Here are 10 awesome apps for Valentine's Day
The most romantic day of the year is almost upon us, but there's no reason for any man or woman to tackle Valentine's Day alone, as there are a whole host of apps to help you safely navigate the swathes of balloons, chocolates and rose petals.
So, without further ado, here are 10 of the best apps for Valentine's Day.
All smart home security systems are insecure
Every "smart" security device in your home is vulnerable, a new study suggests.
Results of a security testing study conducted by tech giant HP show that 100 percent of the studied devices used in home security contain significant vulnerabilities, including password security, encryption and authentication issues.
Facebook's real name policy now causing issues for Native Americans
You might poke some innocent fun at your Native American friend Sitting Bull while he's on the toilet, but if you're that Native American, you wouldn’t want to be trolled by, let's say, Facebook.
That's exactly what happened to Shane Creepingbear, a Native American who, Facebook thinks, is using a fake name.
Most mobile email users prefer iOS over Android
People in the UK really love Apple products. OK, to be more precise, people in the UK with email accounts love Apple products.
More than half of all email in the UK (54 percent) is opened on an Apple device, says SendGrid, an email delivery platform. The total number of opened emails on iPads and iPhones has increased by 18 percent and five percent respectively.
Here are the specs for Sony's upcoming Xperia Z4
It looks like the Xperia Z4 will be coming to stores earlier than expected, following a new leak from Geekbench showing a Sony device running Android 5.0.2 and Snapdragon 810 processor.
Not many devices come running the latest Android Lollipop update, and only two devices currently feature the Snapdragon 810 processor, the LG G Flex 2 and Xiaomi Mi Note Pro.
Manchester City Football Club scores its own wearables app
Manchester City has claimed the title of the world’s first football club to create an app for Android Wear smart watches.
The app is called CityMatchday Wear, and it can be downloaded for free from the Google Play store. It offers club related news, goal alerts and notifications for different events, such as yellow and red cards, penalties, team sheets, match details and substitutions.
Technology for business -- get the big picture
Technology is everywhere. Whether you’re ordering lunch at noon, doing some weekend shopping or at work monitoring business performance, everything happens with the help of machines. The cash register at the deli and the complex network that supports a bank must work together seamlessly to deliver the service required for fast orders and accurate payment processing from credit cards or smartphones.
Customers expect more all the time from the companies they do business with. The challenge for any organization is to grow quickly while keeping costs down as demand grows. That's why all businesses have refocused on IT for 2015. It's a priority that drives differentiation. According to Gartner, global IT spending will grow 2.4 percent to $3.8 trillion this year on purchases of devices, data center systems, enterprise software, IT services and telecom services.
Cisco: wearables will lead to a massive increase in mobile traffic by 2019
We’re hearing a lot about how wearables are set to explode before this decade is out -- not literally explode (well hopefully not -- though there’s bound to be some sort of incident like that at some point, if smartphones are anything to go by), but rather to explode in terms of their numbers.
And Cisco has released another report which points to big numbers of wearables before 2020 arrives.
Could artificial intelligence really threaten human existence?
Last month, a collection of the world’s most renowned scientists and technology entrepreneurs signed an open letter from The Future of Life Institute warning of the potential dangers that unchecked artificial intelligence could bring.
The institute cautioned that, while AI has the potential to do good such as eradicating disease and poverty, the risks are often being left unconsidered as private companies fund millions of dollars into rapidly accelerating research programs.
Gartner: Businesses are not prepared for the Internet of Things
Even though most IT and business leaders are certain that their business will benefit from smart devices in the next three to five years, very few organizations actually have a clear strategy on how to take advantage of the new market. That’s the result of a survey conducted by Gartner. The company surveyed almost 500 IT and business leaders and found that 40 percent believe the Internet of Things will benefit their business in the next three years, while the other 60 percent believe it will happen in the next five years.
However, basically nobody has thought of a clear and concise strategy on how to take advantage of the emerging market.
Emojis and video -- how smartphones should be evolving the way brands communicate
The emoji heart was, perhaps not surprisingly, the most used "word" of 2014. It’s the first time that the Global Language Monitor has awarded the title to a symbol, a significant moment for the English language.
New digital formats continue to change communications; text speak was the first widespread digital vernacular and, although it might be out of fashion now, we still use words derived from that language today. We live in an era of images and video, where Pinterest, Vine and emoticons are prevalent in our lives. If people do use words at all, they communicate in 140 characters. Social and digital tools have also made people see symbols differently. Before the smiley face emoticon first appeared in a post to Carnegie Mellon University Computer Science General Board, from Professor Scott E Fahlman in 1982, or indeed prior to this in a public appearance in Puck magazine in 1881, would our brains have recognized the punctuation pictorially? Probably not. However, digital technology has taught us en masse to recognize the position of the open parenthesis relative to the hyphen and the colon.
5 ways your business is at risk from a cyber-security attack
The Internet has changed the way that you do business. No matter what industry you are in, you value what your cyber network does for you in terms of connecting with clients and staying efficient.
But, with advances in cyber technologies come more cybercriminals. No matter how sophisticated cyber security technologies and firewalls get, it seems that there is still a more sophisticated hacker capable of breaching your systems and stealing sensitive data. Believe it or not, three-quarters of businesses surveyed have reported that they have experienced a security breach in the last 12 months. As you can see, you are more vulnerable than you might think, and here’s how:
Could the FBI be involved in the Pirate Bay revival?
The Pirate Bay re-launched last week to much fanfare after two months offline following a raid on the server room by Swedish authorities, but the new owners have revealed very little about the plan going forward.
What started off as curiosity quickly became finger pointing. Twitter user 'TheAnonMessage' claimed users should stop using The Pirate Bay, due to CloudFlare integration and potential FBI IP bugs.
Cybersecurity best practices for facilitating IT/OT integration
The German government released an incident report in December detailing a targeted cyberattack on a steel mill blast furnace that resulted in "massive" damage. The translated report reveals that attackers were able to compromise the steel mill’s corporate network, and from there reach into the production network.
Fortunately, no lives were lost, but this event serves as a rallying cry for the safe integration of IT networks with operations technology (OT) networks. Simply applying IT-style defenses to OT networks is not enough to ensure the safe and reliable operation of industrial control systems (ICS), which is why OT cybersecurity best practices continue to evolve to address modern-day targeted, persistent attacks (TPAs).
Virtual reality vs augmented reality: which will achieve mainstream success?
Both virtual reality and augmented reality attempt to immerse the users in ways that detach them from the real world, but the subtle differences between the two concepts may ultimately decide which, if either, becomes a mainstream success. While virtual reality or VR devices create a completely fabricated world for the user to inhabit, augmented reality (AR) creates a blend of real and virtual, with the user clearly able to distinguish between the two.
Despite both technologies being able to trace their lineage back more than 40 years to the early VR headset the Sword of Damocles, neither has found widespread traction with consumers. While there has been no shortage of failed attempts in the past, ranging from Nintendo’s Virtual Boy console to the Sensorama multimedia device, successes have been short-lived or non-existent.
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