Citing various “sources”, ExtremeTech reports (via EETimes) that China is working on to plan single instruction set architecture (ISA) standard – the system that describes how computer hardware deals with programming, commands, and other inputs and outputs. MIPS Technologies says that the government is hoping to either approve a newly created ISA or one built off an existing system. “They want a common software ecosystem,” says Robert Bismuth of MIPS, “and the only way to get that is with a common ISA.” If...
Microsoft has deployed a fix for a Hotmail password reset vulnerability that was reportedly being exploited in the wild for days. A report published at Vulnerability-Lab described the vulnerability and provided a timeline for its disclosure and fix. The bulletin rated the severity as “Critical,” based on this description: A critical vulnerability was found in...
Silicon Republic reports that LinkedIn blog was reportedly being hacked by a group calling itself as the Syrian Electronic Army. Users clicking on LinkedIn’s blog at the bottom of their LinkedIn page will find them redirected to a web page supportive of President Bashar al-Assad and critical of the Syrian National Council. At the time of writing and after clicking on the link again a “Service Unavailable” page replaced the message from the Syrian Electronic Army. “We are a group of Syrian youth who wanted to show the...
Bloomberg reports that the search giant’s business practices are under investigation in South Korea as well as in Argentina as per company’s regulatory filing. The Korean investigation is ongoing although the Argentina investigation is an add-on and the country’s anti-trust organisation is assessing issues around the use of paid-for ads on the search engine. “The...
We all use Google Translate almost every other day and our usage is turning out to be a pretty awesome story for the company who is handling the service. Yes I am talking about Google as Google has announced some pretty interesting stats about its Google Translate service. The service has 200 million monthly active users and translates as much text as you would find...
Panasonic has announced a joint partnership with NHK to produce a 145-inch plasma display at 8K (7680 x 4320) resolution dubbed as “Super Hi-Vision” in Japan. The display is the world’s first 8K display that doesn’t require a backlight. Both the companies together devised a new drive method they claim maintains stability even at 8K. ...
We earlier reported that Samsung leaves Nokia behind and becomes world’s biggest phone manufacturer. More to add on this, the latest research from Strategy Analytics, Samsung and Apple both cover 55 percent of global smartphone shipment. The study states that global smartphone shipments grew 41 percent annually to reach 145 million units in the first quarter of...
Google has announced that is has launched Movies on Google Play and a brand new Movies page on YouTube for Australia, where you can rent thousands of films from both Hollywood and local Aussie studios. You can see films from The Walt Disney Company, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, NBCUniversal, Village Roadshow Pictures and Lionsgate, as well as from local distributors...
With Apple’s earlier announcement stating the launch of new iPad in South Korea and 11 other countries, the Cupertino-company announced that it launches the device to nine more countries, making the count to 57 markets worldwide. The new addition includes Columbia, Estonia, India, Israel, Lithuania, Montenegros, South Africa and Thailand although what it is missing...
We recently reported that Toshiba to release first Ivy laptops in Japan before US and now Acer on the same tone has revealed that Aspire V3 will be available soon at this weekend. The product will be fully announced on Sunday. The laptop will feature Intel’s 2.1GHz Core i7-3612GQ chip, 8GB of RAM, and an unfortunately low-res 1366 x 768 15.6-inch screen for...
