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. …
Kit FUI is a new site devoted to those cool (and fictional) user interfaces you see in movies and on TV read more
LG Display said Thursday it has developed the world's thinnest full HD LCD display for smartphones, measuring just 2.2 millimeters thick. read more
A project underway in Kenya is linking Bitcoin with M-Pesa, a popular mobile payments system, in an experiment designed to spur innovative payments in Africa. read more
Yahoo wants the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to order the public release of a secret order in a 2008 surveillance dispute, as it will demonstrate that the Internet company "objected strenuously" to government directives. read more
The developer of the most widely used test for ranking the performance of supercomputers has said his metric is out of date and proposed a new test that will be introduced starting in November. read more
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 …
Kicks BlackBerry when the Canadian company's down, says one analyst. read more
Seattle Children's Hospital isn't your typical BYOD story. Its mobile device strategy isn't bound by onerous user policies and monitoring software. Rather, the hospital's CIO reports an interesting twist: BYOD is resuscitating ill-fated virtual desktop infrastructure technology. read more
Amazon Web Services Wednesday dropped the price of its dedicated instances, which are virtual machines allocated to individual customers and that do not run on shared hardware. read more
Microsoft is planning an overhaul of our Office documents, weaving live data into the once-static fabric of our Word files and Excel spreadsheets. It's a bold experiment that could kill the very definition of an Office "document"–but it could also spell the rebirth of Microsoft's productivity suite in the age …
When it comes to backup and recovery, IT is struggling to meet business demand within most enterprises–and the problem stands to get only worse. EMC believes the answer is a more open and agile protection storage architecture. read more
Google is making good on its promise to bring back free voice calls in Gmail, after temporarily removing them a couple months ago. read more
The rumored reorganization of Microsoft, which could be unveiled as soon as tomorrow, will go unnoticed by customers in the near-term, analysts said. read more
Security warnings displayed by Web browsers are far more effective at deterring risky Internet behavior than was previously believed, according to a new study. read more
SoftBank completed its US$21.6 billion acquisition of Sprint Nextel on Wednesday, capping a months-long effort that was complicated by two bidding wars and some national-security objections but is expected to produce a stronger rival to the dominant U.S. mobile operators. read more
Quipper, разработанный учёными из Оксфордского университета (University of Oxford), – это начало создания полноценных программ и интерфейсов для квантового компьютера, который всё ещё является гипотетическим устройством. …
Видеоподборка-наблюдение за жизнью утенка, которая стала домашним любимцем, собрала довольно большую интернет-аудиторию. За несколько дней ее просмотрели свыше 600 тысяч любителей животных. …
В сеть попали “живые” фотографии первого планшетного компьютера Nokia. Девайс сфотографирован с двух сторон, известны его основные технические характеристики. …
Компания Micromax выводит на индийский рынок новый Android-смартфон Micromax Canvas 4. …