Каждый год домашние животные портят около 8 млн электронных устройств, на ремонт или замену которых уходит $3 млрд. И это только в США, где провела свое исследование компания SquareTrade. По словам специалистов, чаще всего от пушистых питомцев страдают смартфоны, на долю которых приходится треть поврежденных устройств. …
Гленн Гринвалд из газеты The Guardian опубликовал очередной секретный документ из тех, которые передал ему Эдвард Сноуден. Документ можно изучить на сайте The Guardian, или в формате pdf. …
Пару лет назад программист-любитель Jake Eisenmann разработал свой собственный 8-битный компьютер. …
Phablets (phones + tablets) need wearable devices to make them powerful and mainstream, as well as acceptable in business. Here’s one company that understands this. …
In the wee hours of Sunday morning, Sprint Nextel will give its iDEN push-to-talk network the final push — over the edge. read more
Yahoo is slimming itself down again by axing 12 of its products, part of an ongoing effort to sharpen its focus on services it thinks people need in their daily lives. read more
Yahoo is slimming itself down again by axing 12 of its products, part of an ongoing effort to sharpen its focus on services it thinks people need in their daily lives. …
Closing out June, tech stocks are up for the year but have not enjoyed the full fruits of a bull market that has boosted the Dow to its best first half since 1999, right before the dot-com crash. read more
Oracle's string of high-profile cloud-computing partnership announcements with Microsoft, Salesforce.com and NetSuite dominated tech news headlines this week. …
Facebook is launching an aggressive strategy for better detecting violent, graphic, sexual and otherwise controversial content across its site and removing ads that appear alongside that content. read more
Facebook is launching an aggressive strategy for better detecting violent, graphic, sexual and otherwise controversial content across its site and removing ads that appear alongside that content. …
It is still early days in the emergence of software defined networking, so there aren't many users around to share their experiences and expectations, but there are a few. Network World's editor in chief tracked down Steve Wallace, executive director of InCNTRE, Indiana University's Indiana Center for Network Translational Research …
No matter how hard it tries, and how much it improves, Windows Phone just can't get respect. If iOS is like Jay-Z–polished and effortlessly cool–then Windows Phone is like Kanye West –overeager and trying too hard. read more
Teradata's enterprise customers have a fresh set of options for integrating Hadoop into their environments. read more
A U.S. House of Representatives committee has approved legislation that would more than double the current skilled immigration H-1B cap with the focus on science and technology workers. read more
Microsoft has released its Windows 8.1 beta as a disk image, making it more convenient to upgrade multiple devices within an organization or enterprise. …
Microsoft has released a SkyDrive Pro mobile application that gives SharePoint Online users access to the cloud storage service from iOS and Windows 8 devices. read more
Japan's Pioneer has launched a car navigation system that uses heads-up displays and virtual reality to guide drivers. read more
T-Mobile said Friday that it has signed an agreement to buy 10MHz of Advanced Wireless Services (AWS) wireless spectrum from U.S. Cellular for US$308 million in cash. read more
A new piece of malware designed to delete files from hard disk drives and render computers unable to boot targets South Korean users, according to researchers from security firm Symantec. read more
BlackBerry shipped 6.8 million smartphones and recorded a US$84 million loss during the three months to June 1, as it struggles to turn around its fortunes. read more
Соучредитель Apple Стив Возняк в своем недавнем интервью выразил свое мнение относительно скандальной истории с бывшим сотрудником Управления национальной безопасности США Эдвардом Сноуденом, который обнародовал материалы, связанные с печально известной программой PRISM. …
Sometimes the lowest price isn’t always the best option read more
Несколько дней назад в Ведомство по патентам и товарным знакам США была подана заявка (все авторы — сотрудники подразделения Microsoft Research)”INTERACTING WITH A MOBILE DEVICE WITHIN A VEHICLE USING GESTURES “, смысл которой заключается в получении патента на систему жестов, с помощью которых возможно управлять мобильным устройством, находясь в автомобиле. …
В Мариуполе за одну ночь с почти полсотни автомобилей были сняты номерные знаки. На месте каждой кражи была записка с требованием заплатить 200 гривен за возвращение, — сообщает kriminal.tv. …
Компания Dell представила моноблок XPS One 2720, имеющий разрешение экрана 2560×1440 точек и точную цветопередачу, в России на выставке Distree, сообщает Digit.ru. …