CEO Sundar chai told a group of students during a visit to India that the company may conduct an online poll to select the name of the next version of Android, which is already referred to as Android N. He also quipped that if all of India voted, the dessert could bear an Indian name. It’s been all American-friendly treats so far. got started on its dessert craze for Android names with version 1....
Amidst the unveiling of Galaxy S7 and LG G5 next week, Xiaomi is also all set to launch its flagship phone for 2016: the Mi 5. Details about the handset have been surfacing on the internet once in a while, but most rumors surrounding the phone has been ambiguous and unreliable to say the least. Today though, the folks over at GizChina have managed to get their hands on some slides from the Mi 5 presentation, which reveals the full specifications of the handset....
Remember how Google Maps can show you how busy a restaurant is, what is the time when the Metro is most likely to be crowded and so on? Well, it is the same data that is now being used to let health officials and administrations in which areas are crowded and which are not. And this information is critical in these times when the best way to combat COVID-19 remains social distancing....
Right on schedule, the CyanogenMod team has started rolling out the latest Milestone build of CM11 for all their supported devices. The latest Milestone brings with it some notable new goodies and other bug-fixes, which should be appreciated by all regular CyanogenMod users. The highlight of the 7th milestone release of CM11 has to be the new Theme Chooser UI, along with a completely overhauled Theme engine. The Theme engine had made its way into the nightlies quite a few weeks back, but without the new Theme chooser UI, it was pretty much useless....
The CyanogenMod team today announced that they will no longer support WhisperPush with CyanogenMod 13. In addition, it will put an end to all WhisperPush services from February 1, 2016, which means that the service will stop working for all CyanogenMod users running CM10.2 and higher. In its announcement, the CM team states that while they are still “very big proponents of the secured messaging platform,” maintaining and implementing their own secure server led to quite a bit of issues, which was a huge factor in their decision....
While your information security team can and should act as the guardian of your network, you need to bring other departments onboard as well. Each has its own skin in the game where security is concerned. And if you make decisions about cybersecurity without consulting them, you may paradoxically create an even greater risk. The challenges of cybersecurity today According to a recent survey from industrialized services and automation firm NetEnrich, 20 to 40 percent of technology funding is now spent outside the purview of the IT department....
1. Decoding how kids get into hacking New research identifies characteristics and gender-specific behaviors in kids that could lead them to become juvenile hackers. Researchers assessed responses from 50,000 teens around the world to determine predictors of hacking and are the first to dig into gendered differences from a global data set. For most kids, simply having opportunities to hack played a big role in malicious behavior. Read more »...
Nothing is more frustrating than hitting a brick wall when installing something of importance to your computer. While you can purchase external memory, we’ve all seen those flashy 1TB hard drives for sale; they aren’t exactly cheap. Luckily, there are other ways to open space on your computer without investing in extra equipment. Tap or click here for 5 tips to back up your data like a pro. You can easily clear space on your PC or Mac in just a few seconds....
That’s the word from Thomas Erl, CEO of Arcitura Education, which provides technology skills training to thousands of professionals across the globe, and co-author of A Field Guide to Digital Transformation. “It’s a new era for enterprise architects,” he says. Their roles are being transformed along with the business, Erl, who has written extensively about EA over the years, explained in a recent interview. “Their lives have been impacted significantly,” he says....
As a result, the rules will enter into force before the end of the year. That means by the end of 2024, all mobile devices sold in the EU will have a USB Type-C charging port – including Apple devices. Also: Don’t waste your money on these Apple products: December 2022 edition Under the common charger rules, all small and medium-sized devices, such as mobile phones, tablets, speakers and cameras, will require the same charger, making it easier to find the right cable and reducing the amount of chargers you need to purchase and carry around....
This manufacturer has a catalog with mid-range models such as Moto M or Moto G4 and G4 Plus, and daring models like the Moto Z Play, which is modular and ultra thin. But also it has high-end devices, corresponding to the Moto X line. Regarding this range, the company will launch a new smartphone for 2017, and already circulating leaks that will help us to know how it will be....
In the midst of all these uncertainties and confusions, the first Fuchsia code came out without any simple statement which has been issued by Google. Despite having well-known names, the Fuchsia is being developed in a very discreet manner and without any kind of information from Google. This new operating system does not have a specific destination, but many think it may allocate the IoT and all new systems that will bring....
Retina display? Check. USB Type-C? Check. Touch ID? Check. Slimmed out bezels? Check. The design is mash-up of the new MacBook Pros and the good-old MacBook Air with a tapered base. It’s a full retina display which is a HUGE markup to the old MacBook Air, but not True tone like the new MBP. Glossy LCD with sRGB color spectrum can be a disappointment for some. It’s still 13.3-inch screen, but cutting down of bezels and some ports (more on that later) has led to a smaller footprint, and it is now 17% lesser volume than before and a quarter pound lighter....
The Chrome team at Google today announced the release of Chrome 37 for Android. This release includes quite a lot of enhancements including a Material design makeover, which we had first seen on Chrome Beta more than a month ago. Another new feature in this release is that you will automatically be signed into all the Google related sites, once you login to Chrome with your Google account. A miniature and readable change-log of Chrome 37 for Android is below while the full list of changes can be found here....
Beverly Hills is a good case in point. David Schirmer, Beverly Hills CIO, says the city “is committed to being among the smartest safest cities in the world. Increasingly, projects undertaken by a municipality have a very strong technology component – from lice Fire 911 dispatch systems to field crew work order asset management systems, parking systems, eGov applications, communication systems, so on. The CIO’s role has exped beyond the care feeding of servers, networks switches, desktops, communications systems, to providing e-Business strategy to the enterprise to facilitate operational efficiency effectiveness....
But thanks to the unstoppable march of technology, even videos are now at risk of being faked convincingly. With emerging and terrifyingly advanced face tracking and video manipulation methods, a new era of disinformation is looming. From a politician saying words that weren’t spoken to a celebrity doing things that weren’t done, the threat of these ultra-realistic fake videos, now collectively known as Deepfakes, is something that can no longer be denied....
The phone is scheduled to hit the markets globally on August 26. If you are unaware, Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 4 is an upgrade over the old Galaxy Z Flip 3, launched in August 2021. Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 4 Details The new Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 4 looks good, and the foldable clamshell-type design is incredibly compact, lightweight, and innovative. The smartphone also comes with two displays – the primary one is 6....
The EU Parliament, Council, and Commission late last week agreed to the new rules, the Digital Markets Act, with EU lawyers now checking the legal text to finalise how the laws will operate. Once finalised, the details of the Digital Markets Act will be made publicly available and sent through to the EU Parliament and Council for approval. Once approved, the Act will go into effect 20 days after its publication and its rules would apply six months after....
Computer Hope defines ethical hacking as hacking done by a company or individual to determine where potential security threats might be in a business’ computer network. The information that the ethical hacker discovers can then be used to address the perceived security threats and tighten up the computer network as required. There are a few elements that need to be in place, however, before hacking is considered as “ethical”:...
You might be thinking, “No big deal, I back everything up on the cloud.” But, if you’ve listened to Kim’s show or visited Komando.com long enough, you know cloud storage options like iCloud, OneDrive, Google Drive and Dropbox fall short. Sure, they’re a convenient way to store files and access them from multiple devices. If the worst happens, though, restoring your files onto each of your devices would be a complete nightmare!...
