10 worst programs of all time Programs can be our friends: they can help us express ourselves, can solve our problems and can do their very best to make our days happier. Sometimes, though, they do the Devil's work, making simple tasks so complex and frustrating that you'd happily make everybody involved face a firing squad[......]
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Week in Tech: Facebook soars while others struggle All hail the new king of tech! After months of speculation, Facebook's becoming a public company : the social network will be looking to raise $5 billion later this year in a share offering that could value the firm at as much as $100 billion. As you might imagine, founder Mark Zuckerberg was in triumphant mood[......]
Sony has published the results for the third quarter of its 2011 fiscal year, detailing significant losses. Yesterday, Sony announced that vice president and PlayStation group leader Kazuo Hirai would be taking the reigns of company from current president and CEO Howard Stringer in April. The headline figures in the report are an operating loss of $1.2 billion (£758 million)and a net loss of $2 billion (£1.3 billion) on revenue of $23.37 billion (£14 billion), the latter translating to a 17.4 percent year-on-year decrease. [......]
802.11ac: next-gen Wi-Fi If you thought Wi-Fi couldn't get much faster than 802.11n, think again. 802.11ac, dubbed 5G Wi-Fi, promises ridiculously fast wireless connections, better range, improved reliability, improved power consumption and a free horse. [......]
802.11ac: next-gen Wi-Fi If you thought Wi-Fi couldn't get much faster than 802.11n, think again. 802.11ac, dubbed 5G Wi-Fi, promises ridiculously fast wireless connections, better range, improved reliability, improved power consumption and a free horse. (OK, we're lying about the horse.) 802.11ac is the latest evolution of Wi-Fi, and it should be particularly good for gaming and HD video streaming[......]
Beyond the remote control: using gestures Who needs buttons and onscreen menus when our hands and feet lay idle? It was the Nintendo Wii that first got us moving, before augmented reality apps and games-stuffed smartphones had us waving them in a ridiculous figure-of-eight, but so far the humble television has remained stoically still. [......]
Speaking at the Midem conference in Cannes, Rovio Mobile's chief executive Mikael Hed claims that the company has learned from the music industry's mistakes when dealing with piracy. [......]
The New York Giants will defeat the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl on Sunday if EA's annual Madden simulation proves to be accurate. The game publisher matched-up the two teams in a single game of Madden '12 on Xbox 360, with Eli Manning's Giants emerging victorious 27-24. [......]
Today's round up of alternative tech news is brought to you by social networking faux-pas – from wannabe record breaking on Facebook to answering calls while in the privvy via a holiday ruined by Twitter jokes – and not even funny ones at that. [......]
Beyond Siri: simplifying commands Showing off to non-iPhone owning friends has never been easier. Pick up your phone in the pub, confidently say 'Siri, what's the circumference of the Earth divided by the radius of the Moon?' and barely seconds later, you're the only one there who knows the answer is 23.065. It's a magical experience, and a great toy. [......]
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Legal authorities cannot use GPS tracking devices on a person's vehicle without first obtaining a search warrant, the United States Supreme Court has ruled. [......]
A team of researchers at the University of Cambridge, led by Professor Arokia Nathan are working to develop technologies that would make daily phone charging a thing of the past. To keep a phone's battery topped up, the team has built a prototype device that recaptures wasted light from and OLED phone screen. According to researcher Arman Ahnood, only around 36 percent of the light produced by a phone screen is projected forwards – the rest escapes around the edges. [......]
Best Ultrabooks: 15 of the best Is 2012 going to be the year of the Ultrabook? The term Ultrabook is a marketing term dreamt up by Intel but like Centrino and unlike Viiv , it's starting to stick as a catch-all term for thin and light laptops, or ultraportables as they're sometimes classified. The best way to think of an Ultrabook is a MacBook Air that isn't made by Apple, a netbook that isn't underpowered or a laptop that's been on a crash diet[......]
