Last month, Adobe made the decision to make their new Creative Suite subscription only. While initial response was good, those who were simply paying for the program upfront are less than happy. However, Adobe Systems, Inc. still beat analyst profitability expectations last quarter by three cents a share. Creative Cloud subscribers jumped from 220,000 to over 700,000 in...
Read MoreFacebook has been working hard on the mobile version of their website for all platforms, but the iPhone version has made the most noticeable changes lately. As of the Tuesday 6.2 release, Facebook users are now allowed to use “emoji-style†icons when they update their statuses. These emoticons are often followed by “feeling unhappy,†or “feeling surprised.†While...
Read MoreWith the mobile industry growing each and every day, it makes sense that you’re looking to see if you might be able to harness the power of owning a tablet. An estimated 265 million tablets will ship this year across the world, and by 2017, experts estimate that tablets will outsell PCs by a 3 to 1 margin....
Read MoreFacebook had a hiccup – and it cost 6 million of its users some their private information. The contact information exposed shared information with other members on Facebook, the social media giant said. Late last week, they discovered a bug in the “download your information†tool that allows users to get a list of their information for themselves....
Read MoreThough Leap Motion, an innovative gesture control system for the computer, doesn’t launch until July 22nd, it’s been all the buzz in the few short weeks since its announcement. Because of this, Leap Motion has decided to launch the developer portal a few weeks ahead of time to give people a taste of what’s to come. The startup...
Read MoreNook users, you’re about to be an endangered species. A few days ago, Barnes & Noble, one of the last remaining book sellers in the United States that still maintain physical locations, announced that they will no longer be producing and selling their Nook. The Nook has found its niche in the market, albeit not a very strong...
Read MoreIn 2011, people were worried because malware that infected cellphones was up 155%. Now, from March 2012 to March 2013, it’s up 614%. New forms of software and hardware are coming onto the market faster than most people can blink, and malware for these devices is keeping pace. The 614% increase in malware in the last 12 months...
Read MoreWhile the technology to add fingerprint recognition to mobile devices has been in existence for a while, FingerQ, a company based on Hong Kong, has decided to shed some new light on the industry. The small startup company has made a series of cases for your Android device that come with biometric fingerprint sensors. Of course, the Android...
Read MoreMarket analysts and talking heads have been predicting a paradigm shift in the world of computing – that the era of laptop computing would soon abdicate to the new, exciting world of tablet PCs, but Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer appears to be unconvinced. At the Microsoft Build Developer Conference on Wednesday, he criticized the “tablets-only†ideal: “How many...
Read MoreAltaVista, a name not recognized by many of the Internet’s users of today, is finally going offline for good. Yahoo wrote a few days ago that it was killing off AltaVista and 11 other services that were no longer relevant in today’s world because of changing technology and lack of brand recognition. Jay Rossiter, vice president of platforms,...
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