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Thursday, January 15, 2015

Samsung's First Round Smartwatch May Have an Apple-like Twist

  Review: LulzBot Mini 3D printer delivers outstanding details | Say 'Queso:' Next version of Google Translate app adds instant visual translation

 
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Samsung's First Round Smartwatch May Have an Apple-like Twist
Samsung's next smartwatch, codenamed "Orbis," could take a page from the Apple Watch with a rotating hardware element. According to SamMobile's unnamed sources, Orbis will have a round watch face with a rotating bezel. This could allow users to scroll or zoom through certain apps instead of interacting through touch, and Samsung may launch an SDK so app makers can accommodate the bezel.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
 


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8 Questions to Ask While Considering VDI Storage Solutions
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Review: LulzBot Mini 3D printer delivers outstanding details
There are about a dozen metrics by which I judge 3D printers when testing them, including speed, noise and the materials with which they can print. But, none of the latter attributes compares in importance with a printer's ability to produce objects with precision and accuracy. It is in that one area that the new LulzBot Mini 3D printer excels. Computerworld Gears and sprockets printed by the LulzBot Mini. Note the precision.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
 

Say 'Queso:' Next version of Google Translate app adds instant visual translation
  The mobile version of Google Translate is about to get two impressive new features – the ability to use your phone's camera to translate written text, and a hands-off mode that makes holding conversations in a foreign language go somewhat more smoothly. The first feature, which Google is calling Word Lens, ought to be a boon to travelers looking for subway stations, finding restaurants, and trying to avoid walking into the wrong gender's bathroom. It instantaneously translates signage, Google said, even without an Internet connection. + ALSO ON NETWORK WORLD: Guided tour of a Google data center | IBM's new mainframe will eat mobile apps for lunch +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
 


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Hacker builds wireless Microsoft keyboard keylogger disguised as USB wall charger
Although the gadget posted above looks innocent enough and you likely have something similar nearby, that USB wall charger is a wireless keylogger tool that can destroy privacy.Security researcher Samy Kamkar is at it again; this time, his KeySweeper "stealthy Arduino-based" device is disguised as a USB wall charger that can eavesdrop on most wireless Microsoft keyboards. Built for as little as $10, it secretly monitors wireless keyboards within range; KeySweeper "passively sniffs, decrypts, logs and reports back (over GSM) all keystrokes from any Microsoft wireless keyboard in the vicinity."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
 

The world's worst wearable tech concepts (so far)
  When wearables go wrongImage by AcerWearable technology is all the rage these days, so it only makes sense that everyone and his mother would want a piece of the pie.Every idea can't be a winner, though -- and for each life-enhancing gadget that makes its way into the mainstream market, we get something like a hat made for taking better selfies or pants designed to control electronics by way of carefully placed thigh slaps.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
 


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The Best PCs of 2015 Will be Superlight, Pen-Friendly and Broadwell-based
The Consumer Electronics Show is great for one thing: spotting PC technology trends. Out of hundreds of systems we saw, three clear trend lines emerged that we think will hold through the year.Ultralight and ultrathin laptops Smaller and thinner were the 'it' attributes at CES. Samsung was first out of the gate with news of its two-pound ATIV Book 9. I hefted it at an event and came away impressed, but clearly it was too heavy, right? Who am I—Arnold Schwarzenegger?  Lenovo thinks it has the answer in its even lighter LaVie Z HZ550. Built as part of a joint partnership with NEC, the LaVie Z HZ550 weighs just 1.72 pounds, which, Lenovo claims makes it the lightest laptop with a 13.3-inch screen.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
 

Samsung's first Tizen phone arrives in India at $92
  Samsung Electronics started selling its first Tizen smartphone in India on Wednesday, priced at 5,700 Indian rupees (US$92).The Z1 runs the open-source Tizen operating system backed by Samsung and other vendors including Intel, and which already powers some of the South Korean company's wearables and TVs.Samsung announced a different Tizen smartphone, the Z, in June, ahead of the Tizen Developer Conference in San Francisco. It said then that it would launch it first in Russia, in the third quarter of 2014, but that phone never appeared. According to some accounts, the release of a Tizen phone in India was also delayed.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
 

First Look: Firefox 35
Firefox 35 is here!Even though the browser's market share has hit its lowest point since 2006, Firefox's devs are still hard at work improving the original IE competitor. This time, the emphasis is on social sharing and Firefox's own app ecosystem. Have a look.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
 

60 percent of Android devices left vulnerable to security risk
Security researchers have developed a number of exploits that target WebView in older versions of the Android mobile operating system. Despite the fact that about 60 percent of the mobile devices currently in use rely on the vulnerable WebView, Google has confirmed it has no plans to develop a patch or update to protect them.Todd Bearsley explained in a post on the Rapid7 Security Street blog that Metasploit currently ships with 11 exploits for WebView. He clarifies, "WebView is the core component used to render web pages on an Android device. It was replaced in Android KitKat (4.4) with a more recent Chromium-based version of WebView, used by the popular Chrome browser."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
 

 

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