Sony sees Digital Paper, to ship in May, to be able to get paper-based processes out of legal, education, and government organizations. Sony showed off Digital Paper, a 13.3″ tablet display that uses e-ink technology to render text and graphics, last week on the American Bar Association Techshow in Chicago. E-ink displays had been eclipsed within the tablet market by LCD displays, the technology utilized in Apple’s iPad and Google’s Nexus tablet, but there’s still demand for alternative display technologies. Amazon bought Liquavista last year to advance its Kindle hardware, and Qualcomm was working with its Mirasol technology. These alternative display technologies are typically cheaper to provide, more energy efficient, and more readable in direct sunlight. They are not great for games, however. Sony sees Digital Paper to be able to attract business customers who work in paper-intensive environments, but desire to move toward online workflows and business processes. [Intend to make your existing tablet more productive? See Microsoft Office For iPad: 7 Questions Answered.]... Read More »

Microsoft amends its terms of service to prevent peeking into customers’ emails, even though it suspects they’re stealing from the corporate. Windows XP Game Over: 9 Upgrade Options (Click image for larger view and slideshow.) Microsoft said this can honor its privacy commitments to its customers, even those it suspects can be thieves. In a blog post Friday, Microsoft executive VP and general counsel Brad Smith said that the corporate has reflected at the criticism it received over the way it handled a 2012 case wherein its investigators accessed the Hotmail account of a blogger purported to have received stolen Windows code from a disgruntled employee. Due to internal conversations and input from advocacy groups, Microsoft has decided that its privacy promises also needs to be binding by itself employees and agents. “Effective immediately, if we receive information indicating that somebody is using our services to traffic in stolen intellectual or physical property from Microsoft, we can’t inspect a customer’s private content ourselves. Instead, we... Read More »

Social networks make millions off your data, but they do not want to know everything. Here’s a way to clear your search history from three top sites. LinkedIn Tips: 10 Steps To a much better Profile (Click image for larger view and slideshow.) Social networks are becoming an essential component of our online lives: They’re how we stay connected to friends, what percentage folks find new job opportunities, and the way more people not sleep to this point on news. And if you are probably wary about how much personal information you share, social networks know more about you than you think that. From the instant you subscribe to a social networking account, the location collects droves of knowledge about you: your birthday, email address, age, browsing habits, likes, dislikes, and your interests, for instance. Some sites track the videos you’ve watched, location from where you last logged on, or even your search history. That, for sure, is the pricetag you pay for using free... Read More »

Hong Kong SoftLayer facility will open April 14 and offer Watson, BlueMix, and other cloud services. 8 Datacenters For Cloud’s Toughest Jobs (Click image for larger view and slideshow.) IBM’s SoftLayer unit has expanded a slender cloud foothold in Asia with the addition of a datacenter in Hong Kong, as a result of offer its cloud services starting April 14. Hong Kong is the primary of 15 datacenters that IBM plans to feature this year to finish a sequence of 40 all over the world, all connected by a personal network. Firstly of March, its SoftLayer cloud services unit had 150,000 servers in operation and it was adding 4,000 to five,000 a month. The Hong Kong site can have the capacity for 15,000 servers. SoftLayer already operates a datacenter in Singapore. Workloads for SoftLayer’s Asian sites may be sent via IBM/SoftLayer points of presence in Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Singapore. The POPs bring different network carriers together to offer a shared Internet access point. The... Read More »

Google tightens app store rules for developers to enhance Android app security, integrity, and quality. 10 Great Google Apps Tips (Click image for larger view.) In an effort to enhance Android app security, integrity, and quality, Google notified Android developers on Friday that this is revising its Google Play Developer Program Policies to discourage abusive practices. The corporate has given developers offering apps through Google Play 15 days to revise apps that fail to fulfill its requirements. More oversight must be beneficial. The collection of malicious Android apps available in the course of the Google Play grew 388% from 2011 to 2013, the protection firm RiskIQ said in February. In this period, the proportion of malicious apps removed by Google annually declined from 60% in 2011 to 23% in 2013. All new apps submitted to Google Play are subject to Google’s new policy. Developers with apps found to violate the foundations might receive a warning to mend the difficulty, or they may have their noncompliant... Read More »