Carey Mulligan for WSJ. magazine, May 2015 Brands such as Cartier, Hermès and Armani/Casa reflected the style and design sentiment of WSJ. magazine’s affluent readership in the publication’s May issue. The advertising space of the 2015 May edition of the Wall Street Journal’s successful lifestyle supplement is the largest to-date in terms of ad pages. With 64 percent of the advertisers seen in the May issue being new, the strength
Google has introduced a new cloud-based NoSQL database powered by Bigtable that is automatically scalable and designed specifically for large-scale implementations with an eye on the Internet of Things. Cloud Bigtable runs on Google’s powerful Bigtable data storage system that already powers Gmail, Google Search and Google Analytics plus there’s the added bonus that it’s compatible with the Apache HBase API. The latter configuration means that it can be used
Vodafone is on the warpath to bring cheap 4G devices to the masses; only yesterday we saw the Smart Prime 6 smartphone and today the red network has shown off its new tablet, the Tab Prime 6. The new slate, which has been built by Alcatel, comes with a 9.6-inch HD screen with a resolution of 1280 x 800, a 1.3GHz quad-core processor and 1GB of RAM. On the back
Introduction They were once the apple of everyone’s eye, but in recent years PCs have been experiencing a steady decline in the face of a slew of new form factors and the imperious silver march of Apple’s iEverything. However, of late the initial spurts of a recovery have turned into a full-on rebirth fuelled by Microsoft’s new OS plans, the thirst for PC gaming, and a whole number of other
It’s the news many of us have been waiting for: the consumer version of the Oculus Rift until the first quarter of 2016, with pre-orders kicking off later this year. It’s a little later than we had anticipated, with many of us holding out hope that the virtual reality headset would be on our faces by Christmas – but it’s great to finally have a more concrete release date. Oculus
In honour of May the, er, 6th, someone has made a 16-bit The Force Awakens trailer for your viewing pleasure. The audio isn’t exactly SNES-level midi but the graphics should otherwise scratch all your retro-futurist pop culture itches. Somehow we’re already nostalgic for a film that hasn’t even been released yet. Well done everyone. YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heVBYAbwUUg See the original Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer here
Many of the tech world’s top executives filled a 1,700-seat auditorium at Stanford University to commemorate David Goldberg, chief executive of SurveyMonkey. “We had 11 truly joyful years of the deepest love, happiest marriage, and truest partnership that I could imagine,” Sandberg posted on Facebook. On their way out, guests were offered Minnesota Vikings baseball caps as a reminder of the Minneapolis-born Goldberg’s lighthearted nature and love of sports, according
(Reuters) – Virtual reality technology company Oculus said it would start shipping the much-awaited consumer version of its Rift headset in the first quarter of 2016. Pre-orders for Rift will start later this year, Oculus, which Facebook Inc bought for $2 billion last year, said.
In a clash of corporate titans over naming rights in a fast-changing industry, Microsoft and its Skype phone service came out on the losing side of an EU court battle on Tuesday with Rupert Murdoch’s television business Sky. Judges at the General Court of the European Union in Luxembourg upheld a complaint that the British broadcaster lodged a decade ago with the EU trademark authority in which it said the
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Chinese drone maker SZ DJI Technology Co Ltd has secured one of its largest investments yet from a Silicon Valley venture capital firm that was an early backer of Internet pioneers such as Facebook Inc, Etsy Inc and Dropbox. The Shenzhen-based company, a global leader in selling commercial and recreational drones, said on Wednesday that Palo Alto, California-based Accel Partners had agreed to invest
