Finding a cost-effective data center solid-state drive (SSD) is easier than you may think. The technology has progressed far in recent years, lowering barriers to entry with cheaper, more responsive, and more reliable 16-nanometer NAND flash memory. And the timing couldn’t be better, because enterprises everywhere need enhanced hardware solutions …
Китайская компания Oppo сообщила о выпуске смартфона Neo 5(2015) на индийском рынке. Стоимость смартфона 9990 индийских рупий, что в долларах примерно $180. Официальная презентация Neo 5(2015) и Neo 5s прошла на прошлой неделе. Oppo Neo 5(2015) получил 4.5-дюймовый дисплей IPS с разрешением 480 на 854 пикселя с плотностью 219 ppi …
A Belgian privacy lawsuit targeting Facebook highlights the difficulties national regulators will face policing the activities of international Internet companies until new privacy laws are passed. The Belgian Commission for the Protection of Privacy is unhappy with the way Facebook handles the personal information of the nation’s citizens and in …
DistroWatch reviews Chromixium OS 1.0 Chromebooks have been hot sellers on Amazon for a long time now, with many models getting high star ratings and reviews. But what happens when you combine a Chromebook-like interface with the power of Linux? DistroWatch did a full review of a distribution called Chromixium …
Lame jokes about IT support have been around since businesses started using computers, flying in both directions – users are dumb, IT is lazy, “did you actually plug it in,” “did you try turning it off and turning it back on again,” and so on. The results of a study …
Компания Samsung начинает переводить смартфоны Galaxy S6 и Galaxy S6 edge на актуальную версию операционной системы Android. Абоненты оператора T-Mobile уже успели получить апдейт, а все остальные сделают это в самом ближайшем будущем. …
Please ignore the Wall Street Journal today. Apple has no need to “kill off” the Mac in order to increase its focus on future computing – the company responsible for the world of mobile computing we live in today is already focused enough on creating a better alternative. Apple first …
Сегодня Huawei опубликовал тизерное изображение, раскрывающее точную дату анонса смартфона Honor 7. На изображении показан рисунок, некоторые элементы которого выделены в виде цифры “7”, намекающей на смартфон Huawei Honor 7. А ниже есть упоминание и даты презентации – 30 июня 2015 года. Т.е. слухи о сроках анонса Huawei Honor 7 полностью подтвердились, и новинка можно …
Исследователи из университета Нью-Хейвена сообщили, что они могут извлечь пользовательские данные из смарт-часов LG G Watch и Samsung Gear 2 Neo. Если точнее, специалистам удалось восстановить информацию из календаря, контактов и шагомера у LG G Watch, попутно узнав адрес электронной почты пользователя. …
Calling Apache Spark “the most important new open source project in a decade that is being defined by data,” IBM today announced that it will embed the compute engine into its analytics and commerce platforms and offer Spark as a service on IBM Bluemix. As part of its new commitment …
Ну что, наигрались с новой беткой, такой же нестабильной, как и экономическое положение стран третьего мира? Пора возвращаться к устойчивой работе стабильной iOS 8.3, при которой не будет быстро разряжаться батарея и исчезнут глюки с дёргающимся интерфейсом. …
Сервис Moto Maker для кастомизации дизайна смартфонов и “умных” часов Moto 360 был запущен компанией Motorola в 2013 году в США и с тех пор дебютировал в Германии, Франции, Великобритании, Китае и некоторых странах Латинской Америки. …
Carriers around the world are converging on 2017 as the year to turn off their GSM networks, with three operators in Singapore announcing Monday their plans to reuse their GSM spectrum for other services. The end of GSM will free up more bandwidth for faster 3G and 4G network technologies …
We’re not quite in the trough of disillusionment yet when it comes to big data, but certainly there are numerous stumbling blocks. As with almost all new technologies, after the initial period of infatuation, many have found they are still far from realizing their visions. In fact, quite a few …
Одной из главных «фишек» iOS 9 безусловно стала многооконность, все возможности которой доступны только пользователям iPad Air 2. По идее, этой функции будет вполне достаточно для того, чтобы планшет смог заменить ноутбук. А вот и видео, демонстрирующее, как всё выглядит на практике. …
Наши читатели наверняка помнят слухи о грядущем смартфоне BlackBerry Oslo, который, по заявлениям инсайдеров, должен стать модифицированной версией смартфона Passport для Европы и Азии. …
Carriers around the world are converging on 2017 as the year to turn off their GSM networks, with three operators in Singapore announcing Monday their plans to reuse their GSM spectrum for other services. The end of GSM will free up more bandwidth for faster 3G and 4G network technologies—but …
Independent maintenance-support provider Terix must pay Oracle almost $58 million in damages following a stipulated judgment made Wednesday in a U.S. District Court. Oracle sued Terix along with co-defendant Maintech back in 2013, alleging that the companies had “engaged in a deliberate scheme to misappropriate and distribute copyrighted, proprietary Oracle …
Google last week promised to lower the power appetite of Chrome on the Mac to make its browser more competitive with Apple’s Safari. “One of the big complaints about Chrome currently is that it’s a battery hog, especially on Mac where Safari seems to do better,” acknowledged Peter Kasting, a …
As Spark faithful gather this week, IBM puts down its bet The hugely popular Hadoop framework for processing big data sets is getting some serious competition from alternative platform Spark, the Wall Street Journal reports, and thousands of the upstart’s acolytes are expected at the Spark Summit in San Francisco …
Amazon.com has published its first transparency report describing how it has responded to requests from law enforcers for information about its customers. The company fielded 813 subpoenas, 25 search warrants, 13 court orders and fewer than 250 national security requests from U.S. authorities. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act prohibits Amazon …
Amazon Web Services releases its first post-Snowden transparency report, promising it’ll be a bi-annual affair from now on. Finally! Where have you been, AWS? After coming under public pressure from civil-liberties groups — and private pressure from customers — the cloud-services company is finally telling us how many subpoenas, search …
Rent the Runway calls itself “a fashion company with a technology soul,” with proprietary systems driving its growth from its 2009 formation as an online dress rental company through its expansion into brick-and-mortar shops in 2013 to the introduction of the lineup of online features it has today. To read …
A Japanese climate information company that wants to track just about every cloud in the sky in its own data cloud is handing out atmospheric sensors for smartphones that could improve forecasting. Weathernews is distributing the sensors to users of its Weathernews Touch, a crowdsourced weather info app that has …
Asustek Computer may be considering a bid for HTC, but HTC said Monday it wants nothing do with it. On Friday, Asus Chairman Jonney Shih said he wouldn’t dismiss the possibility of buying HTC. Such a move could help both companies: Asus has been trying to move beyond its traditional …
Компания Bethesda Softworks 14 июня показала на выставке E3 игровое видео новой части Doom. Игра разработки id Software увидит свет весной 2016 года. Первый тизер игры был показан на E3 в июне прошлого года. В новой версии легендарного шутера Doom будут доступны сингл- и мультиплеерный режимы. В последнем будет несколько вариантов игры с разными задачами. …