Targus Slim Stylus ($10 at Best Buy) Easily draw or write on the capacitive touch-screen on your tablet or phone with this Targus slim stylus. It’s a basic model that gets the job done and feels good in your hand. If you can afford a bit more, then the Wacom Bamboo Stylus offers replaceable tips for $23. Scosche reVIVE II Dual-USB Auto Adapter ($25 at Best Buy) With the reVIVE II, you can easily charge most USB powered devices including your tablet, smartphone and more....

th the new feature, you can split the Android home screen run two applications at the same time. On an ordinary smartphone, creating two windows would not be very productive, but with the Note II’s spacious 5.5-inch display, that’s not the case. en the multi-window feature arrives on a Sprint Note II, it can be activatedthrough the settings menu or by pressing holding the back key on the device. though Sprint announced the software update Tuesday, it could take up to five days before all Note II owners receive it....

Exercise 1: Basic Flowbits Usage First, let’s do a simple exercise to illustrate how flowbits works. Let’s say that the FTP server that we have installed on our Windows Server 2012 R2 is only supposed to be used for uploading files from remote hosts, and no files should be downloaded by any hosts other than our Ubuntu Server. So, logging onto the FTP server would not be suspicious, but still want to be able to track the entire session, in case unauthorized download would occur....

In mid-June, Sony officially announced the Xperia Z4v along with Verizon Wireless in the United States, confirming that the Big Red carrier would launch the device sometime this year. While a launch date wasn’t provided at the time, its inevitable arrival seemed like to be soon, as Sony did say “this summer.” Now, Sony has confirmed that the Xperia Z4v will launch on Verizon beginning August 13, which is a Thursday....

Back in February of this year, Sony officially announced its early-2019 flagship smartphone: the Xperia 1. It’s a tall handset with a big display, and now the smartphone is finally coming to market. On Thursday, Sony officially announced that it will launch the Xperia 1 in the United States on July 12. When it arrives, the smartphone with a big display will boast a $949 price tag. That puts it right in line with a variety of other top-tier smartphones, as far as pricing is concerned....

Earlier on February 4, HTC revealed that the One (M7) had been green-lit to receive the update to Android 5.0.1 Lollipop, and that the update would begin rolling out on February 5. Apparently Sprint had been stocking up on the software updates, because it has been revealed that the Samsung Galaxy S5 is also set to get upgraded beginning Thursday, February 5. This particular update will bring the Galaxy S5 up to version G900PVPU1AOA6, and it will feature Android 5....

Earlier today, Sony Mobile sent out invites to the German press for an event due to take place on the 25th. According to VR-Zone, they know what Sony is going to announce at said event. It’s going to be the Xperia ZU (codenamed Togari), and it’ll have a 6.44 inch 1080p display. The display will use Sony’s new “triluminos” technology. Translation: AMOLED like saturation, but using LCD technology. This phone will also apparently have an 8 megapixel camera and a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor....

Sony has uploaded a 43-second long teaser video on its YouTube channel today, which is extremely weird. The teaser video is filled with a lot of references to number 5, Lollipop, colors, various human emotions, chameleons(!), and ends with the “Welcome to the New World” tagline. http://youtu.be/6gC_NIVpXf4 It is unclear if Sony is teasing the Lollipop update for its Xperia devices, or simply hinting at a major refresh of its smartphone portfolio for next year....

Sony Xperia 5 Design The Xperia 5 features a sleek-and-compact body design that comes in at 68mm wide, and a variety of color options: Blue, Red, Black, and Grey. It has a Gorilla Glass 6 protection on the front and the back and a metal frame around the body to offer protection against drops and scratches. The company says that despite offering a 21:9 CinemaWide display a lot of features from the Xperia 1, the phone still manages to be 14 grams lighter than Xperia 1, making it pocket-friendly....

However, there’s one essential hardware component that seems to be lagging behind – the battery. We are still waiting for that big technology breakthrough that will revolutionize how we go about charging (and discharging) our smartphones. For now, we are stuck with the current standard of batteries – lithium-ion. And what’s the use of having all these fancy features if your smartphone battery can’t even last through a full day?...

Samsung being Samsung, they aren’t afraid to make a million different variants of their devices. The flagship Galaxy S4 for example, there’s the Mini, the Mega, the Zoom, the Active, and let’s also not forget about the million other Samsung phones that look like the Galaxy S4, despite having nothing in common with them. Today Samsung has introduced yet another variant, the Galaxy S4 Advance. What is it? It’s a phone that’s already out in Korea....

Rumors have indicated that Sony is working on the Z1 Compact’s successor, which is slated to be revealed in a couple of months from now at IFA. A leaked picture of the front panel of the handset gave further credence to the rumors of the device existence. Now, thanks to DooMLoRD, the final specs of the handset has leaked as well and it looks like the Z3 Compact is going to be perfect for consumers who are looking for a sub-5-inch flagship Android device....

It might be able to turn that around with the Xperia Z2 Tablet, however. The device is an all-inclusive package. It’s beauty brains, plus you can dunk it in the pool if you feel like it. Its setbacks are relatively minor compared to some other tablets out there, making it one of the best 10-inch Android tablet we’ve seen this year. Snap into a slim tablet The Xperia Z2 Tablet is light, thin, premium-looking—three things that many 10-inch Android tablets are not....

With a few weeks still left for MWC 2015 to arrive, Sony has gone ahead and announced its new mid-range Xperia offering — the E4. While the handset’s design is reminiscent of Sony’s past offerings, the company has rounded the corners of the device to improve its ergonomics. The Xperia E4 also comes with a substantially bigger 5-inch qHD (960 x 540) resolution display compared to its predecessor — the Xperia E3, but with reduced top and bottom bezels in the front, which keeps the overall dimensions of the device in check....

Intel’s launches are not as predictable as before because the company abandoned the famous tick-tock strategy: within a generation, the manufacturer deployed a new miniaturization (tick) technology; In the next generation, the same manufacturing process was used in a new architecture (tock). But Broadwell (5th generation), Skylake (6th generation ), Kaby Lake (7th generation ) and Coffee Lake (8th generation) are all manufactured at 14 nanometers. It’s a tick-tock-tock-tock. There are not many details about Coffee Lake chips....

One of the most significant advantages of owning a smartwatch is offline music playback. This way, you don’t have to carry your phone along to the run or during workouts in the gym. Android smartwatch running WearOS allowed users to access offline music via Google Music. With the death of Google Music, the wearOS lacked a music service that offers offline listening. Spotify has finally decided to fill the void with offline support on Wear OS....

The Sony Xperia Z2 can do a lot of things right and that includes taking exceptional pictures as well as 4K videos from its 20.7-megapixel camera. The smartphone has now dethroned the Nokia 808 Pureview as the best camera phone in the market according to DxOMark’s latest rankings. DxOMark has a long standing reputation in providing camera reviews, so this is coming from a pretty legitimate source. The Xperia Z2 managed to score 79 points, marginally edging out the Nokia 808 Pureview which scored 77....

In a Dark Room, South Korea is training the brightest students to become hackers so that for South Korean Government they can act in a Cyberwar with North Korean ruler Kim Jong-un. In a Dark War room number of students are recruited for hackathon training purposes. They hack each other’s computers in the training process. However the training purpose, President Park Geun Hye’s Government has a plan to recruit around 120 top young country talented hackers; the Government has applied full scholarships to every 120 hackers or programmers if, in return, they serve seven years in the military service....

The company also said that its board of directors authorized share buybacks totaling $75 million, to be carried out “from time to time.” The report sent SMART Global shares down slightly in late trading. CEO Mark Adams called the results “solid,” adding that they “culminated a strong first half of the fiscal year, and demonstrating the strength of our growth and diversification strategy.” Added Adams. “The results reflect our commitment to operational excellence by focusing on specialty solutions targeting growth markets such as AI, machine learning, data analytics, enterprise storage and edge/IoT....

With a software engineering degree, you have the skills and knowledge to create new and exciting software while simultaneously improving upon existing programs and systems. Projected by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) to experience 22% job growth by 2030, software engineering is an in-demand and lucrative field. What is it like to work in a software engineering job? Software engineering jobs blend engineering, software development, and programming knowledge and skills....