Финская компания Rovio объявила о том, что 2 мая текущего года состоится релиз аркадного экшена Angry Birds Friends для устройств под управлением Android и iOS, который получит тесную интеграцию с социальной сетью Facebook. …
Многие родители читают своим детям сказки на ночь. Американец Хуан Мердок (Juan Murdoch), отец шестерых малышей, решил эту задачу в духе цифрового века: он использует специальное приложение. …
Американские инженеры создали устройство, которое превращает любой смартфон под управлением операционной системы Android в систему обнаружения снайперов. …
В ближайшем будущем Apple и Google могут выпустить несколько устройств, которые позволят открыть совершенно новый рынок «нательных компьютеров». По мнению соучредителя Twitter Джека Дорси, часы iWatch, которые Apple может представить в этом году, станут значительно популярнее Google Glass. …
A research project on show at the Computer Human Interaction conference in Paris uses a small electrical current to give the sensation of force feedback while gaming. read more
Aging networking protocols still employed by nearly every Internet-connected device are being abused by hackers to conduct distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. read more
Yahoo has scrapped plans to invest in French online video site Dailymotion, after the French government opposed the Internet giant acquiring a majority stake in the company, according to reports. read more
Facebook may treasure the data it has on its one billion-plus users for its advertising returns, but the analysis the site performs on that data is expected to continue to pose numerous challenges over the coming year, an engineer said. read more
Mozilla sent a cease-and-desist letter on Tuesday to a European company that created a piece of spyware masquerading itself as the Firefox browser. read more
Consumers will have to share small, inexpensive cells in their homes with nearby mobile users to affordably meet the growing demand for mobile data in the next decade, a Qualcomm executive said Tuesday. read more
In an effort to return cash to investors, Apple is reaching out to the debt market and offering US$17 billion in bonds, the biggest non-bank bond offering in history, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. read more
Maxim Mitrokhin, Director-Operations, Kaspersky Lab, APAC, talks about the company's aspirations for the Indian market. …
Business Discovery is a whole new way of exploring and making use of data that puts business users in control. Unlike traditional BI, where just a few people are involved in insight creation, Business Discovery enables everyone to create insight. QlikTech is pioneering the usage of user-driven BI. With QlikView …
Open source database provider 10gen is expanding into storage services, offering a hosted backup service for its flagship MongoDB data store. read more
Wes Wasson, SVP of Strategy at Citrix, talks about the virtualization major's latest advancements towards building a solid enterprise mobility portfolio, its plans for the Indian market, and its steps to ensure being relevant in a tough market. …
Apple today again captured top honors in Consumer Reports' tech support ratings survey, besting other computer makers by a wide margin. read more
Vikram Dham, CEO and MD, Emkor, spoke to ChannelWorld about the vendor's channel landscape for India. He also explained why he believes Emkor will be a "disruptive cloud company" that will completely transform the way business is done and pose a threat to traditional on-premise service providers. …
Twenty years ago today, CERN released World Wide Web technology — all royalty free. read more
Samsung pulled the wraps off the 7-inch Galaxy Tab 3 on Monday, but aside from a few slight tweaks, the slate doesn't appear to bring much more to the table than its predecessor. read more
The Obama administration this week teamed with Cisco, Microsoft, HP and others to roll out what it called an "IT Training and Certification Partnership" designed to get thousands of service members into the information technology world. read more
HP this week refreshed its switch line and fortified its SDN portfolio with three new systems and a router, along with management and provisioning software extensions. read more
If the U.S. Federal Communications Commission limits the participation of the largest mobile carriers in upcoming spectrum auctions, it could cost the U.S. treasury billions of dollars, according to a study released Tuesday. read more
In an effort to help enterprises get a handle on the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend, Novell has released enterprise file sharing software that it claims is as easy to use as commercial cloud storage services such as Dropbox, Microsoft Skydrive, and Google Drive. read more
Budweiser is trying to make it easier to make friends — Facebook friends — when you’re drinking beer. …
Oracle has won a US$100 million ERP project that will replace legacy systems at 34 colleges in Washington state, in a deal that highlights the continued relevance of its PeopleSoft product as it tries to convince customers to adopt its next-generation Fusion Applications. …
According to the latest Consumer Reports reader survey, Apple tops the list of brand-name computer manufacturers for the quality of its tech support, far surpassing other large companies. The report points to “ease of contacting staff, clarity of advice, technical knowledge, patience, and time for follow-up” in the phone and …