A new product rendering of the unannounced BlackBerry Venice is lending credence to rumors that the company will turn to Android for its next smartphone. The image, posted on Twitter by Evan “evleaks” Blass, shows a BlackBerry phone with an Android interface, complete with Google apps such as Drive, Maps, …
Малогабаритный iPad mini популярен, но не всегда удобен для повседневного использования, особенно если приходится много читать, в том числе и в формате PDF. Всё преимущество модели заключается в размерах, позволяющих держать планшет при себе постоянно. iPad Air существенно удобнее как для потребления информации, так и для создания — к примеру, …
Following a high-level visit to France, Cisco this week invested in 6WIND, a developer of packet processing software for virtual networks. 6WIND’s software runs on Linux-based x86 servers to deliver a range of networking and security protocols and features, and overcome data plane performance issues on multicore architectures. Some of …
Релиз Payday 2 состоялся в августе 2013 года, и до сих пор разработчики продолжают радовать фанатов игры дополнительными ограблениями, локациями и персонажами. И даже несмотря на конкуренцию в жанре шутеров с тематикой преступлений, команда Overkill Software и Starbreeze Studios не собирается останавливаться на достигнутом. …
Amazon is inching closer to having a complete cloud storage solution with new Cloud Drive apps for iOS and Android. The new apps allow users to view files and folders, preview documents and photos, play videos and music, and share files to other apps. It’s intended as an all-purpose complement to …
Organizational risk continues to climb as data breaches overwhelm today’s information security technologies and practices. Despite billions expended on information security every year, highly motivated cyber gangs, organized crime and nation states are winning the cyber-arms race. Once networks and systems are breached, sensitive data seems to be pilfered at …
Reddit users want CEO Ellen Pao removed Reddit has been on a very rocky road lately, and now some of the site’s users are demanding that CEO Ellen Pao be replaced. The petition to remove Pao follows the CEO’s decision to remove popular Reddit employee Victoria Taylor. Naureen Malik and …
Intel’s Compute Stick now comes in more flavors than just Windows, Windows, and more Windows. A version of the Intel Compute Stick loaded with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (long term support) will go on sale this week, according to Canonical. When the Compute Stick first launched in April, Intel said an Ubuntu version …
Из-за ошибок в работе программного обеспечения произошел сбой в работе системы Bitcoin. В результате сбоя часть недействительных блоков была некоторыми узлами некорректно обработана и принята в качестве действительных. Суммарные потери составили около 50 тысяч долларов США. Информационное сообщение опубликовано на портале bitcoin.org. …
The Italian Hacking Team, which sells software tools with zero-day exploits for secret surveillance purposes to law enforcement agencies, woke up to a living nightmare as anti-surveillance people rejoiced. The Hacking Team’s Twitter named changed to “Hacked Team” as unknown attackers took control of the company’s Twitter account. The bio …
Топ-менеджер Nintendo Сатору Ивата рассказал, что компания может в будущем выпустить платные и бесплатные игры, потому как «различные системы оплаты соответствуют различным типам программного обеспечения». …
В Facebook появилась страница с названием UMi Zero 2. На данный момент, лента паблика пуста, за исключением одного изображения. …
Новость о том, что Apple Music использует DRM-защиту для музыки, взбудоражила Интернет. Контент, загруженный в облако, не может быть воспроизведен на других устройствах без подписки на сервис – в этом задача технического средства защиты авторских прав. Однако проблему откровенно притянули за уши. …
Surveillance firm Hacking Team gets hacked Who watches the watchmen? Italian online surveillance company Hacking Team appears to have been hacked, with attackers releasing what purports to be a trove of internal documents showing how the company helps governments around the world spy on their citizens. CSO has the details. …
The Internet could see a new wave of botnets based on the ZeusVM banking Trojan after the tools needed to build and customize the malware program were published online for free. The source code for the builder and control panel of ZeusVM version 2.0.0.0 was leaked sometime in June, according …
Fresh from its defeat in women’s World Cup soccer, Japan wants to take on the U.S. once again—in giant robot combat. Suidobashi Heavy Industry has agreed to a challenge from Boston-based MegaBots that would involve titanic armored robots developed by each startup. While robot combat contests such as RoboGames are …
Think different I understand US readers may instantly lose interest in something taking place outside of their continent, but Apple Pay will be supported at 250,000 locations across the UK and there are several reasons why the launch matters. Mobile payments Apple has seized a strong position in mobile payments …
Security pros are recommending that companies integrate threat intelligence — the real-time sharing of intelligence information about cyber security threats and malicious applications — with mobile device management platforms in order to improve mobile security. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here (Insider …
When Apple announced it was creating an Internet radio station called Beats 1 to go along with its Apple Music service, I was dismissive. It didn’t make sense. There are already thousands of Internet radio stations broadcasting worldwide that have been around for years. The DJs Apple poached from the …
The second wave of 802.11ac is coming ashore and the new MU-MIMO technology (Multi-User, Multiple Input Multiple Output) is going to make a splash. It’s one of the biggest improvements to Wi-Fi we’ve seen to date, with the potential to greatly increase wireless network throughput and make a huge difference …
Like any marketing/communications professional, Glaston Ford is a master juggler who can keep a lot of balls in the air at once. Editing corporate strategy decks, pulling together email campaigns, coordinating a social presence and posting blogs to the corporate portal — he might do any of those things and …
It’s a few years ago, and this systems programmer pilot fish is working for a large family-run truck rental company — a situation that comes with its own special IT problems. “One of the owners was out drinking with a high school buddy, who happened to own a paint business,” …
When Stores Magazine released its annual Top 100 Retailers list on Wednesday (July 1), the list was pretty much the same as last year. Had it been shaken up, interesting analysis could be had explaining why. But when a list is that static, it’s hard to read much into it. …
After working for two and a half years, putting in thousands of hours and writing more than a million lines of code, the robotics team at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) finished in the top third of competitors in DARPA’s Robotics Challenge. However, maybe even more important, they not only helped …
An Italian developer of surveillance software, Hacking Team, which has previously been sharply criticized by digital activists, has apparently suffered a large data breach. Hacking Team develops surveillance tools that it has maintained are legally sold to governments for law-abiding investigations. But critics contend the company’s software has been used …
Bitcoin experienced a glitch over the weekend that is expected to be resolved as software clients that handle transaction data are upgraded. Some software clients that “mine” bitcoins are creating invalid transaction data, which are referred to as blocks. Blocks are records of transactions, and the first miner to complete …