Yahoo Tech Reviews the New Mac Pro
The new Mac Pro is an insanely powerful, expensive computer ($3,000 and up — way up). It’s designed for high-end tasks: video, photo and music editing, for example. Medical work. Scientific simulations. Designers who want to connect five or six screens. And it has the most Applish design Apple has ever done. It’s an out-there, controversial, very brave trashing of everything we ever knew about desktop computer shapes. It’s not beige....
Google mandates Android logo on device bootup screens
When we first booted up the new HTC One, we were greeted by a “Powered by Android” logo near the bottom of the screen; Samsung has done the same thing with the Galaxy S5. At first this may not seem like a very big deal, but thanks to some internal documents and verification from sources familiar with the matter, there may actually be a lot more to this simple logo than meets the eye. We’ve confirmed with sources that...
Apple Devices Flow Into Corporate World
In The Wall Street Journal, tech reporter Daisuke Wakabayashi describes how Apple is expanding its reach into the business market. “The iPhone has replaced the BlackBerry as the mobile phone of choice, as the iPad assumes tasks once reserved for PCs,” Wakabayashi writes. He notes that “Apple is going mainstream” when it comes to the corporate world, and he profiles multiple large enterprises — including SAP, Nordstrom, and Cisco —...
Microsoft scraps ‘Windows-first’ practice, puts Office on iPad before Surface
The Computerworld story, “Microsoft scraps ‘Windows-first’ practice, puts Office on iPad before Surface,” posted to the newswire Thursday, did not fully identify the person quoted at paragraph 20. Read more: Microsoft scraps ‘Windows-first’ practice, puts Office on iPad before SurfaceViktnedg
Engadget Podcast 390 – 3.28.14
It helps if you’re born Luckey, but if you also work hard at building Oculus Rift, the rewards are apparently somewhere in the ballpark of $2 billion dollars. Not Dr. Evil levels, to be sure, but you could certainly equip a school of dolphins with lasers, or buy a ton of dogecoins. If you haven’t guessed, Joseph and Ben focus on Facebook’s recent announcement to purchase Oculus VR. Terrence is on hand, but seems to...
