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Software RSS FeedsMicron CEO Steve Appleton dies in Idaho plane crash, cause unknown - A plane crash in Boise, Idaho has claimed the life of Micron CEO Steve Appleton. He was 51. Boise Airport officials say that Appleton's experimental fixed wing single engine Lancair crashed shortly after takeoff at 8:58am local time Friday after attempting an emergency landing. NTSB officials say that witnesses reported the plane climbing about 100 to 200 feet, then attempting to turn before falling to the ground. According to Boise NBC affiliate KTVB-TV, Appleton is heard shortly after taking off telling air traffic controllers: "I'd like to turn back in and land. Coming back in." In the background of the… [Continue Reading]...Feed Source: feeds.betanews.com Microsoft opens hardware acceleration spec for C++ ahead of Visual Studio 11 beta - Microsoft on Friday announced the publication of the C++ Accelerated Massive Parallelism (AMP) specification under the Microsoft Community Promise license. This specification lets C++ developers write programs that can compile and execute on data-parallel hardware like discrete graphics cards or the SIMD vector instruction set in a processor. It can also be thought of as hardware acceleration. Soma Somasegar, the Vice President of Microsoft's Developer Division, revealed last summer that the company was working on support for parallelism in the next version of Visual Studio. "In the last few years, we have been seeing an additional trend of heterogeneous hardware… [Continue Reading]... We need new privacy policies for a new world - In a major update to its privacy policy and the addition of "Search Plus Your World", Google has managed to attain the consensus from the tech-enthused world that it is way beyond the innocent baby days of "don?t be evil". Matt Honan of Gizmodo signalled the privacy shift as the end of Google?s "don?t be evil" promise, which the company built its business on, and Sarah Lacy of Pando Daily shared similar sentiments, though hers was related to the Search Plus Your World outcry. In a nutshell, one of the biggest sore points that people are having with Google?s new privacy policy is the fact… [Continue Reading]... Anonymous leaks FBI phone call; reminds of the insecurity of conference lines - Hacktivist group Anonymous has released an audio recording of a January 17 conference call which it claims includes members of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the UK's Scotland Yard discussing their latest anti-hacking efforts. We've embedded the 17-minute long clip above. The participants in the conference call talk about Anonymous, LulzSec, Antisec, CSL Security and other black hat security groups, the evidence they have against such groups, and their progress in arresting suspects. The discussion in the call really contains nothing too revealing, and the names of underage hackers are censored. But the nefarious part about this leak is… [Continue Reading]... Apple claims smartphone crown from Nokia, Samsung - iPhone's remarkable fourth-quarter surge -- 37 million units -- lifted the handset ahead of the two previous smartphone leaders, according to Canalys. For full year 2011, Apple shipped 93.1 million smartphones, compared to Samsung's 91.9 million and Nokia's 77.3 million. Nokia, the company that invented the smartphone, has bled share since iPhone launched nearly 5 years ago, but artery versus vein since announcing the switch to Windows Phone from Symbian in February 2011. Apple's climb to the top followed October's iPhone 4S launch and availability of older 3GS and 4 models for free and $99, respectively. Samsung shipped 35.3 million… [Continue Reading]... Android Market is safer than we thought, its 'Bouncer' kicks out bad apps - Hiroshi Lockheimer, Google's Vice President of Engineering for the Android mobile platform, revealed on Thursday that the Android Market has secretly had a system in place named "Bouncer" to scan apps for malicious code. "Bouncer" was running in secret for most of 2011, and Lockheimer says that the period between the first and second halves of 2011 showed a 40% decrease in the number of potentially-malicious downloads from Android Market. This statement runs contrary to the reports from Juniper Networks last November, who said Android malware had grown some 472 percent in the last six months of 2011. "This drop… [Continue Reading]... Which Firefox is right for you -- 10, 11, 12 or 13? - Following on from the release of Firefox 10 FINAL, Mozilla has updated its developmental branches to versions 11 (Beta), 12 (Aurora/UX) and 13 (Nightly) respectively. As always, the rapid release cycle -- a new version of Firefox ships every six weeks -- means that changes aren?t as radical as you might expect considering the regular version number jumps. However, the latest batch of updates hints that some major updates are heading Firefox?s way over the next few months. Get a head?s up on what?s coming and discover which build is best for your personal needs with our updated guide to what… [Continue Reading]... So much for iPhone catching Android - Just weeks ago the Apple Fanclub of bloggers and journalists giddily posted about how iPhone had reversed Androids' gains. But new data from comScore shows that, in the United States at least, Android is doing just fine, despite iPhone's remarkable fourth-quarter sales surge (more than 37 million units). As measured by smartphone OS among cellular subscribers 13 and older, Android share grew to 47.3 percent at the end of December from 44.8 percent three months earlier. During the same time period, iPhone/iOS rose 2.2 points to 29.6 percent share. More broadly, for all handsets, Apple was the only manufacturer to… [Continue Reading]... Security Task Manager reveals malware other apps miss - Your system is misbehaving, and you think there?s a good chance it?s been infected by malware, but your antivirus package isn?t raising any alerts. So what do you do next? One option is to install the trial version of Security Task Manager. This can display all your running processes and rate their potential risk -- all based purely on behavior and code analysis, no signature files are required, and so it may highlight dangerous processes which other tools miss. The program will also raise plenty of false alarms, unfortunately, and that?s all down to the way it works. On our test… [Continue Reading]... Drive Manager -- when Windows Explorer isn't enough - Hard drives, memory card readers, DVDs and Blu-rays, network drives, removable disks and more: even a budget PC can have a host of storage options available at any one time. If you find you have trouble managing these with Explorer, though, then the free, portable Drive Manager has plenty of tools to help. These start by presenting the key drive basics on a single opening screen, so just about everything you might need is available at a glance. There?s the drive volume name and type, for instance; network path; file system; capacity and space free; vendor or product name (useful for identifying… [Continue Reading]... Will you pay for Facebook? - Are you ready to pay for Facebook? You just may. Analyst Foad Fadaghi of Telsyte, an Australian technology research firm, tells news.com.au that premium accounts are an option to increase revenues. As I argued on Wednesday, Facebook now must answer to shareholders. Being a public company is a completely different world from life as a private company. Fadaghi also expects Facebook to make advertising more invasive, as investors demand better performance. Ain't that grand? Floating the option to charge for Facebook has to be on the table. The site needs new revenue streams. Regardless, the option is ridiculous and a… [Continue Reading]... Skype 5.8 for Windows released -- get it now! - Less than three months ago, a beta version of Skype was unveiled that boasted a number of new features. The latest update to the popular VoIP tool sees the software jumping straight to version 5.8, finalizing some of the features found in the beta and adding a couple more for good measure. There are a number of highlights to Skype 5.8, and there is a great deal to investigate if you have not been keeping track of the beta versions of the software. Conducting video chats has for too long been a blocky, stuttering affair, plagued with poor quality footage -- not just… [Continue Reading]... Android's People app is no Windows Phone People Hub - Android 4.0, also known as Ice Cream Sandwich, takes a slightly different approach to social content organization and management, and includes a couple of new APIs to let application developers surface social network data. If you've got ICS running on your phone already, you have probably already noticed the "People" application, Android's revamped contacts system that unifies different social networks and methods of communication under a single profile, allowing information to be more centrally located on a user's phone and shared out when needed. The problem is, Google wants this to be a "highly visual" method of contact arrangement, with… [Continue Reading]... Windows 8 -- from a gas engine to hybrid! - What does Windows 8 really look like under the hood? Is Metro a totally new direction for the Windows API? What does this really mean for software development? As a programmer I like to know how things work under the hood. I am also a decent backyard mechanic, and I look at automobiles the same way. People who work on cars may have spent years learning how a gas engine works, but what happens when they finally have to work on a hybrid? The difference between a gas engine and a hybrid engine are like night and day. I believe… [Continue Reading]... Avid Studio for iPad debuts, but, hurry, the low price won't last - Move over, iMovie, some serious competition moved on to iPad, today. Avid Studio for iPad is now available -- $4.99 for a limited time. Avid was the big name in filmmaking, long before Apple stormed the market with its pro and amateur products. Apple reigns king on iPad and the Mac. Can Avid provide some needed tablet competition? By the specs and feature list, Avid Studio for iPad appeals. The app can directly capture video, use multiple content sources on the tablet (e.g., audio, photos and video), generate motion titles and graphics, precisely trim content, create picture-in-picture effects and much… [Continue Reading]... Here's how Apple fixes its China problem [video] - "Conan" offers yet another timely spoof, here about Apple's problem with working conditions at factories in China. People have called for boycotts, others claim Apple is no worse than other high-tech companies using the same facilities. Seems like everyone has an opinion about what's really an old story. Satire is a dish best served cold, and Team Coco packs on the ice.... Kindle Fire will become Amazon's cash cow - Amazon's fourth quarter results missed targets, despite strong sales of the Kindle Fire. It is these users that will begin to pad the company's earnings, however, validating Amazon's strategy of selling Fire at a very low margin and then making up the profit through entertainment content sales. Amazon saw its profits plummet, reporting net income of $177 million in the fourth quarter of 2011. This was down sharply from a year earlier, when the retailer reported income of $416 million. Revenue was up 35 percent however, to $17.4 billion. ChangeWave Research polled the attitudes of Amazon customers and found that… [Continue Reading]... Apple jumps from fifth to third place in global phone shipments - Manufacturers shipped 1.546 billion cell phones last year, up 11.1 percent from 2010. Apple posted the strongest gains for the quarter and year -- 128.4 percent and 96.2 percent, respectively. The Cupertino, Calif.-based company ended both time periods in third place. No other vendor came even close. Samsung was up nearly 21 percent for the quarter and ZTE 30.9 percent for the year. IDC compiled the data, which represents shipments into the channel, rather than sales to end users. Apple's strong showing comes from a huge fourth-quarter finish -- 37 million handsets, all smartphones. By comparison, Nokia and Samsung sold… [Continue Reading]... The new meets the old: First LTE to CDMA VoIP handover complete - Qualcomm on Thursday finally came forward to announce an LTE milestone that took place at the end of December: the first voice call to be seamlessly handed over from an LTE mobile network to a WCDMA network using Single Radio Voice Call Continuity (SRVCC). This is an important milestone because SRVCC lets the LTE-based VoIP/IMS packets be transferred to the legacy circuit-switched domain, unifying the old mobile networks with the new. This has been one of the big challenges for LTE VoIP for the last four years, and the industry was exploring SRVCC alongside a technique called Circuit Switched Fall… [Continue Reading]... Try Auslogics Disk Defrag Pro 4 for free - If you?ve ever tried Auslogics free Disk Defrag tool then you?ll know it?s a quick and easy way to optimize your hard drive, if a little basic: like most of the free defrag tools, the program offers the bare essentials and very little else. But it?s a very different story with the newly released commercial version, Auslogics Disk Defrag Pro, which is absolutely stuffed with essential features -- and the results are very impressive. Everyone uses their PC differently, for instance, and a ?one size fits all? defrag policy is never going to work. So it?s good to see Disk Defrag Pro offer… [Continue Reading]... Copyright © 2012, Unselfish Marketers Link Exchange. All Rights Reserved. |