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Samsung Launches Windows 8 ATIV Line and More

Samsung announced an ambitious line of Windows 8 mobile devices using the ATIV name on Wednesday, including an ATIV S smartphone with a 4.8-in. HD display and three tablet PCs. The lineup, unveiled in Berlin, Germany during a webcast, also includes an ATIV Tab that runs Windows RT and two Windows 8 x86 tablets that have magnetically attachable keyboards called the ATIV Smart PC and the ATIV Smart PC Pro. The company didn't offer pricing or availability information.

August 30, 2012 Ivo Rangelov

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Sony Unveils Android Tablet, Three Smartphones at IFA

During its big press event at the IFA trade show yesterday, Sony unveiled Android tablet and three smartphones. The devices were described by Sony CEO Kazuo Hirai as helping accelerate Sony's turnaround. Hirai briefly described the new products along with innovations in gaming and camera technologies, but offered no details on pricing. All of the smartphones are slated to launch globally sometime in the fourth quarter.

August 30, 2012 Ivo Rangelov

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Samsung to Demo New Windows 8 Hybrid Tablet

Samsung will take the wraps off its new Windows 8 hybrid tablet at the IFA 2012 trade show in Berlin. The company's Facebook page displays a photo of the new tablet with the tagline "Ready to be smart" and the phrase "IFA 2012, Berlin." IFA 2012 officially gets off the ground this Friday and runs until September 5. But the press will get a head start with events scheduled this Wednesday and Thursday. Samsung's press event is scheduled for Wednesday and will be live streamed.

August 28, 2012 Ivo Rangelov

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Java Zero Day Vulnerability Actively Used

Security researchers from FireEye, AlienVault, and DeependResearch have intercepted targeted malware attacks utilizing the latest Java zero day exploit. The vulnerability affects Java 7 (1.7) Update 0 to 6. It does not affect Java 6 and below. Based on related reports, researchers were able to reproduce the exploit on Windows 7 SP1 with Java 7 Update 6. There's also a Metasploit module available.

August 27, 2012 Ivo Rangelov

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Dropbox Two-Step Verification Security Option

Everyone knows that your primary email account is the lynchpin of your digital security: if someone gains access to that it's likely you could face quite a bit of damage, not unlike what happened to Mat Honan earlier this month. Your Dropbox account is a close number two, however, especially if you have passwords and other private files synced with your account, so Dante D'Orazio is glad to hear that two-step authentication is now available as an optional extra security feature.

August 27, 2012 Ivo Rangelov

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Bootstrap 2.1.0 Released

Bootstrap is a front-end toolkit for rapidly developing web applications. It is a collection of CSS and HTML conventions. It uses some of the latest browser techniques to provide you with stylish typography, forms, buttons, tables, grids, navigation and everything else you need. After a smaller 2.0.4 release, Bootstrap got another huge update that resolves tons of bugs, improves the flexibility and durability of the code, and introduces a few awesome new features. It's a big release wrapped in a brand new set of docs and they couldn't be more stoked to launch it.

August 21, 2012 Ivo Rangelov

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McDonald's Tests PayPal Payments in Mobile App Trial

McDonald's is testing a new payment system that could allow customers to purchase their meals using mobile devices. According to Reuters, 30 restaurants in France are involved in the trial, which sees customers payments processed by eBay's payment arm, PayPal. The concept was demonstrated at a McDonald's conference in Orlando, Florida, earlier this year as part of a booth featuring technology expected to go live in the next couple of years.

August 20, 2012 Ivo Rangelov

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Samsung Released Galaxy Note 10.1

On paper, the Note 10.1 seems extremely capable: it has an extremely fast quad-core processor, the ability to run multiple apps side-by-side on the 10.1-inch display, and, of course, Samsung’s Wacom-powered S Pen stylus, which has been upgraded from the smartphone Note to offer 1024 levels of pressure sensitivity. Other Android devices have tried and failed to meaningfully incorporate stylus support, but only Samsung’s 5-inch Galaxy Note smartphone has ever been a success, and Nilay Patel had high hopes the Note 10.1 would simply be a larger version of that experience.

August 16, 2012 Ivo Rangelov

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Google Builds Stronger Flash Sandbox in Chrome

Google yesterday announced it had wrapped up work on a stronger Flash sandbox in the Windows version of Chrome, and would soon ship the same for its OS X browser. Chrome 21, which launched July 31, completed efforts to ditch the aged NPAPI (Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface) Flash plug-in for one built to Google's own PPAPI (Pepper Plugin Application Programming Interface) standard.

August 9, 2012 Ivo Rangelov

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Amazon To Build Massive London Research Base

As Amazon gears up for its quarterly earnings later this week, the company today has announced an expansion that points to its big ambitions in digital media, and an increasing focus on how that growth will come from outside the U.S.. Amazon is opening a new R&D hub in London focused on developing services and APIs for TVs, games consoles, smartphones and PCs, with the aim to roll those out across the company’s global footprint. That is a major development for a company that has been somewhat slow to roll out its newest services beyond its U.S.-homebase.

July 23, 2012 Ivo Rangelov

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