A few days before the eagerly awaited launch of iCloud, Apple’s MobileMe system suffered an unexplained outage that affected access to email, apps, and Find My iPhone. The outage took place on Thursday. At noon, troubled started brewing as more and more customers reported they experienced delays with their incoming mail. Later it was learned that some users were unable to access MobileMe. Others reported they could not use Find My iPhone... [read news]
Security and privacy experts are unsure what to think about Amazon’s new Silk browser. "This makes Amazon like your ISP," said Aaron Brauer-Rieke a member of the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) from Washington D.C. "Every site, everything you do online [through Silk] will go through Amazon. That's a new role for someone like them, and I don't think it's at all clear that Amazon can step into that, or that it will be apparent to... [read news]
OnStar decided to not agree on a revision of its terms and conditions which stated that data would still be collected on vehicles even though the client had renounced the services. The OnStar system is used by General Motors; it embeds a mobile phone and GPS in the customer’s car which records the location and the speed of the vehicle.Last week the company thought about changing its policy in order to have the system gather data even though... [read news]
"Oracle is changing the dynamics of the datacenter by combining the industry’s best technology – the SPARC T4 processor, Oracle Solaris 11, Oracle Exadata storage, and the Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud software – into a versatile, secure, general purpose engineered system. Oracle’s SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 is an ideal platform for application and server consolidation that demonstrates how engineered systems can deliver huge performance... [read news]
The press is looking forward to an event scheduled by Apple for October 4th under the logo "Let's talk iPhone." Nobody knows at the moment what Apple is planning to announce or whether this event will see the launch of the new Apple iPhone. The event that will take place at the company’s headquarters is scheduled to start at 10 a.m. Pacific time. Fans are wondering whether the company will use this event to update its iPhone 4 to the... [read news]
Everyone is waiting anxiously for Wednesday in order to see the tablet computer Amazon may unveil. It is very likely that the new tablet will pick a fight with Apple Inc. and its extremely popular iPad. But can it truly compete with it? Analysts believe that Amazon has a chance to launch something else than another iPad wannabe. Amazon.com is known for its unique ability to sell e-books, movies and music for tablets. Moreover, the future... [read news]
The workers of Boeing Co got together for a ceremony in which they managed to hand-deliver the company’s first 787 Dreamliner to All Nippon Airways. When news of the event got out the company’s shares went up 3 percent.The 500 Seattle workers were determined to pull the plane approximately 100 yards and bring it to its Japanese buyers. The demonstration was meant to show how lightweight the airplane is. The result is that it will be able to... [read news]
Fans can now learn more about the future Motorola Atrix 2. This is my next managed to get some of the press photos and officials specs of the upcoming handset. Some rumors suggested that the new device will be called Motorola Edison, however official reports announced it will be named Motorola Atrix 2. TIMN announced the new phone will feature 4.3-inch qHD display and 1GB of RAM. It will support an 8-megapixel camera with LED flash and... [read news]
All Diablo fans out there will be annoyed to find out that Blizzard Entertainment decided to announce that the release date for Diablo III "will be moving in early 2012," and will thus be delayed. The company failed to announced when its much expected action RPG will be shipped.However, the company explained it will use "the additional time" to extend the game’s beta test, "potentially adding more testers than initially projected". About the... [read news]
RED has always been fond of product teasers therefore RED CEO Jim Jannard has decided to put an end to the practice and put a stop to pre-launch announcements. Jannard decided to post a quote made by Stephen Pizzo the co-founder of Element Technica and partner of 3ality Technica in order to explain his reasons: “After watching a demo of RED’s laser projector I’ve been struggling to find a way to describe it. Comparing it to traditional... [read news]
