Intel may want to believe that its Ultrabooks will clock in at under $1,000, but PC manufacturers beg to differ. Indeed, high-ranking execs from both Acer and Compal Electronics have asked Intel to help them meet the $1,000 price point by subsidizing CPU prices. Intel has yet to approve the plaintive requests, prompting Scott Lin, president of Acer Taiwan, to reportedly say that his company.
Google’s popular social networking platform is now open to the masses – and does not require a specially sent invite to join. Still, Google wants you to know that it is far from finished revamping and updating its nascent + service, as Mountain View continues to roll out new features in a steady cadence. “For the past 12 weeks we’ve been in field trial, and during.
In recent months, long-time hackers have become just a little miffed with some of the new kids on the block and their automated DDoS attacks – script kiddies, they mutter, darkly. And one UK hacker, Solar, has become annoyed enough to launch a new website aimed at separating the men from the boys. RankMyHack does just what it says. Hackers – and around 700 have joined up so far.
In the United States, nearly two-thirds of Internet users have a social networking account but those who use it most often are not the typical tech adopters. The Pew Internet & American Life Project has released its latest report on the way our country interacts with social networking. The subject was little more than a novelty three years ago, when Pew had reported about 29% of the population.
Facebook’s bug-hunter bounty program has paid out more than $40,000 in just three weeks. The companylaunched the program at the beginning of this month, promising $500 for each vulnerability revealed – more on exceptional cases. Since then, the company says it’s had to deal with bogus reports from people who were simply looking for publicity – but has had many.
A study, based on millions of articles, charted deteriorating national sentiment ahead of the recent revolutions in Libya and Egypt. While the analysis was carried out retrospectively, scientists say the same processes could be used to anticipate upcoming conflict. The system also picked up early clues about Osama Bin Laden’s location. Kalev Leetaru, from the University of Illinois’.
Despite Lenovo’s continuous growth in the rapidly expanding Chinese PC market, it wasn’t enough to keep Apple from briskly leapfrogging to the top spot. Lenovo, which has long been heralded as a stronghold in China and a formidable growing company around the rest of the world, managed to increase sales in the greater China region – which includes Hong Kong and Taiwan –.
There are roughly 250,000 apps available for Android, but how many of them ever gain an attention? A new report from Nielsen sheds some interesting light on the subject, pointing out that the top 100 apps for Android make up 61% of all app usage on the platform. This study comes from a new division of Nielsen tasked with looking at the increasingly fascinating and data-intensive mobile environment. The.
Facebook has announced a number of “improvements” designed to make it easier for users of the popular social networking site to share posts, photos, tags and other content with a specified audience. As part of the revamped privacy changes, most user controls have been moved from the settings page to being inline, right next to the posts, photos and tags they affect. “Your.
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