For years, Amazon.com has been the e-commerce God of Uptime Stability. Other e-tailers — including some much larger ones — have taken serious hits on Black Friday and Cyber Monday or have been taken offline by DDoS attacks, but Amazon has never suffered any meaningful outages. But did that impressive record …
Google’s stock jumped more than 7 percent in the after-market hours on Thursday, after the company reported strong earnings results for the second quarter. Total income for the period ended June 30 was $3.93 billion, up 17 percent from $3.35 billion in the second quarter of 2014, Google announced Thursday. …
Want to harness the power of business intelligence but don’t have a six-figure budget to build a data warehouse? Why not try a cloud service instead? Israel-based CoolaData is promising to ease the headaches, and start-up costs, of running a data warehouse with a cloud-based analysis service, one based on …
Facebook, owner of virtual reality gaming company Oculus, has inked a deal to buy gesture-control and computer-vision company Pebbles Interfaces. Facebook announced that it will add the Israel-based company, its technology and its team to its Oculus team. Pebbles, a five-year-old company, stated on its website that joining Oculus should …
In a revival tent-like speech Wednesday, Microsoft’s chief operations officer Kevin Turner urged the company’s partners to forget the past — an allusion to the failure of its smartphone business to gain meaningful share — but defended the decision to keep making handsets. “It feels so good, ladies and gentlemen, …
IBM has developed a computer system that can learn about weather from thousands of data points and predict days — even weeks — in advance how much power from solar and wind farms will be available for the U.S. power grid. The new system is as much as 30% more …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a Pennsylvania attorney with insider trading in the stock of Harleysville Group, Inc. in advance of the 2011 announcement of a $760 million merger of Harleysville and Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company. According to the SEC’s complaint, Herbert K. Sudfeld illegally traded on the …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a purported investment adviser in San Diego with stealing money from clients for personal use and conducting a Ponzi scheme to pay customers making redemption requests. In a complaint filed in federal court in San Diego, the SEC alleges that Paul Lee Moore …
Technology only goes mainstream when the costs finally get low enough. You might think Apple rules in the smartphone and smartwatch space, but the truth is that there are way more Android devices sold all over the world because they are cheaper. Sometimes, they even work. (Many people tend to …
Online shoppers on Wednesday ordered more than 34 million items on Amazon Prime Day, making it a bigger sales day for the retailer than the biggest Black Friday in history. Prime customers ordered 398 items per second during Wednesday’s sale, which was held to mark the 20th birthday of Amazon.com. …
Cybercriminals are casting increasingly wider nets in their search for new point-of-sale systems to infect. This appears to be the case with a new memory scraping malware program called GamaPoS that’s distributed by a botnet known as Andromeda. GamaPoS was recently discovered by security researchers from antivirus vendor Trend Micro, …
With every new type of technology, we wade through an awkward phase where everyone tries to figure out what types of usage actually make sense for the form. You know the drill: Usually around the second or third generation of something, we start to see all sorts of silly concepts …
If Microsoft follows through on its announced plans for updating and upgrading Windows 10 after the new OS launches in two weeks, it will issue the first update no later than the end of November or early December, then follow with three more in 2016, repeating with a trio each …
EBay has reached a deal to sell its enterprise unit, a division focused on building and running online shopping sites for brick-and-mortar retailers, for less than half of what it paid four years ago. The $925 million deal, announced Thursday, will give control of eBay Enterprise to a group of …
There’s an old saying in the security community: Attacks always get better. The latest case where that holds true is for the aging RC4 cipher that’s still widely used to encrypt communications on the Internet. Researchers Mathy Vanhoef and Frank Piessens from the University of Leuven in Belgium devised a …
Looksharp, a marketplace for internships and entry-level jobs, recently published its annual State of College Hiring Report for 2015. The report was based on a survey of 50,000 U.S. college students and recent graduates this past April about their experiences with recruiting for internships and full time jobs. Respondents shared …
MSC Industrial Supply — one of the largest direct marketers and distributors of metalworking and maintenance, repair and operations supplies — distributes 500,000-plus industrial products to more than 2,000 suppliers for over 300,000 customers. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here (Insider Story) …
Yes, you can get the Windows 10 “RTM” build, right now, for download, even before the release date. Build 10240 is the final, full version. It’s available for update, but you can also get hold of the ISOs (even though Microsoft doesn’t want you to). Of course, there will be …
Switchers “iPhone 6 demand, as measured by consumer review analysis, jumped when customers waiting to purchase and apparently open to buying a Samsung, instead chose an Apple iPhone,” said John Feland, CEO and founder, Argus Insights discussing the release of the latest consumer survey. Apple has fought since its one …
SAP’s SQL Anywhere has long served as an embeddable database option for mobile devices, but the rise of the Internet of Things has opened up a new world of possibilities, and SAP has lost no time in polishing the technology for that purpose. On Wednesday, in fact, the enterprise software …
For some of us, LinkedIn is just a place to plop our résumés to confirm we have an online presence. But to reap the benefits of the largest professional social network — whether you’re job hunting or not — you need to know how to make your profile shine. To …
Flashback a couple decades to the days when this pilot fish is a student working on an IT team at a local government office. “We developed an office management system for them and coded it up,” says fish. “However I had an evil sense of humor, and managed to get …
Qualcomm is under investigation by the European Union’s antitrust authority, which suspects the company of abusing its dominant position in the market for 3G and 4G chipsets used in smartphones and tablets. The European Commission has initiated proceedings against Qualcomm in two investigations, it said Thursday. The first concerns whether …
Renewable energy, combined with prolific battery storage, will soon result in vastly cheaper electricity — and solar power that’s less expensive than what fossil fuel-based power plants can produce. Additionally, solar power with lithium-ion and flow-battery storage systems will make the combination of renewable energy so inexpensive that it will …
Корпорация Microsoft сегодня представила универсальную беспроводную клавиатуру, которая спроектирована для использования с мобильными устройствами такими как смартфоны и планшеты. Кроме того, что новая клавиатура-раскладушка поддерживает работу в системе Windows, она может работать на устройствах с iOS и Android, делая клавиатуру универсальной. Microsoft спроектировала клавиатуру чтобы она была мобильна, поэтому на корпусе присутствуют …
Китайский производитель мобильных устройств Oppo добавил к своему ассортименту новый аппарат – Oppo Mirror 5, работающий под управлением Oppo Color OS 2.1, которая построена на базе Android 5.1 Lollipop. Аппарат, построенный на базе 1.2-Гигагерцового процессора с четырьмя вычислительными ядрами Qualcomm Snapdragon 410, оборудован 5-дюймовым дисплеем с разрешением 960 × 540 пикселей. За графику отвечает …