With reorg, Microsoft bets big on home-grown hardware
Microsoft’s reorganization is the biggest shot yet fired against the company’s core partners, the computer makers who have made the software developer a technology giant, analysts said today. …
Microsoft’s reorganization is the biggest shot yet fired against the company’s core partners, the computer makers who have made the software developer a technology giant, analysts said today. …
Engineers at the University of Michigan are looking to use spacecraft the size of a loaf of bread to study interplanetary space faster and cheaper. …
Группа профессиональных художников собирает деньги на открытие сервиса, через который можно будет заказать картину на основе понравившейся фотографии в Instagram. …
Armed with the Nokia Lumia 1020’s camera superiority in a crowded smartphone market dominated by Android and iOS, it appears that Nokia is helping Windows Phone instead of the other way around. …
Microsoft helped the U.S. National Security Agency circumvent the company’s own encryption in order to conduct surveillance on email accounts through Outlook.com, according to a report in the Guardian. …
В iOS 7 программисты Apple решили «убить» несколько популярных джейлбрейк твиков, предоставив пользователям больше возможностей. Например, Command Center, черный список, и бесконечные вкладки в Safari. Еще одним пострадавшим от «семерки» оказался популярный твик RetinaPad, который улучшал работу приложений для iPhone на планшетах. …
При этом более 40% не удовлетворены скоростью соединения сети. …
Microsoft's sweeping company reorganization may have some insiders feeling jittery about the future, but it's doubtful that the vendor's Dynamics business applications division or its customers need to worry. …
USA Today tech columnist Jefferson Graham marks the fifth anniversary of Apple’s App Store by tracing its history and highlighting some of its successes. He notes that the App Store — which started out with 500 apps and now has over 900,000 — led the mobile boom and ushered in …
По последним слухам, в этом году Amazon собирается выпустить 3 новых планшета, а их релиз состоится накануне праздничного сезона. …
Low-cost Chromebooks are doing very well with retailers, in stores and online, and now make up a significant share of the low end market, said market research firm NPD Group. …
По данным источника The Korea Times, компания Samsung уже нашла замену Apple, которая, как ожидается, в будущем году прекратит закупать комплектующие у корейского производителя. В настоящее время Samsung якобы уже ведет переговоры с Sony и NVIDIA, позиция Amazon пока не определена. …
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has given scientists information about a blue planet 63 light years away that looks a lot like Earth. However, that might be where the similarities end …
A second vulnerability that can be exploited to modify Android apps without breaking their digital signatures has been identified and publicly documented. …
Kurt DelBene, the former head of Microsoft’s Office division, will retire, apparently one of the executive casualties of the company’s reorganization announced today. …
Android-версия популярного кросс-платформенного мессенджера WhatsApp оказалась небезопасной. “Червь” под названием Priyanka научился доставлять неудобства, изменяя на свое имя все контакты и группы. …
HERE, бизнес-подразделение Nokia, объявило о планирующемся глобальном выпуске приложений HERE Drive(+) для смартфонов на базе Windows Phone 8. В результате преимущества HERE Drive(+) станут доступными не только для пользователей смартфонов линейки Nokia Lumia, но и для более широкого круга пользователей в качестве индивидуального навигационного сервиса. …
В преддверии запуска Moto X число слухов и новостей, касающихся грядущего флагманского смартфона Google, всё время растёт. Ресурс Wall Street Journal, ссылаясь на собственные источники, сообщает, что поисковый гигант собирается потратить на продвижение устройства гигантский бюджет в полмиллиарда долларов. …
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Using social-networking sites to reach out to the public ismore important than ever for business, but one pitfall in all this is that employees and their companies can end up battling over who owns the social-site's content or accounts. These battles even end up in the courtroom, and sometimes employees …
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