• Samsung jumps into external SSD market

    Samsung jumps into external SSD market
    It took longer than expected, but Samsung is expanding its product line to include external solid-state drives with a new line of Portable SSD T1 products.The lightweight drives have capacities of up to 1TB and are small enough to fit in your pocket. They’re significantly more expensive than magnetic hard drives, though, which come in capacities of up to 6TB.Samsung’s 250GB external SSD is priced at US$179.99, a 500GB drive is $299.99, and a 1TB drive is $599.99. By comparison, a 1TB magn
  • Asus updates the Zenfone with a fancy camera and 4GB RAM

    Asus updates the Zenfone with a fancy camera and 4GB RAM
    Asus has updated its popular Zenfone with two new models, including one for photography enthusiasts with a 3X optical zoom and controls for setting ISO, white balance and shutter speed.Chairman Jonney Shih unveiled the Zenfone 2 at a press event at International CES on Monday with his usual mix of salesmanship and wannabe Las Vegas entertainer style.Asus has been selling 1.5 million Zenfones per month in the last quarter, according to Shih—not many compared to Apple’s iPhone 6 but not a b
  • Qualcomm tricks out Cadillac with Android 5.0

    Qualcomm tricks out Cadillac with Android 5.0
    Car buyers look for the best deals, not the best in-vehicle operating systems. At CES, though, show goers will be able to view a concept Cadillac car loaded with Android 5.0 and technological bells and whistles that could make driving safer and more fun.Chip maker Qualcomm is showing a concept car based on a 2015 Cadillac XTS and offering technologies drawn from smartphones, tablets and even gaming consoles. The Android-based car will have high-resolution displays for infotainment; LTE connec
  • Asus takes jab at Apple with new ultra-thin laptop convertibles

    Asus takes jab at Apple with new ultra-thin laptop convertibles
    The new ultra-thin Transformer Book Chi convertibles are a better option than Apple’s Macbook Air and iPad Air, according to Asus, which will start shipping the hybrid tablet-laptops next month.The Chi series will come in three different models, all running Windows 8.1 and each with an attachable keyboard.“Our Chi is thinner than air,” Asus chairman Jonney Shih said Monday at the International CES show in Las Vegas, making a play on words to allude to the Apple products. During his pres
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  • Cambridge Health Alliance appoints new IT executive - ModernHealthcare.com

    Cambridge Health Alliance appoints new IT executive - ModernHealthcare.com
    Cambridge Health Alliance appoints new IT executive
    ModernHealthcare.com
    Steve Carter, a health IT executive with over 30 years of leadership experience, has been appointed CIO and senior VP of information technology at Cambridge Health Alliance, a three-hospital, community-based health system in Cambridge, Mass. Carter, 60 ...
  • Cool Tech From CES 2015

    Cool Tech From CES 2015
    CES 2015CES is kicking off 2015 with a bang. Smartwatches and other wearable tech are big this year, but that's not all. Here are some of the highlights from this year's event.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  • Apple Watch: A billboard for ads on the wrist?

    Apple Watch: A billboard for ads on the wrist?
    Questions abound over how Apple’s Watch will function when it’s released later this year. But here’s one feature: It will be able to serve ads, based on the location of wearers and their purchases.At least, that’s the vision laid out by TapSense, a mobile advertising exchange that has launched what it calls the first programmatic ad platform for the Apple Watch. The platform, the company says, provides a number of tools to let developers and brands place ads on the unit that can be ta
  • 7 Android Gizmos We’re Looking for at CES 2015

    7 Android Gizmos We’re Looking for at CES 2015
    It’s not easy being greenOr, more accurately, it’s not easy to stand out as an Android device at a huge show like CES, which officially kicks off Tuesday. However, we’ve found seven lucky items that drew our attention, for good or ill. Take a look.ALSO: Keep up with all that is happening at CES 2015To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
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  • Lenovo quenches thirst for selfies with Vibe X2 Pro

    Lenovo quenches thirst for selfies with Vibe X2 Pro
    Lenovo has masterminded a string of new selfie features in its new Vibe X2 Pro smartphone, for those who want to look sharper in their self-portraits.A flash accessory that Lenovo calls the Vibe Xtension Selfie Flash generates extra light when shooting selfies. The circular accessory plugs into the Vibe X2 Pro, has eight diffused LED bulbs, and activates when shooting a picture from the smartphone.“This results in natural color tones and 100 percent shutter sync,” said Craig Bond, head of
  • Re-examining Cisco’s Intercloud Strategy

    Re-examining Cisco’s Intercloud Strategy
    About a year ago a group of executives at a Cisco offsite meeting huddled to discuss a very serious issue: What was the company going to do about the cloud?
    With service models such as IaaS and SaaS taking companies by storm, Cisco needed to define its role in this new world. The company’s networking and computing hardware is used as the basis for many cloud systems and has become an integral part of controlling private clouds and supporting public cloud vendors. The Cisco executives wante
  • Lenovo's CES Lineup: Flexible Laptops, Dirt-Cheap Tablets, and PCs That Read Your Face

    Lenovo's CES Lineup: Flexible Laptops, Dirt-Cheap Tablets, and PCs That Read Your Face
    In addition to claiming a record for the "World's most lightweight laptop," Lenovo is unveiling all sorts of other, less record-worthy (but still interesting) devices at CES 2015, from cheap Android tablets to flexible laptops and PCs that can read your facial expressions.You get a tablet! And you get a tablet!

    First up is Lenovo's new A-Series tablets, which Lenovo branded with the cringe-worthy (or journalist-worthy) pun "'A' Smart Choice for First Time Tablet Buyers." The "A" apparently
  • AT&T Announces Developer Tool for WebRTC

    AT&T Announces Developer Tool for WebRTC
    LAS VEGAS -- AT&T announced on Monday a developer tool that enables technology called Enhanced WebRTC to provide voice and video calls between browsers without the need for a plug-in.
    WebRTC (Real Time Communications) is an emerging standard that allows voice and video calls by using a browser on any device, including a smartwatch. AT&T said it is the first U.S. carrier to launch commercial support for the standard and announced an application programming interface (API) in an open
  • The 2015 Social Engineering Survival Guide

    The 2015 Social Engineering Survival Guide
    Despite being an integral aspect of many, if not most, major attacks, social engineering tactics always seem to go underappreciated by enterprise security teams. However, it’s often easier to trick someone into opening an email and exploiting a vulnerability that way, or convincing an unsuspecting assistant to provide a few useful bits of information, than it is to directly attack a web application or network connection.
    Impersonation/social network squatting: In this case, the hacker tweets
  • Volvo Unveils Collision Prediction Technology for Cyclists in Vegas

    Volvo Unveils Collision Prediction Technology for Cyclists in Vegas
    Carmaker Volvo has created a safety system that alerts both a driver and a cyclist when they are in danger of colliding with each other through its connected car cloud.
    The two-way communication system pinpoints the proximity of a connected car and a cyclist's smartphone app using GPS.
    Volvo's existing cloud-based safety system will recognise a cyclist's position through GPS and will alert the driver through the dashboard.
    Additionally, if a collision is predicted, a red warning light will f
  • Harvard Researchers Unveil 3D Electronics Printer

    Harvard Researchers Unveil 3D Electronics Printer
    Harvard researchers have announced a 3D printer capable of printing both thermoplastics and highly conductive silver inks that allow electronic products to be created on one process.
    The printer will be sold by Voxel8, a company co-founded by Jennifer Lewis, a professor at Harvard's Wyss School of Biologically Inspired Engineering. Voxel8

    The Voxel8 3D printer extruding its conductive metal to form circuits. The metal prints and dries at room temperature.To read this article in full or to
  • 10 Outsourcing Trends to Watch in 2015

    10 Outsourcing Trends to Watch in 2015
    This year brought the IT outsourcing industry an increase in hybrid offshoring, a greater focus on in-house service integration, a new

    lower-cost consulting model, smaller deals, and bigger governance requirements.[ Related: 2014 IT

    Outsourcing in Review: Grading Our Predictions ]CIO.com again asked outsourcing observers to peer into their crystal balls. And if they're right, 2015 could be the year IT outsourcing gets

    business-focused, customers embrace standardization, sourcing decisio
  • Frustrated By New Tech?

    Frustrated By New Tech?
    LAS VEGAS -- International CES boasts 3,500 vendors this year, many showing off new smartwatches and other wearable gadgets.
    Many of these new devices are prototypes in later stages of experimentation. A lot of them won't go on sale or will be pulled off the market after a funky rollout.
    "Just because you see a lot of smartwatches at CES this year doesn't mean they are all destined for success," remarked Shawn DuBravac, chief economist for the Consumer Electronics Association which runs the
  • Why Crowdfunding Open Source Projects isn't as Easy as You Think

    Why Crowdfunding Open Source Projects isn't as Easy as You Think
    A big basket of cashImage by flickr/Doug KerrIt's A Wonderful Life is a heartwarming holiday classic about the ways a community comes together to help one of its most beloved members in a time of need. It's also about money, in a very practical way: the crucial help arrives in the form of a big basket of cash, which everyone in Bedford Falls has thrown money into in order to save George Bailey and the Savings and Loan.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  • Sharp expands 4K TV range, to offer 5K TV this year

    Sharp expands 4K TV range, to offer 5K TV this year
    Sharp is quadrupling the number of Ultra HD television sets it sells, raising its bet that consumers will want the TVs despite the lack of a large amount of content.Ultra HD, also called 4K, offers a picture with four times the resolution of today’s best high-definition video. Sony has been delivering 4K content to owners of its TVs and Netflix is experimenting with 4K streaming, but few other sources exist.Still, that hasn’t stopped TV makers from pushing the technology as they try to pe
  • LG's curvy GFlex 2 smartphone has the spirit of old-school flip phones

    LG's curvy GFlex 2 smartphone has the spirit of old-school flip phones
    LG’s new GFlex 2 smartphone is built in the spirit of flip handsets, with curvy contours to make chatting on the phone more convenient.Beyond the sleek 5.5-inch screen, the smartphone offers some of the most advanced mobile technologies available, said Frank Lee, manager at LG, during a press conference at CES.The smartphone has a P-OLED screen that can display images at 1080p resolution. It also has Qualcomm’s 64-bit octa-core Snapdragon 810 processor, which is able to process 4K video a
  • LG beefs up new 4K TVs with content-streaming services

    LG beefs up new 4K TVs with content-streaming services
    It’s becoming easier to buy 4K TVs, but content available at that resolution is still rare. While LG is making a big splash with new 4K OLED TVs, it is also trying to solve the content problem so the TVs are worth the price.The company is introducing new 4K OLED and LCD TVs with flat and curved screens at International CES in Las Vegas this week. One 77-inch TV is a “flex” model that can be switched between flat and curved mode “simply with the touch of a button,” said Scott Ahn, LG
  • Compuware preps the mainframe for younger IT pros

    Compuware preps the mainframe for younger IT pros
    Hoping to make mainframes intuitive for younger IT workers, Compuware has created development and management tools to mimic modern day interfaces and methodologies.“The next generation of developers, who may have many years of experience in open systems and distributed applications, really don’t have an understanding of the [mainframe] tribal knowledge that is starting to go away as the baby boomers retire,” said Dennis O’Flynn, Compuware vice president of technology. “They have a d
  • AT&T Builds on Internet of Things Offerings with Cloud-based Data Store

    AT&T Builds on Internet of Things Offerings with Cloud-based Data Store
    LAS VEGAS -- AT&T today announced new design tools and a managed service for enterprise-based developers to use in building Internet of Things (IoT) apps and services.
    The new AT&T M2X Data Service is based on a cloud-based data store, which is designed to make it easier to collect and analyze data from far-flung devices connected to large businesses.
    The service launched in beta last year, but is now commercially available, AT&T officials said at their annual Developer Summit st
  • Toyota Releases Thousands of Patents for Hydrogen Fuel Cell Tech

    Toyota Releases Thousands of Patents for Hydrogen Fuel Cell Tech
    Toyota today announced it is opening up to other carmakers and the renewable energy market more than 5,600 patents related to its fuel cell technology. Toyota

    Toyota's hydrogen fuel cell engine.

    The move is similar to one last year by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who opened up patented designs for all-electric vehicle (EV) "supercharging stations," which can fully charge a battery in about 45 minutes. By allowing other automakers to use the supercharging technology, Musk said he hoped to boost EV
  • Microsoft's Big Decision: Who Gets a Free Upgrade to Windows 10?

    Microsoft's Big Decision: Who Gets a Free Upgrade to Windows 10?
    One of Microsoft's biggest decisions this year will be whom to charge for Windows 10, and the dollar figure on the price sticker.
    Hints of that decision could come as early as Jan. 21, when Microsoft executives will not only unveil the next iteration in Windows 10's string of previews, but also further explain Windows' part in the company's overall strategy. CEO Satya Nadella has alternately portrayed that strategy as "cloud-first, mobile first" and "productivity and platforms."
    In December,
  • Free tool automates phishing attacks for Wi-Fi passwords

    Free tool automates phishing attacks for Wi-Fi passwords
    A new open-source tool can be used to launch phishing attacks against users of wireless networks in order to steal their Wi-Fi access keys.Gaining access to a WPA-protected Wi-Fi network can be extremely valuable for attackers because it puts them behind the firewall, in what is generally a high-trust zone. This allows them to mount man-in-the-middle attacks against the network’s users to steal sensitive data and authentication cookies from unencrypted traffic.A common method of breaking in
  • IDG Contributor Network: Why Leaders Should Shine a Light on Fear

    IDG Contributor Network: Why Leaders Should Shine a Light on Fear
    As a leader of technology teams, I've seen a lot of fear in the eyes of employees. Every day, companies outsource entire departments overseas. Every minute, hard-earned technology skills become obsolete. And every second, senior leadership cancels a major project and disperses a team.I recall an especially memorable team meeting when fear stalked the room. A critical project had fallen badly behind schedule, and I needed everyone's full attention. When I walked into the room where the team wa
  • Bitstamp claims its bitcoins are secure after attack forces exchange shutdown

    Bitstamp claims its bitcoins are secure after attack forces exchange shutdown
    Bitstamp reassured customers that their bitcoins are safe after a weekend hack forced the exchange to shut down on Monday.“As a security precaution against compromises Bitstamp only maintains a small fraction of customer bitcoins in online systems. Bitstamp maintains more than enough offline reserves to cover the compromised bitcoins,” the exchange said in a statement on its website.The hack, which took place Sunday, targeted one of Bitstamp’s operational or hot wallets, the statement s
  • IDG Contributor Network: Building a Culture of Content as Data

    IDG Contributor Network: Building a Culture of Content as Data
    As CIOs scramble to develop a digital strategy that reinforces their relevance in the eyes of the business, unfortunately most will miss the single most critical element required for that credibility.Unless CIOs and their IT organizations develop a deeper understanding of content and its relationship to driving insight from data, they will surrender what's left of digital strategy leadership to CMOs and the business.This goes well beyond heading up the technology aspects of deploying content
  • IDG Contributor Network: The Sony Breach Stymification

    IDG Contributor Network: The Sony Breach Stymification
    At first glimpse, the recent Sony Pictures breach appears to be fairly standard. Embarrassing emails, financial data and electronic records were stolen, leaving in their track a downed network with a company frenziedly trying to review, recover and respond. Suddenly, however, those breached email communications between executives were leaked to the media, referencing well-known actors, thus feeding into our gossip-obsessed nation. Breach just got real.
    As a CIO I'm almost paralyzed by the st
  • Why Nvidia ignored mobile and bet the farm on auto tech at CES

    Why Nvidia ignored mobile and bet the farm on auto tech at CES
    They waited for “one last thing” at Nvidia’s press conference, but it never came.Instead, the graphics chip maker devoted its entire press event at the International CES Sunday night to technologies that will power the car of tomorrow.At a show where smartphones, tablets and other portable gadgets make many of the headlines, Nvidia mentioned none of those things in its 90 minute presentation here, despite making chips that target them all. Not even its own Shield gaming device got a loo
  • School Security Protocols Prevent Students From Building Apps

    School Security Protocols Prevent Students From Building Apps
    The closed nature of school networks are preventing children from building their own software applications, a computing and IT teacher told Techworld this week.
    The claim comes as the UK government continues its push to get more students interested in app development and increase their chances of founding the next Facebook, Snapchat or Google.
    "It's hard to support app development in school because of the programming environment set up that most schools have," said John Partridge, assistant
  • Ericsson Pushes Plan to Send Wireless Apps Over Unlicensed 5GHz Spectrum

    Ericsson Pushes Plan to Send Wireless Apps Over Unlicensed 5GHz Spectrum
    Ericsson announced wireless technology today at International CES that's designed to improve coverage and speed for bandwidth-hungry smartphone applications such as streaming video.
    Ericsson is creating a small cellular device that will cost about $2,000 when available later this year that relies on software called Licensed Assisted Access. LAA is part of an emerging specification of the international 3GPP standards body that's designed to help wireless carriers offer greater potential for
  • Women CIOs Face Greater Challenges - CIO

    Women CIOs Face Greater Challenges - CIO
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    Women CIOs Face Greater Challenges
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    The disparity is even more evident at the IT executive level, where women represent only 20 percent of CIOs at Fortune 250 companies. Featured Resource. Presented by Jive Software. 10 Commandments of Collaboration for Exceptional Customer Service.

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  • Be your best: Life, leadership and the pursuit of happiness - Irish Times

    Be your best: Life, leadership and the pursuit of happiness - Irish Times
    Irish Times
    Be your best: Life, leadership and the pursuit of happiness
    Irish Times
    Ridgway and Ben-Shahar started to explore what was already out there in the market: “Coaching, but that's expensive and you can't scale it . . . executive programmes, but you can't send a whole company away, and anyway when people come back they ...
  • Women CIOs Face Greater Challenges

    Women CIOs Face Greater Challenges
    The IT industry as a whole continues to struggle with gender diversity. While women make up 57 percent of the overall workforce, in the technology sector that number falls to just 25 percent. The disparity is even more evident at the IT executive level, where women represent only 20 percent of CIOs at Fortune 250 companies.Survey results from the 2014 State of the CIO survey reflect that disappointing reality: Among the 558 total respondents, only 60 were female (or 10.7 percent). While that
  • Intel cranks up laptop battery life, graphics with new Broadwell Core chips

    Intel cranks up laptop battery life, graphics with new Broadwell Core chips
    Laptop battery life and graphics will get a serious boost with Intel’s new Core processors, which will reach PCs this month after a lengthy delay.The fifth-generation Core processors, code-named Broadwell U, are destined for Windows laptops, Chromebooks, desktops and mini-PCs. Lenovo, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Asus and Acer are among those using the new chips in systems.Laptops should see an immediate boost in performance and battery life with the new chips, based on Intel’s latest circuit d
  • Social Engineering: The Dangers of Positive Thinking

    Social Engineering: The Dangers of Positive Thinking
    CSO Online recently spoke to a person working in the security field with a rather unique job. He's paid to break into places, such as banks and research facilities (both private and government), in order to test their resistance to social engineering and physical attacks.
    Rarely is he caught, but even when he is it doesn't matter, and the reason for his success is the same in each case – human nature.Caught on film:

    When the surveillance video starts playing, the images show a typical day
  • Intel: Many PC Makers Plan to Skip Desktop Broadwell PCs and Wait for Skylake CPUs

    LAS VEGAS—The more powerful the PC, the less important Intel’s Broadwell chip appears to be.
    On Monday, Intel launched the Broadwell-U microprocessors for all-in-ones and traditional notebooks, representing the traditional Core i3, i5, and i7 parts that distinguish low, midrange, and high-end PCs. 
    The problem for Intel and PC makers, however, is that Intel’s next-generation chip architecture, Skylake, is due to launch in the second half of 2015, according to Kirk Skaugen, senior vi
  • The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Monday, January 5

    The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Monday, January 5
    Will 2015 be the year that the “connected home” hyped at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas finally establishes itself in reality?What’s significant this time around is the role played by the Internet of Things, says Mark Hachman at PC World. He names some names to look out for: EchoStar in home automation, Intel with new Broadwell PCs, Ford’s new entertainment system, and Samsung in “just about everything.”Google’s play in the connected home space is getting a boost at
  • SanDisk flash drive targets smartphone data transfer

    SanDisk flash drive targets smartphone data transfer
    SanDisk has launched a new version of its small USB stick that can help transfer pictures, video and other files between computers and smartphones.The Ultra Dual USB Drive 3.0 comes in 16 gigabyte (GB), 32GB or 64GB capacities and has a conventional USB connector on one end for hooking up to a computer and a micro USB connector on the other end for plugging into a smartphone.Compared to a version launched in 2014, the new model supports the USB 3.0 standard that offers faster data transfer sp
  • How an Acute Shortage of Cyber Talent Gave Rise to 'Spooks as a Service'

    How an Acute Shortage of Cyber Talent Gave Rise to 'Spooks as a Service'
    At the RSA Security Conference last year, companies large and small were trumpeting the spy agency connections of senior staff as never before. Startups in areas like 'threat intelligence' and endpoint protection touted their executives' experience at three-letter agencies as a precursor to conversations about the scourge of advanced threats and attacks.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)
  • New lie detector relies on full-body suit for better accuracy

    New lie detector relies on full-body suit for better accuracy
    When you are hooked up to a polygraph lie detector there is only a 60 percent chance a skilled examiner will spot a lie, giving you pretty good odds to get away with one or two untruths. However, Dutch and British scientists have found a way to amp up the accuracy of lie detection to 75 percent by monitoring a suspect’s movements with a full-body suit.Current lie detection methods aided by polygraphs are only slightly better than what people can achieve on their own. Without a machine, most
  • Recruiting Challenges Spur Higher Salaries, Better Perks

    Recruiting Challenges Spur Higher Salaries, Better Perks
    Skilled job seekers are in an enviable position in the simmering tech industry, as hiring managers compete for talent, boost job offers, and improve on-the-job perks to keep existing employees from looking elsewhere.
    “It’s really the technologists’ choice right now. They can be very picky,” says Jack Cullen, president of IT staffing and recruiting firm Modis.
    IT pros are more willing to consider a job change than they might have been a few years ago, and when they start exploring the
  • HP's Stream mini-PC with Windows battles Chrome desktops

    HP's Stream mini-PC with Windows battles Chrome desktops
    Hewlett-Packard is making an assault on low-cost Chrome desktops with an inexpensive Stream mini-PC running Windows 8.1.The Stream Mini Desktop starts at US$179.99, and has similarly minimalist features to low-cost Chrome desktops, or Chromeboxes. The cheapest Stream model has just 32GB of internal storage and 2GB of RAM, and like Chromeboxes is for those who do most of their computing online.The compact desktop weighs just 648 grams. It has a low-end dual-core Intel Celeron processor and Win
  • Mobile App Eases Anxiety of Stranded Motorists

    Mobile App Eases Anxiety of Stranded Motorists
    Customer service being stuck on the side of the road with your car broken down is no fun. And waiting for a tow truck can be more frustrating than waiting for the cable guy.Agero, a company that provides roadside assistance and other automotive services, is trying to take the guesswork out of when help will arrive. "Consumer expectations are evolving, and [services like] Uber have changed the landscape," says Jeff Blecher, senior vice president of strategy at Agero. "We said, 'There's a bette
  • CIOs Need to Snap Out of Complacency

    CIOs Need to Snap Out of Complacency
    As CIOs cope with digital disruption, the good news is that personal indicators lean positive. Compensation is up 7 percent, tenure holds steady, at about six years, and so does the portion of CIOs reporting to the CEO, at 44 percent, according to our 14th annual State of the CIO survey.But don't rest easy. This year's results also reveal a collection of alarming disparities between what business colleagues want from IT and what CIOs think they're providing. That gap came to light when we wor
  • 2015 State of the CIO

    2015 State of the CIO
    14th Annual State of the CIO ResearchOur 14th annual State of the CIO research, based on a survey of 558 IT chiefs, shows that compensation is up, but the job is super-challenging and business expectations are high. CIOs continue to struggle with balancing the need for innovation with the need to keep IT operations humming along efficiently and securely. Some CIOs are perceived as business leaders, or at least partners. But, candidly, some CIOs are falling short, as some business colleagues stil
  • iPhone dongle sends 100MB to other iOS devices in seconds

    iPhone dongle sends 100MB to other iOS devices in seconds
    If Bluetooth is too slow for your photo transfers, Toshiba now has a high-speed dongle than can transfer 100MB between iPhones in three seconds.The TJM35420LT is the first adapter for iOS devices that works with TransferJet, a wireless transfer technology developed by Sony.It has a maximum data throughput of 375Mbps, according to Toshiba, but devices have to be within 3 centimeters of each other.The roughly 24 millimeter-square adapter plugs into the Lightning connectors on iPhones, iPads and
  • Microsoft still believes in feature phones, launches $29 Nokia 215

    Microsoft still believes in feature phones, launches $29 Nokia 215
    Launching a feature phone at the beginning of 2015 may seem strange, but Microsoft is convinced there is still a market for the Nokia 215 as a second phone and in parts of the world were electricity is scarce and budgets are small.Microsoft calls Nokia 215 the company’s most affordable “Internet-ready entry-level phone” with Facebook and Twitter integration. The screen measures 2.4 inches and the camera has a 0.3-megapixel resolution.On the software side, it uses the Series 30+ operatin

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