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London police can now download the contents of your phone in seconds
If you’re arrested around London anytime soon, watch out: the Metropolitan Police has distributed kiosks to 16 borough precincts that will allow them to extract data from your mobile device within minutes. Officials hope this will enable them to respond quicker to situations like last July’s riots. Police suspected that Research In Motion’s BlackBerry Messenger [...]
Windows 8 tablet PC makers: We can’t compete with the iPad’s price
If reports from Taiwan are to be believed, hardware manufacturers are struggling to create Windows 8 on ARM (Windows RT) devices that are competitively priced against Apple’s iPad and Amazon’s Kindle Fire. The reason? According to Digitimes, OEMs have to pay Microsoft $90-100 for a Windows 8 license. While that $90-100 figure sounds a little [...]
Tizen 1.0 hands-on: Can Samsung and Intel’s mobile OS compete with Android?
In the wake of Meego’s demise a new open source mobile operating system has emerged. Known as Tizen and backed by Samsung and Intel, the Linux-based OS recently hit the version 1.0 milestone and has even been paired with an official reference hardware platform. Unlike the alternative OSes that came before it, Tizen does not [...]
Without major changes, Thunderbolt for PCs is dead in the water
For the past year, if you wanted a Thunderbolt-capable system, you had exactly one choice — Apple. That’s finally beginning to change, with MSI’s Z77A-GD80 motherboard leading the charge to introduce PC users to the experience of paying $50 for a six foot cable. That price tag isn’t a misprint, and it’s not just due [...]
US and EU antitrust regulators have their eyes on Windows RT
US and European regulators have a watchful eye on Microsoft, after it emerged last week that it would be impossible for other vendors, such as Google and Mozilla, to develop browsers that are competitive with Internet Explorer on Windows RT (Windows 8 on ARM). Microsoft disclosed last year that development of third-party apps would be [...]
The end of Earth, the end of us, and the end of the universe
Humanity is obsessed with history. I don’t know why, but for the most part we would much rather lose ourselves in reverie than contemplate the future. Even when we do think of the future, it’s nearly always constrained to our future, usually just a handful of years hence. It is a rare person indeed who [...]
