can remove your existing light switches and replace them with smart switches. The first choice is ugly and doesn’t work with overhead lighting; the second choice is expensive and requires you to handle bare electrical wires. But now the crew at Switchmate have an ingenious third way that delivers the benefit of a switch replacement without the need to deal with wiring. I first saw a prototype of the Switchmate back at CES. It’s a block of plastic with a servo motor, a Bluetooth Low Energy radio, and a couple of magnets on the inside, and a simple button on the outside. Place the Switchmate over your existing light switch and the magnets secure it. Press the button and the motor moves the existing light switch’s control mechanism to turn the light on and off (it works with both a traditional toggle switch as well as the fancier Decora/rocker switch).
Probably not, but having the serial number gives you at least some chance of recovery. Without it, even if the police find your laptop in a stash of stolen property, you would have no way of proving it’s yours. And no, booting the computer, entering your password, and showing your files won’t work—unless it’s recovered in the first few hours after the theft. Stolen computers’ hard drives are almost always wiped clean of any record of the lawful owner.
Xiaomi hat eine Kamera für Trendsportler veröffentlicht. Kommt sie auch in die Schweiz, könnte sie der GoPro gehörig Konkurrenz machen.
Schon vor der offiziellen Präsentation werden weitere Funktionen der Apple Watch bekannt. Die Displays sollen von Samsung und LG stammen.
Smartphone-Hersteller HTC hat gemeinsam mit Spieleentwickler Valve eine Cyberbrille gebaut. Ende Jahr soll sie marktreif sein.
Wireless Charging ist auf dem Vormarsch: Die neuen Galaxy-Smartphones können kabellos geladen werden und Ikea integriert Auflade-Stationen in Möbel.
Sowohl Microsoft als auch Acer haben in Barcelona neue Windows-Smartphones zu Kampfpreisen präsentiert. Windows 10 ist aber noch nicht integriert.
Mit der LG Watch Urbane LTE kann man telefonieren und Nachrichten versenden, auch wenn kein Handy gekoppelt ist. Zudem ist die Uhr ein Walkie-Talkie.
Die Watch ist die erste Datenuhr von Huawei: Punkten will der chinesische Hersteller mit rundem Display, Edelstahl und Saphirglas.
«The Order: 1886» legt die Messlatte für Game-Grafik markant höher. Spielerisch vermag das PS4-Game aber nicht restlos zu überzeugen.
Die zwei neuen Samsung-Smartphones überzeugen optisch und in ihrer Performance. Das abgerundete Display des Edge hat noch Verbesserungspotenzial.
Mit dem Z4 stellt Sony in Barcelona ein wasserdichtes 10-Zoll-Tablet vor. Mit einer externen Tastatur soll das Gerät zum Laptop werden.
Wer alle sozialen Netzwerke gleichzeitig im Auge behält, vergeudet viel Zeit. Eine Expertin gibt Tipps, wie Social Media im Job effizient eingesetzt werden.
Mit dem Galaxy S6 und dem S6 Edge hat Samsung das Design seiner Smartphones radikal verändert. Die neue Devise: edles Metall statt Plastik.
Zwei neue Smartphones hat Samsung am Mobile World Congress in Barcelona enthüllt. Das Galaxy S6 und das S6 Edge gibt es ab April in der Schweiz.
Heute präsentiert Samsung sein neues Flaggschiff. Kurz bevor das Galaxy S6 in Barcelona enthüllt wird, sind Bilder des Telefons im Netz aufgetaucht.