Engadget notes Verizon revealed that 4m of the 7.2m smartphones activated by the company in the first quarter this year were iPhones, half of them iPhone 5s, the other half split between older models. The numbers were revealed by CFO Fran Shammo in a conference call. The 55% is down a slight percentage from Q1 2013 where close to two thirds of Verizon smartphone sales (6.2M out of 9.8M) were iPhones....
Android, iOS, Windows Phone, and BlackBerry 10 aren’t the only smartphone operating systems vying for a place in your pocket. There are other smartphone operating systems in development — and they’re all Linux-based. Google’s Android operating system is also based on Linux, although it’s very different from typical Linux distributions. Other smartphone platforms — especially Canonical’s Ubuntu Phone — are much closer to a typical Linux system. Firefox OS RELATED: Wait, Firefox is an Operating System Now?...
Unfortunately, the notification situation on the iPhone is a bit messy. There are a lot of settings and options, but Apple doesn’t explain a lot of it well. We’ll show you the things you should tweak to get the best notification experience on your iPhone. RELATED: Android Notifications Are Still Miles Ahead of the iPhone Adjust Notifications as They Come In The best way to make notifications better is to tweak them as they come in....
Seagate officially announced and demoed the first hard drive technology to achieve a storage density of 1 TB per square inch. The technology could enable hard drives over the next decade to reach an unheard of storage capacity up to 60 TB for a 3.5-inch drive. Helping them to accomplish this milestone is heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR); a next-generation recording technology that will replace Perpendicular Magnetic Recording currently used in hard drives....
Leaving Your ISP’s Combo Modem/Router On This is a common mistake for both mesh networks and traditional routers. If you have a combination unit provided by your Internet service provider (ISP) that handles both the modem function and the Wi-Fi/routing functions, you need to make adjustments. If you leave the Wi-Fi functionality of the combo unit enabled, then you clutter up the airspace of your home with a signal you’re not even using....
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If you’re looking for just the right font for your retro computing project, this collection of 8-bit system fonts from the 1970s and 1980s can help. Damien G shares, on his personal blog devoted to design and typography, a collection of 8-bit system fonts available for download as TrueType. His collection includes system fonts for the Commodore PET, Apple II, Atari 400/800, Acorn BBC Micro, Commodore 64, and more. What makes his collection especially interesting is that he hasn’t just collected fonts together he’s provided an interesting back story to the design of the fonts–each entry includes an “Unusual characteristics” section that outlines unique things about that font and a “Rationale” section explaining why those unique variances are present....
After a brief period of downtime, the Apple Store website around the world has now gone back up. Aside from a bit of Mother’s Day promotional advertising, there is no change to most regions. For some countries, however, Apple has now made the 8 GB iPhone 5c introduced last month available for sale. The device is now available in the Netherlands, Italy, Sweden, Belgium, Poland, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Austria, and other regions....
With the right phishing simulator, it’s easy to craft the perfect simulated phishing email using the same tricks and techniques used by real scammers to prepare your workforce for the most dangerous attacks. But just because you can craft a perfectly disguised simulated phishing email that will bait most of your employees to click, doesn’t mean you should. And even though you could send the most obvious Nigerian Prince emails to ensure your organization’s phish rate drops lower than ever before, doesn’t mean it’s a good idea....
Batman and Harley Quinn came out on DVD in 2017 and it is not connected to the other DC animated film. Instead, it is a “spiritual successor” to Batman: The Animated Series. Written by Jim Krieg and Bruce Timm and directed by Sam Liu (Batman: The Killing Joke), Batman and Harley Quinn brought back Kevin Conroy to voice Batman once again and created something very different. The movie has Batman and Nightwing trying to stop a villainous plan devised by Jason Woodrue and Poison Ivy....
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children says that a total of 857 children who were reported missing or abducted have been successfully rescued as a direct result of the AMBER alert program. AMBER alerts are designed to get descriptions and vehicle details to everyone in the area as quickly as possible. They include television and radio appeals, but are notable for the text notifications sent to every mobile phone within range, known as Wireless Emergency Alerts …...
The entire Harry Potter series centered around Harry’s quest to kill Lord Voldemort. While in the earlier books, the way to doing so seemed nearly impossible, he eventually learns about the Horcruxes and how Voldemort can be defeated. Voldemort was a dark, manipulative wizard since childhood, and he began making Horcruxes while he was at Hogwarts. While his path to becoming the most powerful evil wizard ever started early, there were still ways that he could have been stopped before Harry’s story began....
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The camera on both iOS and Android has improved by leaps and bounds since smartphones first came out. Today, you can take professional-quality photos with a smartphone, and nobody would be any the wiser. But if you’re looking for something a bit different on your iPhone, here are five alternative iOS camera apps you could try. Alternative iOS Camera Apps To Make Your Photos A Bit More Interesting Here they are, in no particular order or preference…...
Wireshark has quite a few tricks up its sleeve, from capturing remote traffic to creating firewall rules based on captured packets. Read on for some more advanced tips if you want to use Wireshark like a pro. We’ve already covered basic usage of Wireshark, so be sure to read our original article for an introduction to this powerful network analysis tool. Network Name Resolution While capturing packets, you might be annoyed that Wireshark only displays IP addresses....
Carol Danvers’ Kree suit for Captain Marvel caused a lot of discussions when it was first revealed. Lots of people had theories about why the colors were ‘wrong’ and admittedly some of them even got it right. People were arguing about the suit right up until the trailers started releasing, and even then the trailers didn’t fully stop the debate. Fans who have seen the movie now know that Carol ends up with two different designs for her suit....
Excel makes creating a chart or graph easy, but there are certain things you can do to make your chart more effective. This list of tips can make your graph a successful visual display of your data. Many of our guides to creating charts, like creating a treemap, offer essential customizing advice that often applies to that specific kind of chart. However, the tips you see here can make any graph stand out, regardless of the chart type....
Sometimes you get so caught up in checking and writing emails that you don’t have time to explore the rest of your inbox. Microsoft Outlook has several features that are underused by many but can be quite helpful for daily tasks. 1. Read Aloud for Listening to Emails Multitasking is much simpler when you can work on something else while listening to the emails you need to read. This is when the Read Aloud feature is a handy one....
Businesses can also have evangelists, and they take the form of extremely loyal customers. These people typically buy specific products from one brand and never venture to their competitors. They use their satisfaction with a particular business as a means to convert others into becoming loyal fans as well. Brand evangelists are also excellent sources of marketing. Seventy-one percent of consumers say social media posts by friends or people that they know influence their purchasing decisions, according to research conducted by The Harris Poll on behalf of Sprout Social....
