Windows 8 Review – Walt Mossberg – Personal Technology

  The minute you turn it on, the difference is apparent. Instead of the familiar desktop, you see a handsome, modern, slick world of large, scrolling tiles and simpler, full-screen apps best used on a touch screen and inspired by tablets and smartphones. This is called the Start screen and it replaces the Start Menu [...]

BBC unveils new radio service

iPlayer radio

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) announced the launch of its new music-streaming platform on Monday. Called BBC iPlayer Radio, the new radio service makes the live and archived content of BBC Radio’s 57 stations available to PC, mobile and tablet users across the globe. BBC unveils new radio service – Canada Social Media | Examiner.com.

London Cloud – London’s 1st Cloud Computing Service Provider

London Cloud is London’s 1st Cloud Service Provider…   Your Virtual Desktop is available with your emails, files, and applications on a remote server rather than your PC. This allows you to log into the same consistently fast and familiar environment from any device with internet access. Popular benefits of desktop virtualisation include: Complete freedom [...]

:: Free HD Videoconferencing Across Platforms with Zoom.us ::

See on Scoop.it – Information Economy Robin Good: Zoom.us just launched a new cloud-based free HD videoconferencing service integrating full screen-sharing and other rea-time collaboration capabilities.   The service allows you to start conferencing immediately with up to 15 other users live, while supporting both Macs, PCs andmobile devices, including smartphones and tablets.   Zoom [...]

Apple Acquires Fingerprint Security Company AuthenTec for $356 Million

See on Scoop.it – Technology In Media A pretty strong hint that Apple is interested biometrics… See on allthingsd.com

Apple to buy AuthenTec mobile security firm for $356M

According to a 139-page 10K form filed today, Apple is acquiring a 230-employee mobile security company called “AuthenTec” for $356 million. Apple’s $8 per-share offer is at a pre…   The company owns 200 patents covering fingerprint sensors and sensor packaging, software, and end use. AuthenTec makes a variety of security tools, including a number of fingerprint scanners like the [...]

Online identity theft up 200% since 2010

See on Scoop.it – ICT Security-Sécurité PC et Internet Summary: Following the recent slew of attacks against various websites that resulted in millions of user accounts being compromised, comes this little statistic: fraudsters traded 12 million pieces of personal information online in just Q1 2012.         Read more: http://www.zdnet.com/online-identity-theft-up-200-since-2010-7000001170/   See on [...]

Intel Launches Digital Magazine Curated by Employees: iQ by Intel

Excerpted from article: “It looks like Flipboard; aggregates and posts content like Reddit; and presents news visually, like Newsmap. And it’s from Intel. Intel iQ is a social-publishing platform and the tech giant’s latest content-marketing experiment.   IQ resembles a digital magazine but is curated by Intel employees. A story gets to the iQ front [...]

Hands On: Smart Pedometer Striiv Takes Fitness to Social Level

See on Scoop.it – internetbillboards Striiv launched on Wednesday its new touchscreen smart pedometer that not only tracks your steps and motivates you to walk, but also allows you to compete against friends in virtual races and challenges. The new social Striiv Smart Pedometer ($99.95) monitors your physical habits and creates personal challenges and goals [...]

:: Google Drive to Launch Tuesday? ::

See on Scoop.it – Information Economy Google’s service is expected to offer 5GB of free online storage and up to a maximum 100GB for premium users. See on www.pcworld.com

The Best of CES 2012

Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards Welcome to our massive “best-of” wrap-up for CES 2012, complete with everything from smartphones to PCs and headphones and back, topped off with our own “most used gear” section for the curious. What you’ll find is that though there were more exhibitors, attendees, and media attention payed to the show than [...]

The year in mobile apps: Where we’ve been, where we’re going

Smartphone and tablet purchases have been on the rise for several years, but 2011 was a turning point: This was the first year that these mobile devices outsold desktop and laptop PCs. The effect — and perhaps some of the cause of this — is a love affair with mobile apps, leading to more apps [...]

Microsoft Prepares Windows 8 for Battle Against the iPad

Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards Windows 8 is Microsoft’s attempt to create a single OS for PCs and tablets. Will it be enough to slow down the iPad, though?   This presents a dangerous problem and an opportunity for Microsoft. The tech giant cannot let Apple monopolize the tablet market like Microsoft did with the desktop [...]

Sony’s US$780 ‘Personal 3D Viewer’ Head Mounted Display to go on sale in November

Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards Sony will begin selling a ‘Personal 3D Viewer’ in Japan in November for around US$780. The HMZ-T1 uses twin hi-def (1280 x 720) 0.7-inch OLED scre…   The headset includes a processor unit to connect to Blu-ray™ Disc, Playstation®3 and other devices, and the audio experience can be switched between four [...]