China’s largest chip foundry is entering into a joint venture with Qualcomm to develop chips, at a time when the country is looking for technology to emerge as a semiconductor producing powerhouse. The foundry, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), has partnered with Qualcomm, Huawei Technologies and Belgian firm Imec to …
In the international race to create a hoverboard, Toyota Motor thinks it’s got one that Marty McFly would love. The hero of the 1989 science-fiction film “Back to the Future II” famously rode a floating skateboard to escape his enemies, inspiring real-world engineers to try to build one. On Wednesday, …
A tool to watch regionally restricted video content will no longer be offered in New Zealand, ending a lawsuit that could have clarified the legality of such services in the country. GlobalMode allowed people to watch video content that is restricted by IP address, or geoblocked. The service uses a …
The creator of a tool that was used to steal data from a half-million computers will go to prison for close to five years, the U.S. Department of Justice said Tuesday. Alex Yucel, 25, of Sweden, pleaded guilty in February in a New York federal court to one count of …
Docker and CoreOS declare virtual peace in our time. The newly-minted Open Container Project (OCP) is governed by the Linux Foundation, and brings together the main containerization and composability factions, with a who’s who of vendors and users. OCP aims to let users package once and run anywhere, with seamless …
The alliance between Juniper Networks and Ruckus Wireless announced on Tuesday underscores the importance of Wi-Fi in enterprises, where employees increasingly work and access cloud applications on mobile devices. Juniper and Ruckus say they’re joining forces to build integrated wired and wireless infrastructures while keeping their technologies open and standards-based. …
Google has created a health-tracking wristband that could give health care professionals real-time information on the well-being of their patients. The wearable can measure a patient’s pulse, activity level, skin temperature and heartbeat rhythm. It’s also able to monitor light levels and light exposure. This data could be used to …
Organizations that want to explore the use of Docker containers can now tap into commercial support, as well as new software, to help them manage the new technology. Docker, the company behind the popular container technology of the same name, now offers enterprise-level subscription support for $150 a month. Companies …
Community solar farms, which parse out clean energy to a group of shareholders, have emerged as the next largest solar market in the U.S. Over the next two years, community solar in the U.S. is poised to see its market size increase seven-fold, and by 2020 it will be expanding …
Amazon, eBay and Etsy have joined big retailers in removing Confederate flags and related items from their sites, in moves responding to increased vitriol over the symbol after a shooting last week at an African-American church in South Carolina. EBay, in an announcement on Tuesday, said it would prohibit the …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a microcap promoter with illegally selling more than 83 million penny stock shares that he secretly obtained through at least 10 different offshore front companies. According to the SEC’s complaint filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Gregg …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today obtained an emergency court order to freeze the assets of a trader in China who profited by more than $1 million after trading in a U.S. brokerage account in advance of last week’s public announcement that China-based Qihoo 360 Technology Co. Ltd. had received …
The U.S. Department of State is back in the business of issuing visas after a computer system failure abruptly stopped work at consulates worldwide and inconvenienced hundreds of thousands of travelers. The failure of an unidentified piece of hardware involved in biometric processing brought the entire Consular Consolidated Database system …
Major U.S. banks have been rolling out new, secure smart chip debit and credit cards for months, but the real end-user impact hasn’t yet been felt. Some experts say typical consumers will get confused and may even balk when first attempting to use these new “PIN and chip” smart cards, …
Apple today released the second developer preview of OS X 10.11, aka El Capitan, matching the cadence of last year’s Yosemite to the day. Previews of the Mac’s next operating system are currently restricted to registered developers, although Apple has pledged to offer a beta to the general public next …
SAN DIEGO — The corporate accounting department is the last place that I expected to see cloud computing. Thoughts of “fiduciary responsibility,” “Sarbanes-Oxley,” “HIPAA” and “PCI compliance” float through my mind as Insight Software talked up its new cloud-based offerings at its HubbleUp 2015 user conference, held here in mid …
Google is launching a free music service in a move that pits it against Apple, Pandora and Spotify. The company today unveiled a free, ad-supported version of its service, Google Play Music. U.S.-based customers will be able to stream music based on genres, their mood, decades and even activities like …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged two firms that illegally brokered more than $79 million of investments by foreigners seeking U.S. residency. The charges are the first against brokers handling investments in the government’s EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program and follow earlier SEC actions against fraudulent EB-5 offerings. Ireeco LLC, …
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is concerned that data stolen from companies in cyberattacks is being used to conduct what effectively is insider trading, Reuters reported on Tuesday. The securities regulator asked at least eight publicly traded companies for information on data breaches, the report said quoting “people familiar …
Alongside the news that the Microsoft teams that make devices like Surface and Surface Hub will now be in the same division that makes the operating system on which they run, Microsoft’s latest reorg moves Dynamics to the Cloud & Enterprise group (Microsoft Dynamics is the company’s line of ERP …
Google yesterday added an “undo send” option to Gmail from a browser, letting users retract messages they wish they’d never sent. The feature must be enabled by the user from Gmail’s Settings screen, where the grace period can be set up to the maximum of 30 seconds. Undo send was …
The U.S. Department of Justice’s conviction of Silk Road mastermind Ross Ulbricht may have been compromised by two corrupt investigators. U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent Carl Force will plead guilty to extorting more than $450,000 from the Silk Road online underground marketplace during his investigation of the site. Force, who …
In spite of a recent report to the contrary, solid-state drives (SSDs) will not surpass hard disk drives (HDDs) in either price or capacity any time soon, according to industry analysts. In fact, hard drives will remain the dominant mass storage device in laptops and desktops for years to come. For …
Phishing scammers have infiltrated the enterprise and they’re finding easy prey, but it’s not in the C-suite as previously thought. Attackers are exploiting the multitasking, often overloaded middle management ranks, according to research by security and compliance firm Proofpoint. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please …
Science-fiction movies often show robots freely running across the screen, either wreaking havoc or saving the world. Many roboticists competing in the finals of the DARPA Robotics Challenge earlier this month said they are backing away from autonomy in order to make their robots work faster and more efficiently. For …
Китайский центр сертификации телекоммуникационного оборудования опубликовал данные о новом устройстве корпорации Samsung, где говорится о том, что смартфон Galaxy A8 в ближайшем будущем будет представлен официально. Galaxy A8 оборудован 5.7-дюймовым AMOLED-дисплей с разрешением 1920 × 1080 пикселей, процессором с восемью вычислительными ядрами Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 с тактовой частотой 1.5 ГГц и графическим чипом Adreno 405; объем оперативной памяти составляет 2 Гигабайта, …