Tag: software
Microsoft report record annual revenues
Big smiles on the faces of Microsoft executives in Redmond today; their latest earning calls has revealed not only record quarterly earnings, but record annual ones too. Microsoft reported yearly revenue of $69.94 billion and $23.15 billion net income. However,…
Kaspersky Lab Anti-Virus 2012 and Internet Security 2012 released
Kaspersky Lab have revealed deatils on their latest security software releases for 2012. Anti-Virus 2012 and Internet Security 2012 combine both cloud-hosted and local PC protection to offer what they feel is the most advanced PC security set-up in the…
APP OF THE DAY: Opera Mini 6 (iPhone/iPad)
Opera's Mini 6 web browser has now touched down for iOS devices. Following in the footsteps of versions released earlier in the year for Android, BlackBerry and Symbian devices, it's the best Safari alternative on the App Store. "I would…
Ribbon interface revealed in new Windows 8 screenshots
We're still probably at least a year away from the launch of Windows 8, but already we're starting to get a few trickles of information about Microsoft's forthcoming operating system update. Alongside a Windows Phone 7 style log-in screen, it…
Apple expected to launch iPad magazine template to ease publication
Future versions of Xcode, Apple's suite for developing software for the Apple operating system, could include a template for creating digital magazines, according to Gadget Daily News. This could mean a host of iPad publications seeing the light of…
Say a command: The future of data is the spoken word, judging from Google and Autonomy
According to the Hollywood version of the future, we will eventually interact with computers just by speaking to them. We've come a way from humble beginnings in voice recognition, when cinema information lines kept messing up Brighton and Birmingham,…
Lighten up: Natural daylight cycles for your computer with F.Lux
It was never all that realistic to ask us to get up from behind our computers anyway, so at least there's an app that realises this. F.Lux software will change the light on your computer depending on the time…
Dubai, Saigon, Hanoi and Geneva get "street view" mapping, no thanks to Google…
Hoping to take a virtual tour of Dubai, Saigon, Hanoi or Geneva from the comfort of your computer desk? Well that hasn't been possible, as they are just a few of the many cities yet to be given the Google…
68% of Brits planning on making Christmas savings with knock-off software, say Microsoft
According to new research commisioned by Microsoft, as many as 68% of Brits planning to buy PC software this year are considering purchasing pirated versions in a bid to save some cash. It's an issue close to Micrsoft's heart, and…
iTunes song preview time increases
As had been suggested a little while back, Apple have now introduced longer preview tracks for songs available to buy from their iTunes store. You'll now be able to listen to as much as 90 seconds of a track before…
