Amazon bolsters UK streaming library ahead of tomorrow’s relaunch
Tomorrow, Lovefilm becomes Amazon Prime Instant Video, and unless you take advantage of the various early adopter discounts, it’ll cost you an up-front annual fee of £79. On the upside, the company is pushing to add more TV shows to the service in the hope of clawing back some of Netflix’s lost ground. First up, Amazon has signed a deal with Warner Bros. that’ll see the first seasons of Arrow, The Following and...
Samsung beefs up Knox mobile management software
BARCELONA — One day after announcing the Galaxy S5 smartphone with a security-focused fingerprint scanner, Samsung announced that second-generation Knox software for enterprise-level security and management of Samsung devices will ship sometime in the second quarter. Knox 2.0 gives IT shops cloud-based purchasing and control of all Samsung services and apps, and launches a single sign-on for end users of Samsung gear, three...
iPad Helps Broadway Director Stay in Step
Whiting decided to develop an app called Stage Write to digitize the process of staging a production. Available exclusively on iPad, the app lets a director draw images and create icons representing the stage, scenery, and actors — and drag icons around to track movements. Because dimensions are kept in proportion, the director can get a visual sense of how things fit on stage. Arrows can be drawn to indicate movement, and a table can...
Huawei’s flagship phablet is only $300 in China, and its CMO explains why
Huawei’s recently announced MediaPad X1 has caused quite a stir — it’s the lightest and smallest-ever 7-inch tablet (let alone a phablet), while also packing decent features like a 1,920 x 1,200 display, 5,000mAh battery and 150 Mbps LTE. The retail price quoted at the launch event was €399 or about $550 for the LTE model, but back in China, it appears that Huawei’s slapped an insane discount on the same...
How to use Google Chrome’s secret guest profile feature
We’ve already looked at how you can create and manage multiple user profiles in Chrome, but Google’s web browser is a program with many surprises–one of which is a beta feature that creates a generic guest profile that visitors can use to browse the web on your PC. Guest profiles are a must for anyone who occasionally hands over their PC to others. With guest profiles, you won’t have to worry about your friends...
