When Microsoft set out to build Windows 10, the company had a challenge to face: the operating system needed to appeal to the wide swath of people already using Windows. “We joke on our team that we’re ordering pizza for one-and-a-half billion people,” Mohammed Samji, a principal group program manager …
The press likes to focus on shiny new things and the shiny thing of the moment is Windows 10. It’s not only new, it’s free (if you already have Windows 7 or 8) and it has a bunch of new features. Who could resist? Hopefully, you. Jumping on the Windows …
RFID card access systems are used by most companies to let people into their buildings. But over the last few years, researchers have shown how these systems can be easily bypassed. Francis Brown, a partner at the computer security firm Bishop Fox, has been on the forefront of much of …
Desperate times call for desperate measures. For Twitter, that could mean a new approach to the way it displays tweets. Tweets typically appear in reverse chronological order, but that seems to be up for grabs as the company looks for ways to make its service more intuitive and attract more …
In the race to develop a drone that delivers packages, don’t count out Workhorse, a truck maker based in Loveland, Ohio. Workhorse isn’t as high profile as Amazon or Google, but on Tuesday it demonstrated an eight-rotor delivery drone designed to work with its electric trucks and utilize some of …
The 3D XPoint memory technology that Intel and Micron announced Tuesday is new to its core and took years to develop, but that work may pay dividends in both living rooms and data centers. 3D XPoint is 1,000 times faster than the NAND flash used in today’s consumer electronics and …
Twitter reported a higher than expected increase in revenue on Tuesday, suggesting progress in the company’s efforts to grow its ad sales. Total revenue for the second quarter ending June 30 was US$502 million, Twitter reported, up 61 percent from the same period last year, and beating estimates of $481 …
The Italian parliament wants to have its say in the creation of an international legal framework promoting freedom, equality and access to cyberspace for all, and on Tuesday it presented a Declaration of Internet Rights that it will bring to the Internet Governance Forum in Brazil in November. “This is …
Microsoft is quietly testing a new launcher app that replaces Android users’ home screens. Called Arrow, the utility is a product of the company’s Garage program that lets employees work on interesting side projects and release them to the world. Right now, the app is in private beta, and only …
Upgrading to a new client operating system is a massive headache for the CIOs of most organizations. That’s because it’s disruptive, it impacts hardware purchasing decisions, it drains IT budgets and it can take up hours of IT staff time. 6. Application and hardware incompatibilities won’t be a big issue …
Even enterprise IT professionals are taken with Microsoft’s free upgrade offer to Windows 10, according to a recently-released poll. More than a third of 500-plus IT decision makers — 37% — surveyed by Spiceworks said that they are “much more likely” to upgrade PCs to Windows 10 because of the …
It’s obviously the start of smartphone season. Tech-fashionable vendor OnePlus announced its new OnePlus 2 high-end low-cost smartphone on Tuesday, while Samsung has sent out invitations to an upcoming press event that will take place in a couple of weeks. Today, though, it was Motorola’s turn. This morning, at a …
Amazon has unveiled a bold vision for integrating drones into the skies above our cities, proposing drone superhighways that would crisscross the sky and enable thousands of unmanned vehicles to fly at high speeds under completely automated control. The proposal, delivered at a key industry conference in Silicon Valley on …
Amazon has unveiled a bold vision for integrating drones into the skies above our cities, proposing drone superhighways that would crisscross the sky and enable thousands of unmanned vehicles to fly at high speeds under completely automated control. The proposal, delivered at a key industry conference in Silicon Valley on …
China’s Huawei started work this past Saturday on a 4,000-kilometer fiber-optic cable project that will deliver high-speed Internet access to residents of Guinea, and could serve other West African countries when it’s completed in 2017. The cable will offer 77 exchange points and make Guinea the first West African country …
Amazon is opening a specialized storefront on its website that will sell products from startups in an effort to help the fledging companies build their businesses. Called Launchpad, the site lists approximately 200 items with an emphasis on tech gadgets, like a US$649 drone or a $150 floating Bluetooth speaker. …
A week after it was revealed that a Chrysler Jeep could be hacked and remotely controlled, two U.S. senators have called for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to investigate potential widespread risk for consumers. In a letter to NHTSA Administrator Mark Rosekind, U.S. Sens. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) and Richard …
Sales of mobile management software will grow at a slower pace over the next few years but will still top $2.9 billion in 2019, according to IDC’s latest forecast. The projected annual sales growth by multiple enterprise mobility management software (EMM) vendors globally will slide from last year’s 27% growth …
President Obama should oppose legislation intended to let businesses share cyberthreat information with each other and with government agencies because the bill would allow the sharing of too much personal information, a coalition of digital rights groups and security experts said. The coalition of 39 digital rights and privacy groups …
U.S. President Barack Obama won’t pardon National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, despite strong public support for it, the White House said Tuesday. A petition on WhiteHouse.gov calling for Obama to pardon Snowden has nearly 168,000 signatures, but that’s not enough to sway the president, said Lisa Monaco, Obama’s advisor …
Almost three quarters of OpenDaylight users plan to use the open source SDN technology for Network Functions Virtualization, while over half are looking at it for cloud orchestration. Those are two of the findings of the first survey conducted by the OpenDaylight Project on its own users, the results of …
Uh, hey, amigos? Did someone just order a ton of new unlocked Android phones? Apparently, someone did — because four new low-cost Android devices have shown up over the past 24 hours. And that’s adding onto yet another one launched just last week. It practically takes a full-time job to …
Google will now let enterprise customers of one of its Cloud Platform services lock up their data with their own encryption keys, in case they’re concerned about the company snooping on their corporate information. Google on Tuesday started offering users of its Compute Engine service the option, in beta, to …
Mobile apps now figure almost as prominently in enterprises as they do in the consumer world, and on Tuesday Salesforce rolled out some new DIY tools that aim to help business users “roll their own” apps as needs arise. Building on the Lightning platform Salesforce launched late last year, the …
Following the trend of privacy-respecting products and projects coming out of Europe (e.g., ownCloud, Kolab, and Plasma Mobile), German firm struktur AG has started a Kickstarter project called Spreedbox, which aims to offer a secure audio video conferencing service. According to the project page, “The Spreedbox is a unique device …
President Barack Obama won’t pardon National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, despite strong public support for it, the White House said Tuesday. A petition on WhiteHouse.gov calling for Obama to pardon Snowden has nearly 168,000 signatures, but that’s not enough to sway the president, said Lisa Monaco, Obama’s advisor on …