Ballmer: four million Windows 8 upgrades in four days
By Brian Heater posted Oct 30th 2012 12:19PM Greetings in beautiful, gray Redmond, WA. What better time to kick off year’s Build event at the Microsoft campus than four days after the launch of Windows 8? CEO Steve Ballmer started the developer-centric event off with a nice little number: four million. According to the enthusiastic exec, that’s the number of Windows 8 upgrades MS has seen in the four days since launch...
ARM’s Cortex-A50 chips promise 3x performance of current superphones by 2014, throw in 64-bit for good measure
By Sharif Sakr posted Oct 30th 2012 12:20PM We knew this was coming, not least because someone let the cat out of the bag (or at least a paw) last night. Nevertheless, it’s only today that we’re getting the full picture of ARM’s “clean sheet” v8 architecture, and you know what? It’s pretty astounding. Top billing goes to the Cortex-A57, which is said to deliver “three times the performance of...
Apple Introduces iPhone 5
With support for the latest wireless technologies, iPhone 5 connects to more networks all over the world.* And Wi-Fi is faster, too. So you can browse, download, and stream content at remarkable speeds, wherever you happen to be. Learn more about the features of iPhone 5 Link: Apple Introduces iPhone 5click here!
Gmail composer goes to a simple pop-up, gives multitaskers freedom to fly
By Jon Fingas posted Oct 30th 2012 12:44PM As much as Gmail shines when it’s on the web, some of its most avid users stay in native apps for the multitasking; having to check a past message in the web client has usually meant putting the current draft on hold, or at least maintaining a near-photographic memory. Google wants to translate some of that desktop experience to the web through a new composition interface it’s...
S.C. governor’s post-breach data encryption claims are off-base, analysts say
Security analysts this week challenged South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley’s defense of the state’s information security practices in the wake of a data breach at the S.C. Department of Revenue that exposed the Social Security Numbers (SSNs) of 3.6 million people. In a news conference Monday, Haley insisted that the state was following industry practices when it decided not to encrypt SSNs and other personal taxpayer...
