Another quarter, another PC sales drop
The PC market has started off 2016 quite poorly according to both Gartner and the IDC. Worldwide shipments have fallen 9.6 percent to 64.8 million units in the first quarter of the year, according to Garner’s estimates. This makes it the first quarter since 2007 that fewer than 65 million PCs have shipped globally.
Lenovo, HP, Dell, Asus and Apple were the top PC manufacturers in Q1 2016 with only Asus and Apple seeing an increase in the number of units shipped. Lenovo and HP have been hit the hardest this quarter with Lenovo shipments down seven percent and HP’s down nine percent.
Jewelery meets gadgetry in the Oukitel A8
Bluetooth tracking devices to help stop you forgetting your phone have been around for a while, but they've generally been quite functional in design, looking like a remote car key.
Chinese smartphone maker Oukitel is launching its own take on the lost phone finder with a new gadget that looks like a piece of jewelry but also functions as more than just an alarm to tell you you've left your phone behind.
Take a low-level look at your PC desktop with Window Inspector
Binary Fortress Software has released Window Inspector, a free tool for examining the low-level details of any application window.
Move your mouse cursor over any window and a detailed display lists its class, text, icons, owning process, command line, Style and StyleEX flags, and more.
Box customers can now choose where to store their data
Online file sharing company Box today announced a new service, allowing businesses to store their cloud data across Europe and Asia.
The service, announced at the Box World Tour Europe, is called Box Zones, and it will allow Box customers to choose whether they want to store their data in Germany, Ireland, Singapore or Japan.
Software-defined data center adoption will grow in 2016
Business and IT executives in the UK and the US (62 percent) expect a higher adoption of software-defined data centers (SDDCs) this year, but the projection for faster deployment is slightly higher in the UK (67 percent), compared to the US (64 percent).
Those are the results of a new study conducted by security, compliance and control software company HyTrust, and co-sponsored by Intel. The study takes a look at the issues and trends among businesses migrating to the cloud and software-defined data centre.
'Let's Encrypt' exits beta -- backed by Cisco, Akamai, Mozilla, Google, Facebook, and more
Ever since hero Edward Snowden's bombshell document leaks, the technology world has wide eyes for encryption. Sure, it was a topic prior to Snowden, but many failed to give it the focus it deserved. Thankfully, companies are now better implementing encryption, and some of them, such as Apple, are fighting for our rights too.
Today, the encryption initiative, 'Let's Encrypt', finally leaves beta. Josh Aas, ISRG Executive Director says "we set out to encrypt 100 percent of the Web. We're excited to be off to a strong start, and with so much support across the industry". If you are wondering what he means, please know that big players such as Cisco, Akamai, HP, Mozilla, Google, and Facebook are sponsoring it. But what exactly is Let’s Encrypt?
New platform speeds up development of intelligent search apps
One of the problems with big data is that creating applications to access the information inevitably introduces a time lag and this leads to frustration for the end user.
Search and analytics software company Lucidworks is aiming to cut out this bottleneck with the launch of Lucidworks View, which allows companies to quickly and easily create custom search-driven applications built on Apache Solr and Apache Spark.
Jaguar Land Rover is building an Uber competitor
Jaguar Land Rover has announced the launch of a new business, which is basically an Uber competitor. According to the company’s press release, the new technology start-up called InMotion will "build apps and on-demand services to overcome modern travel and transport challenges".
The start-up will soon start testing a couple of different services related to car sharing and car ownership. The testing will take place in North America, Europe and Asia "in the coming months".
Kingston launches new hardware encrypted flash drives
One of the best known names in the flash memory market, Kingston acquired the IronKey brand from Imation in February of this year.
IronKey has long been one of the leading brands in encrypted Flash drives and today we see the first fruits of the new partnership with Kingston's launch of two new managed and 256-bit AES hardware encrypted USB drives.
BlackBerry will release two mid-range Android phones in 2016
BlackBerry will be moving back into the mid-range smartphone market in order to appeal to enterprise customers who were unable to justify the Priv’s $700 retail price.
John Chen, the company’s CEO, has revealed that BlackBerry is planning to release two mid-range Android smartphones during 2016. One will include a physical keyboard to appease fans of the company’s iconic handsets and the other will sport a full touchscreen to appeal towards consumers who have adopted the modern smartphone form factor.
Meet HTC 10
Despite giving us some of the nicest high-end smartphones, HTC's sales have dropped sharply in the past couple of years. Today, the once-successful company is nothing but a shadow of its former self, posting revenue so low that it makes you wonder how much longer it can keep the lights on. Meanwhile, long time rivals like Apple and Samsung are watching their flagships fly off the shelves.
HTC has clearly made some mistakes, but its latest flagship is proof that things are taking a turn for the better. HTC 10 offers pretty much everything that you could want in a premium smartphone: high-quality build, top level hardware, cutting-edge features, the latest software and a competitive price.
Attack by cyber terrorists feared by 63 percent of US security professionals
Key concerns of information security executives include the growing threats of global cyber terrorism, the current state of security within the US and the ability of organizations to prevent such attacks.
These are among the findings of a new study by account management solutions provider Thycotic of more than 200 security industry attendees at RSA.
Microsoft adds troubleshooting QR codes to the Windows 10 Blue Screen of Death
No one enjoys seeing a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) in Windows. It can be incredibly frustrating, especially if you were right in the middle of something important when it occurred, and you have no idea what caused it.
Armed with the information on the blue screen, and the stop code, you should be able to track down a cause and possible solution on the web, but this does require you to jot down the necessary details. However, that chore is likely to soon be a thing of the past.
Flexera extends software asset management to the cloud
While it's important for companies to manage their software licensing effectively, with the shift of many systems to the cloud doing so has become more difficult.
Software asset management specialist Flexera is riding to the rescue with the launch of a new solution addressing the management of cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service.
How to run GUI Linux apps from Bash in Windows 10
Linux apps running in Windows 10? What gives?! As if the arrival of Bash on Ubuntu on Windows 10 wasn't enough, people have been quick to investigate the capabilities and limitation of Microsoft's embracing of the Linux command line.
Some commenters on our how-to guide asked what the point is. How about being able to run Linux apps in Windows without having to resort to using a virtual machine? It can be done. Here's how.
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