If you’ve paid any attention to Intel’s developer event in San Francisco this week, you’ve probably gathered already that there’s almost no chip news at the show. Intel has moved up the food chain, so to speak, and is showing developers what they can build with its technologies rather than focusing on new components. It makes sense, since with PCs on the wane Intel needs developers to get creative with its products. It can no longer flash a faster Core i7 chip and expect them to go do something interesting with it, because PCs nowadays just aren’t that interesting. Instead, it needs to show them what else they can do with its latest chips. So we’ve been hearing a lot about robots, depth-sensing cameras, smart vending machines and bracelets that log you into your PC. It’s important stuff for Intel, and entertaining to watch a sensor-equipped BMX bike jump over the head of CEO Brian Krzanich. But there’s not a ton of big news we hadn’t heard about before.
Samsung Electronics plans a last-ditch appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court to avoid paying hundreds of millions of dollars in fines for infringing Apple patents. The electronics giant said in a court filing on Wednesday that it plans to ask the country's highest court later this year to take up the case, in which Samsung is arguing a Silicon Valley jury erred in a 2012 verdict that left it with a hefty legal bill and massive fines. Samsung's move comes a week after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit rejected Samsung's latest request for a re-hearing of the case. After that decision, an appeal to the Supreme Court is Samsung's final move in the battle, which has seen the two companies in and out of courtrooms for the last few years
With Windows 10, you can quickly and easily change your default Web browser...as well as your default app for reading email, viewing photos, playing music, and more. Here's how to go about it. Pop open the Start menu and go to Settings. Select System, then select Default apps. Here you can change your default calendar, email, mapping, music, photo, video, and Web browsing apps. To set a default app for any of these, click the current default app's name. (If you don't have a default app set, "Choose a default" will appear in place of an app's name and icon.) A menu will pop up with whatever apps you have installed that can handle each task: pick the app you want to use for each task, and Windows will change your default apps accordingly.
Listen to much of the well-peddled advice in the enterprise tech world today, and you'd have to be excused for coming away with the belief that "big data" holds all the answers your company is looking for. Too bad it often can't live up to that promise -- at least, not in its traditional form. Turns out, what's commonly referred to as big data -- all those vast "lakes" of numerical measures captured by the enterprise resource planning (ERP), consumer relationship management (CRM) and other business systems so enthusiastically mined by today's
Adobe Systems released a security patch for LiveCycle Data Services, a development tool used by businesses to synchronize data between back-end servers and rich Internet applications built with Adobe Flex or AIR. The flaw is tracked as CVE-2015-3269 in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database and is rated important by Adobe. The issue is associated with parsing crafted XML entities and falls into a class of vulnerabilities known as XML External Entity (XXE).
It looks like the Vaio brand really After To start, Vaio will introduce one model in the U.S., the Vaio Z Canvas a tablet hybrid with a detachable keyboard. The device (as it’s sold in Japan) features a quad-core 2.2GHz Core i7-4770HQ processor, Iris Pro 5200 graphics, 16GB of RAM, a 12.3-inch display with 2560-by-1704 resolution, and up to 1TB of SSD storage. Of course, there's also the usual SD card slot, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and front- and rear-facing cameras. The current Japanese model is loaded with Windows 8.1; it’s not clear if that will change to Windows 10 for the U..S. launch.
The Note 5 and S6 Edge+ use the same sensor as the Galaxy S6, but Samsung added a few new software tricks.
Mac users will soon be able to say The new version of the popular virtualization software will support running Windows 10 in “Coherence” mode, which means that users can set up a virtual machine with Microsoft’s new operating system and then run Windows applications alongside native Mac apps. The update also works with
AshleyMadison.com's owner said Tuesday it is examining a large batch of data posted online by hackers who breached the website last month. A group calling itself Impact Team initially posted a sample of the data online on July 19, giving the site's owner, Avid Life Media, a month to shut down AshleyMadison.com and another site, Establishedmen.com. The group in part contested the moral position of Ashley Madison, which caters to people seeking extramarital affairs. Avid Life Media, based in Toronto, said in a
A California man who drives for Uber has sued the company in federal court, claiming he’s owed unpaid wages under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act. Greg Fisher, a Los Angeles resident, says Uber should pay him unpaid minimum wage, unpaid overtime, and other damages under the law. He’s driven for Uber for periods longer than eight hours, according to the lawsuit that was filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. For overtime, the Fair Labor Standards Act kicks in after 40 hours of work per week. Fisher is asking the judge to grant class action status, which would allow others to join him as plaintiffs in the lawsuit.