Microsoft today released Office 2016 for Mac to subscribers of its Office 365 rent-not-own plans, and said that standalone licenses would go on sale in September. The Redmond, Wash. company also extended support for the precursor, Office for Mac 2011, by almost two years, giving customers more time to migrate …
An incompatibility with a software update and subsequent attempt to fix it were the root cause of glitch that forced a nearly four hour long suspension of trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday. The exchange traced the problems back to an update applied to a single system …
Windows Phone is dead. Microsoft Lumia is dead. If you didn’t already know this, you’ve not been paying attention. But it’s easy to be blind to the inevitable when you’re emotionally attached to something. Microsoft has written off the entire $7.2 billion it paid for Nokia, with interest: The writeoff …
Сетевые ретейлеры начали продажи компактного компьютера Voyo V2, построенного на аппаратной платформе Intel Bay Trail. …
After entering beta roughly three months ago, Oracle’s VM VirtualBox 5.0 virtualization software is now generally available, offering faster performance and better security. Oracle VM VirtualBox runs on standard x86 desktop and laptop computers and allows users to set up multiplatform virtual-machine environments for software development and testing. Using it, …
An incompatibility with a software update and subsequent attempt to fix it were the root cause of glitch that forced a nearly four-hour-long suspension of trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday. The exchange traced the problems back to an update applied to a single system on Tuesday …
Бюро патентов и торговых марок США во вторник выдало Apple патент на новую док-станцию со специальным разъёмом и поворотным механизмом. Суть конструкции, обеспечивающей подвижность коннектора, находящегося внутри стыковочной станции, наглядно передана на иллюстрациях к документу. …
European Union citizens got their first look at draft net neutrality laws on Wednesday, more than a week after the European Parliament and the Council of the EU reached an agreement. Digital rights activists are guardedly optimistic about the guarantees it offers for access to an open Internet. Only the …
T-Mobile CEO John Legere on Thursday shared preliminary results showing that 2.1 million customers were added in the second quarter of 2015. As a result, he predicted T-Mobile will displace Sprint as the nation’s third-largest carrier, bumping Sprint to fourth. Sprint said in May that it has 57.1 million customers, …
Окружной суд Восточного округа Техаса пересмотрел судебное решение, вынесенное в феврале этого года. По этому иску Apple была обязана выплатить более полумиллиарда долларов в пользу Smartflash за нарушение трех патентов. На этой неделе суд пересмотрел решение, признав беспочвенными обвинения калифорнийского гиганта в незаконном использовании технологии в iTunes. …
Facebook is adjusting its news feed and adding a tool that will let users pick the content that appears at the top of their news feeds, among other new features. The “see-first” tool for news feeds comes as a minor victory for users who want to wrest control from algorithms …
Jeb Bush thinks you need to work more. Taken in context, he was actually referring to part-time employees and those who are unemployed, not telling us we need to keep checking our phones at 11 p.m. and wake up at 6 a.m. to the sounds of incoming emails. He wasn’t …
Корпорация Intel, по информации ресурса DigiTimes, вынуждена отложить вывод на рынок процессоров с кодовым именем Kaby Lake. …
A flaw in the widely used OpenSSL library could allow man-in-the-middle attackers to impersonate HTTPS servers and snoop on encrypted traffic. Most browsers are not affected, but other applications and embedded devices could be. The OpenSSL 1.0.1p and 1.0.2d versions released Thursday fix an issue that could be used to …
Are Google’s ads sexist? Google has raked in billions and billions of dollars from its advertising empire. But now the company is under fire for what some think might be sexist ad targeting. Is Google’s ad algorithm sexist? Chloe Albanesius reports for PCMag: A new report finds that Google is …
If you pay much attention to tech news and reviews, you probably know the initials MKBHD. And if you don’t — well, you probably should. MKBHD is the screen name of Marques Brownlee, a Web video producer who’s attracted a staggering 2.6 million subscribers on his YouTube channel. Brownlee’s best …
Помимо новых приложений Apple News и Apple Music домашние экраны в iOS 9 beta 3 претерпели еще одно важное изменение. Если в предыдущих версиях мобильная «операционка» для iPad позволяла сохранять в папках до 9 приложений на одной странице, то в новой сборке Apple решила увеличить лимит до 16 приложений. …
iTunes обладает огромным количеством функций, большая часть из которых неизвестна рядовому пользователю. В связи с запуском нового стримингового сервиса Apple Music мы предложим несколько советов по использованию популярного медиаплеера. …
Оператор мобильной связи life:) объявляет о результатах независимого тестирования скорости мобильного интернета 3G+ в Одессе. По данным приложения Speedtest от компании Ookla, мирового лидера в области тестирования широкополосного интернета, 3G+ сеть от life:) в Одессе продемонстрировала наивысшую скорость мобильного интернета. В июле 2015 года оператор life:) отмечен в системе Global …
После выпуска бета-версии watchOS 2.0 разработчики и простые пользователи узнали, что после установки у них отсутствует возможность отката до стабильной watchOS 1.0.1. Почти месяц спустя хакерам и разработчикам не удалось найти подходящий метод, который бы позволил откатиться до watchOS 1.0.1, а теперь Apple официально признала это. …
В третьей бете iOS 9, вышедшей сегодня, добавили возможность установить высокое качество аудио в Apple Music при работе в сотовых сетях. Ранее качество автоматически снижалось, если пользователь переключался с Wi-Fi-интернета на мобильный. Максимальный битрейт в домашней сети составлял 256 Кбит/с. …
U.S. labor markets are being roiled by a number of unstoppable forces, including globalization, the sudden rise and fall of major corporations and even industries, and demographic changes. In addition, a wave of new Internet platforms such as Airbnb, Lyft, and TaskRabbit have lowered the cost of matching buyers and …
You may have read the famous “monkey and the banana” story on the Internet in various blogs and articles. If not, it’s definitely worth a read. It’s about five monkeys, a ladder and a banana, and the key takeaway is about the human behavior of not challenging assumptions. Interestingly, while …
Enterprises are still heavily dependent on Windows Server 2003 even though there were plenty of warnings that support is coming to an end on July 14 — and this opens them up to security, compliance and operational risks. According to a June report covering 200 enterprise data centers totaling more …
NYSE halts trading as IT systems go down… but it’s no cyberattack Trading on the New York Stock Exchange halted for over three hours Wednesday due to unspecified computer problems. The exchange quickly ruled out a cyberattack, which means there are likely to be red faces in the NYSE IT …
Adobe Systems was forced to rush the release of a Flash Player update after an exploit for a previously unknown vulnerability was leaked on the Internet and quickly adopted by cybercriminals. Users are advised to upgrade to the newly released Flash Player 18.0.0.203 for Windows and Mac, Flash Player 11.2.202.481 …