About a month ago, Microsoft published Skype Qik, a “new mobile messenger for swapping videos with groups of friends”, which is available for Android, iOS and Windows Phone. Unfortunately, none of my contacts uses Skype Qik yet, so I don’t have any personal experience with this app.
Hewlett Packard recently organized its yearly Pwn2Own contest, where they reward security researchers for the discovery of security problems and possible exploits on mobile operating systems and platforms.
If you are enrolled in the Windows Phone Preview for Developers program, it’s time for you to go to settings -> phone update -> check for updates, because Microsoft published Build 8.10.14203.306 recently.
It was not long ago that Windows Phone 8 was released. Apparently none of the Windows Phones running Windows Phone 7 would get an update to Windows Phone 8 due to significant changes in the kernel. Microsoft received much criticism on this and has now learned from its mistakes. But sometimes it is necessary to make a sacrifice for the greater good.
Its November now, and the leaves are falling fast now here in Germany. Its getting colder and the end of the year is coming fast. In my last article about future ThinkPads (see: Broadwell postponed, so are Broadwell ThinkPads), I have already talked about some general details which models will be announced and when. CES will be the big ThinkPad-show for Lenovo early next year, as well as the big Broadwell-show for notebooks in general. We will see many flavors of Broadwell Ultrabooks there, some with small screen, some with big screens, and some with a graphite-black chassis and a red TrackPoint! This time, I want to focus more on what we can expect and what I think we can expect. Lets get right into the fun….
There are plenty of budget smartphones at your disposal. But which one is actually the best? My experience with Android isn’t really positive then talking about budget smartphones. They run quite slow and hang half of the time.
Lets talk about the TrackPoint! The TrackPoint (aka. “The Nipple” by some, but I prefer sticking to the formal name) is and was always one of the distinguishing ThinkPad features. Its been around since the very beginning of the ThinkPad brand name for Notebooks, and was introduced in October 1992, 22 years ago. Since then, with very, very few exceptions every ThinkPad came with a TrackPoint, and since Lenovo took over the ThinkPad brand, the TrackPoint is even present in the ThinkPad-Logo in form of the red i-dot.
The ThinkPad Yoga is a convertible running Windows 8.1 with a 360-degree Yoga hinge. The screen can fold completely backwards until it becomes a tablet. And one of its most special features, never seen before, we present you: the lift-n-lock keyboard.