Owners of Samsung PCs will begin receiving automatic software updates from Microsoft again soon, after Samsung said it will end its practice of blocking automatic Windows Updates on its computers. “We will be issuing a patch through the Samsung Software Update notification process to revert back to the recommended automatic …
When the Supreme Court issued its historic ruling on Friday legalizing same-sex marriage across the U.S., many of the biggest technology companies embraced the decision with characteristic flair through social media, on their sites, and with tools that others could use to show their support as well. Companies like Google, …
When the Supreme Court issued its historic ruling on Friday legalizing same-sex marriage across the U.S., many of the biggest technology companies embraced the decision with characteristic flair through social media, on their sites, and with tools that others could use to show their support as well. Companies like Google, …
At its recent “Further with Ford” event, Ford Motor Co. announced that it would collaborate with 3D printing startup Carbon3D to produce high-quality automotive-grade parts. This would ordinarily be another (yawn) example of a company incorporating 3D technology into the manufacturing process — except for the fact that Carbon3D, which …
A former executive vice president at Qualcomm was sentenced Friday to 18 months in prison and fined US$500,000 on charges related to a three-year-long insider trading scheme. Jing Wang, 52, of Del Mar, California, also had served as president of global business operations at Qualcomm, where he worked for more …
Owners of iOS devices that aren’t holding a charge are in luck, thanks to a change Apple has made to its support policy. Apple has changed the terms of its AppleCare+ extended warranty to allow replacements for iPhones, iPads, iPods and Apple Watches with batteries that hold less than 80 …
Zambia has joined the growing list of countries in Africa that are adopting electronic procurement systems in an effort to curb rampant corruption in bidding for public contracts, especially in the telecom and construction sectors, Kenya was the first country in Africa to implement an automated, end-to-end procurement and payment …
The OnePlus Two release date looks like being in August or September. It’s now confirmed that the launch won’t be for another month. Don’t expect any sort of reasonable availability for a month or two after, at the very least. Of course, we know we’ll get a little craziness from …
For business systems, the project go-live date really does matter — and project managers seem willing to sacrifice budget limits more often than they’re willing to blow past a scheduled deadline. There are sound business reasons for doing this as bonuses, commissions and stock valuations depend upon the revenues and …
For software design and development (and many, many other tasks), productivity is always a high priority — and in pursuit of this is a seemingly never-ending supply of new methods, from Kaizen “continuous improvement” to newer ones like Agile and Lean. The productivity payoff To read this article in full …
There is arguably little that is more fundamental to the e-commerce experience — and triply so with mobile shopping — than price comparisons. For products that lend themselves to precise comparisons (say, for example, a specific configuration of the same brand and the same model of a washing machine), there …
Predictions from net neutrality opponents that regulations would choke off broadband investment haven’t come true, with several service providers announcing expansions in the four months since the U.S. Federal Communications Commission passed new rules, the agency’s chairman says. FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler defended the commission’s net neutrality rules Friday, saying …
Users of Google’s Cloud Platform services now have a convenient place to stash all the source code powering their cloud-based applications The Google Cloud Source Repositories, quietly released in beta this month, provides up to 500MB of space to store source code for projects running on the Google App Engine …
Salesforce has released a free version of its Analytics Cloud, and you don’t need a Salesforce account. You can use your own data from CSV or Excel files or import data from Google Sheets. The catch is that the free version won’t let you save your data or the interactive …
Despite a big push over the past few years to use encryption to combat security breaches, lack of expertise among developers and overly complex libraries have led to widespread implementation failures in business applications. The scale of the problem is significant. Cryptographic issues are the second most common type of …
Predictions from net neutrality opponents that regulations would choke off broadband investment haven’t come true, with several service providers announcing expansions in the four months since the U.S. Federal Communications Commission passed new rules, the agency’s chairman says. FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler defended the commission’s net neutrality rules Friday, saying …
A Dutch court won’t take Facebook’s word it has deleted data that could identify the person behind a now-deleted pseudonymous account from which a sex tape was posted, and wants the company to allow an independent expert to scour its systems for the missing information. The ruling appears to mean …
Despite a big push over the past few years to use encryption to combat security breaches, lack of expertise among developers and overly complex libraries have led to widespread implementation failures in business applications. The scale of the problem is significant. Cryptographic issues are the second most common type of …
IBM’s Power Systems division – which sells servers and systems based on the Power system architecture, as opposed to the Intel-based x86 architecture used in most personal computers – had been in free-fall for some time, posting year-on-year revenue declines of up to 37% per quarter over the past couple …
There’s an invasion of mini PCs going on right now, and they don’t get much mini-er than Chromecast-style dongles that slap into any HDMI port. The latest entrant to the computer stick game is the Archos PC Stick, a $99 Windows 10 PC that measures 4.45-inches long—a little shorter than …
Up to a year ago, most phishing emails were all about tricking users into clicking on malicious links that led to malware downloads. Starting last fall, however, the use of attachments increased eight-fold, and that increase has persisted to this day, according to a new report from Proofpoint. Attachments were …
Windows 10 kicked my butt this week. If you’re looking for an exhaustive hands on of Windows 10 Mobile build 10149, this isn’t it. I spent most of Thursday afternoon trying to install it on two phones—managing to put one into an unresponsive state, and breaking Wi-Fi on the other. Instead, …
Google is building a $600 million data center on the grounds of a soon-to-close coal plant in northeastern Alabama. The project may create an iconic image of the shifts in the economy. Near the banks of the Tennessee River will be sprawling a data center facility on property adjacent to …
Back in March, the issue was raised whether disaggregation — decoupling network software from hardware for lower cost, choice and flexibility — could play in the enterprise as well as the service provider realm. The answer, judging by recent events, is that it can. But currently to a lesser extent …
Apple Apple passed HP as the largest tech company (on a trailing 12-month basis) in 2012 and there has been no looking back since. The company now dwarfs all other tech companies and tops the F500 list in two categories: Apple is the most profitable F500 company and it has …
Malware that secretly clicks on ads in order to defraud advertisers might seem generally harmless to infected machines, but can serve as a gateway to more serious infections, according to a report released today by Damballa. Clickfraud malware has been showing up a lot this year, said Stephen Newman, CTO …