Евросоюз рекомендует отказаться от американских облачных хостингов
Европейцам лучше не хранить файлы на облачных хостингах американских компаний, предупреждают чиновники. Причина — безопасность данных. …
Европейцам лучше не хранить файлы на облачных хостингах американских компаний, предупреждают чиновники. Причина — безопасность данных. …
Независимый разработчик Франсуа Бофор обнаружил в исходном коде браузера Chromium последней сборки для Windows “Центр уведомлений” (Notofication Center). Чтобы его активировать, нужно набрать в адресной строке chrome://flags и включить Rich Notifications. …
Агентство DARPA, входящее в состав Министерства обороны США, начало новый проект, в ходе которого постарается создать усовершенствованные электронные устройства для использования в ходе военных действий. Нет, специалисты не надеются сделать их более прочными или продлить их время службы – DARPA разрабатывает электронику, которая в случае опасности самоуничтожится по приказу старшего …
Специалисты компании Trend Micro – известного борца с киберугрозами – предупреждают от опасности для пользователей, которые отправляются в Интернет на поиски бесплатной активации Windows 8. Охотники за удачей рискуют напороться на сайты сетевых преступников, которые маскируются под заслуживающие доверия ресурсы (хотя и не перестающие от этого быть противозаконными). …
iOS 6.1's Monday release may capture most of day's attention, but Apple's favorite hobby got a little love as well with the release of Apple TV Software Update 5.2. The set-top box gains a variety of new features related to iTunes in the Cloud, Bluetooth keyboard support, AirPlay sending, and …
Watson, IBM's supercomputer that came to fame besting a Jeopardy champion, is going to college, to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, to hone its skills. read more
YouTube could be preparing to get into the subscription video business this spring, if one report proves accurate. read more
See-through screens won’t happen for phones and tablets, but get ready for your windows to run Window, says Mike Elgan …
Microsoft this week launched the first two of its new pay-as-you-go subscription plans for Office. Is this the way we’ll get software from now on? Or is it a gamble that could easily go awry? We’ve got the answers. …
Twitter's servers have been breached by "extremely sophisticated" hackers who may have made off with user names and passwords for about 250,000 users, the company said Friday. read more
All those pet cat profiles add up: Facebook has reported that roughly 76 million of the 1.06 billion user accounts on its social network are bogus in some way or other. read more
Steven Aquino, who works with special needs children and is himself visually impaired, describes in The Magazine how accessibility technologies like VoiceOver and Guided Access built into iOS “let those with disabilities use their devices with as much wonder and enjoyment as the fully abled.” Calling iOS “nothing short of …
There's another asteroid passing near Earth later this month. Don't lose sleep over it. read more
Over the last couple of years a huge buzz has been building around the consumerization of IT, workers using their own PCs, smartphones, tablets and phablets at work, a movement that also goes by the name Bring Your Own Device (BYOD). …
Despite some caution about the fortunes of BlackBerry, Facebook and Apple, solid financial results from tech vendors coupled with positive reports about the economy are boosting confidence in IT, with share prices of computer, consumer electronics and Internet companies rising this week. read more
Google has created a €60 million (US$81 million) fund designed to settle disputes with French publishers over lost revenues, providing an alternative to a proposed "link tax" that would have charged the company for posting French news content in its search results. read more
Google has created a €60 million (US$81 million) fund designed to settle disputes with French publishers over lost revenues, providing an alternative to a proposed "link tax" that would have charged the company for posting French news content in its search results. …
Unused intranets. Siloed departmental portals. Excessive email use. …
When the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers meet up in New Orleans, social networks are expected to light up with users talking about great passes, touchdowns and, of course, those Super Bowl commercials. …
Hewlett-Packard plans to use its recently announced SDN controller to distribute its TippingPoint intrusion prevention system across networks, overcoming the scale limitations of dedicated appliances. read more
Visitors to what used to be Buy.com will see a few changes on the front page this week — including a pronunciation guide for its new name. read more
Apple topped Samsung as the leading cellphone vendor in the U.S. in the last three months of the year to become the number-one U.S. vendor by volume for the first time, according to data published on Friday by Strategy Analysis. read more
Adding more performance management muscle to its line of analysis software and services, IBM is acquiring the software assets of Star Analytics. read more
LinkedIn's redesigned Alumni tool helps you find contacts from college and gives you insights into the companies they work for, the fields they work in and where they live. Here's how you can use the tool to help find an MBA program or land that dream job. read more
Security researchers from Croatia-based security firm DefenseCode claim to have found a critical remote code execution vulnerability in the UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) implementation developed by Broadcom and used by many routers with Broadcom chipsets. read more
A court has rejected Oracle's appeal of a judge's ruling in the lawsuit Hewlett-Packard brought over Oracle's decision to stop porting its software to HP's Itanium server platform. read more