Amazon's Prime Now, which offers a one-hour delivery service in Manhattan, has just extended its reach to Baltimore and Miami in the United States, meaning consumers in those areas can receive certain ordered items within 60 minutes of checking out. It's an ambitious project from the online retail giant that has, so far, seemingly worked well, and with Baltimore and Miami now covered, paying Prime subscribers will be able to take full advantage.
Broadly speaking, the Cloud is still a work in progress, but Microsoft, like Google, Apple and a number of other key companies offering their cloud-based services, has been working hard to improve its OneDrive offering. Today signals a big step in the evolution of the software giant’s cloud efforts, with Xbox Music integration permitting users to store and playback a variety of different music formats on multiple devices free of charge.
The TaiG Jailbreak Team, currently one of the most prominent in the area of jailbreaking and iOS hacking, has announced that it will host a mobile security summit later this month.
Social networks offer a means for folk to express their feelings on a public forum, but while, for the most part, status updates on Facebook consist of the odd gripe or in-depth detailing of one's daily schedule, there are occasions where those upset, depressed, or otherwise feeling low, may wish to share more ominous, worrisome sentiments. When this occurs, there's often that fear that an individual isn't in a well state of mind, and may be considering taking their own life, and with Facebook connecting well over one-sixth of the world's population, the Menlo Park firm has now added some features that may prove life-saving.
Have you ever wanted your own personal assistant ready to respond to your every beckoned call? I'm not talking about Siri or Google Now, which will both tell you the football scores or what the weather's going to be like next weekend; I mean a real assistant, more like a secretary - one that will fetch you a pizza or book you flights to suit your needs at the drop of a hat. A newly-introduced service has taken the idea of a butler / chauffeur / servant and rolled it into a magical new text-based system, and provided your request is on the right side of legal, any product or service is just a text away.
Adwares constantly put our computers to risk for a lot of reasons, and if you think Lenovo’s Superfish snafu was the only issue worth worrying about, then you might want to think again.
Bad news for anyone thinking of buying a Lenovo computer after it was revealed that the company is installing what amounts to adware on each and every machine it ships. More details on this development can be found right after the break.
When an Apple or a Samsung comes through with such innovations as fingerprint sensors or NFC, we tend to take much notice. But the advancement of the Web and the wider digital community depends more upon those changes that aren't necessarily as obvious nor welcomed with the same amount of fanfare. But in news that should be gratefully received by each and every user of digital products (read: everyone), it appears that HTTP/2, a natural progression from traditional Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) in terms of speed and efficiency, is well on its way, having just been finalized by the appropriate body.
Things don’t look great for The Pirate Bay users as site is down now again exactly two weeks after it re-appeared following downtime that began earlier this year.
iWork for iCloud is now open for everyone to use, even those with an Android smartphone or tablet. With no Apple device requirement to access these apps, the company is now looking to throw in its productivity apps right in there with the rest of the competition. More details to follow right after the jump.