Even though HP is exploring different notebook form factors with its x360 products across the Spectre, Envy and Pavilion line, the PC-maker isn’t giving up on the traditional laptop design. This year’s Pavilion notebooks, available in 14-, 15- and 17-inch displays, represent HP’s continued investment in the affordable laptop space. The biggest changes this year include support for Intel’s latest Broadwell architecture as well as HP’s shift to its newest
Apple has failed to plug a significant security flaw in OS X Yosemite that leaves all Macs running the OS open to a vulnerability that can take over the whole machine. First reported by Forbes, Patrick Wardle, a former NSA staffer who is now head of research at Synack, claims that he wrote code able to exploit the vulnerability despite Apple’s latest version of Yosemite that was supposed to have
BBC is making a Grand Theft Auto drama. So explosions, hookers, heists and bloody tales of revenge are all in store, right? Not quite. This 90-minute show, tentatively titled “Game Changer,” is instead focused on the making of the popular open-world gaming franchise and how its creators persevered against anti-violence activists and politicians who wanted their games banned from store shelves. Details on the show have been a bit murky
If you’ve got a Microsoft Band on your wrist (or you’re planning on joining the club) then you’ll be interested in a batch of new updates pushed out of Redmond today – especially if you’re a keen cyclist. It’s another “important step forward” for the wearable, Microsoft says. First up, the popular biking apps MapMyRide and Strava now work seamlessly with the Microsoft Band, so you can pipe data from
By Eric Auchard FRANKFURT (Reuters) – PSA Peugeot Citroen and IBM are working together to hook cars up to the Internet, going beyond mapping and infotainment to link vehicles up to shops, service networks and urban transport grids, the companies said on Wednesday. The agreement to develop new types of valued-added services for vehicles builds on an initial partnership between the automaker and technology consultant announced a year ago. Software
By Se Young Lee SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s LG Display Co Ltd downplayed risks of a supply glut in the global panel market after reporting its best quarterly profit in more than four years, seeking to assuage fear about a sharp profit decline later this year. Investors and analysts worry that TV makers will cut orders and hurt panel sales, while factories of Chinese panel manufacturers scheduled to begin
Japanese consumer electronics firm Sony Corp raised its earnings estimates for the second time in three months on Wednesday, citing higher than expected sales of video games and digital cameras. Sony said it probably made an operating profit of 68 billion yen ($569 million) in the year ended March 31, compared with 26.5 billion yen a year earlier. Sony is set to make its official earnings statement for the year
By Toby Sterling AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – ASML, Europe’s largest supplier to computer chip makers, will sell 15 of its next-generation machines to a single U.S. customer, it said on Wednesday, in a deal that could be worth more than $1 billion. Analysts identified the likely buyer of the lithography systems as Intel and said the deal would not only boost ASML growth for years to come, but was also a
Norway’s Opera Software, a maker of internet browsers and mobile phone advertising solutions, currently sees positive market developments despite difficulties in Russia and a reorganization of its development teams, CEO Lars Boilesen said. “We have informed the market about the situation in Russia and said the economic situation there is not optimal. Opera’s share price has risen by about 40 percent to around 71 Norwegian crowns since hitting a 2015
Adobe is describing Lightroom CC as all new, with ‘lightning fast’ performance and new tools for editing, enhancing and displaying pictures. Mobile, ‘connected’ imaging is an increasingly large part of Adobe’s plans, and while users will still be able to get Lightroom CC as a standalone package (‘Lightroom 6’), it will miss out on Creative Cloud features, such as the ability to synchronise images with mobile devices and create and
