Behind closed doors, Nokia showed off a smartwatch to certain customers at Mobile World Congress 2014. Then Microsoft bought Nokia and the project sadly got shelved. Twitter leaker @Evleaks found a piece of promotion art on a Tumblr blog run by Microsoft design employee Pei-Chi Hsieh. It shows off the Microsoft Moonraker with orange, green or black straps and the whole thing is quite reminiscent of the Sony Smartwatch 3.
Apple’s announcement at its Worldwide Developers Conference of the upcoming iOS 9 mobile operating system has already made headlines throughout the world. The public beta is available now for developers and will be available for regular Apple customers in July. The new software made its public debut on an iPad, prompting some to speculate if the rumors of an iPad Pro, a larger 12-inch tablet designed for business and enterprise
Keitai is back – and this week’s instalment sees us telling you how to take a screenshot on your phone, tablet or even smartwatch. Sounds obvious – but so many people actually go to do it and realise they’re not ENTIRELY sure how to do it. Also a bad man steals some flowers and how you’ll kill every contact in your phone. You’re welcome. Catch up on Keitai How to
Art is no longer in the eye of the beholder – a robotic art critic has been designed which rates paintings based on their creativity, uncovering the influence of others. A team of AI researchers began with software that attempts to classify objects in an image into different categories using what are known as ‘classemes’. Then, they fed in Wikiart – a database of about 62,000 paintings and used network
Google must scrub search results worldwide when it agrees to requests from users to be “forgotten”, rather than just from European versions of its website, France’s data protection regulator said on Friday. The regulator (CNIL) said in a statement that if Google does not comply within 15 days, it can launch a process leading to sanctions, ramping up pressure on the U.S. giant following a landmark European legal ruling. In
Twitter Inc’s announcement that Dick Costolo would exit as CEO on July 1 was long on plaudits but offered few clues on how the company will tackle its biggest problem: user growth. “Prospective buyers have been interested in purchasing Twitter in the past, and during the interim (CEO) search period we believe the opportunity for acquisition is heightened,” Jefferies analysts wrote in a client note. Twitter’s current market value is
By Euan Rocha TORONTO (Reuters) – BlackBerry is considering equipping an upcoming smartphone with Google Inc.’s Android software for the first time, an acknowledgement that its revamped line of devices has failed to win mass appeal, according to four sources familiar with the matter. The move would be an about-face for the Waterloo, Ontario-based company, which had shunned Android in a bet that its BlackBerry 10 line of phones would
U.S. stocks fell, as equities trimmed a weekly gain, amid concern Greece won’t reach a deal with its creditors as its debt negotiations drag on.
Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s co-founder and incoming interim CEO, said he is committed to maintaining the company’s strategy.
The move to mark-to-market accounting will have no effect on employees’ pension benefits or the funding requirements for any pension plans or cash flows, FedEx said on Friday. “Adopting the mark-to-market approach will align our accounting to provide greater transparency by removing certain legacy pension costs from segment operating results and recognizing them in a year-end adjustment,” Chief Financial Officer Alan Graf said in a statement. FedEx also said its