Friday, January 9, 2015

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AMD warns virtual reality is a long way away

Posted: 09 Jan 2015 04:34 AM PST

 virtual-realityA true virtual reality machine is a lot longer away than many believe, warns AMD.

AMD’s chief gaming scientist Richard Huddy said that getting photorealism in games is impossible in the  current virtual reality hardware.

Talking to Develop, Huddy said that virtual reality was a staggeringly exciting field. more»

Apple defective motherboard case temporarily thrown out

Posted: 09 Jan 2015 03:49 AM PST

apple-disney-dreams-snow-white-Favim.com-142405Lawyers from Apple are celebrating after they managed to convince a judge to throw out a case which accused it of defrauding consumers by selling MacBook laptop computers that contained “logic boards” it knew were defective, and which routinely failed within two years. more»

Infosys beats Wall Street predictions

Posted: 09 Jan 2015 03:48 AM PST

Workers are pictured beneath clocks displaying time zones in various parts of the world at an outsourcing centre in BangaloreIndian outsourcers Infosys have business results which were much better than the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street predicted.

Infosys posted a 13 percent rise in quarterly net profit, as it won more outsourcing contracts from Western clients than many thought possible. more»

Only 10 percent of cloud apps are secure

Posted: 09 Jan 2015 03:47 AM PST

Every silver has a cloudy liningNew research has found that only one in ten cloud apps are secure enough for enterprise use.

According to a report from cloud experts Netskope, organisations are employing an average of over 600 business cloud apps, despite the majority of software posing a high risk of data leak. more»

Do you want electricity with that?

Posted: 09 Jan 2015 03:46 AM PST

mcdonalds-hospitalPurveyor of meat themed products McDonalds is installing 600 charging hotspots in 50 of its British restaurants.

The move means that anyone with a compatible smartphone or tablet can simply sit it on the counter to start automatically charging its batteries. more»

Tablet users to exceed one billion

Posted: 08 Jan 2015 07:35 AM PST

tesco-hudl-tabletA report claimed that over a billion people in the world will use a tablet this year – that's 15 percent of the world's population. eMarketer said that by 2018, 1.43 billion worldwide will use tablets but that doesn't mean that sales of tablets will increase exponentially. more»

Apple hikes prices in Europe

Posted: 08 Jan 2015 07:20 AM PST

blue-applePrices in Apple's App Store within the European Union are set to rise in the next day or so. According to AppleInsider, which has seen an email sent by the company to its developers, the email said prices in the App Store are to rise "for all territories in the European Union". more»

Scientists improve quantum hard drive

Posted: 08 Jan 2015 06:56 AM PST

crystalThe Australian National University (ANU) claimed that a prototype quantum hard drive it's developing has improved storage times by as much as 100 times. The goal of the scientists are to use quantum physics to develop a highly secure data encryption network using quantum information, with applications in banking and other internet functions. more»

Euro semi sales show growth

Posted: 08 Jan 2015 06:35 AM PST

nand-chipsThe European Semiconductor Industry Association (EISA) released data for November 2014 which showed sales were up by 3.4 percent compared to the same month a year before. EISA said combined sales between January to November showed a growth of eight percent compared to 13 percent. more»

Google’s search share falls

Posted: 08 Jan 2015 06:17 AM PST

330ogleA report said that Google lost US search share in December while Yahoo gained share for the first time in a long time. The report, from Statcounter, said that in December Google managed to grab 75.2 percent of US searches, with Microsoft's Bing coming in second at 12.5 percent and Yahoo third with 10.4 percent. more»

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