In the second quarter of 2015, worldwide PC shipments declined 11.8% compared to the same period one year ago, accordin to a report released by IDC (International Documentation Center) on Thursday.
Overall, manufacturers shipped 66.1 million units worldwide, including desktops and laptops that run Microsoft Windows and other operating systems. That was a little bit less than expected. Read more…
Microsoft has released a new OneNote feature to the iPhone first before all other platforms, expressing the company’s interest in promoting cross-platformuse of its note-taking system. Read more…
Twitter is struggling to keep a healthy growth rate, and Apple obviously has not been doing much to help.
Twitter has lost four million users last quarter because of Apple’s roll-out of iOS 8, according to Twitter executives Thursday.
Some three million of those users were lost due to a change to the Shared Links feature of the mobile Safari browser, which presents links from people’s Twitter followers. The other million were “Twitter-owned,” CFO Anthony Noto expressed during Twitter’s earnings call, without further explanation.
The vague remarks confused some people on Twitter’s quarterly earnings call. “It doesn’t make any sense to me,” tweeted Mark Gurman, senior editor at Apple news site 9to5Mac.
;ater CEO Dick Costollo told Business Insider that the one million users it lost failed to get their passwords valid because of an encryption issue concerned with Twitter integration to iOS.
Four million isn’t a large number to Twitter, which had 288 million users at the end of last quarter. However, Twitter is fighting to keep its historic growth even without the Apple glitch. It had more than 20 percent of users last quarter than by the end of 2013, the lowest growth rate it’s already reported.
During its earnings call, Costollo referred to the issue as an “unforeseen bug in iOS 8 as it concerns Twitter’s integration with the OS.” He added that Twitter enjoys a “great relationship with Apple.”
Today I’m going to sharing some Windows knowledge collected by serveral computer experts.
What is an SSD?
Basically, a solid-state drive (SSD) is a data storage device that uses solid-state memory to store data. SSDs have the same purpose as conventional mechanical hard drives, but there is one crucial difference – they are electronic devices and don’t have any mechanical parts. Unlike HDDs, SSDs don’t store data on spinning platters, but use flash memory instead. Read more…
Last year we witnessed an event caused due to security vulnerability – the retail giant in US, Target Company, created a world record of 40 million credit cards’ data leakage. Before long, the largest building materials retailer in US, HomeDpot, also admitted nearly 56 million of credit cards got hacked due to the hacker attacks. Besides, the artware retailer Michaels, charitable second-hand store Goodwill and advanced department store chains Neiman Marcus were all attached by hackers. After that, the biggest leakadge event in the history broke out – J.P. Morgan Chase’s computer system got invaded by hackers, causing the private information (including name, address, phone number and email address) leakage of about 83 million families and small enterprises. At last, hackers entered Sony Pictures Entertainment’s computers, stole 100TB data of films and internal files and published them online. Read more…
The initiator of free software activity RMS (Richard Matthew Stallman) gave a speech entitled “Freedom in your computer and in the net” at the biggest hacker conference 31C3 in Europe.
RMS explained:
1. The philosophical difference between free software and the open-source is that although their forms are both open source code, the former emphasizes on theoretical freedom, while the latter focuses more on the practicability that the code’s quality and cost can bring. Read more…
Life is very much like this: when you start being a parent, your children will be the center of your life – raising them, teaching them what’s right and what’s wrong, giving all what you have to satisfy them and encouraging them to keep the faith no matter what. Then they grow up. One morning, they give you a property ownership certificate as a Christmas gift with the mortgage paid off, will you weep for joy?
If you think this is just an advertisement or some movie scene, then you’re wrong, because it does exist in real life. The media phonearena wrote this in its recent article, telling a similar story of Joe Riquelme, an IOS app developer. Read more…
The power-conscious Windows 8 normally blanks your screen when you haven’t touched a key for a few minutes. And, when you belatedly press a key to bring the screen back to life, you’re faced with the lock screen.
To move past the lock screen, you need to type your password to sign back in to your account.
In the past few years, we talked about the “Revival of C++”. We had to admit Microsoft is the main participant of this activity, and I remember Craig Symonds and Mohsen Agsen used to mention this in a video.
In 2011, Microsoft published many articles to announce the return of C++, and quite a number of Microsoft experts including Herb Sutter explained on many conferences why C++ will revive, which is mainly because of the promoting use of modern C++. Meanwhile, the standard acknowledgement of C++11 led us to discuss C++ as a new language again.
When Microsoft published a critical update this month for multiple versions of Windows Server, it also released a fix for several previous versions of the Windows client OS which includes even the technical preview for Windows 10.
It’s critical to get the patch out for Windows Server: An develpment affecting Windows Server 2008 R2 and earlier versions has already been detected, and Windows Server 2012 and later releases are vulnerable to a related but more difficult attack.
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