Google's Project Ara inspires one laptop maker
One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) could soon be joined by a Project Ara-esque hybrid device comprised of a number of brightly coloured modular components.
First reported by Inks, Bits & Pixels, the website for One Education OLPC's non-profit partner in Australia) contains images of the rear of a hybrid device that is made up of a CPU module, battery module, camera module and connectivity module.
A second image shows the same four modules from another angle in addition to what looks like an interchangeable display module.
Official announcement within two weeks
Paul Cotton from One Education confirmed to the same publication that the images are of the XO-infinity device that it has been working on for around a year and an official announcement on the device is coming in the next week or so.OLPC was launched back in 2005 and since then has launched four XO devices that range from the original laptop XO-1 to the to the XO-4 with tablets in between those two launches. By taking a modular approach to the XO-infinity it keeps up one of OLPC's main pledges to make its devices very easy to repair.
Via: Inks, Bits & Pixels
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Rio Olympics won't in broadcast in 4K
Even though it's likely that 4K will be available via Sky, Virgin and the new Ultra HD Blu-ray format in 2016 the International Olympic Committee won't be including it as part of the broadcast package for the games.
Yiannis Exarchos, the CEO of Olympic Broadcast Services told The Hollywood Reporter that "There is no demand from our rights holders for 4K" going on to say "We have to take our cue from broadcasters". OBS is, apparently, working with NHK the Japanese broadcaster on its 8K format. It's likely that no one outside of Japan will see this, but even so recording 8K would make for a good archive copy of the 2016 games.
It does, however, sound like that could change if companies like the BBC and NBC in the US start to gear-up for 4K broadcasts. It's quite unlikely that the BBC will be ready for 4K by then, but the rest of the European channels may have other plans for ultra high definition TV. In the UK, it's difficult (but not impossible) for the BBC to launch a service unless it can do so on all platforms. So while Sky and Virgin could take a 4K channel, it's unlikely Freeview could by then.
Mobile and VR are a possibility though
On the plus side, mobile will be a priority for Rio, as will some sort of Virtual Reality. That's a exciting idea as the Samsung Gear VR and Oculus Rift are both going to make 2015 a year of VR. It would be pretty cool to explore the Olympic park in VR, and technically it would be possible to show video from events too.Source: The Hollywood Reporter
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Week in Tech: Sony's in a slump, will.i.am gives us the hump
If you thought rumours of a flatscreen Apple TV were far-fetched, we've got a doozy for you: according to reports, Apple is making… a van! It won't be a normal van, of course. It'll be a magical van that's designed and built to exacting standardszzzzzzzzzzzz…
Sorry, where were we? While Apple explores unexpected new avenues, Sony appears to be shutting down most of its businesses, Samsung's getting it in the neck for dubious design decisions and Mark Zuckerberg wants to put Facebook on your face. Fasten your seatbelts for a wheely good Week in Tech!
Sony to shutter smartphones, sound and vision?
Oh, Sony, sometimes you make us so sad. The Apple of the 1980s has had a rough couple of years, and it looks like the phone, audio and video businesses are going to go the same way as its PC business. Sony has announced that it's spinning off its audio and video divisions, and its phone division may be sold off too. That'll leave Sony with just three key businesses: making films, making PlayStations, and making camera sensors for iPhones.Samsung isn't better by design
You've got to feel sorry for Samsung: if it actually knew how to design nice things, it might be as popular as, er, Samsung. According to former Samsung Design America executive Kevin Lee, Samsung may have sold an awful lot of phones but it's done so despite being absolutely awful at design. "I've seen amazing concepts and prototypes," he says. "If only we had that in the market, the rest of the market would go bankrupt." Samsung, he says, designs by committee, which is of course a sure-fire way to stop anything interesting happening.Has Samsung realised that? It might have, if the latest Galaxy S6 news is accurate: the latest renders suggest that unlike previous Galaxies, the S6 hasn't been firmly beaten with the Ugly Stick.
If you're thinking that the renders look a bit iPhone-ish, we'd agree - but Samsung's, ahem, similarities with Apple don't stop at design. It's just acquired its own payment company, LoopPay. While the firm will remain independent you don't need to be Mystic Meg to predict its integration in future Samsung phones.
LG has seen the future, and it's boring
LG has been busy: not only has it made the most expensive Android Wear watch we've ever seen, the LG Watch Urbane (although let's keep some perspective here: the Urbane is £299.99, which is loose change compared to the thousands we think the gold Apple Watch will cost), but it's been to the future and can confidently tell us that it's boring.Apparently the LG G Flex 2 is about as exciting as smartphones are going to get for the next few years, because designs are restricted by what component firms can supply. Transparent and flexible displays simply aren't "commercially viable technology at the moment," LG says.
Piece.o.crap
We're shocked to discover that will.i.am's smart cuff, the Puls, isn't very good. Despite the obvious synergy between writing songs about boobs and designing cutting edge wearable computing technology, the Puls suffers from a couple of minor issues: "texting is awful", the "display is too dim", it's "sorely lacking apps", the "battery life is abysmal", the "design needs work", it's "uncomfortable" and it "heats up". Sounds like the only thing missing is My Humps on constant repeat.Upsetting: the Apple car
Is Apple's next product a car? No, but in a few years time it might well be. According to the Wall Street Journal, Apple's "project Titan" is a competitor to Tesla and looks like a van. It's unclear whether Titan is a car project or just a tester for in-car tech, but the idea of an Apple car isn't that far-fetched: electric cars are really just computers with wheels, after all. One thing's for sure, though: if Apple does make a car, it won't be cheap.Facebook on your face
For a picture of the future, imagine Mark Zuckerberg in your face, forever. "You'll do it, Beyoncé will do it," says Facebook product head Chris Cox about Facebook's virtual reality plans: while it'll be a "while" before we see any VR apps, "you realise when you're in it, that you're looking at the future, and it's going to be awesome."If you prefer AR to VR, Sony's awfully named SmartEyeglass Attach is pretty cool: while it's still a bit bulky, it's a lot less silly than Google Glass and we're cautiously excited about it - assuming it survives Sony's Bonfire of the Business, that is.
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As Apple Pay takes off, Google has a plan to win over your wallet
Despite being around since 2011, Google Wallet has struggled to achieve a significant uptake. To make matters worse, Apple Pay launched late last year and has already proven more popular. So what now, Google?
The plan, according to a new report by The Wall Street Journal, is to launch Google Wallet 2.0. The revamped service will be revealed at Google I/O in May and
However, we're also told that Google has had a tough time of getting third parties involved. In response the search giant has offered a larger piece of the revenue to certain potential partners.
Google reckons it will be able to push up the price of ads, and carriers would be able to share the spoils.
But while Google is beavering away with its wallet plans, Samsung is also getting in on the party. The company just bought mobile payments platform LoopPay and is expected to roll out its Apple Pay competitor with the Galaxy S6 next month.
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Industry voice: MFT: the bulletproof car for your data when it's on the move
Given all the stories of hacks and data breaches in recent times, businesses have been firmly reminded that they must limit their exposure to data leakage and theft.
With that in mind, let's begin this article with a basic premise. All data is at risk of being compromised through both malicious and non-malicious activity. Anyone who doubts this need look no further than Target Corporation, Neiman Marcus, Michaels or Home Depot. Data has value and will always be a target for would-be hackers and adversaries.
However, data is also the lifeblood of most organisations and accepting some level of risk is part of doing business. Managing that risk by recognising and shoring up points of vulnerability is the difference between using data as a competitive advantage and being the victim of a catastrophic data loss.
Today's sophisticated and well-funded cyber-threats can come from anywhere and attack nearly every part of your network. However, data that is moving from one location to another is at its most vulnerable and carries with it the highest probability for loss.
Happy birthday, mister data centre…
Data that is safely locked away on-premise or at a hosting provider still carries a certain degree of risk, but data that is moving beyond the firewall introduces a whole new set of elements into the equation that can be difficult, if not impossible, to control. A good analogy can be found by comparing data to the President of the United States who, according to the Secret Service, is at his most vulnerable when he is in transit and outside of a controlled environment.The Secret Service say that if it were up to them, the President would never leave the confines of the White House. Clearly that is not practical as the job demands constant movement. While it would also be safer to lock your data away in a secure environment, that is also not possible as conducting business requires moving information around at all times. So the question becomes: how do you protect your most critical or personal assets while they are in motion?
When transferring information, whether it is business-related or personal material, users should always consider the potential pitfalls of the channel they are employing. Simply emailing data files or using free services such as Dropbox can have serious implications long after the information has been transferred. For individuals, simply employing encryption software can eliminate many common security vulnerabilities because even if your data is compromised, it is still protected. Other common sense solutions include: avoiding unsecured wireless networks, locking devices with passwords and avoiding the social media overshare.
The science of compliance
For businesses that are forced to deal with compliance and legal implications, it is a bit more complicated. Many of them are turning to a managed file transfer (MFT) system that enables the reliable and secure transfer of files between business parties. It utilises secure protocols and easy-to-understand models of exchange allowing administrators to always know where files are with accuracy, and extensive reporting capabilities.Unlike traditional or manual file transfer options, MFT incorporates much higher levels of security, scalability, integration, reporting and other features. Through a more sophisticated and controlled file-transfer solution, organisations can bring order, predictability and security to file movement that improves business performance and reduces risk.
Ensuring that files arrive at the intended destination securely and without incident will never create the level of excitement generated by news such as celebrity hacks via iCloud. That is a good thing. Avoiding security-related headlines is the goal of every organisation, as the results of a breach or hack can be devastating from both a financial and reputational perspective. So when it comes to securing critical assets in motion and keeping intellectual property under organisational control, MFT should find its way onto everyone's A-list.
- Ken Allen is Director of Product Marketing for Ipswitch File Transfer
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Industry voice: Why the cashless festival rocks: shrinking queues, no theft, bigger profits
The technology that the live event industry is talking about – and for good reason – is Radio Frequency Identification (RFID). The exponential growth of these tiny chips at live events, usually integrated into a wristband, hit the headlines last year and is set to make waves in 2015.
Our event technology company, Intellitix, is the leading global provider of RFID solutions for festivals and live events, having started that revolution in 2010. Intellitix's technological advancements in the entertainment space have been recognised in Fast Company's annual ranking of The World's 10 Most Innovative Companies of 2015 in the Live Events category. The list honours leading enterprises and rising newcomers that exemplify the best in business and innovation including other honourees such as Apple, Google, Netflix, Tesla Motors, Ikea, L'Oreal and Toyota.
Since 2011, over seven million fans have interacted with the Intellitix platform at the world's best festivals and events including Coachella, Bonnaroo, Sasquatch, Tomorrowland, The Ryder Cup, and Taste Food Festivals. In this article, we're going to look at how RFID technology has reshaped the live event landscape, and also explore the future of the fully cashless event in 2015.
RFID revolution
In its simplest form RFID is a tag which submits low level radio waves to a reader, sharing information with a central database with a simple tap or wave. Typically RFID chips are integrated into wristbands at live events, as wearable technology adds immense convenience to patrons.I have worked in the entertainment industry all my life and it has never been a more exciting time in this space. RFID technology has opened up a world of new possibilities and our mission is to help enhance the live event experience.
Cashless payments
The shift in attitude towards cashless payment through RFID wristbands changed dramatically in 2014 – there is now widespread acceptance of the technology and appreciation of its benefits. The advantages of a fully cashless event experience are numerous: faster transactions resulting in shorter queues, if any; no need to carry cash or credit cards with the risk of theft or loss; and more importantly, on-site revenue growth has been proven to increase by 15% to 30%.In 2014 alone, we experienced a twentyfold increase in cashless transactions compared to 2013. More than four million transactions were made using Intellitix's cashless payment system, totalling more than $50 million (around £33 million, AU$64 million) in on-site spending.
There's no doubt that cashless payments are the future. I predict that this year, there will be hundreds of thousands of transactions using our new handheld devices that make it possible for fans to buy concessions from a roaming vendor.
Brand amplification
One of the biggest trends to significantly grow in the events industry for 2015 will be the ability to link event contents with patrons, and to connect and strengthen brand relationships with these patrons through creative RFID brand activations. RFID technology gives event organisers and brand sponsors unprecedented opportunities to extend their digital reach through social media integration, unleashing a sheer power not yet accessible until now.At Coachella in 2014, Intellitix installed 17 RFID 'hubs' across the event site next to various music stages for fans to check-in. With each check-in, fans gained access to exclusive Spotify playlists curated by guest stars.
At the end of the festival, patrons were sent a digital postcard that aggregated all of their event experience data – 'My Coachella Story' was instantly available to share online long after the event gates closed and the stages went down.
The future is at the tap of your wrist!
RFID and similar technologies (NFC, next-gen Bluetooth) are the future of live events. Our festival deployments truly showcase the power of RFID and confirm that this technology can be used to elevate patron experiences, increase bottom lines and efficiencies, and optimise the reach of an event by leveraging social content far beyond the event itself.And the exciting thing is – in 2015 this will really shift into second gear!
- Serge Grimaux is Head Pilot and CEO at Intellitix
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Industry voice: Fight the phishers: stop email spoofers trashing your brand's reputation
Attacks on global brands such as eBay, PayPal and Amazon get a lot of news coverage, and each time this happens, the brand suffers. Often the source of corruption, unbeknownst to the organisation, is an email that appears to have come from the company, but instead was sent by a criminal source aimed at illegally soliciting sensitive information.
This practice, commonly known as phishing, is typically carried out by "email spoofing." With increasing frequency, these criminals are no longer targeting just top brands, but also setting their sights on small and medium-sized businesses. As larger organisations adopt security strategies to prevent these attacks, hackers are moving down the road to easier targets.
No company is immune to a spoofing attack. Most large organisations and B2C companies are already taking steps to resolve this issue. It's important that B2B, as well as medium and small businesses also protect themselves. Smaller businesses are especially vulnerable because, too often, they assume they aren't big enough to draw hackers' attention, and they haven't adopted the security strategies needed to fight this type of cybercrime.
Launchpad for bigger attacks
The flaw in that kind of thinking is that hackers don't care about the size of a business, they only care about vulnerability. They can get plenty of loot from mounting a series of attacks on vulnerable small and medium-sized businesses, and then use that data to launch an attack against a larger target. In the meantime, they've collected your employee and customer data, banking information and passwords, and they've compromised your brand.Hackers use spoofing to make an email message look like it's from a sender the recipient knows or trusts to trick them into opening it. They simply edit an email address to make it look like it came from the sender's email account, so that when it's opened, it can infect the recipient's system with malware, or provide a pathway for the hacker to steal credit card data, passwords or other personal and financial information.
They can do this because email doesn't support authentication, allowing any criminal to send an email purporting to be from your company or brand.
DMARC: fighting back
Such phishing is without doubt a growing trend, and to combat the spoofing threat, 15 email services providers, financial firms and message security companies – including AOL, Google, Microsoft, Return Path and Yahoo – founded DMARC.org, a working group to create standards to reduce the threat posed by phishing, spam and other messaging abuses.Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) standardises the way recipient email servers perform email authentication using SPF (Sender Policy Framework) and DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail) mechanisms. The organisation was launched in January 2012 and now protects 60% of global consumer email inboxes, and 80% in the United States.
Large organisations, including such top brands as Twitter, Amazon, eBay, Facebook and PayPal have adopted DMARC to combat spoofing with relatively good levels of success. According to DMARC.org, Outlook.com reported a 50% drop in reported phishing in 2013 due, in part, to DMARC. Additionally, more than 25 million email messages spoofing PayPal were rejected during the 2013 Christmas buying season.
What DMARC provides these organisations is visibility into whether their email is authenticating – proof that the email is coming from your own domain and not some other unauthorised domain that only looks like your site. Without DMARC, there is no visibility, and senders remain unaware of authentication problems because they have no way to get feedback about potential email spoofing, or to determine what to do with those emails – whether to block them or quarantine them somewhere.
As hackers troll for easier targets, it is vital for businesses of all sizes to protect their brands by adopting DMARC. Although most people today know not to open questionable attachments or click on suspicious links, spoofers have become so good at what they do that their targets can be easily fooled into believing an email is legitimate.
If you don't make it tough for other people to spoof your email, you're not only letting down your customers – who will stop trusting any email from your company – you're putting your brand at costly risk. By adopting DMARC, you can protect your customers against email spoofing, ensure they are getting your brand's legitimate messages, and help them to trust that when a message from your company appears in their inbox, it is a valuable email.
As you adopt DMARC, it's also important to make sure that your third-party marketing vendors, who send emailed marketing pieces such as newsletters to your customers on your behalf, also setup SPF and DKIM.
Importance of email
Email is still an important avenue of communication for businesses to maintain existing customer relationships and develop new ones. Unfortunately, it's also a widespread target for cybercriminals to cause irreparable damage to a brand. Any time a successful technology is adopted, it breeds creativity in criminals. As DMARC becomes more widely adopted, not just by large organisations, but also by small and medium-sized businesses, cybercriminals will look for other areas to exploit.Are you responsible for ensuring that emails sent on behalf of your company are legitimate, and not coming from a spoofer? Do you have a fiduciary responsibility to customers who are negatively impacted by a spoofer's email appearing to be from your company? Let's assume you are a nation state issuing currency to be used by citizens. Is the government responsible for ensuring the currency cannot be easily counterfeited? If the answer is yes, then the same goes for your corporate email, too.
No company should allow spoofers to diminish customer trust in its brand. By adopting DMARC and implementing email authentication standards you can help thwart the attacks that could be the downfall of your business.
For more information, go to DMARC.org.
- Florian Malecki is International Product Marketing Director, Dell Security
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Review: Bookeen Cybook Muse FrontLight
Introduction and design
Anyone who thinks their ereader choice is a straight fight between a Kindle and a few choice products from Kobo should think again. This isn't the first ereader from French company Bookeen, but it is its best value version to date.The clue to its key feature is in its name; its backlit e-ink screen instantly puts it into the mix with the likes of the Amazon Paperwhite, Amazon Voyage, Kobo Aura H2O and Kobo Aura HD. With an RRP of a mere £80 (US$109, about AU$160), it's really designed to appeal to those after their first ereader while maintaining more premium features.
An ereader with a six-inch screen, the Cybook Muse weighs 190g and measures 155 x 116 x 8mm, which makes it among the lightest around, and one of the easiest ereaders to hold in one hand.
I also found it possible to pocket while wearing jeans, and it fits nicely into the inside pocket of a suit jacket, though only just squeezed into a shirt's chest pocket. It's 17% smaller than its predecessor, the Cybook Odyssey.
Like a tablet, the Cybook Muse has an edge-to-edge glass front that brings a classy look, plus there's no ridged frame liek the one found on the the Kobo Aura HD. However, the downside of the edge-to-edge design is that if you put the Cybook Muse face-down on, say, a bedside table – surely a typical scenario – it could get scratched or scuffed.
Bookeen sells a basic protective cover for £24.90 (US$29.90, about AU$38) (which adds 5mm to the thickness) in black, red, pink and orange.
Unlike a tablet, the Cybook Muse's built-in battery lasts an entire month. It's arguably more ergonomic than a slate too, with its tapered sides on the rear makes it easy to grasp. It also features a cut-away corner on the bottom-left as you read, which serves no purpose, but looks distinctive.
Physical buttons on the Cybook Muse include a raised page-turner each side of the screen (though since it's also got a multi-point touchscreen, they're not essential) and a hard menu button underneath the screen.
The undercarriage features a microUSB slot for recharging, an on/off switch, and a microSD card slot. The built-in memory is 4GB, which is standard across most ereaders (and enough for a huge 4,000 graphics-light books).
Running on a single core Cortex A8 1Ghz processor, the Cybook Muse includes 256MB RAM for slick operation.
The screen itself is an e-ink Carta HD Display with 16 grey levels, and a resolution of 758 x 1024 pixels that means 213 DPI (dots per inch), which is HD quality without threatening the market leaders; the latest Kindles and Kobos regularly achieve 260-300 DPI.
Somewhat surprisingly for such a cut-price ereader, the Cybook Muse also has a Wi-Fi antenna, and even includes a basic web browser.
However, the most striking aspect is its FrontLight, created by LEDs in conjunction with an invisible laminated light diffusion film to spread the light evenly across the screen.
It's capable of 20 different brightness levels, from eye-searing nonsense to the lowest setting, which is just about perfect for reading in a blackout or in bed at night.
The Cybook Muse is also available without the illumination option, as the Cybook Muse Essential, which costs £59.90 (US$89.90, about AU$116) less.
Bookeen also sells the step-up Cybook Ocean for £149.90 (US$189.90, about AU$244), which increases the size of the screen to eight inches while also claiming the title of 'world's thinnest' ereader at a mere 7mm.
However, the Ocean's larger screen has the same 1024 x 768 resolution as the Cybook Muse, so has a poorer 160 DPI.
Interface and performance
The Cybook Muse sports a pretty basic Linux-based interface called BooReader, which is divided up on the home page into three sections; at the top is the cover of the book currently being read, with a percentage figure for how much you've read as well as an (arguably more useful) version that counts actual pages.
In the centre is a library section, which hosts four book covers, though you can scroll through your entire collection here with speedy refreshes (the Cybook Muse is set, by default, to do a 'proper' e-ink refresh only every five page turns) and access a full-page folder of your books. Along the bottom is a link to Bookeen's online shop, which is sadly lacking in books.
Press the menu button – a hard button on the device itself – from anywhere on the Cybook Muse's interface and up pops a choice of navigation options.
They are: home, library (there's a choice between browsing lists or grids of books, with each containing an icon of the cover and very bold type for the title that's easy to read at a glance), shop (which requires Wi-Fi to be configured), front light (which merely activates a pop-up for switching-on the light, and configuring its exact brightness) and menu (for configuring Wi-Fi, refreshing the page, and checking for firmware updates).
The Cybook Muse doesn't have a particularly slick or graphics-heavy user interface, but browsing the device – and even the online store – is quick, and it all feels rather sleek in a back-to-basics way.
This is an ereader primarily for reading, which for such a cheap device is hard to argue with.
By default, books are laid-out as 20 lines of clear, crisp-looking text, with 5mm of margin either side. Touch anywhere on the edge of the screen and the page flips. Page turns can be done manually, too, by hitting the dedicated buttons on each side of the device.
Both buttons are ideally placed for operating with the thumb of the hand holding the Cybook Muse, which is crucial to it being easy and pleasant to use.
A 'browse' button in the eBook store section of the home page is for navigating titles on sale, right? Actually, it takes you to a WebKit-based web browser and defaults to Google, which is a bit of a surprise. However, it's slow, it's cumbersome and the need to use that virtual pop-up keyboard once again makes everything tedious.
Also, the screen proves nowhere near sensitive enough to choose from the rather squashed search lists. I tried to download a free EPUB ebook directly from the Project Gutenberg website, but to no avail.
But who needs a browser on an ereader? Reasonably smart, very simple and focused on reading – and with plenty of options for customisation of layout and text – the Cybook Muse never detracts from what's important. Helped along by that thoroughly effective Cortex A8 1GHz processor, reading is everything here.
Reading, shop, battery and media
Reading
A touch anywhere on the screen, other than the edge) while reading a book brings up an in-book menu that's surprisingly comprehensive.There's a slick 'go to' option that presents a slider in-book to skip quickly to other pages and chapters; as you move the slider it gives you a real-time chapter/page read-out of where you've got to.
Annotations (bookmarks, highlights and notes) can be added, though here's where the software lacks intuition and polish.
Pride of place goes to the text settings section. There's a choice of seven fonts (including the specially optimised default Caecilia font developed by Bookeen, a serif font that's easy on the eye and easy to read), 20 font sizes, and a lot of choice between line spacing, margins and alignment layouts.
The screen is pure white, clean and crisp at all times, suggesting that those after a higher DPI count are spending money on specs, not performance.
The Cybook Muse refreshes the e-ink completely (via the usual 'black flash' on the screen) only every five page turns, but it does leave shadows in between. It's easily changed to every page turn if you want to keep things really clean.
Although the choice between touch and a hard button for page turns is nice, there is an oddity; use the button or touch the side of a page and the page turns quickly and cleanly, but gently swipe it and the same thing happens, but only after a full refresh.
Though the backlight is perfectly fit for purpose, it's not the finest around. While reading Call of The Wild in a total blackout I had to choose the very lowest setting to avoid glare, and I did notice some slightly uneven brightness.
It's not patchy, in fact the text is illuminated evenly and without streaks, but there is a noticeable fading towards the very bottom of the page and along both sides, which is to be expected.
Shop
The Cybook Muse has 100 books pre-loaded. That might sound great, but there's a lot there that's out of copyright anyway and freely available from websites like Project Gutenberg and Open Library. Besides, many are in French, German and Dutch. There are 36 pre-loaded English language books, with about 10 each provided for six other European languages.
The Bookeen Shop is very poor. The first hurdle is having to create an account using a French language-only form, the second is the snail-like speed of the Cybook Muse's pop-up virtual keyboard, and the third is that the drop-down list of countries runs to over 10 pages … and is in French. Ah oui, Royaume-Uni … merci. So tedious.
Once that's done, it's then necessary to create or tie-in an Adobe Digital Editions account, for which you'll get an AdobeID necessary for downloading DRM-protected ebooks, which is normal procedure on non-Kindles. Trouble is, that defaults to France as country of residence, and it takes an age to change.
Once done, it attaches your AdobeID account to the Cybook Muse and you're good to go. There are stacks of free ebooks to download, though many are in French, which makes a lot of the navigation rather needless for mono-linguists.
There's a 'less than €5' section, and a bestsellers tab, though during my test it was empty. Searching proved fruitless, too, with 'Girl With A Dragon Tattoo' and 'Gone Girl' – titles that are both in Amazon's top 10 – missing from the Bookeen shop. All books are on sale in Euros, too, which might incur exchange expense for UK and US users.
Battery
Inside the Cybook Muse is a rechargeable Li-Polymer battery with a capacity of 1,900mAh. That's about par for the course on an ereader, and with Wi-Fi switched-off Bookeen claims it will last an entire month.Two weeks of rampant reading – often with that FrontLight activated and some Wi-Fi-based tests – saw it run down to about 40%, so I've no reason to doubt Bookeen's claims.
Media
The Cybook Muse handles a plethora of ebook formats, but it's not exhaustive. The common EPUB, PDF, HTML and TXT files are handled as well as the rarer FB2 (FictionBook, a 'big in Russia' XML-based open format) and DJVU (used by some scanners) filetypes.The one omission? There's no support for MOBI files, which are commonly used (though EPUB should cover 99% of purchased books). Photo file support comprises JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, ICO and even TIF and PSD, which should cover all bases.
However, photos are very slow to load, both in full-screen and in thumbnails although this won't be your primary reason for picking up the Cybook Muse.
Linked to an iMac via a microUSB cable, the Cybook Muse popped-up as a USB drive and I dragged-on a plethora of filetypes, which were sorted into photos and books, with all of the latter put into a virtual folder in the library marked 'new', with thumbnails of the front covers conveniently trailed on the home page, too.
PDFs often prove a chore for ereaders, but here they're handled reasonably well. The 'fit to page' option does exactly that, while zooming-in on small text means scanning around the document purely by swiping the touchscreen.
It's a tad slow, but OK. However, the highlight for PDFs is 'reflow', which scrapes out the text and presents it without photos and graphics, just like a 'normal' ebook. It's a little hit-and-miss, but in our tests, largely brilliant and useful.
However, occasionally the always-on caption across the bottom of the PDF display software that contains the document's title and the zoom percentage actually blocks the visibility of a line or two of text.
Comparison
Amazon Kindle Voyage
The latest model from Amazon is superior to the Cybook Muse, but at £169 (US$219, about AU$250), it's much more expensive. Unlike the Cybook Muse, it supports the MOBI ebook format, though mostly deals in its own proprietary format based on MOBI, called AZW.
The massive resolution of 1430 x 1080 achieves a mighty 300PPI, which dwarfs the Cybook Muse's 213 DPI. However, the Voyage's neat edge-to-edge glass look, and its backlight, are both equalled by the far cheaper Cybook Muse. At 7.6 mm, the Voyage is ever so slightly slimmer, but it does weigh a touch more.
Read our Amazon Kindle Voyage review
Amazon Kindle Paperwhite
The ereader that started the craze for backlit e-ink screens is easy meat for the Cybook Muse. At 212 PPI, the Paperwhite has an almost identical resolution, and at £109 (US$119, about £181) for the Wi-Fi-only version, it's closer to the Cybook Muse's low price.
However, it's only got 2GB of storage compared to the Cybook Muse's 4GB, and at 206g and 9.1mm, it's heaver and fatter, too (partly because of it's twice-as-big battery). Overall, the Cybook Muse has the Paperwhite beat, apart from actually getting books.
Read our Amazon Kindle Paperwhite review
Kobo Aura H2O
At 9.7 mm and weighing 233g, the Kobo Aura H2O, the only fully waterproof ereader on sale, is substantially thicker and heavier than the Cybook Muse.
However, its much more detailed screen achieves 265 DPI while it also supports unprotected MOBI files, which puts it a notch ahead of the Cybook Muse. But do remember that this is a more expensive £139.99 (about US$244, AU$255) device.
Read our Kobo Aura H2O review
Verdict
Contrary to popular belief, there is more to ereading life than Amazon's Kindle. Well designed and easy to operate, Bookeen's latest ereader offers all the essentials for readers who don't want to get locked in to Amazon's bookstore.A super-light, 8mm-slim edge-to-edge glass design, a simple one-hand operation, and an effective backlight make this cut-price ereader hard to resist.
We liked
Probably the highlight of the Cybook Muse experience is the excellent hardware; this device is exceptionally well designed and both looks and feels a lot more expensive than it is. The pure white page, speedy navigation and page turns, and particularly the choice to turn with a touch of the screen or a tap of a button, is hard to resist.Buttons are perfectly placed, with the Cybook Muse being easy to hold and operate even with one hand, so it's perfect for reading while standing-up on busy trains and buses, on platforms and in airport queues.
The choice of fonts and layout options is extensive enough, and the low price makes it affordable for those of us who really don't want to carry a heavy £300+ tablet just to read a book. The freedom to read most kinds of book formats is welcome, as is a slick handling of PDFs. The white-on-black reading feature is a nice option, too.
We disliked
The sign-up process for the online book shop is long and reliant on an unresponsive keyboard; this is the lowest point of the device, and I'm not convinced many users will get through it successfully. Nor does the shop have the choice of titles that it should. It's also all in Euros.That means using Adobe Digital Editions to its fullest and shopping around online for ebooks, which means you'll need a desktop computer or laptop.
Considering its price there's not much else to dislike about the Cybook Muse, though the lack of MOBI file support is a shame. The other issues are tiny; the backlight isn't the very best around, the plastic rear picks up a lot of fingerprints, while its reliance on micro SD card slot rather than a full-size SD Card might be inconvenient for some.
Final verdict
Ereaders travel. They get left on trains, and lost down the back of sofas. They go places – such as jacket pockets – where they can fall out, so it's best if they're not a huge investment. At about £80, the Cybook Muse is really good value.It's not the best ereader out there, but for those not wanting to get locked-in to Amazon's bookstore, happy to source ebooks from elsewhere and keen on to read PDFs frequently, too, the Cybook Muse is a great value.
It doesn't quite reach the standards and specs of the twice-as-expensive market leaders – the Kindle Voyage and the Kobo Aura H2O – but it gets close, and has the Kindle Paperwhite firmly beaten at a fraction of the cost.
Is the BooReader software as polished as the market leaders? In terms of the extras it offers or the online book shop, no – it's just not as intuitive. But for the simple, uncomplicated reading of books, it more than suffices (and there are plenty of customisation choices for fonts and layouts) as long as you can get hold of them.
Is the hardware as good as those ereaders that cost twice as much? With the effective backlight, ultra-slim 173g design and edge-to-edge design taken into account, absolutely – and that's what makes this cut-price ereader worth contemplating.
First reviewed: January 2015
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Samsung gives us our first official Galaxy S6 shot
Samsung has just released a teaser video for its Unpacked event in Barcelona on March 1, and it's given us a sneaky look at the Galaxy S6 in the process.
The video gives precious little away about Samsung's next galaxy, but it looks like it will be super slim from the side profile revealed at the end of the 21 second clip.
The voice over purrs "I am crafted from the beautiful things I see around me, they shape who I am, I am the next galaxy."
Superficial Samsung
From what we can tell then, Samsung is going to focus heavily on the design of the Galaxy S6, providing further fuel to the "all metal body" fire which is burning brightly in the lead up to its MWC 2015 event.TechRadar will be reporting live from Unpacked on March 1 to bring you all the latest on the Galaxy S6.
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Dealsradar: TechRadar Deals: Xbox One, PS4, Xiaomi's Red smartphone and much more
Happy Friday; time to check out what deals would be perfect for a chilled-out weekend (again). A couple of flagship gaming consoles, a smartphone coming from one of the up-and-coming smartphone manufacturer from China and an often-neglected peripheral, the humble mouse pad.
TODAY'S HOT DEALS
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Touchy pad: - For as little as £144.99 at
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Industry voice: How flash storage is changing the way we live and work today
At the beginning of 2014, there was a lot of chatter about it being the year for the enterprise storage industry, with many commentators using "phenomenal" as their preferred description. However, it is doubtful that anyone fully appreciated just how big the change would be.
Flash technology is changing how we work, live and play today. You may not always see flash, but much of your daily activity is fuelled by it. It's all around us, part of every step we take and even when we rest. Devices monitor our sleep and our homes; did you check today's temperature on your phone? Or use it to monitor your morning run? Using a GPS device to navigate through traffic en-route to your next meeting? All of those activities are made possible by flash-enabled devices.
When our data leaves our personal devices, it often hits a cloud data centre where all that data is being stored, archived, backed up and even analysed to deliver us the services we rely on and ensure our digital records and files are safely stored and readily available. Flash is also transforming the server and storage industry, penetrating data centres across all applications and tiers.
Let's take a look at the ways that flash is impacting the various tiers of today's data centres.
1. Flash acceleration of diverse business applications
Flash technology is already becoming a key enabler for various industries and workloads, from online transaction processing in the financial industry, through virtualisation of servers and desktops to database acceleration, big data and cloud services. However, this is only scratching the surface of the possible applications!In 2015, there will be increasing cases of flash being adopted across new industries. New applications of the technology will be designed and adopted across healthcare, the oil and gas industry, media and entertainment, and more.
2. Flash for archival storage
In today's data-driven world, archive information is no longer inactive but now acts as a "warehouse" for frequently accessed information, such as the content found on Spotify, Netflix, Facebook and Flickr.For organisations that rightly view their archives as a resource to be mined and protected, rather than an expense, flash speeds up the data analytics that allow companies to extract value and understanding from a mass of collected data over time. Compared to traditional tape and spun-down hard disk drives, flash provides a dramatically more responsive experience for the user.
In addition, the growing capacities of SSDs (as mentioned above) will see new archiving solutions adopting flash-based storage – recognising that they offer greater cost savings than hard drives for long-term storage owing to less vulnerability to temperature and humidity degradation.
3. Tiering of different types of flash
Tiering storage or hierarchical storage management is an appealing concept for data centre managers, as it helps achieve a better balance between price, performance, capacity and function.Until recently, flash was used as a tier for hot data requiring high read/write rates, with all other data on slow HDDs. But flash devices now come in several different options, such as write intensive, read intensive, cold read, high capacity, etc. The variety of flash-enabled SSDs available now means businesses can create a complete solution with better performance and total cost of ownership (TCO). To make this a reality, caching software will be developed to move data between the different types of flash devices. Thus, data centres will fully maximise the benefits of flash across all storage tiers.
Bright flash
Whilst it's no longer front page news to say that the future of flash is bright, it remains one of the most exciting developments in the industry – particularly as flash finds its way into new aspects of IT infrastructure. At this rate, we might just be as amazed at the end of 2015 as we were last year by what has been achieved through wider adoption of flash. Until then, we continue to spread the word and wait with patient anticipation.- Marcos Burnett is head of sales for Northern Europe at SanDisk
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Samsung Galaxy S6 battery looks set to be smaller than Galaxy S5
Back at the start of this week details of the Samsung Galaxy S6 battery leaked out with a report suggesting it'll be reduced to a 2600mAh pack.
The Samsung Galaxy S5 had a 2800mAh battery, but if new pictures from the Weibo social networking site are to be believed the new battery will have a 2600mAh capacity and the model number EB-BG925ABE.
Samsung Galaxy S5 battery replacements come with model numbers such as EB-BG900BBC so it's looking likely these will be made directly for the Galaxy S6 or even the Galaxy S6 Edge.
It sounds like bad news for all fans of Samsung but there is a silver lining: the downgrade in size is likely to help it accommodate the long-sought-after metal uni-body design.
A slimmer handset?
Rumours also suggest the Exynos 7420 SoC chipset that is thought to feature in the Galaxy S6 goes lightly on the battery.The Galaxy S6 is also said to have the same 5.1-inch Quad HD Super AMOLED display that previously featured on the Galaxy S5 LTE-A and battery testing on that phone shows it doesn't use much power, it actually uses as much as its 1080p counterpart.
That alongside some software and hardware optimisations may make for a better battery life even though it's packing a smaller capacity cell.
- All the latest rumours about the Samsung Galaxy S6.
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Google Glass 2 is already being sent out to a select few
When Google announced that it was ending the Glass Explorer program many people leapt to the conclusion that Google Glass was dead and buried.
However it appears those Glass-sceptics might have jumped the gun with the news that the search giant is already sending out prototypes of the next iteration of Glass.
Although the next generation Google Glass is still in the early development stage, sources close to the project have revealed Google has been showing off the prototype in private to a select number of partners, according to 9to5Google.com.
We've previously reported that Google has continued to work on the Google Glass project with Ivy Ross, a jewellery designer, and Tony Fadell, a former Apple product executive, brought in as a change of management.
Committed to the vision
Since the end of the Glass Explorer program Google has been working hard to demonstrate that it is still committed to bringing out a consumer version of Google Glass.This includes creating a new Glass at Work program that brings together 10 startups which are focusing on creating new software for Google Glass.
Google is carefully curating the companies that can join the Glass at Work program and is working closely with each one to make sure the software that supports Google Glass is high quality. This is quite a different approach to the Explorer Program which allowed anyone to make Apps for the device, which led to mixed results.
This more considered approach could be the key to Google Glass' success. Time will tell if it was the right decision by Google.
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HTC hints at something 'huge', internet says One M9 Plus
Earlier this week HTC confirmed the launch of the HTC One M9 during a UEFA Champions League game and now it has begun teasing us with something more.
HTC's USA Twitter account posted "Something HUGE is coming from HTC. Imagine [number][big thing] in space. And then [math term] that by [number]. #Madlib".
People have taken the use of the word "HUGE" as confirmation of a bigger handset, but it's currently uncertain what the message is referring to.
The tweet may be referring to the rumoured HTC One M9 Plus which a selection of leaks have suggested will accompany the main flagship One M9 on the March 1 announcement.
It may also be referring to the whole event in general, it could be that the USA account got a little carried away with its teasing and everyone got the wrong end of the stick.
Something HUGE
There are also rumours of the HTC Butterfly 3 getting a March 1 unveiling, and considering it's meant to have a 5.2-inch display it could fit the "huge" headline.Rumours of the flagship HTC One M9 are really heating up with cases from Spigen now appearing on Amazon.
Not much can be seen in the images but it gives further evidence of a larger 20MP camera lens on the back and similar build to the One M8.
The cases will be available in Metal Slate, Gunmetal and Champagne Gold from April 3, but that could just be a placeholder date.
- Falling behind on the latest rumours? Here's everything we expect to see at MWC 2015.
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Apple Car to hit the roads by 2020?
Like the Apple iTV before it, the Apple Car is the new rumour that just won't die.
Now Bloomberg is reporting that Cupertino hopes to begin production of an electric car by 2020 according to "people with knowledge of the matter."
That's a fast turnaround, particularly for a company with no previous automotive experience – automakers normally spend five to seven years on car development – but Apple is well known for pressuring its teams to meet tough deadlines.
Apple is rumoured to have 200 staff dedicated to the project, which was previously reported to have taken on the codename "Titan."
The move would see Apple lining itself up to compete with electric motoring's big hitters Tesla and General Motors, both of which have 2017 deadlines for vehicles that will travel 200 miles on a single charge and cost less than US$40,000.
Not everyone's impressed
Despite the rumour's persistence, the motoring industry remains unshaken. Mercedes-Benz chairman Dieter Zetsche dismissed the rumour, saying a move from Apple into motoring is as likely as a Mercedes-Benz smartphone.Similarly, former General Motors Chief Executive Officer Dan Akerson warned Apple that the "low-margin, heavy-manufacturing" aspect of the automotive industry should not be underestimated.
Whether it reaches production or not, an Apple Car is something we'd definitely like to see. If only to satisfy our curiosity.
- Can't wait until 2020? Check out Apple CarPlay to get Cupertino in your car now.
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Industry voice: Don't dread your next software audit: look at proactive licence management
"Vendor software audit" – those three words are guaranteed to make any IT manager nervous. Because once you have Microsoft, Oracle, or any other large software provider on the phone asking you to prove you have the licences your usage requires, they want the numbers, and they want them fast – often within days or weeks.
Get them right, and you'll be saving your organisation a lot of money, proving your competence and perhaps making future audits less frequent. Get them wrong, and you're looking at potentially significant unplanned costs, a very unhappy boss and more intense scrutiny in the future.
The rise and rise of the software audit
It's an issue that's increasingly important because vendor audits are becoming more widespread. Leading industry analysts estimate that the proportion of organisations being audited, either by industry groups or vendors themselves, has increased from around 30% five years ago to 60% now.From the vendors' perspective, that's understandable, given that the commercial value of unlicensed software on PCs alone amounted to over US$62 billion (around £40 billion, AU$80 billion), according to the 2013 BSA Global Software Survey.
And yet, despite the increasing likelihood of an audit, many organisations remain underprepared to respond effectively and efficiently. Fulfilling audit requirements manually on demand is extremely complex and time-consuming. It usually sees IT admins flitting between spreadsheets, paper filing systems and purchasing records in an attempt to piece together a single version of the truth.
As a result, headaches and late nights are pretty much guaranteed. And all the while resources are tied up checking licences, they can't be used to deal with other tasks, including the higher value projects, such as app development, that contribute directly to business goals. So, is there a better alternative to this kind of reactive approach? Yes!
And the reasons for grasping it with both hands extend far beyond the initial fulfilment of vendor licensing requirements.
SAM to the rescue
Software Asset Management (SAM) software promises to dramatically reduce the complexity and effort required in meeting software audit requirements. By integrating easily with existing systems, it enables organisations to create a central record of all the software being used, reconcile it against licences held, and automatically track ongoing usage and licence expiration – all within an automated system.With this kind of solution in place, the fear factor that usually kicks in when a vendor requests an audit evaporates. Audit fulfilment becomes fast and straightforward. And resources are freed up to focus on more important tasks. But the benefits don't stop there.
It's not all about the vendor
An audit is carried out from the vendor's perspective and focuses on identifying missing or expired licences, and recovering the associated revenue. But what about the customer's own interests?Can every licence actually be linked to an installed instance? Is money being wasted on applications that are hardly ever used? In fact, industry research, backed up by our own experience, suggests that more than 20% of software bought by organisations never gets used, and that the total value of unused installed software averages out at US$400 (around £260, AU$515) per computer!
When you multiply that figure by the number of seats in your organisation, couldn't that money be spent more usefully elsewhere?
Software audits? I can't wait for the next one!
SAM solutions give organisations a way of automatically preventing unnecessary software spending. When used as part of a holistic IT Asset Management program, savings of 10-20% of total IT costs are more than possible within the first year. And that's on top of the time, money and effort saved by automating and simplifying the licence compliance fulfilment process.So, the chances are that transitioning from an ad hoc, reactive approach, to a centralised, automated and proactive one will pay for itself within a very short timeframe. And in that context, software audits might even become something you can look forward to.
- Stuart Power is UK Sales Manager at Matrix42
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Updated: Get 200GB of free OneDrive storage, no strings attached
Microsoft is attempting to entice more users to eventually use Office 365 and Windows 10 by offering 100GB of OneDrive storage completely free of charge for two years.
Users can take advantage of the offer through the Bing Rewards scheme, although no Bing credits will be deducted from your account and the only catch is that you must agree to receive promotional emails from the Redmond-based firm.
You only need to have an active Outlook/OneDrive account and follow the instructions on that page. We tried it and it works. A previous method required a VPN access but that's no longer required.
Microsoft is also looking to entice Dropbox users with 100GB free storage for 2 years that can be used concurrently with the Bing Rewards scheme. Use this link here.
You only need to download a file to your Dropbox folder to verify that you actually use the popular online storage service..
Make it cheaper with Office 365
After the two years, Microsoft will be hoping that users decide to continue with the 100GB plan that costs $1.99 (about £1.31, or AU$2.56) per month, working out at approximately $24 (around £16 or AU$31 across the whole year.OneDrive and OneDrive for Business users can already blast that charge out of the water by subscribing to the Office 365 service, where you get unlimited cloud storage as part of the plan you're on.
Once the free two years are up, buying an Office 365 Personal subscription is by far the cheapest way to get unlimited OneDrive storage with a one-year subscription coming in at less than £50 at CCL.
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Download of the Day: Microsoft Mathematics
Mathematics and science students never need worry about splashing out on an expensive scientific or graphics calculator ever again thanks to the extensive set of features inside Microsoft Mathematics.
Why you need it
Advanced mathematics looks like Egyptian hieroglyphics to a lot of people yet there are plenty that use them to solve every day problems and Microsoft Mathematics was created to make this process a lot more straightforward for even beginners.The program is a completely free complex calculator that has everything you'd expect on a small screened scientific calculator or graphical calculator just in a larger and more manageable screen without the tedious button combinations that have plagued regular plastic calculators.
It isn't just a tool to solve problems though. Whilst students are using the Microsoft Mathematics program they will learn the fundamental basics of scientific and graphical mathematics as well as become more enamoured to the more advanced aspects through step-by-step equation solving. Numbers and information can be put in using either a keyboard or the ink setting that enables you to write the information in manually and thus opens up possibilities for laptop owners with graphical tablets.
The numerical input calculator interface to the left hand side has a range of different sections and which one you use largely depends on the work you're doing. Its sections cover calculus, statistics, trigonometry, linear algebra and standard symbols, in addition to the numbers that are situated at the foot of the calculator.
Whether its a complex formula, equation or triangle that needs to be solved, Microsoft Mathematics copes well in all situations. The only question we found ourselves asking is how something so advanced and helpful can still be available completely free?
Key features
Works on: All versions of WindowsVersions: Free
Favourite Buttons: Right click on the buttons you use most often to add them to the favourite buttons group in order that they are easier to find in future.
Export to Microsoft programs: Anything that you work on in Microsoft Mathematics can be exported to Word or other Microsoft programs and there us of course then the chance to print out the results of your calculations.
Easy step-by-step instructions: Students of any age or ability can use Microsoft Mathematics thanks to the detailed instructions that it provides to anyone wanting to solve problems using the program.
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Outlook for iOS and Android delivers on update promise
Microsoft is making good on its promise to update Outlook for iOS and Android devices every few weeks with the first set of enhancements delivered for both enterprise customers and consumers.
The apps, which will eventually completely replace the Outlook Web App (OWA), are slowly getting all the features that are included in the outdated client.
IT administrators can now implement PIN locking on their enterprise email systems that means any mobile device connected will need a passcode in place to download emails, reply to appointments and access any other sensitive information inside the app. Any devices that don't have this ability won't be able to use Outlook for iOS or Android.
Quicker remote wipe execution has also been added, which now happens within seconds and the app-level wipe resets the Outlook app with Outlook email, calendar, contact and files data all removed from the device and cloud.
End users of the app also get a barrage of new features including the ability to sync email from email providers that support IMAP, turn off the conversations feature in iOS by switching off the organise mail by thread setting, customise swipe gestures to change the way emails are handled, and alter default folders for swiped emails.
More coming soon
In terms of what will be coming next, IT administrators will get Microsoft Intune mobile device management support and Outlook's cloud service will be transitioned from Amazon Web Services to Microsoft Azure. End users, meanwhile, be able to sync local contacts, the preview label will be removed from Outlook for Android and localisation for all the service's languages will be improved.Outlook for iOS and Android has only been out for a matter of weeks after Microsoft took its recent acquisition Accompli and rebadged it as the mobile apps that were recently released.
Via: Microsoft
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Microsoft's turning Onenote into a powerhouse with iPad handwriting update
Not wanting to be left out of the Microsoft's constant flurry of Office updates, OneNote users have a couple of new things to shout about.
Firstly Microsoft has finally relented and added the popular handwriting feature to its OneNote for iPad app to allow users of the tablet to take advantage of something that has been a part of OneNote for Windows since 2003.
The second announcement is that optical character recognition (OCR) has been enabled across all versions of OneNote that currently exists, which in layman's terms this means that OneNote users can search for text in all new images added to OneNote.
OCR for older images
Like all of its recent product updates, Microsoft also teased a couple of future updates that will see OneDrive for Business support added to OneNote plus the ability to use OCR on images that are attached to older notes.It was less than a week ago that Microsoft freed up five more features for the free edition of OneNote, and the handwriting and drawing features of OneNote are expected to become an integral part of the next Surface Pro.
Via: Microsoft
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