Britons who are using Cortana on their Windows Phones to keep things organized should start seeing the evening reminders these days, as microsoft is now rolling out a new pack of improvements in the United Kingdom. As Reddit user Inhopeless writes today, Cortana is now showing evening reminders to Windows Phone customers in the United Kingdom, but some could not get them just yet, as the update is being released to users gradually. As a reminder, in the United Kingdom, Cortana is only availa... ( read more ) ... More @
microsoft has announced today that if you subscribe to Office 365, you will now get unlimited storage with OneDrive - a considerable increase from the 1TB limit previously in place. Read more... ... More
microsoft and Google are in a price war over your office documents — and microsoft just took a big swing. microsoft says it is giving away unlimited storage to customers who buy the cloud version of its microsoft Office software, called "Office 365." This one-ups what Google is doing with its paid versions of Google Drive, called Google Drive for Work. Google Drive for Work costs as little as $5/user/month and restricts you to 30 gigabytes of online storage. For $10/user/month, you get 1 terabyte of online storage, until you add 6 people to the account ($60/month) and then storage is unlimited. To be fair, the paid versions of Google Drive are really geared toward business users, and businesses are biting. Google recently said it is signing up 1,800 new customers a week for the service. But microsoft is doing well attracting consumers to Office 365, too. microsoft launched Office 365 in early 2013, adding support for the iPad early in 2014. microsoft now has 7 million customers for the product, the company said last week , and grew by 25% last quarter alone. For those buying microsoft Office for personal or family use, Office 365 is arguably a better deal than a paid version of Google Apps. For the $6/month "Personal" version of Office 365, you'll get one account that has now has unlimited storage, plus copies of the microsoft Office software that runs on your PC (Mac or Windows) and a tablet (iPad or Windows), for offline usage. ... More
NYC has been struck by first case of ebola AP Officials confirmed Dr. Craig Spencer, 33, tested positive for the virus Thursday, but attempted to ease concerns about spreading. Three others quarantined Related coverage Who is Dr. Craig Spencer? CDC details new response teams ... More
How long can ebola live on a surface? Alamy As ebola spreads, everyone is wondering -- how long can the ebola virus live on a surface like a subway handrail? One body fluid survives several days In related news A crash course in fear ebola cases could spur lawsuits ... More
NEW YORK (AP) — A doctor who became New York City's first ebola patient was praised for getting treatment immediately upon showing symptoms, and health officials stressed that the nation's most populous city need not fear his wide-ranging travel in the days before his illness began. ... More
In the same way as you wait ages for a bus only for two to come along at once, it's the season for new linux releases. Today Canonical released Ubuntu 14.10, aka Utopic Unicorn, and in less than two weeks OpenSuSE will push out 13.2. I'm a SuSE user so I'll be downloading that over the weekend and getting stuck in. It's good to see such a flurry of activity. The new releases all have a plethora of new features. Interestingly, Ubuntu is going after the Android developers with the new Ubuntu Developer Tools Centre which helps coders develop apps. The new Centre downloads the Android toolkits along with libraries and dependencies, bringing them into the launcher. Although first available for Android, the plan is to extend this to other platforms such as Go and Dart . A big win too is that Netflix now plays in Chrome without any trickery! From OpenSuSE , the new release focuses on the much-improved Gnome desktop (3.14), though KDE users aren't forgotten either with plenty of improvements there too. I think it would be fair to say that it's an incremental release but there's still plenty to look forward to – more will be revealed as the release gets closer. Reflecting on recent use, I don't get to use my desktop as much as I used to. Like many other people have found, tablets have taken over for day-to-day computing and the desktop has been relegated to occasional use. Between a Nexus 7, a Chromebook, a local NAS and the cloud, my big ... More
According to officials, a worker at the Texas hospital that cared for the United States' first Ebola patient has tested positive for the disease. Read more... ...
CBS chief medical correspondent John LaPook told Face the Nation' s Bob Schieffer Sunday morning that the public health community's response to the first case of Ebola was heartening, and tamped down on theories that the second case represented some mutation or undiscovered aspect of the virus. "This is a great time not to have magical thinking," LaPook said. "We have forty years of experience treating Ebola. We know how it's transmitted. There is no evidence from a huge New England Journal of Medicine review that this virus is any different than any of the previous viruses, that it's mutating or anything like that." "What protects the community is the public health system," LaPook continued, "isolating the person, making sure you track down their contacts. And I have to say after some missteps at the beginning, where the apartment wasn't clean, people weren't moved out, the health care system did a very good job of responding to this. In fact it only took forty-eight hours for the CDC to track down all forty-eight contacts." Compare with ABC News' medical expert's less sober response this morning. Watch the clip below, via CBS News: OO.ready(function() { OO.Player.create('ooyalaplayer-xjN2MycTo83hC7SxBeORrrR8-ov7O1FA', 'xjN2MycTo83hC7SxBeORrrR8-ov7O1FA'); }); Please enable Javascript to watch. [ Image via screengrab ] —— >> Follow Evan McMurry (@evanmcmurry) on Twitter ...
CDC Director Thomas Frieden told CBS' "Face The Nation" in an interview airing Sunday morning that the case is troubling "because clearly there was a breach in protocol." ...
AUSTIN, Texas -- Dr. Richard Besser, the chief health and medical editor for ABC News, told WFAA-Dallas on Sunday that he found the second Texas Ebola case "very concerning." As reported by Breitbart Texas, the latest patient diagnosed with Ebola is a female nurse at the Texas Presbyterian Hospital who treated Thomas Eric Duncan before he died from the disease. Besser, having recently returned to the United States after visiting Ebola-stricken areas of Liberia, expressed sharp disagreement with the protocols being followed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), dissatisfied with their admission that they needed to adopt enhanced protocols in a press conference Sunday. Besser told WFAA that he had been anticipating the news of a second Ebola case. "I don't find it surprising, but I find it very concerning," he said, continuing that it was necessary for health authorities to cast "a very wide net" to search for anyone who may have had even the most incidental contact with either Duncan or the nurse. The difficulty in containing the spread of the disease, according to Besser, is that it takes special training and experience to follow the isolation protocols and use the protective gear properly. "The idea that this could be done by any American hospital that has an isolation room and can be done safely, I was skeptical about that," said Besser, in a clear departure from recent statements by the CDC that any Americ ...
Concerns about the Ebola virus were heightened Sunday when a health care worker in Texas had a positive preliminary test for the disease. If confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the worker's case would mark the first known tra... ...
SnapChat, an app which allows you to send images and videos to your friends which have a set expiration date for deletion, has no real dedicated archive service. Indeed, one of the reasons people sue the app is because their images are not saved and don't permanently exist. Cue a raft of naughty photos. A recent hacking attack may have caused some SnapChat users to think twice about the safety of the app. Some users signed up their SnapChat account to third-party archiving site SnapSaved.com, which lets users register for the site to save the images and videos they create and/or receive with the service. SEE ALSO: Apple October Event Will Be Livestreamed We're not 100% clear on exactly how SnapSaved works, as the website has been down following the attack, but what we do know right now that over 200,000 photos were ripped off from the third party service's servers, some allegedly of a sexual nature with subjects who are underage. Not good at all. This means that even if you don't use the site, someone who has received photos of you could have saved them with SnapSaved, and hackers in turn may have made off with pictures of you. It's not really much comfort that the hacking hasn't affected every SnapChat user, since there's no way to confirm which users use SnapSaved. iCloud has also suffered from hacking attacks recently. The photos have been circulating the internet, including web forum 4chan, where some users are claiming to be ...
We've barely recovered from the last photo hacking scandal, and now there's another one to contend with: SnapChat is the latest service to get hit, with a third-party add-on to blame. The post SnapChat is the latest service to have images leaked to the Web appeared first on Digital Trends . ...
If you're not like me and don't live by the "nothing is ever truly deleted on the internet" mantra, then perhaps you need to simply watch what you're doing online. SnapChat has worked hard to improve their security since being a victim of a data breach last year. The breach allowed a group of no-gooders to leak 4.6 million usernames and the phone numbers associated with them. So what's going on today? Well, another leak has happened, but it's important to note that this isn't a "breach." A large database of over 100,000 photos was posted online by people at 4Chan and consists of photos sent to and from many of the service's users. The photos weren't swiped from SnapChat's servers, but from the servers of third party apps and sites that allow you to save SnapChat photos for long-term keeping. Here's SnapChat's take on the issue: We can confirm that SnapChat's servers were never breached and were not the source of these leaks. Snapchatters were victimized by their use of third-party apps to send and receive Snaps, a practice that we expressly prohibit in our Terms of Use precisely because they compromise our users' security. We vigilantly monitor the App Store and Google Play for illegal third-party apps and have succeeded in getting many of these removed. Indeed, one 4Chan user confirms that the photos originate from SnapSaved, not to be confused with a similarly named app with a similar purpose named SnapSave (the latter of which ...
Deaths from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, including recent fatalities in the United States and Spain, have exceeded 4,000 for the first time, the World Health Organization announced on Friday. The announcement came one day after World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim issued a dire warning that if the epidemic is not contained soon, "nothing less than the future of not only West Africa, but perhaps even Africa is at stake." On Wednesday, the World Bank published a report that found that the shuttering of stores, vanishing infrastructure investments and other economic ramifications of the Ebola epidemic is having a profound impact in the hard-hit countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. "We're still way, way behind the curve, and we have to quickly speed up. We have to scale up the global response," Kim said. Read more... More about Sierra Leone , Guinea , United Nations , Africa , and Liberia ...
About 1,000 workers at a factory of manufacturing giant Foxconn Technology Group went on strike on Wednesday demanding better wages, after production orders from Hewlett-Packard were cut, according to a labor protection group.
Foxconn had allegedly been reducing workers' overtime at the factory, located in Chongqing, China, as a tactic to encourage employees to voluntarily quit and forfeit their severance pay, said New York-based China Labor Watch in an online posting.
Many workers had relied on the overtime pay for the bulk of their earnings, the labor protection group said. "Workers demonstrated with holding banners, including one that read, 'We aren't robots. We need to eat and feed our family,'" the group added.
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