Google adds intelligent voice search to Google TV

Google added intelligent voice search to Google TV Wednesday. Not only can you jump to a channel by saying its name, but the software can also intelligently respond to statements. For example, if you say, "how to tie a bow tie," you will be taken to an instructional video on YouTube explaining how to do that. "Just speak to watch TV shows and movies, start playing a YouTube video, open applications, go to websites,...

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Use Facebook's new Social Jobs app to find work

Looking for a job? Now you can leverage one of the sites that you use the most, Facebook, to help in your hunt. Facebook on Wednesday rolled out its long-awaited Social Jobs app for U.S. users, which has aggregated more than 1.7 million job listings from job search sites that were already using Facebook to reach recruits, including Jobvite, BranchOut, Work4Labs, and Monster.com. The social network first announced...

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Samsung releases smaller, faster 64GB smartphone memory

Samsung on Thursday announced a new 64GB memory chip for smartphones and tablets, which it says is 20 percent smaller and a third faster than current technology. The company said its new 64GB eMMC (embedded multimedia card) reads data sequentially at up to 260 megabytes per second and writes at up to 50 megabytes per second, 10 times faster than Class-10 rated external memory cards. The chips are made using Samsung's 10-nanometer...

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Microsoft moves to relegate Windows 7 to second-class status

As Microsoft goes full speed ahead on Windows 8, a number of signs suggest that Windows 7 is fading fast in Redmonds rear view mirror. On Monday, Microsoft program manager Daniel Moth confirmed in a support forum that DirectX 11.1 will only work with Windows 8. The company has no plan to bring DirectX to earlier versions of Windowsincluding Windows 7. DirectX 11.1, Microsofts API for 3D graphics, isnt a major update...

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DHS aims to hire 600 cybersecurity pros -- if it can find them

The Obama administration is hoping to make good on its promise to create new jobs -- in this case, 600 of them in cybersecurity. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano, acting on the recommendation of the Homeland Security Advisory Council's Task Force on Cyberskills, said at a Washington Postcybersecurity forum that DHS wants to hire at least 600 cyber experts, analysts, IT specialists and...

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SAP cozies up to Windows 8 with mobile apps, platform support

SAP said Tuesday that it plans to roll out a series of mobile applications for Windows 8, a move that underscores the companies' deep partnership at a time when many observers believe Microsoft's new OS is in for a tough ride. In addition, SAP is planning to add support for Windows 8 mobile application development for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 through its SAP Mobile Platform, which has been renamed from Sybase Unwired...

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