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Yet another Android feature is coming to iOS, just on iPads for now. This time around it’s multi-user support, which is now official with the release of the first beta of iOS 9.3 for developers. However, there’s a big catch – at the moment multi-user support is only available for schools. Yet if Apple took the time to implement this, it’s probably safe to assume that a wider release should follow in the future (with iOS 10 perhaps). As the name implies, multi-user support (which Apple is calling Shared iPad) lets different people (or, in this case, students) use the…

Despite a declining stock and a number of ominous warnings from suppliers, analysts still expect solid earnings from Apple, when the world’s most valuable company reports after the bell Tuesday. The Cupertino California-based company is expected to post revenue of $76.6 billion, up from $74.59 billion in the year-ago period, according to analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters. Earnings are expected to be $3.24 a share, up from $3.06 a share a year earlier. While most of Wall Street is still overwhelmingly bullish on the stock — analysts in the aggregate expect the stock to rise nearly 40 percent over the…

amsung has announced we’ll get our first official look at the Galaxy S7 at Mobile World Congress on Feb. 21. However, you don’t have to wait to find out what the phones will look like, if VentureBeat’s Evan Blass is to believed with his latest leaks. On the face of it the phones seem like, well, Galaxy phones, with Samsung again going for some type of Edge configuration along with a standard GS7. There’s talk of a 5.5-inch Galaxy S7 Edge model to go along with the 5.1-inch flat model. VENTUREBEATIt may be another year with microUSB ports for the next…

The next 4-inch smartphone made by Apple has been in the rumors for many months now, yet it still hasn’t become official. That may change in the next few weeks, however, if we go by some recent speculation. One thing that’s been up for debate so far is what it’s going to be called. The oldest rumors have referred to it as the iPhone 6c, then some people started calling it iPhone 7c, and today a Chinese analyst says it will actually be neither of those. According to this person, Apple will name its new 4-inch device iPhone 5e, where…

Microsoft really wants small businesses to pick up its Office 365 productivity suite, and the company unveiled a new offer Monday aimed at drawing them into its cloud. Businesses with more than 50 employees can now get access to Microsoft’s FastTrack service, which helps companies move over to Office 365. Businesses can get resources from Microsoft’s online FastTrack Center, and work with an engineer on the FastTrack team whose job it is to help businesses move over to their new productivity software. The service was originally only available to companies buying more than 150 seats of Office 365. According to…

If early returns hold, 2016 is shaping up as another year where the bond market’s demise has been greatly exaggerated. Numerous forecasts around Wall Street warned investors away from fixed income, particularly longer duration U.S. government issues. The thinking was that the Fed’s rate-hiking trajectory would push up Treasury yields, eroding prices and sending investors to bond-like equities. That theory has pretty much blown up in January. Read MoreGoldman: Recession fear overblown, 11% gain on way Wobbly economic growth coupled with slumping oil prices and contagion fears from a hard landing in China substantially lowered expectations for rate hikes. With…

Over 60 Android games hosted on Google Play had Trojan-like functionality that allowed them to download and execute malicious code hidden inside images. The rogue apps were discovered by researchers from Russian antivirus vendor Doctor Web and were reported to Google last week. The researchers dubbed the new threat Android.Xiny.19.origin. Malicious Android apps were a common occurrence on Google Play until a few years ago when Google implemented more rigorous checks. This included an automated scanner called Bouncer that used emulation and behavior-based detection. Bypassing Bouncer detection is not impossible, but is hard enough to keep most malware creators away.…

Windows 10’s user share jumped in January by its second-largest one-month increase since its launch, data from analytics vendor Net Applications showed today. At the mid-point of its first year, Windows 10 powered approximately 196 million systems, according to Computerworld’s calculations using Net Applications’ numbers, close toMicrosoft’s current claim of 200 million machines, made in early January. The jump in user share—an estimate of the portion of all personal computers worldwide that ran the OS—was an impressive 1.9 percentage points, second only to the 4.8-point gain that Windows 10 recorded in August, the first full month of availability. January’s increase…

Microsoft really wants small businesses to pick up its Office 365 productivity suite, and the company unveiled a new offer Monday aimed at drawing them into its cloud. Businesses with more than 50 employees can now get access to Microsoft’s FastTrack service, which helps companies move over to Office 365. Businesses can get resources from Microsoft’s online FastTrack Center, and work with an engineer on the FastTrack team whose job it is to help businesses move over to their new productivity software. The service was originally only available to companies buying more than 150 seats of Office 365. According to…