If it's new apps and games you crave, here are the top options out this week.
Some of these products are still in beta, while some aren't even available in the U.S. But we got to go hands on with them at IFA 2015.
The speaker gets its name from its water-resistant enclosure--you can even rinse it off under a faucet.
IFTTT has brought its Do Button to Android Wear, effectively turning Google’s smartwatches into customizable remote controls. The The most obvious benefit is for connected home products, especially those that don’t have their own Android Wear apps, or whose apps are more complicated than you might want. Garageio’s
For the past several weeks an intelligence-gathering campaign has been using fake LinkedIn recruiter profiles to map out the professional networks of IT security experts, researchers from F-Secure have discovered. LinkedIn can be a great tool to establish new professional relationships and discover job opportunities. However, accepting connection requests from unknown people is a double-edged sword that can put both employees and the companies they work for at risk. There are multiple cases where attackers have used fake LinkedIn profiles to gather sensitive information about organizations and their employees. Knowing who is the manager of a particular department in a company or who is a member of the organization's IT staff can be very useful in planning targeted attacks.
Here’s one way that Microsoft could help save the PC market: shut down its Xbox division. That almost certainly won’t happen, of course. But based on what Intel, Asus, Acer, Lenovo, and others have announced at the IFA show, PC gaming could be the salvation of the PC industry. And it’s not like this has been a terrifically difficult conclusion to draw, either. Kirk Skaugen, Intel’s senior vice president and general manager of the PC Client Group, appeared at each of the three press events hosted by his PC customers, all with a similar message: Gamers refresh their PCs on average every two to three years, versus five years for the average PC user. And when gamers do buy hardware, they’re willing to pay for it—which is why that at IFA, companies like Acer were launching premium notebooks like the Predator series that cost nearly as much as the $2,000 or so a premium PC could command 20 years ago.
Chromecast users shouldn’t have to wait too much longer to watch Sling TV on the big screen. In an Sling TV is a $20 per month service that offers
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Microsoft’s Windows 10 is a thing, apparently. Nick Parker, corporate vice president of the OEM division at Microsoft, introduced the IFA audience here in Berlin to Windows 10, pointing out the momentum that the operating system already has. “Our strategy is clear and our strategy is to build the best mobile and productivity services for the cloud-first mobile-first world,” Parker said. However one cuts the data—509 million new Windows devices in the coming year, or 1.5 billion Windows users—Microsoft is poised to succeed, he said. The numbers that Parker was here to talk about, though, was how Windows 10 has fared—and it has fared well.
“What do you mean?” has been a big theme around Spotify in recent weeks. Justin Bieber’s tune of the same name just had the Spotify is now hoping to clear up the confusion that sparked panic, an
We’ve talked about One good way to do that is to customize a folder’s column order—name, size, type, date modified, and so on—under the details view. It’s really easy to organize columns in the order you’d like instead of just using the defaults. In fact, you can even apply a particular column order that you create to most other folders on your system.
Longtime Chrome has added two new features that work behind the scenes to ensure the browser isn’t gobbling up memory whole-hog. The first is how Chrome restores tabs after a reboot of the browser. This is especially important if you have the browser set to open your most recently used webpages or to open a specific set of pages every time.