Comcast has announced today that it will be purchasing the remaining 49 percent of NBCUniversal that it does not own. The massive cable company will purchase the stake from GE for $16.7 billion, giving it 100 percent ownership of the film and television company. In 2011, Comcast purchased the majority stake from GE for $13.75 […]
Google has made the aptly named Nexus 4 Wireless Charger available to fans of the new flagship. The device is available through the Google Play Store, and ships “within a week.” For $60 (before tax and shipping), users receive the nice looking orb, which is Qi inductive. “Its angled surface provides easy visibility of your […]
Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, hit Reddit today to answer some questions. Before he even started the AMA, he posted a short animated video answering the the most popular questions being posed to him. The first question in the video is, “How much money is in your wallet?,” followed by, […]
President Obama to follow VP Joe Biden by hosting Google+ Hangout. The President will deliver his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress and the American people on Tuesday evening, continuing a 200 year tradition. Ex Presidents and their staff would typically then be grilled about the speech for a few […]
According to the latest Canalys figures, tablets accounted for 46 percent of all PC shipments in the Q4 2012, huge news for the devices that really did not exist before the 2010 launch of the iPad. Overall, there were 134 million units shipped, 46.2 million of which qualified as tablets. Tablet shipments grew 75 percent […]
Microsoft targets some critical flaws. It will roll out fixes as it always does; on Patch Tuesday, the second Tuesday of every month. The February 2013 bundle targets flaws in the Windows Operating Systems, Internet Explorer and Exchange. All in all, 57 security issues will be addressed on Patch Tuesday. The company will push out […]
Adobe issues important fixes. It has had to address two zero-day vulnerabilities that are being exploited in the wild. One (CVE-2013-0633) is being exploited in the wild in targeted attacks designed to trick the user into opening a Microsoft Word document delivered as an email attachment which contains malicious Flash (SWF) content. The other serious […]
Although rates have dropped, Panda Labs is reporting that one third of all PCs are infected with malware. 32 percent of users the security firm researched had some form of malware on their computers in 2012, down from 38 percent in 2011. China led the way, with 54 percent of systems infected. South Korea, Taiwan, […]