Steven P. Jobs, the visionary co-founder of Apple who helped usher in the era of personal computers and then led a cultural transformation in the way music, movies and mobile communications were experienced in the digital age, died Wednesday. He was 56. The death was announced by Apple, the company Mr. Jobs and his high [...]
Today, 4 October, is new iPhone day and TechRadar is at the Apple press event to bring you all the iPhone news as it breaks. We’ve added links to our coverage below – news, opinions, initial thoughts and reviews. The event kicked off at 6pm BST and as well as clicking through the links that [...]
SAVANNAH, Ga. – It’s just before noon on a recent weekday, and the nation’s fastest-growing container shipping port is bustling with activity. Massive, 10-story-high cranes, each shaped like an upside down “U,” lift tractor-trailer-size containers onto and off cargo ships at dockside. A station checking for radioactivity in containers leaving the port clicks right along, [...]
Scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst report that for the first time they have designed a much simpler method of preparing ordered magnetic materials than ever before, by coupling magnetic properties to nanostructure formation at low temperatures. The innovative process allows them to create room-temperature ferromagnetic materials that are stable for long periods more [...]
New developments announced by Facebook at its F8 Developer Conference in San Francisco on Thursday might give the social networking king new advantages over Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) as the two battle for dominance. They may also create a world of hurt for Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL). Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Timeline, which lets subscribers store [...]
In October 2010, Proton OnSite’s subsidiary SunHydro opened a hydrogen fuel station near its Wallingford, Connecticut, headquarters. The station was the first of at least nine that the company planned to build up and down the East Coast to supply hydrogen-powered fuel-cell electric vehicles. Yet SunHydro has not built a single additional station since. Despite [...]
HTC has shown off its first two smartphones running Mango, Microsoft’s (Nasdaq: MSFT) upcoming update for its Windows Phone mobile operating system. The new devices, the Titan and the Radar, are being shown to some consumers in London, Paris, Madrid and Berlin. The Titan has a 4.7-inch display — much larger than a typical smartphone’s [...]
Facebook plans to launch a music service on September 22, which happens to coincide with the company’s F8 conference. The news comes via CNBC’s twitter feed which reported the headline earlier today. A quick blurb on CNBC’s website also mentions the pending music service launch, suggesting that Facebook won’t actually host the music, but will [...]
Smartphones and tablets might be the current hot technology, but history says it’s all just another fad. Twenty years from now, almost nobody will own either device. Seems unbelievable, but the same technology that makes them hot today will make them not tomorrow. If this sounds ridiculous, consider what happened to another “must-have” technology that [...]
A government official in Germany has ordered websites to stop using Facebook’s “like” button, saying they give away personal information. Thilo Weichert, data protection commissioner in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, issued a statement Friday saying analysis by his office showed that using the popular buttons transfers data to Facebook’s servers in the United States. [...]
The class-action suit, filed in the US District Court here, claims HarperCollins, Hachette, Macmillan, Penguin and Simon & Schuster had worked with Apple to break Internet retailer Amazon.coms discount pricing strategy and help Apples iPad compete with the Kindle marketed by Amazon. According to the suit, the publishers believed that Amazons popular Kindle e-reader device [...]
Microsoft announced today that its upcoming Explorer Touch Mouse will arrive in September and will cost $50 in the US. This new mouse joins the Touch Mouse ($80, coming this fall) and the Arc Touch Mouse($60, available now) in the company’s stable of touch-based pointing devices. Today, we are excited to announce the newest member [...]
The Mozilla Foundation, a nonprofit corporation that makes the Firefox browser, released an experimental tool last week that could dramatically change the way people identify themselves online. Instead of handing your log-in credentials over to countless different websites, or to a site like Facebook or Google that then confirms your identity with other sites, Mozilla’s [...]
Membership in Google+, which was launched only about three weeks ago, is soaring. Calculations by Comscore indicate the service had 20 million visitors in just 21 days. Meanwhile, Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) is reported to be preparing to add a social gaming feature to the Google+ service in order to attract even more subscribers and pose [...]
Apple has delighted its shareholders by racking up another record quarter, strengthened by strong sales of its iPhones, iPads and record sales of its Mac computers. It also hinted that the next version of the iPhone would be released in September, alluding to a “future product transition” then. The firm’s revenues were $28.57bn, up 90% [...]
San Francisco (CNN) — A tablet computer doesn’t have to look like a flat rectangle. For its entry into the U.S. tablet market, Sony Electronics is forgoing that common design, popularized by Apple’s iPad. The Japanese company’s upcoming tablets look and feel more like folded magazines and a pair of sunglasses than the parade of [...]
Under the legacy approach to software development, developers write code, which is then frozen, tested by another group, released and ultimately supported by yet another team again. Under this highly structured approach, large enterprise software applications are typically updated every 6 to 12 months, and up to several years can pass between major operating system [...]
The first attack in the Kurram tribal area hit a vehicle, killing five people, said Noor Alam, a local government official. As tribesmen rushed to the scene, the vehicle was struck again, killing two more people, he said. Minutes later, a suspected U.S. drone attacked a nearby house, killing five people, Alam said. Seven of [...]
At least 4800 Australian websites have been lost with no chance of recovery following a break-in at Australian domain registrar and web host Distribute.IT. The hack attack caused so much damage that four of the company’s servers were “unrecoverable”, the company said, leaving thousands of website owners in the lurch. “The overall magnitude of the [...]
The news capped a week in which the Lulz Security group of hackers launched a cyber crime spree against other video game companies. In an unexpected twist, Lulz responded to the news of the attack on Sega by offering to track down and punish the hackers who attacked the Japanese maker of video game software. [...]