49.7 percent of anything may sound like a lot, but it’s a historical low for spam email levels – it’s the lowest share recorded by Symantec since September 2003, so progress is being made. Back then, Tony Blair was the UK PM and Apple was about to release Mac OS X Panther. The world was still waiting for the final Matrix film and bopping along to the Black Eyed Peas’
The evolution of the Nexus: introduction The Google Nexus phone has, in many ways, helped revolutionise the mobile market in much the same way that the Apple iPhone has. The Nexus devices may not have set the world alight in terms of sales, but they have served as important reference points for Android manufacturers. And some of them have been rather good. Apple’s iPhone has undoubtedly been the catalyst that
A brave new world “If you’re writing poetry, write it. Don’t type it in just because you can.” The classroom is changing, as new technologies dramatically alter the learning for both teachers and students. And at the heart of this change is the tablet. You might not think of the classroom as a key market for big companies such as Apple and Google, but according to research conducted by the
Remember last October, when it became legal to copy your own CDs and DVDs for personal and private use? It was a surprising victory for common sense in our modern digital age. Well, it didn’t last long: the High Court has now overturned that ruling after a challenge from musicians union Basca and industry outfit UK Music. Put your ripping software on standby again. So having legally paid cold hard
Introduction Perhaps it is a testament to Microsoft’s legacy that some popular applications that date from the late 1990s can still run on its latest OS, Windows 10. The operating system, which will launch on Wednesday 29 July, has already been tested (and been seen running) on some very, very old and very, very slow hardware. Many will describe such exercises as utterly futile, and those same people will likely
The future of your home Smartphones are nice and feature-stocked these days, but we know what the phone buying hoardes are like: everyone wishes they did more. Sure, you can tweet from them, but we want them to be able to cook us dinner and take the robot vacuum for a walk. The good news is that’s a future which may be closer than you think. We’re already on our
Smartphone photography tips and tricks Smartphone photography, iPhoneography, mobile photography or whatever you want to call it, it’s clear that taking great pictures with a phone has become a thing now. What does that mean, exactly? It means that folks are creating works of art using their smartphones, and those pieces also go up in galleries or are made into prints. That’s the extreme end, of course, but on the
In recent months hardly a week has gone by without a new Galaxy Tab S2 rumour or three: the next-generation slate is expected to pick up where the Galaxy Tab S left off and give the iPad a run for its money. Well now there’s word from Tabletmonkeys that the tablet is finally going to see the light of day on Monday, and there’s a new press image to add
The best time to upgrade your smartphone It isn’t easy being a smartphone fan, especially if your timing’s bad: no sooner has the ink dried on that two-year contract for the Uber Mega X than it’s rendered obsolete by the slightly thinner, slightly faster Uber Mega Y. And that got us thinking: are there patterns here? Should we be buying Samsung’s in spring and Sony’s in summer? Is August ever
It’s been a week since we heard the sad news of Nintendo president Satoru Iwata’s passing. Iwata was a games industry genius, an incredibly kind-hearted man and a figure who inspired such feeling in people that thousands turned up to his two-day funeral. An outpouring of genuine, heartfelt sorrow, thanks and love took over social media, with many telling stories to illustrate how much Iwata meant to them, and others
