HP has a wireless mouse that doesn't use Bluetooth, has twice the battery life of other wireless mice, and doesn't require a dongle. If those three features sound good, check out the HP WiFi Mobile Mouse. It is a laser mouse for optimum tracking with 5 customizable buttons. Its real trick is using the 802.11 WiFi protocol to communicate between the mouse and your computer up to … [Read more...]
Sony PlayStation Network Coming Back Up In Phased Restoration
PlayStation Network and Qriocity services are coming back online in a phased restoration after the earlier reported data breach that has had the service offline for almost the entire past month. Kazuo Hirai made the announcement via video in a post at the PlayStation blog. Highlights: Services should be restored regionally for PSN and Qriocity networks including access to … [Read more...]
Cyber-Security Getting More Attention From Obama Administration, Other Gov’t Officials
Yesterday afternoon, the Obama administration passed along a legislative proposal to Congress on the topic of cyber-security. With plenty of recent press coverage, cyber-security is getting plenty of attention following Epsilon, Sony, and far too many other data breaches. The President's administration is responding to a Congressional call on how to best legislate the nation's … [Read more...]
Netflix Starts Rolling Out To Select Android Phones
Last November, Netflix publicly responded to the questions of why there wasn't an Android app for streaming video yet. Their answer: Android phones didn't have the necessary DRM built-in to lock down the stream. Instead of a broad deployment, they would have to work on a case-by-case basis with select phones that had the necessary DRM capabilities. Today, Netflix announced … [Read more...]
Google’s Chromebooks Start Rolling Out Next Month
One of the bigger announcements coming out of yesterday's session of Google I/O was a follow-up on the ChromeOS-wielding Chromebooks announced last December. For those of us not at the session, the updated details were published on the Google Blog (Chrome and Code blogs too). Samsung and Acer are the first partners to have Chromebooks ready to go this Summer. … [Read more...]