Apple products are still the preferred mobile devices among enterprise users, but competitors are chipping away at the company’s lead, especially in the tablet market. Those are the findings from enterprise mobility management vendor Good Technology, which issued a In the first quarter of 2015, 72 percent of all smartphones activated globally ran iOS. Compared to 2014’s fourth quarter, that’s a 1 percent decrease. Android device activations, meanwhile, reached 26 percent, increasing 1 percent from the fourth quarter of 2014. Windows Phone activations remained steady at 1 percent, the same as the previous six quarters, said the report.
The U.S. Department of Transportation should begin to research technologies to combat “rogue” drone flights around sensitive areas like the White House and airports, a senator has recommended. The U.S. government, working with private companies, needs to develop counter-drone technologies to defend sensitive airspaces, Senator Mark Warner, a Virginia Democrat, said Monday Warner, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, raised concerns about drones being used in crimes or potential attacks. A
Adding a solid-state drive to your PC may be one of the Japanese drive manufacturer Fixstar
Why bother with trackpads and keyboards when you could control your PC with fruit and Play-Doh instead? That's the central question behind Makey Makey Go, a Makey Makey Go plugs into computers via USB, and uses an alligator clip to connect with various objects. As long as the object conducts a small amount of electricity, touching it will send a signal to the USB stick, which in turn sends a mouse or keyboard message to the computer. A video on Makey Makey's Kickstarter page shows people touching Jell-O to Flappy Bird, playing piano on a banana, using a real pinball machine to control a PC pinball game, and rigging up a homemade version of
Microsoft plans to let Windows 10 Insiders hop onto the official release train when the software ships to manufacturers this summer. In response to a question on Twitter, The fact that Windows 10 Insiders will get a free upgrade to what is essentially a final version is not surprising. Microsoft already plans to offer
The Raspberry Pi popularized the concept of the micro-PC with a compact, $35 no-frills device that didn’t even come with its own case. Now a new micro-PC threatens to make the Raspberry Pi look like a luxury model. Next Thing Co. recently announced a The secret to Chip’s low price is one part business plan and one part component costs. To cut down the price, Next Thing went with a ARM-based 1GHz processor from
Even in this modern computing era Windows is still dogged by driver problems—at least during the technical preview phase. Owners of the “Please do NOT try to install Windows 10 on the new Surface 3. There are no drivers for the Intel x5/x7 Atom processors,” Microsoft Community Moderator and Microsoft MVP Barb Bowman posted on the
Blue Microphones made a name for itself building top-shelf USB mics. Now the company is here to demonstrate that it can do phenomenal work with analog audio going in the opposite direction. Take one look at Blue’s Mo-Fi headphones, though, and you’ll see that their engineers were thinking of much more than building headphones that sound good. The Mo-Fi’s strut-like exoskeleton resembles the suspension system on an exotic supercar. Fabricated mostly from aluminum, the headphones have six flexible joints to ensure a custom fit no matter the size of your noggin or the distance between your ears and the top of your head. A tension dial on the top back of the generously padded headband lets you dial in an even more perfect fit—not too tight and not too loose.
Word has always allowed its users to customize its menus, style sheets, shortcut keys, macros, and a number of other features. Fortunately for all of us, Word makes customization fairly simple. With just a few clicks and a couple of keystrokes, you can customize Word to do most anything. For this exercise, we’ll explain how to customize the Ribbon menu. To customize the Ribbon menu, right-click anywhere on the Ribbon. Select
People are tired of being commoditized, sick of their photos and posts and life stories being used to sell advertising. But few social networking upstarts have been able to capitalize on this, because even people who loathe Facebook won’t leave it. But Tsu, which bills itself as “the people’s social network,” launched last fall, shortly after
Your PC may not be as essential to you as your smartphone, but chances are it’s still pretty damn important. So it’s completely understandable if your first reaction is to freeze and freak out when you run into a PC emergency, such as a broken screen, accidentally-deleted important file, or a virus. But panicking is counter-productive, because time is often of the essence. Don’t worry. While you can’t call 9-1-1, here’s what you A few months ago, I was working on my MacBook Air next to my French bulldog, Blanka. For some unexplained dog reason, Blanka suddenly decided he needed to be
Hollywood loves HDR and so should you. Here's how it's making 4K's future brighter.