Microsoft has pre-empted a new feature Google plans to include in the next version of Android with an Called Bing Snapshots, the feature is incredibly similar to the
Google has shut down its website that predicted how influenza and dengue fever were spreading based on queries that people ran in the company's search engine. Instead of running Google Flu Trends, the company will pass along the data gleaned from user searches to heath organizations that study infectious diseases so they can develop their own prediction models. Those organizations include the Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, Boston Children’s Hospital and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Influenza Division, Google
Hewlett-Packard has reported another quarter of declining profits and revenue, with its massive corporate split now less than three months away. Revenue for the quarter ended July 31 dropped 8 percent to $25.3 billion, while profit was down 13 percent to $854 million, HP It’s the sixteenth quarter in a row that HP’s revenue has declined, as the company continues to battle an ongoing shift from PCs to tablets and smartphones, and from on-premise IT equipment to the cloud. Sales were down across most of its divisions, including PCs, printers, and services, though HP’s enterprise products division reported some growth.
Facebook has released as open source a library it uses to generate code, providing a way for outside programmers to automate some of the routine work they do when creating large programs. "Developers outside of Facebook can use this tool to raise the level of abstraction in their code and build more powerful frameworks," wrote Alejandro Marcu, a software engineer at Facebook, about Frameworks have been immensely valuable in software development because they save a lot of time in developing a new application by streamlining many of the low-level implementation chores. For instance, the Ruby-On-Rails framework proved to be immensely popular for quickly setting up Web applications.
Spotify wants to cozy up to you and find out more about what you do, where you go, who your contacts are. Does that make you uncomfortable? The streaming music service just updated its privacy policy with some major changes, first noticed by With your permission, we may collect information stored on your mobile device, such as contacts, photos, or media files. Local law may require that you seek the consent of your contacts to provide their personal information to Spotify, which may use that information for the purposes specified in this Privacy Policy.
Samsung lost ground to Apple in the worldwide smartphone market for the second quarter of 2015, as the overall growth rate for sales of the devices slowed. Buoyed by purchases of large-size iPhones, Apple’s share of global smartphone sales increased to 14.6 percent during the quarter compared to 12.2 percent a year earlier, Gartner said Thursday. Sales of iPhones totaled 48 million during the second quarter compared to 35 million in the year-ago quarter. Meanwhile, Samsung’s share slipped to 21.9 percent from 26.2 percent during 2014’s second quarter. Though the company managed to sell more phones in the second quarter than it did a year earlier, 76 million compared to 72 million, it did not keep up with Apple’s growth.
Google will have to find a new way to attach the modules for its ambitious Project Ara smartphone because the device has failed a drop test. The admission, made via Twitter, comes a week after
The end of Flash's ubiquity on the web appears nigh. After Apple’s anti-Flash stance on iOS extended to Android and YouTube dumped Flash for HTML5, Flash’s fate for web video was pretty much sealed. Web advertising, however, was an area Flash still dominated, at least for desktops. Now Amazon has made the first move in what may become a trend for advertising platforms. The company says it will no longer accept Flash ads on Amazon.com and the Amazon Advertising Platform beginning Tuesday, September 1. Amazon is not taking a stand for technology, however. The company says it is doing this because of recent changes from the major browser makers. Amazon owned less then one percent worldwide market share of digital ads in 2014, according to
Nvidia may soon be the odd company out when it comes to adaptive refresh rates. Intel is apparently looking to add the Video Electronic Standards Association's (VESA) Intel fellow and chief graphics software architect David Blythe recently told
DirecTV is bringing UltraHD movies to more subscribers with its new 4K Genie Mini set-top box. The device, which DirecTV says is “about the size of a paperback book,” receives 4K video from the main Genie HD DVR, and pipes it to compatible 4K televisions over HDMI. Previously, 4K was only available on a handful of “ As for content, DirecTV isn’t offering full-blown 4K channels just yet. For now, subscribers merely get a rental service with a rotating selection of movies. There are also a few other caveats to be aware of:
Camera enthusiasts assembled on a stage in Tokyo on Thursday for a traditional group photo, taken by a photographer in front of them. But as they gathered, they lifted slender stick-like cameras above their heads, instantly grabbing 360-degree pics of the room. Call it the 360 selfie. The event at Tokyo’s Miraikan technology museum was sponsored by camera maker Ricoh, and its purpose was to award winners in a contest of apps for the company’s Theta, a 360-degree camera
If you’re wondering when Windows 10 for Mobile will land this fall, there’s a pretty good chance it’ll be in October. That’s when Microsoft reportedly has an event planned to unveil a slew of new hardware, including
When Nvidia The radically small, radically power-efficient GTX 750 Ti, released in February 2014.
Will support for high-definition audio streams be enough to break Sonos’ iron grip on this market?
