After months of anticipation, the high-end Meizu MX4 Ubuntu Edition smartphone is going on sale—sort of. As expected, the MX4 is only available in Europe, but even if you meet the geographical requirements, getting your hands on one takes legwork. Meizu has set up an online game that involves scrolling …
Google and its lobbyists have had more meetings with European Commission officials than any other company, according to figures published by Transparency International on Wednesday. With 32 meetings logged between December and June, Google’s lobbying is topped only by that of BusinessEurope, whose 67 member companies span the automotive, aviation, …
A computer Trojan that hides its malicious code inside PNG image files counts healthcare organizations in the U.S. among its primary targets. The Stegoloader Trojan uses digital steganography techniques to sneak past computer and network defenses. It originally appeared in 2012, but has seen a resurgence over the past several …
Windows versus Linux for businesses The question of whether Linux is better than Windows has been around for a long time, and the answer usually seems to vary depending on the needs of the user. But IT Pro has a recent article that compared Linux and Windows for businesses, and …
The container revolution is upon us. Companies from Red Hat to IBM, Amazon Web Services to Microsoft and even VMware are all into containers. And where there is a hot new technology, there are of course hot startups. In the past year interest and buzz about containers has soared. A …
Apple supplier Foxconn Technology Group has been on the receiving end of continued criticism over its factories’ labor conditions for years. But on Thursday, the company’s CEO let loose his outrage over the complaints. “Our workers very much love to work at this company,” Terry Gou said. “If I put …
The Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) this week announced the latest version of its Qi (pronounced “chee”) wireless charging specification, which provides three times the amount of power as the majority of in-market Qi charging products. In fact, the new 15w WPC wireless spec offers the same amount of power as …
Samsung yesterday denied it had blocked a Windows update on its hardware but acknowledged that it was manipulating Microsoft’s Windows Update, a charge leveled Tuesday by a researcher. “It is not true that we are blocking a Windows 8.1 operating system update on our computers,” a Samsung spokesperson said in …
In releasing an open source alpha version of the Famous Framework this week, Famous aims to revamp the division of technical responsibilities and improve on the MVC (model view controller). Builders of the Famous framework learned a lot from the early release of the framework in April 2014 as well …
There is wariness about President Barack Obama’s push for new trade agreements that’s likely to grow with the Senate’s final approval Wednesday, by a 60-38 vote, of fast-track negotiating authority. With that authority, the president can deliver trade agreements, developed in secret, to Congress to be approved or rejected, but …
Windows Server 2003 support ends on July 15, as you may have heard. For some organizations — mostly smaller or newer businesses — this does not have any significance: They are most likely backing up to the cloud, using cloud-based apps and have a cloud-ready NAS on site. To read …
IT consultant pilot fish is at a client site where the business has just finished a move — with the usual aftermath. “It was just one floor up in the building, and the major part was done in one day,” says fish. “But there was still the usual mixture of …
Самая долгая экспериментальная разработка компании Google в сфере приложений завершена. Google презентовал пользователям новую функцию «undo send». Разработка данной функции началась в 2009 году. С помощью кнопки «отменить доставку» пользователи Gmail могут отказаться от доставки отправленного раннее письма. Если вы понимаете, что случайно отправили письмо, его отправку можно отменить в …
San Francisco Apple decided to use Helvetica Neue light as the regular default font in 2013’s iOS 7. This wasn’t a popular choice, developers (the only ones with access to the OS) complained. Frequently critical yet widely cited developer, Marco Arment, called the font choice, “one of Apple’s biggest recurring …
Корейские инвестиционные компании одна за одной корректируют прогнозы на второй квартал мобильного подразделения LG, поскольку продажи нового флагмана G4 оказались ниже, чем ожидалось — сообщает BusinessKorea. …
23 июня примерно в 19:00 в Днепровский районный отдел милиции обратилась 58-летняя херсонка. …
The Internet of Things (IoT) is beginning to have a huge impact on our daily lives, and it will grow by orders of magnitude. However, the multitude of IoT devices with zero, limited or outdated security could produce disastrous results. It will be a formidable task to secure every small IoT …
Все мы любим скачивать и находить что-то новенькое в Play Store. Как правило, за действительно стоящее приложение или игру приходится платить. Пиратство мы не поощряем, однако есть немало способов легально обзавестись той или иной программой. Сегодня мы покажем несколько способов, как это сделать. …
Шахраї продовжують видурювати гроші у довірливих громадян. …
As an IT leader, how often have you heard “move it to the cloud” in response to mounting pressures to reduce operational costs and increase delivery speed? Having grown up in an operational IT role, I’m willing to bet you’ve heard that said hundreds of times by now. Here’s …
Дмитрий Мезенин опубликовал на портале Behance свой концепт первого смартфона Nokia после сделки с Microsoft …
When Curt Pederson joined the University of Portland as CIO in 2013, he inherited an IT team overcome with grief after their former CIO unexpectedly passed away. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here (Insider Story) …
IT management software and services provider Blazent is putting the much-ballyhooed big data analysis to work on behalf of its enterprise customers. Through the use of Spark, Cassandra and other big data technologies, the company has developed a service that can organize all the data an organization maintains about its …
Разработчики мобильного браузера Opera Mini выпустили новую версию приложения. В обновлении под номером 10.2 появился специальный «ночной режим» для работы с Интернетом в вечернее время. …
Researchers at MIT and Harvard are partnering with Google to use its cloud platform to take genomic data and use it to find cures to diseases such as cancer and diabetes. Google today announced the collaboration with the Broad Institute, a Cambridge, Mass.-based biomedical and genomic research center that partners …
It’s great to be able to access your SQL Server remotely, whether during an unexpected emergency or the convenience of working from home. However, you’ve got to take care to set up remote access correctly. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here (Insider …