You can’t download Photoshop for your iPad yet, but the technology is getting close enough for Adobe Systems to begin showing what it’s got in mind. Yesterday, John Nack, the Adobe Systems program manager leading the effort, revealed some ideas of how Adobe envisions marrying its flagship image-editing software to tablet computers. Adobe displayed two [...]
The Chevy Volt is as much a software engineering accomplishment as it was a mechanical engineering challenge, according to General Motors. General Motors today plans to bring the Chevy Volt to IBM’s Raleigh, N.C., offices to show off the electric car and celebrate its partnership with IBM’s software business in making the Volt. With the [...]
The company’s blowout quarter came from nearly every division, but taking over the top spot in the video game world was its most surprising statement. Despite a corporate restructuring, criticism that it’s failing to innovate in certain sectors, the departure of Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie and analysts downgrading its stock, Microsoft (MSFT) trumpeted a [...]
Google Inc admitted for the first time its “Street View” cars around the world accidentally collected more personal data than previously disclosed — including complete emails and passwords — potentially breathing new life into probes in various countries. The disclosure comes just days after Canada’s privacy watchdog said Google had collected complete emails and accused [...]
Before we get to the spate of MacBook Air stories, a quick guide to trolling Apple:: Are you a Windows user seeking ammo with which to rebut your Apple-loving friends? Search no longer: here’s our 21st century guide to trolling Apple and Mac OS X. Ahead of the Apple event we rounded up some rumors: [...]
The web-based service gives people access to increasingly detailed satellite images of China and high-level images of other nations.
China has become one of a handful of nations to own one of the top five supercomputers in the world. Its Tianhe-1 computer, housed at the National Super Computer Center in Tianjin was ranked fifth on the biannual Top 500 supercomputer list. The machine packs more than 70,000 chips and can compute 563 trillion calculations [...]
Microsoft is hoping that its newly-launched operating system will be one that “doesn’t let you down”. Speaking at the official launch of Windows 7 in London, Microsoft executives said they had listened to consumers and delivered a more streamlined, feature-packed system. It follows widespread criticism of predecessor Vista. Windows 7 faces stiff competition from [...]
Users of the new Apple operating system Snow Leopard are experiencing massive data losses when logging into their machines under a guest account. The problem appears to affect those who had a guest account enabled before upgrading to Snow Leopard. Users have in some cases lost their entire main profile, including sites, pictures, videos and [...]
Microsoft has released its free computer security package to the public. From 1700 BST on 29 September, Windows users will be able to download the software from Microsoft’s Security Essentials website. The free software gives basic protection against viruses, trojans, rootkits, and spyware. The Essentials software is Microsoft’s second try at making an own-brand security [...]