Leap Motion Controller review: A touchscreen interface without the touching It’s ‘Minority Report’ meets Microsoft Kinect as virtual interactivity comes to the PC. Cool, yes, but does it have any practical value? Anyone who’s ever stood in front of a […]
How to Keep Terrorists, Hackers and Other Bad Guys From Stealing Your Data
How to Keep Terrorists, Hackers and Other Bad Guys From Stealing Your Data The sheer volume of digital information that businesses produce and collect today offers a greater incentive than ever for hackers to break into private online communications and […]
Apple Developer Center is back online
Apple Developer Center is back online After a week long outage, Apple’s Developer Center is back up and running After an outage that lasted about a week, it appears that Apple’s Developer Center is now back up and running, with […]
Online ad group accuses Mozilla of anti-business bias
Analysts say there’s more to the story, contend that users blame browser makers — not advertisers — for over-zealous data collection An online advertising group this week attacked Mozilla, the maker of Firefox, for being anti-business, hiding behind a veneer […]
Firefox OS for phones is shipping, and it is impressive
Time to eat crow about the Firefox OS, which I mocked when it was first announced. here are a few Linux-based Phone operating systems out there working hard toward an eventual release – and, hopefully, some actual phone hardware that […]
Why the new ‘superphones’ really are super
Why the new ‘superphones’ really are super The word ‘superphone’ is an old marketing and headline gimmick, but this year’s lineup of extreme phones has earned that moniker. The word superphone has been used by marketers and journalists since the […]
EMC battles rogue backups
EMC is providing new controls that will allow its storage systems to handle backup, archiving and disaster recovery With a new set of hardware and software releases, EMC is promising to simplify its customers’ storage infrastructure by combining different types […]