February 2016 ~ Tech Support

Tuesday, 9 February 2016

Apple Has Fixed Bug That Was Crashing Safari, At Least On OS X

Just a day after the website that crashes Safari made the rounds on social media, Apple has already issued a fix according to BuzzFeed News. I tried loading the page that crashes your browser (crashsafari.com), and it looks like the issue is fixed, at least on OS X. Now, when you...

By: Unknown On 10:00

eBay Crashes Nearly 10% As Revenue Remains Flat

Investors clearly don’t like what they see with eBay, which reported its fourth-quarter earnings today — sending shares down around 10% in extended trading. The company said it had earnings of 50 cents per share on revenue of $2.3 billion. Analysts were expecting earnings of 50 cents a share on revenue...

By: Unknown On 09:23

PayPal Shares Up 6% On Earnings; Revenue Rises 17%

PayPal reported earnings after the bell Wednesday, and the stock quickly ticked up 6% in after hours trading. The payments company authorized a $2 billion stock repurchase program and reported revenue and earnings that exceeded the company’s full year guidance. PayPal’s fourth quarter adjusted revenue came in at $2.56...

By: Unknown On 09:01

Facebook Spikes 12% After Smashing Q4 Earnings

Facebook shares are spiking today, and were up as much as 13 percent after the company reported its fourth-quarter earnings. The culprit? Once again, the company completely crushed expectations for its operating quarter. Facebook brought in $5.841 billion in revenue and earnings of 79 cents per share, compared...

By: Unknown On 08:30

SpaceX Tests Parachutes That Will Bring Astronauts Back To Earth

Today, NASA released footage from one of SpaceX’s final certification tests required under the Commercial Crew Program. The drop test, performed in Coolidge, Arizona, involved the four large parachutes that are part of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon landing system. For the drop test, the parachute assembly was carried thousands...

By: Unknown On 08:00

Samsung Issues Fourth-Quarter Results, Expects Earnings To Slow This Year

Samsung Electronics warned investors today in its fourth-quarter earnings report that its next two quarters will be weakened by economic issues and a softer IT market. The Galaxy smartphone maker said it expects profits to remain flat during the first six months of 2016, but hopes for a recovery in the...

By: Unknown On 07:20

More Money Into The Cloud As NewVoiceMedia Gets $30M For Its Contact Center Solutions

As more businesses move their IT from on-premise solutions and into networked, cloud-based services, startups that are building products for them to do this are raking in yet more funding as they grow. NewVoiceMedia, a UK business that offers a solution for companies to run their customer contact centers and sales...

By: Unknown On 07:00

Yahoo Revamps Its Homepage And App To Offer A More Social Experience Around The News

Yahoo today is rolling a major revamp of its homepage and flagship mobile application with a focus on offering a more personalized, social experience, where readers can find stories they like, comment and debate the day’s news, and track stories of interest. The move is meant to better reflect how consumers are...

By: Unknown On 06:45

Alibaba Posts Robust Revenue Growth Despite China’s Slowing Economy

Alibaba posted strong quarterly earnings today, with revenue jumping 32 percent as shoppers spent more money on the e-commerce company’s mobile sites and apps. Chief executive officer Daniel Zhang said during Alibaba’s earnings call that China’s expanding middle class is driving the company’s growth. In particular, younger people who have...

By: Unknown On 06:30

Tinder Makes Messaging More Fun With GIFs & Bigger Emoji, Finally Lets You Upload Photos Directly

Tinder users will now have better chatting tools, thanks to an upgraded messaging experience in the mobile dating app. Amid a flurry of changes that began rolling out last night to the iOS application, and soon Android, Tinder added support for sending your matches GIFs. It also upgraded the size of emoji in chat...

By: Unknown On 05:37

Monday, 8 February 2016

T-Mobile Says Binge On Customers Are Streaming Twice As Much Video, Adds Amazon Video Support

John Legere may have drawn the ire of the EFF and others for his network’s controversial Binge On data categorizing feature, but the evidence so far has shown that customers really are big fans of it (even if it is crappier quality due to data throttling). The service allows...

By: Unknown On 06:00

Thursday, 4 February 2016

iPhone 7 Could Have A Flush Rear Camera

Chances are you hate this protruding camera module pictured above on your current iPhone 6 or iPhone 6s. According to a new rumor on the iPhone 7 design (via Mac Rumors), the next iPhone could have a flush rear camera. The antenna bands across the back would also disappear....

By: Unknown On 05:30

Dropbox Is 2% Black, 5% Hispanic, According To 2015 Diversity Report

Dropbox just released its diversity report for 2015 on the company’s blog, citing some progress around having more women in leadership positions, with 25 percent of the VPs at the company being women, but an overall decline in percentage of women. Last year, Dropbox was 33.9 percent women worldwide. This...

By: Unknown On 05:00

Amazon Brings Its Virtual Assistant Alexa To Older Fire TV Devices

When Amazon rolled out the next generation of its set-top box, the Fire TV, last year, one of the standout features was the addition of Amazon Alexa to the platform. Today, the voice assistant is making its way to owners of Amazon’s original Fire TV and Fire TV Sticks, the company...

By: Unknown On 04:45

Google Expands Its Self-Driving Car Pilot To Kirkland

Google today announced that it is expanding its self-driving car testing program to Kirkland, Washington. So far, Google’s cars have driven 1.4 million miles around the company’s hometown of Mountain View, California and — more recently — in Austin, Texas. “We have strong roots in Kirkland having established an office here a decade...

By: Unknown On 04:31

Cisco To Buy Jasper Technologies.

Cisco announced today it was buying Jasper Technologies, developers of an Internet of Things cloud platform for $1.4 billion. With Jasper, Cisco gets a company that understands the burgeoning Internet of Things market. While the IoT term gets bandied about quite a bit, it simply means connected machines talking to one another...

By: Unknown On 04:07

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