Would you buy a Blackberry now?
New BlackBerry CEO, $1 billion cash infusion renew enterprise customer optimism Jake O’Donnell, News WriterPublished: 04 Nov 2013 Industry experts view this week’s news that BlackBerry will have a new interim CEO as well as a $1 billion infusion of new cash as a positive for the much-maligned mobile giant. John Chen, formerly of […]
Top 5 Tablet Brands? Which will you get?
Top Of The Line Tablets The verdict is in for third-quarter tablet shipment numbers: Shipments are increasing and the brand gap is shrinking.According to IDC Worldwide Tablet Tracker, 47.6 million tablets were shipped in the third quarter, a 36.7 percent year-over-year growth. While the lack of a new iPad launch in both the second and […]
Is Dell getting its mojo back with new tablets and notebook PCs?
NEW YORK — Michael Dell’s initiative to take Dell private sailed past regulatory obstacles this week while the company attempts to make strides and become a leader in tablets and notebooks PCs. The company unveiled what analysts believe are attractive bring your own device (BYOD) products and a cloud service that may give corporate IT […]
BlackBerry To Go Private Under $4.7 Billion Deal With Fairfax
http://crnnetwork.com/portal/wts/cgmceDmejABaeeBf36i7uzEarS4sfua BlackBerry announced Monday it has agreed to a letter of intent led by Fairfax Financial Holdings that would take the ailing smartphone company private for $4.7 billion. Toronto-based Fairfax already owns a 10 percent stake in the company. Also involved in the consortium are Merrill Lynch and BMO Capital Markets. The transaction has already […]
Google Chrome browser exposes passwords: How to secure your browser
Google Chrome policy exposes user passwords on purpose: Here’s how to prevent it Jared writes for PCWorld and TechHive from his remote outpost in Cincinnati.More by Jared Newman Google is taking some serious heat for the way Chrome can reveal all your saved passwords to anyone—anyone!—with access to your computer. Yet Google has defended the move, […]
Protect your Twitter account with Twitter’s new two-factor authentication
On Wednesday, Twitter unveiled a new two-factor authentication method for Android and iOS that allows you to authorize login requests to your Twitter account with just one tap, banishing the usual method of manually inputting security codes generated via an app or sent via text method. Just open up the Twitter app on your smartphone or […]
Touch Chrome ?
Gesture controls (finally!) appear in Chrome’s bleeding-edge Canary test build. There’s no two ways around it: With Microsoft pushing the modern UI in Windows 8 and Intel requiring touchscreen support in all Haswell-powered Ultrabooks, PCs have officially entered a new era of finger-centricness. Google appears poised to get with the times, as several touch-tastic new gesture […]
Android Security Risk Unveiled
Android ‘Master Key’ Security Hole Puts 99% Of Devices At Risk Of Exploitation Mobile security startup Bluebox Securityhas unearthed a vulnerability in Android’s security model which it says means that the nearly 900 million Android phones released in the past four years could be exploited, or some 99% of Android devices. The vulnerability has apparently been […]
Phishing Attacks Increase: How to protect yourself and your business
“Train Or Feel The Pain” More users than ever are experiencing phishing attack attempts. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have documented a drastic increase in the number of web users who have been “subjected” to phishing attacks over the past year, according to a new report. The Moscow-headquartered security firm found that 37.3 million people faced […]
Immortality soon within reach? Head Google Engineer at Global Future Congress: Treating biology as software
Immortality may not be a reality yet, but rapidly evolving technology is making it more realistic, Google‘s engineering director told the Global Future 2045 World Congress. “The life expectancy was 20 1,000 years ago. … We doubled it in 200 years. This will go into high gear within 10 and 20 years from now, probably less than […]
Thinking about a super phone upgrade? Which would you choose?
A Nexus Between Rivals Google this week unveiled its latest Nexus device — the Nexus 4 — a smartphone in white made by LG that’s somewhat akin to Samsung’s Nexus S in that it’s unladen with vendor-specific baubles that can drive developers batty. Selling unlocked for GSM networks starting at $299,Nexus 4 specs are fairly impressive. How do […]
Head-To-Head: Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Vs. Apple iPad Mini
Tablet Mini-War With the release last month of the Galaxy Note 8, Samsung once again looks to take a bite out of Apple’s tablet market share. When we compared Apple’s iPad Mini vs. the Galaxy Note 10.1 last winter, Samsung had not yet invented the 8-inch version. Samsung’s smaller Note is just as capable as the larger, and […]