3 minutes with Amazon CTO Werner Vogels
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Nope. Hell hasn’t frozen over, nor has winter arrived yet. But Microsoft has emerged as the ‘leading’ sponsor of the OpenBSD Foundation, becoming the first ‘Gold’ contributor for 2015. OpenBSD Journal wrote: “The OpenBSD Foundation is happy to announce that Microsoft has made a significant financial donation to the Foundation. …
The director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management resigned on Friday, a day after her agency announced hackers had stolen information on 21.5 million current, former and prospective government employees and their families. Katherine Archuleta said she had informed President Barack Obama of her plans to step down, and …
How many ways can Microsoft fail with mobile technology? There was Windows CE — a failure. Windows Mobile — a flop. And, more recently, Windows Phone — a fiasco. Do we begin to see a pattern here? Failure, flop, fiasco — Microsoft has earned a big F. Let’s take a …
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission may require the country’s telecom carriers to warn residential and business customers about their plans to abandon old, copper telephone networks for IP-based systems. A proposal from FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler would also require telecom carriers retiring their copper networks to offer customers the option …
A push to allow Internet voting in elections is growing stronger along with advances in the underlying technology, but systems are not yet secure enough to use with relative certainty that the vote counts will be accurate, according to a new report. Still, while “no existing system guarantees voter privacy …
A push to allow Internet voting in elections is growing stronger along with advances in the underlying technology, but systems are not yet secure enough to use with relative certainty that the vote counts will be accurate, according to a new report. Still, while “no existing system guarantees voter privacy …
Microsoft will continue to manufacture smartphones for its Windows 10 Mobile operating system, but the company has thrown in the towel on the devices strategy pursued by its former CEO and will probably give up entirely unless Windows 10 reverses years of missteps in mobile, analysts said. After Microsoft wrote …
Microsoft’s Power BI data visualization and business intelligence service will be generally available in two weeks, marking a major milestone for the new product. The launch will bring a smorgasbord of new features, including new chart types, a refreshed desktop application and support for collaborating in groups on shared sets …
Microsoft’s Power BI data visualization and business intelligence service will be generally available in two weeks, marking a major milestone for the new product. The launch will bring a smorgasbord of new features, including new chart types, a refreshed desktop application and support for collaborating in groups on shared sets …
As government officials continue to plea the case against strong encryption, a group of high-profile international security experts have published a paper arguing that allowing government agents special access to communications would have detrimental effects on personal privacy, enterprise security, and our national economy. “In the long run, what would …
In a previous age, necessity may have been the mother of invention. But today, where time has become our most precious commodity, it is convenience that is now driving our greatest innovations. If time is the new standard of currency and convenience the measure of its worth, the big question …
VMware released patches for serious vulnerabilities in several of its products that could lead to arbitrary code execution, privilege escalation on the host OS and denial of service. VMware Workstation and Horizon View Client for the Windows platform had multiple memory manipulation issues that could allow a guest to execute …
A large majority of the European Parliament took a strong stance against geoblocking of online content in a report calling on the European Commission to reform E.U. copyright laws. The E.U.’s copyright rules, adopted in 2001, are in need of an urgent overhaul. The Parliament’s report, adopted with 445 votes …
The Apple iOS 9 download is now free, but don’t forget that it’s still test software. Yes, Cupertino opened the beta program to non-developers, so you no longer need to fork over $99 to get the latest software on your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. But do heed the dire …
Power to the people: Facebook news feed tool lets users prioritize posts Despite all that it knows about us, Facebook has conceded that it can’t do such a good job of guessing which items we’d like to see in our news feeds. It’s adding a tool that will let users …
IDC and Gartner have published their latest PC market figures, but these don’t reflect the true state of the technology industry because they fail to include smartphone and tablet sales **. This lack means the figures are little more than anachronistic reminders that provide only small insight into the future of …
Google reduced spam reaching inboxes to a fraction of a percent, but in the process sometimes misclassifies bulk-mailed messages like monthly statements and ticket receipts. It’s a big problem for large bulk emailers of legitimate messages. To deal with it, Google created a toolset to help those mailers figure out …
AOL, back on the market Image by REUTERS/Brendan McDermid An unexpected merger between AOL and a storied incumbent? You’d be forgiven for thinking you’d gone back to the turn of the century, but no, that deal was completed last month. Whatever the reasons behind the AOL-Verizon merger — for all …
This IT pilot fish’s co-worker is very protective of his mobile phone — which guarantees that everyone else in the office is looking for an opportunity to make him just a little crazy. And that opportunity comes one day when he leaves the phone unattended on his desk, and someone …
Разработчики социальной сети Facebook недавно начали тестирование собственного видео проигрывателя, который позволяет смотреть видео-контент прямо на сайте, а не импортировать его с Youtube. А следующей в списке нововведений запланирован запуск музыкальных видео в социальной сети, который вскоре адаптируют в собственный аудио сервис. Как сообщили источники, подготовка разработки собственного аудио-видео сервиса находится на финальной стадии, поэтому о …
Uber Technologies gathered the support of over 400 drivers across California and a law professor to back its argument in court that its platform gives its contractors the flexibility and independence they want. The ride-hailing company faces a proposed class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District …
SSD capacity has not expanded at the same pace as hard disk drives over the years, for a simple reason of physics. While hard drive makers found newer ways to cram more data onto disk platters, NAND flash memory capacity has been somewhat capped. SSDs originated with SLC memory, which …
Google has reduced spam reaching inboxes to a fraction of a percent, but in the process sometimes misclassifies bulk-mailed messages like monthly statements and ticket receipts. It’s a big problem for large bulk emailers of legitimate messages. To deal with it, Google has created a toolset to help those mailers …
Worldwide PC shipments in the second quarter of 2015 declined 11.8 percent compared to the same period a year ago, according to a report released by IDC on Thursday. Overall, manufacturers shipped 66.1 million units worldwide, including desktops and laptops running Microsoft’s Windows and other operating systems. That was slightly …
At the AWS Summit in New York on Thursday officials with the cloud vendor announced a new service that allows developers to test mobile applications on a range of devices. The service is named AWS Device Farm and it’s meant to make it easier for developers who are writing mobile …