September 2013 - Page 8 of 10

Microsoft investors want Ford’s Mulally as the next CEO

By admin | September 10, 2013 by admin

As reported on The Verge. By Jeff Blagdon With longtime Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer having announced his plans to retire, everyone is hungry to find out who his successor will be. And while early rumors pointed to outgoing Nokia CEO (and longtime Microsoft exec) Stephen Elop, some prominent voices are pushing for the company to hire someone that specializes in turning around troubled firms. Reuters reports that “at least three” of Microsoft’s top 20 investors are urging its board to…

Shine Security Is Reinventing The Antivirus Company For The Age Of Zero-Day Attacks

By admin | September 10, 2013 by admin

As reported on TechCrunch. by SARAH PEREZ Launching today at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco,Shine Security is reinventing the idea of what it means to be an antivirus company in an age of cyber-warfare and zero-day attacks. The company’s technology was built by white hat, ethical hackers, and works in real time, performing behavioral monitoring on end users’ systems in order to stop newly emerging threats that other anti-virus firms have yet to discover or identify. It may…

Business Security

SlickLogin Aims To Kill The Password By Singing A Silent Song To Your Smartphone

By admin | September 10, 2013 by admin

As reported on TechCrunch. by GREG KUMPARAK The password needs to die, and SlickLogin is trying to help kill it. Launching into closed beta in the Disrupt SF 2013 Battlefield today, SlickLogin lets you log into a website on your computer by holding your phone within a few inches of it. Here’s the idea: as a user, you’d go to whatever SlickLogin-enabled site you’d like to log in to. Tap the login button, hold your phone up close to…

Apple iPhone Mobile

Alleged iPhone 5S render shows new home button / ‘Touch ID sensor’

By admin | September 10, 2013 by admin

As reported on Engadget. By Richard Lawler We’re just a few hours away from Apple’s big iPhone press conference, andNowhereelse.fr has just posted this render (from a “very reliable” source) that claims to show the iPhone 5S. The most notable change shown is of course, the home button, seemingly minus the usual squarish target and called the “Touch ID sensor”. That is expected, considering repeated rumors (check out our roundup) including an apparent confirmation tonight from the Wall Street Journal, that Apple’s…

Business Mobile

EE’s ‘Swap’ brings another option for chronic phone-changers

By admin | September 10, 2013 by admin

As reported on Engadget. By Steve Dent If you’re the type to regard your six month-old handset like a relic from the stone age (and believe us, we are), then you’ve now got another option with EE’s Swap program. UK customers can now trade in their smartphones six months or later into their 18 or 24 month plans starting at £49. That appears to be EE’s attempt to catch up to plans like O2’s Refresh and JUMP from Phones 4u,…

Art Photography

Live Double Exposures Mash Up Beautiful Views and Ordinary Objects

By admin | September 9, 2013 by admin

As reported on Wired. BY REBECCA HORNE Tent camera image on ground. Rooftop view of the Brooklyn Bridge. 2011. Tent camera image on ground. View of the Grand Canyon from Trailview Overlook, Grand Canyon National Park. 2012. Tent camera image on ground. Rooftop view of Lower Manhattan. 2010. Tent camera image on ground. View of sea stack. Ruby Beach. Olympic National Park. Washington. 2012. Tent camera image on ground. View of the Golden Gate Bridge From…

Entertainment Film

‘Riddick’ review: still angry after all these years

By admin | September 9, 2013 by admin

As reported on The Verge. By Bryan Bishop Vin Diesel and director David Twohy takes the antihero back to his R-rated roots The Riddick Series has never been AAA cinema. 2000’s Pitch Black was a B-movie mash-up of sci-fi, horror, and action, while its PG-13 sequel The Chronicles of Riddick aspired to be more of a costumed action epic — and failed at the box office. The character has maintained a loyal following over the years, however, and…

Education Internet

Mindsy Wants To Be The Netflix Of E-Learning

By admin | September 9, 2013 by admin

As reported on TechCrunch. by STEVE O’HEAR Launched publicly last month, Mindsy is a new UK startup that’s building a Netflix-style service for consuming e-learning content, specifically online video courses. Instead of selling individual courses as per sites like Udemy and Skillshare, the company is repackaging some of the same premium video content in a subscription ‘all you can eat’ model, costing $29 per month. Mindsy also recently raised a small amount of funding: An £80,000 seed round…

Entertainment Games

PS Vita TV is a mini console that brings games and services to your TV, arrives November for around $100

By admin | September 9, 2013 by admin

As reported on Engadget. By Mat Smith This tiny 60mm x 100mm wonder is the PlayStation Vita TV. Not only is it a miniature console that plays Vita games and connects to PlayStation controllers, it also offers access to Sony’s Music Unlimited, Video Unlimited service, karaoke and more — all for 9,954 yen (around $100). It’s a knowing nod to the likes of Ouya, NVIDIA’s Shield, and even Google’s Chromecast although it’s a little bit different…

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