Introducing with the GoFlex Home network storage system. This device enables you to set up a wireless network for the backup, storage, and streaming of your files at home. Connect multiple computers, PC, or Mac, and automatically protect your data while also enabling streaming to media players, game consoles, and other computers, all over your own “cloud”.
Folks at Mozilla seem really geared up for creating a metro-styled Firefox for Windows 8. And daunting as it did sound at first, the fellows are making leaps and bounds and are all set to meet the deadlines and accomplish milestones. Earlier, the Firefox team had stated that they would achieve the working prototype milestone during the second quarter of 2012. Now according to the project head, Brian Bondy, they have!
Mobile gaming has gained huge traction recently and a lot major gaming industry players are rushing to it to take a piece of the pie. While games like Angry Birds typically show where things started for the mobile platform, now more and more complex and heavy games are being played on mobile devices, given the powerful hardware. We have heard that Apple may be working on a video game controller to go with iOS devices to enable better game-playing.
With the launch of smartphone, tablets and of online App stores, things have been really good for the developers. Showcasing an app online has become really easy and if it pitches in with the users, the developers get to make good money out of it. A study by Flurry Analytics has now revealed that App Store generates a lot more revenue for the app developers than Amazon Appstore or Google Play.
If you have been acting smug thinking that locking your iPhone with a passcode would ensure a fail-safe security for your smartphone, you have to think again. This is because a Swedish software developer, Micro Systemation, has demonstrated that iPhone’s passcode can be easily bypassed within 2 minutes using the company’s XRY 6.2 software and hardware.
Smartphone and tablets are the rage of today’s tech world. However, without a large ecosystem to support them, even an excellent product won’t pitch in with the users. Apple’s products and Android devices are a huge success precisely for the reason that they are part of a greater ecosystem, with hundreds of thousands of apps available for each. Now, Microsoft may be planning to take its Windows Phone Marketplace up a notch, as is evidenced by some leaked Microsoft slides.
Research-in-Motion (RIM) has been rather struggling with its BlackBerry handsets. With Apple and Android’s onslaught into the smartphone market, BB has been steadily losing its share. However, the company is quite hopeful with its upcoming BB 10 device and for the right reasons. Now RIM has announced that it will hand out 2,000 prototypes using BlackBerry 10 to the developers at the BlackBerry Jam Conference in May.
Microsoft seems very ambitious with its upcoming Windows 8. It has been gradually unveiling a number of really useful and advanced features in Windows 8. Now, Microsoft has announced that Windows 8 will be scaled to fit neatly on different displays of tablets and other devices. It will also be scaled to fit finely on Retina-like displays. The announcement is quite significant since there are rumors that following in Apple’s footsteps, a number of vendors will be using Retina displays in upcoming devices.