What Happened To Acadine?

If there’s one thing that drives the tech industry more than anything–more than innovation, even–it’s got to be competition. That might sound like common sense, but when so many tech companies are in bed together when it comes to design features, capabilities, and even the parts components suppliers, consumer choice is one of the things that truly builds a stand-out company.

Take the sad demise of Acadine, a Hong Kong-based company whose engineers were laid off this week. The company had multiple goals that were all designed to meet a functional need for consumers that the industry just isn’t doing right now. Last month, it was the rebirth of the flip phone for users who just wanted a simplified way to call, text, and maybe snap a picture or two, while still working in compliance with the updated cellular providers’ networks. In February, it was the company’s longstanding attempt to take away some of Apple and Google’s market share by launching a Mozilla-based OS for mobile devices.

Acadine’s woes, like so many other tech startups, stemmed from funding disputes with investors. Chinese investment partner Tsinghua Unigroup had initially laid out around $100 million, but that payment was delayed when the company decided to go for controlling stake in Acadine. The tech company went looking for investors elsewhere, but that source of funds seems to have not materialized.

The company hasn’t completely closed its doors yet, but with its engineering team packing up their desks and their announcement to business partners that they’re shutting down the Firefox-like H5OS project, it may just be a matter of time.

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[Windows 10 Tip] Registry Tweak to Disable “Send Feedback” (Smiley) Button in Internet Explorer Toolbar

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J A few months back we told you how to remove "Send a Smile or Frown" button (also known as Send Feedback icon) from Internet Explorer 11 toolbar in Windows 10 operating system. You can tread more about the tutorial at following link: [Tip] Remove "Send a Smile" (Feedback) Button from Internet Explorer 11 in Windows […]

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Google Photos: One year, 200 million users, and a whole lot of selfies

A year ago, we introduced Google Photos with one mission: To be a home for all your photos and videos, organized and brought to life, so that you can share and save what matters.

Now 200 million of you are using Google Photos each month. We’ve delivered more than 1.6 billion animations, collages and movies, among other things. You’ve collectively freed up 13.7 petabytes of storage on your devices—it would take 424 years to swipe through that many photos! We’ve also applied 2 trillion labels, and 24 million of those have been for ... selfies.

To celebrate our first birthday, we’ve gathered a few of the team's favorite tips and updates we’ve made in the past year, so you can keep all that good stuff going...

1. To fly through Google Photos on the web at photos.google.com, press Shift-? to see a list of keyboard shortcuts.

2. Narrow down your search results by searching for more than one thing at a time. Search for two people: “Mom and Dad,” or a person and a place: “Mom Yosemite,” a place and a thing: “Yosemite bear,” or a person and a thing: “Mom bear” to find that photo of your mama bear with the real bear.

3. Running out of Google storage? On photos.google.com, under settings, you can choose to convert all of your uploaded content from “Original quality” to the free “High quality” size to recover lots of space.

4. Enter your favorite emoji (😎 🍂 💗 🎂 ) into search to pull up your corresponding photos. Not joking.

5. On photos.google.com, easily find the photos you recently uploaded by going to search, then choosing "Show More” and then “Recently Added.”

6. Tap into your device folders from the top of the albums page on Android, and see which folders are being backed up. Double-check that all those screenshots are safe!

7. Create a shared album for your family. Every time someone adds a new photo, everyone will get a notification so they can see your latest photo or video.

8. Have you spied the easter egg in the photo editor on Android? Hint...It’s out of this world.

9. Occasionally photos can appear out of order in your gallery—perhaps because the date was incorrectly set on your phone or camera when you took them. On photos.google.com, you can edit both the time and time zone of a photo or group of photos to put them in the right order in your library. Change one and they all get adjusted.

10. At the top of the albums page on mobile, scroll the carousel to the right and tap on the videos tile to get a view of all the videos in your library (on photos.google.com, you’ll see videos at the top of the album page).

Thanks for a wonderful first year—keep it up; all those selfies aren’t going to take themselves!

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BSA Global Software Survey: Companies Can Do Better

The Business Software Alliance (BSA) has published the results of its 2015 Global Software Survey. While not surprising, the report does make for some very interesting reading.

Carried out across more than 110 national and regional economies, from Kenya to the US, and from China to the EU, and in partnership with the IDC, the BSA survey attempted to estimate the value and volume of unlicensed software on PCs across the globe in 2015.

“…even in certain critical industries where much tighter control of the digital environment would be expected, unlicensed use was surprisingly high. The survey found that the worldwide rate for such unlicensed use is 25 percent — fully one in four — in the banking, insurance, and securities industries.”

Among some of its other major findings, the BSA survey revealed that in 2015 cyberattacks cost business more than $400,000,000,000. Embarrassment and personal stress levels of Ashley Madison users for 2015 were however, sadly not included.

Moving on, the BSA survey also took the time to point out the fact that a strong connection still exists between cyberattacks and the use of ‘cracked’ or illegitimate and unlicensed software, which, let’s be honest most people reading this will be more than aware of…

Control

What will probably concern IT admins and Chief Information Officers (CIOs) however or at least cause them to take a large gulp of their morning coffee is the fact that too many businesses worldwide are not taking adequate steps to control the software installed on their networks by employees, and significantly underestimate the sheer amount of unauthorised software deployed.

“Thirty-nine percent of software installed on PCs around the world in 2015 was not properly licensed, according to survey findings, representing only a modest decrease from 43 percent in BSA’s previous global survey from 2013.”

Going Mobile

Finally, and most worrying for IT gate keepers, despite the still fast growing use of mobile devices for use in business on a daily basis, 70% of enterprises globally were found to have at best to have ‘only an informal policy or none at all concerning connecting personal mobile devices at work.’

The summary of the BSA survey concludes that proper management of software assets in company networks can not only mitigate risk, but lead to significant cost savings by ‘driving out hidden inefficiencies from over-licensing applications or harbouring unused software.’

The full study with specific geographic results for different countries and economic regions can be accessed here.

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Google Wins Java Victory Against Oracle In US Court

Google has won a major 6-year long court battle in the US against Java owner Oracle.

A jury found Google had not unfairly appropriated code associated with the Java programming language. Oracle had argued that Google had infringed its copyright by using 11,500 lines of code from Java when it originally developed the API for the Android operating system.

Oracle had argued that Google had infringed its copyright by using 11,500 lines of code from Java .

Oracle originally began its legal action in 2010, with the two companies facing off in court for the first time in 2012. Back then, a federal judge ruled against Oracle as well, but the company appealed on several grounds.

Like a dog with a bone, Oracle kept on fighting, and after lots of back and forth arguments, the case eventually ended up back in court again.

Oracle’s main legal argument was that Google gone above and beyond a ‘fair use’ of the Java code in its Android OS, and consequently was seeking for a payoff of around $9 billion.

The outcome of the court battle has been watched closely by other software developers. A victory for Oracle might have seen the start of a whole swathe of legal actions against other, smaller companies who have incorporated Java into their own software.

Oracle lawyer Dorian Daley said that the company would probably not be accepting the ruling, and would probably appeal….

“We strongly believe that Google developed Android by illegally copying core Java technology to rush into the mobile device market…. Oracle brought this lawsuit to put a stop to Google’s illegal behaviour. We believe there are numerous grounds for appeal and we plan to bring this case back to the federal circuit on appeal.”

Google uses Java in its Android smartphone operating system which powers about 80% of the world’s mobile devices.

Oracle bought out the company that originally developed Java, Sun Microsystems, in 2010.

Check out Oracle’s Java products that you can download now from FileHippo!

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