Daily Archives: November 12, 2015

Dropbox: Focus on Future Value, Not The Current Valuation

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Dropbox held its first Open conference last week to showcase the advancements the company has made and reveal the direction it’s moving in. This comes at a contentious time in the market, with some questioning the $10 billion valuation of the company. But CEO, Drew Houston dismisses such talk as nonsense and only speculative since Dropbox is still a private company. “This speculation is like playing fantasy football without statistics,” said Houston . Instead, the key message is to understand the fundamentals of the company and see the future potential.

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Windows 10 receives its first big update starting today

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Today Microsoft has commenced the rollout for the first big update ever to hit Windows 10. The latest version of the OS brings with it a few new features alongside the usual assortment of bug fixes and performance enhancements.

First off, you can use your Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows 8.1 product key to activate Windows 10. Previously, you needed to install the older version first, then update to Windows 10 for free.

The Start Menu can be four tiles wide now, and the total number of tiles it can show grows to 2,048. And a new Suggested Apps feature pops up from time to time recommending stuff for you.

Moving on, colored title bars are now a thing for all your desktop windows if you want them to be. A “find my device” feature is built into the OS itself, negating the need for a third-party locator app.

Cortana can now understand handwritten notes, it tracks tickets for movies from your email, and coupons for the sites you visit using the Edge browser. It syncs messaging and call history with your Windows Phone and notifies you of missed calls on your PC. And when you’re out of the office (or away from home), Cortana can even put your computer to sleep. Finally, the virtual assistant now works without needing a Microsoft account tied to the machine.

Microsoft Edge syncs Favorites and Reading list items across devices, while if you hover over one of your open tabs you’ll get a preview of what’s on that website.

With this release, Microsoft thinks Windows 10 is finally ready for enterprise PCs, now being able to “confidently recommend Windows 10 deployment to whole organizations”. Windows 10 is also on its way to Xbox One today, and we’ll see its mobile version on select phones soon.

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Xiaomi Mi Pad 2 gets benchmarked with Intel chipset

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Xiaomi’s Mi Pad 2 has been a very long time in the making, with rumors about it surfacing as early as last December. Yet here we are almost one year later and the tablet is still not official.

That might change soon, however. The Mi Pad 2 has been certified in China this September, and now someone in possession of a prototype has decided to put it through the paces of Geekbench. This thankfully reveals a few things about the device’s hardware.

First off, it’s using an Intel chipset, namely the Atom x5-Z8500, with a 2.24 GHz quad-core CPU. The tablet has 2GB of RAM, and it’s currently running Android 5.1 Lollipop. Those are all the details for now, but hopefully the Mi Pad 2 will get official soon.

Past rumors spoke about it having a 7.9-inch 2,048×1,536 touchscreen, and 16GB of built-in storage (which should, however, be expandable). And since this is Xiaomi we’re talking about, expect to see the latest iteration of MIUI on top of Android.

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