Computers
Another Move To Make The iPad Enterprise-Friendly: Harmon.ie’s iOS SharePoint Collaboration
The iPad has, quite quickly, become the tablet of choice for enterprises, with some 97 percent of all tablet activations in Q1 of 2012 attributable to Apple’s tablet, according to Good Technology . So it comes as no surprise that apps are rushing into the wake of those purchases to make the iPad more work-friendly. The latest in that ...
Apple’s Lion Security Hole Could Be A Wider Issue Than Just FileVault?
As you may have seen over the weekend, someone has discovered a security hole in FileVault, which arose with the OS X Lion security update, version 10.7.3, back in February: FileVault encryption passwords are now visible in plain text outside of a computer’s encrypted area. The hole was apparently spotted by someone back in February, although it was most ...
Disney Research’s Touché system detects your touch on most things, even water (video)
Disney Research has announced some new touch interface technology that add extra gesture functionality to existing touchscreens and more exotic items like doorknobs and even the water's surface. Touché works by sensing capacitive signals across a range of frequencies -- whereas typical systems only pick up signal at a single frequency. This Swept Frequency Capacitive Sensing (SFCS) can recognize ...
LG’s Google TV-enabled sets coming to US end of May
LG revealed two Google-loaded HDTVs at CES, but never gave us prices or told us when these models might dangle their skinny bezels in stores. In briefings at Google last week, we heard that the 47-incher (47G2) and 55-incher (55G2) would sell for $1699 and $2299 respectively. Now, to complete the jigsaw, Reuters has quoted senior LG exec Ro ...
Adobe Creative Suite 6 now available, Creative Cloud floating into action May 11th
Eager to get your fancy new mask on? Open up the wallet. Adobe's freshly announced Creative Suite (we're up to CS6, for those keeping count) is now available, with Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Premiere Pro, After Effects, Flash Professional and more up for grabs. As for that subscription-based Creative Cloud option? Folks looking to pay monthly for the new ...
BlackBerry 10 to get video editor, screen sharing according to forum leak
The Blackberry 10 Dev Alpha we wrapped our mitts around last week didn't tell us much about RIM's big QNX-based OS update (being loaded with PlayBook OS 2.0 and all), but Crackberry forum user Biggulpseh seemingly has the deets that the folks in Waterloo weren't ready to reveal. So-called internal documents reportedly detail a tilt-senstive lock screen that pushes ...
How would you change the LG DoublePlay?
It's almost baffling to see a modern Android smartphone with such an archaic design in a world more accustomed to the Galaxy Nexus . Still, LG's late-2011 DoublePlay has a slide-out physical keyboard and that dinky second screen which reminds us of a phone that's years out of date . However, when we reviewed it , we found it ...
How would you change the LG DoublePlay?
It's almost baffling to see a modern Android smartphone with such an archaic design in a world more accustomed to the Galaxy Nexus . Still, LG's late-2011 DoublePlay has a slide-out physical keyboard and that dinky second screen which reminds us of a phone that's years out of date . However, when we reviewed it , we found it ...
Inhabitat’s Week in Green: the Water Discus Hotel, magnetic LED bulbs and pig poo electricity
Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week's most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us -- it's the Week in Green. Man-made islands ; indoor ski slopes ; temporary ice hotels . We thought we had seen it all in Dubai, and then the Middle Eastern city went and outdid itself with the Water Discus ...
Switched On: Competing by hook or by Nook
Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On , a column about consumer technology. Microsoft has a long history of supporting bitter rivals -- even those that have long publicly disparaged the company, offering funds to Nokia, Corel and, most famously, Apple. It also has a long history of supporting e-reading . Prior to ending development last year, the company ...
