While the Surface Pro 3 was announced to much surprise, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and former Nokia CEO Stephen Elop canceled the Surface Mini project just weeks before. We’ve heard about the Surface Mini many times over the past few years, but Windows Central has now obtained images of the device.
Square’s been slowly rolling out its physical Square Cash Cards to users for the last few weeks. Today, Square CEO Jack Dorsey announced that, starting now, anyone can get one of the prepaid debit cards through the Square app or website.
Yesterday's massive ransomware outbreak of a mutant, NSA-supercharged strain of the Petya malware is still spreading, but the malware's author made a mere $10K off it and will likely not see a penny more, because Posteo, the German email provider the crook used for ransom payment negotiations, shut down their account.
Only 2 out of every 1000 mobile web users ever tap a custom share button. That means people are over 11 times more likely to tap a mobile advertisement than a mobile share button for Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, etc.
Nintendo today announced the Super Nintendo Classic, which will be out on September 29 for $80 and include 21 games including the previously unreleased Star Fox 2.
Ebook projects like Project Gutenberg transcribe ebooks and make them available for the widest number of reading devices. Standard Ebooks takes ebooks from sources like Project Gutenberg, formats and typesets them using a carefully designed and professional-grade style guide, lightly modernizes them, fully proofreads and corrects them, and then builds them to take advantage of state-of-the-art ereader and browser technology.
The Library of Congress has announced the digitization of 2,500 Japanese woodblock prints from the 17th to 20th centuries by artists including Hiroshige, Kuniyoshi, Sadahide, and Yoshiiku, that are free to download.
According to Sensor Tower’s analysis of App Intelligence, the total space required by the top 10 most installed U.S. iPhone apps has grown from 164 MB in May 2013 to about 1.8 GB last month, an 11x or approximately 1,000 percent increase in just four years. In the following report, we delve deeper into which apps have grown the most.
As of Dec. 1, cellphone customers can ask their provider to unlock their phones free of charge, the CRTC announced Thursday. At the same time, it said, all newly purchased mobile devices must be provided to customers unlocked
‘The Internet In Real Time’ lets you know with a colorful and informative grid featuring the world’s most popular sites, including YouTube, Netflix and Amazon. It uses annual data reports to give an idea of how much each site grows per second.
Tuesday’s closure of the sale ends Yahoo’s 21-year history as a publicly traded company. Verizon is counting on the combination of Yahoo and AOL to build a strong third alternative in a rapidly growing digital advertising market that is currently dominated by Google and Facebook.
Firefox has finally been outfitted with simultaneous multiple content processes, a UI process, and a GPU acceleration process—eight years after the project, codenamed Electrolysis (E10S), began. In theory, moving to multiple content processes will improve stability and performance (one bad tab won't slow down the rest of your computer). Electrolysis is also a prerequisite for full security sandboxing in Firefox, which is currently only available for a few media-decoding plug-ins such as Flash.
The last five years have largely achieved what the government had in mind as the days of labelling Canada a “piracy haven” are over, the cultural industries such as movies and music are enjoying record earnings, and new digital services have found great success in Canada.
Andy Rubin smartphone startup today announced the "Essential Phone," a flagship device headed to the US for $699. The device has a 2.45GHz Snapdragon 835 SoC with 4GB of RAM, 128GB of storage, and a 5.71-inch, 2560×1312 display (504 PPI) with an extra-tall 19:10 aspect ratio.
An e-mail to customers provides a bit of detail—warning them that their data may have been exposed. And a support page that is only accessible to OneLogin account holders is even more worrying for customers. It apparently says that "customer data was compromised, including the ability to decrypt encrypted data."