Бюро по регистрации патентов и торговых марок США в четверг опубликовало патентную заявку Apple на OLED экран со встроенными датчиками, которые позволят динамически регулировать яркость различных областей экрана, компенсируя неравномерность внешнего освещения или потерю яркости светодиодов из-за старения. …
После заражения устройства вредоносная программа начинает рассылку SMS на все номера из телефонной книги пользователя, одновременно копируя эти номера. …
Apple is allowing children under 13 to have their own iTunes accounts as part of a new push coming later this year to increase the use of its iPad in education. read more
Continuing its rapid expansion, cloud service provider DigitalOcean has opened a second facility in the greater New York metropolitan area — a data center located in Google's gargantuan Manhattan facility. read more
Google is bringing a "find my phone" feature to Android later this month. read more
Tech stocks had an upbeat week as industry watchers appear to be looking at the positive side of earnings from Internet, consumer electronics and networking companies. read more
A report that Western nations deemed Lenovo PCs to be insecure was quickly kiboshed this week. CIO.com columnist Rob Enderle smells a rat and suspects it's only a matter of time before the source is outed (and unemployed). Meanwhile, Lenovo can relax and tout its security and stability. …
Yahoo today acquired Rockmelt, a company that tried to compete with Google, Microsoft and Mozilla in the cut-throat browser market, but failed. …
Apple should end its existing e-book agreements with five major publishers and sign no new price-setting distribution contracts for five years under remedies for e-book price fixing proposed by the U.S. Department of Justice and 33 state attorneys general. …
Malware writers are ramping up their use of commercial file hosting sites and cloud services to distribute malware programs, security researchers said at this week’s Black Hat conference here. …
There is a new effort in Congress to penalize companies that shift call center work overseas. …
More than five years ago, Cisco began warning wireless carriers and consumers about the coming barrage of video traffic over networks. Now that barrage is here and there’s more to come. …
Microsoft must rename its SkyDrive online storage service after losing a trademark infringement case in a U.K. court, leading analysts and legal experts to wonder how the company could have made such a mistake. …
An advertising industry oversight group has reported Oracle to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission after the vendor allegedly failed to comply with previous rulings. …
A Samsung eight-core chip used in some Galaxy S4 smartphone models is now available for hackers to play with on a developer board from South Korea-based Hardkernel. read more
An advertising industry oversight group has reported Oracle to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission after the vendor allegedly failed to comply with previous rulings. read more
Today in Open Source: What was your first Linux distro? Plus: Is Mark Shuttleworth an asset to desktop Linux? WordPress 3.6 has been released, check out a list of highlights. read more
Microsoft included a number of features and improvements for managing virtual servers in Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview. read more
The Special Committee overseeing Dell's buyout proposal has reached an agreement with company founder Michael Dell and his associates, Silver Lake Partners, on a proposed purchase in which shareholders will get US$13.75 per share and a special dividend of $0.13. read more
Let's face it: The cards were stacked against the Surface tablet with Windows RT from the, well, Start. read more
Within five years the math for cracking encryption algorithms could become so efficient that it may render today's commonly used RSA public key cryptography algorithm obsolete, Black Hat attendees were told. read more
Online employment services offer thousands of virtual or onsite prospects, with varying levels of pre-screening and management. read more
Stay connected and productive with dual-band routers, personal cloud storage, and more. read more
Samsung's new 840 EVO SSD ups the capacity and performance ante with drives from 120GB to 1TB read more
Microsoft labels Windows 8.1 an 'update,' not an 'upgrade,' to avoid deferring revenue. read more
На сегодняшний день все современные смартфоны и планшетные компьютера комплектуются встроенными камерами. Однако не все оснащены вспышкой, а тем более эффективной. Решение этой проблемы предложили украинские разработчики, представившие компактную внешнюю вспышку iblazr. Дизайн iblazr предусматривает использование четырех светодиодов высокой яркости Cree LED, поверх каждого из которых расположен специально разработанный оптический …