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Daily Archives: January 10, 2013
Here’s How Audi And Lexus Imagine The Future Of Self-Driving Cars
Kevin Smith/Business Insider Audi and Lexus are well into development of self-driving car technology. While you would think that the end result would be similar, the two companies are taking completely different positions on how they want drivers to experience assisted driving. Lexus’ primary goal with its self-driving cars is safety. Currently, the company’s LS...
The 11 Best Alternatives To Paying For Cable
Email More Marco Bellucci / Flickr, CC Now that most American workers will see 2 percent more of their take-home income disappear this year, it’s as good a time as any to find ways to trim household costs. By far, the simplest place to start is with your cable bill. Anyone with a solid...
Worldwide PC shipments slipped 6.4% in the fourth quarter to 89.8 million units
In the fourth quarter of 2012, worldwide PC shipments declined 6.4%, sliding to a total count of 89.8 million units, according to IDC. For the year, 352 million PCs were sold. Compared to 2011, that figure represents a 3.2% decline. Industry analysts at Reuters are pointing a finger at Windows 8, stating that PC sales for the...
Tencent’s WeChat comes under fire for international censorship practices
Though it hardly comes as a surprise, Tencent’s popular WeChat app is taking flak for its censorship policy after users discovered that it is blocking sensitive terms globally. Netizens have largely come to grips with the proactive censorship that has long taken place on rival Sina Weibo, but WeChat is more of a private...
Samsung decides not to release Windows RT tablet in the US after doubts from retail partners
Samsung has opted not to bring its Ativ Tab Windows RT tablet to the US after market research cast doubts on the likelihood of success there. Senior Vice President Mike Abary, who heads up the Korean electronics maker’s US PC and tablet businesses, confirmed to CNET in an interview that the device would not be...
Cisco VoIP Phone Flaw Could Plant Bugs In Your Cubicle
A new study has discovered a very exploitable flaw in Cisco’s popular Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) phones, which could put millions of users in the enterprise and government at risk of remote eavesdropping. Cisco VoIP phones sit on some 50 million businesses and government office desks across the country and around the world. Take a peek in...
How Mind-Controlled Games Work
While major hardware makers are busy squabbling over “4K” vs “Ultra HD”, the future is quietly creeping in around the edges. A future with implications in the real world – big ones. Really big ones. Think using crowd-sourced mind control to change the color of Niagara Falls and the CN Tower big. Crowd-funded and completely hackable...
SAP’s HANA Deployment Leapfrogs Oracle, IBM And Microsoft
SAP has taken a big step ahead of rivals IBM, Microsoft and Oracle with the announcement on Thursday that its in-memory database called HANA is now ready to power the German software maker’s business applications. The pronouncement is sure to darken the mood of competitors, who one analyst says will need several years to...
MetroPCS rejiggers its plans again, restoring $60 unlimited tier
MetroPCS isn’t done tinkering with its data plans. On Thursday it revamped its rates for the second time in a year. Most significantly, Metro restored its $60 unlimited LTE data tier, one of the best deals in wireless. In April, MetroPCS introduced soft caps and throttling. It kept unlimited data an option, but it...