Microsoft Launches New Safety App for Windows Phone Users

Technology giant Microsoft launched a new application 'Guardian' with safety features, exclusively for Windows Phone users. Guardian enables users to switch on a 'track me' feature in the app that lets friends and family track them in real-time using Microsoft Windows Azure cloud services and Bing Map, the company said in a release. Guardian users can call for help through an 'SOS' alert button and also connect to security agencies, police and hospitals easily via this app in times of crisis, it added. It took more than six months for a team of Microsoft employees in India to develop the safety app in the Microsoft Garage, the company said. Microsoft Garage is a global employee innovation initiative that gives Microsoft employees an outlet to explore ideas. 

 

AMD Unveils Graphics Processor for Apple’s Mac Pro

Chipmaker AMD announced a dual AMD FirePro professional graphics solutions (GPUs) to boost the performance levels of the Apple's Mac Pro workstation. AMD’s FirePro D300, D500 and D700 professional GPUs offer exceptional compute power and reliability for creativity and productivity in a wide range of applications, the firm said in a release. These new AMD FirePro GPUs are built on the strength of AMD’s award-winning Graphics Core Next GPU design — an architecture conceived from the ground up to intelligently managing rendering and compute workloads. The dual AMD FirePro GPU options for Mac Pro feature up to 6GB of VRAM and up to 2048 stream processors per GPU, matched with top configurations capable of up to 7 teraflops of computing power.