Новость об отставке гендиректора Twitter вызвала рост акций на 10 %
Одним из центральных событий этой недели, пожалуй, станет сообщение об отставке главы сервиса микроблогов Twitter Дика Костоло (Dick Costolo). …
Одним из центральных событий этой недели, пожалуй, станет сообщение об отставке главы сервиса микроблогов Twitter Дика Костоло (Dick Costolo). …
Microsoft took what appeared to be a shot at Oracle’s wallet this month when it switched on search-and-destroy in its security software for older versions of the Ask browser toolbar, which has long been bundled with Java even in the face of users’ complaints. But Oracle has sidestepped Microsoft’s new …
Oculus VR revealed the final version of its Rift virtual reality headset on Thursday, but the partnership between the Facebook-owned company and Microsoft may have raised some eyebrows. Under terms of the deal, an Xbox One controller will come with the Rift, people will be able to stream Xbox games …
TSMC в июне запустит производство новых однокристальных платформ Apple A9, которые станут основой смартфонов iPhone и планшетов iPad следующего поколения. Об этом сообщает в четверг ChinaTimes. …
Google may be working on adding native support for Chromecast to their Linux-based operating system Chrome OS. The company has added an option for ‘casting’ to the system settings area (hat tip to Brandon Giesing who spotted it and posted a screenshot on his Google+ page). The casting option has …
Dick Costolo is out as CEO of Twitter not so much for what he did wrong, but because he didn’t do nearly enough right. “He hasn’t been able to come up with a cohesive and successful business strategy that sends Twitter results to the stratosphere,” said Dan Olds, an analyst …
The U.S. Department of Labor plans to investigate whether H-1B workers can be used to replace U.S. IT workers, according to U.S. Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill) and Jeff Sessions (R-Ala). Both lawmakers have been leading a call for a probe of the controversial program. Their comments Thursday about the Labor …
Компания Cyanogen заключила договор о сотрудничестве с разработчиками сервиса Playphone, который предоставляет доступ ко множеству бесплатных и условно-бесплатных игр. …
Despite robots that passed by, or even ran over, the objects they were searching for and others that never got off the starting platform, scientists said this week’s NASA robotics event is pushing the technology forward. NASA’s 2015 Sample Return Robot Challenge is intended to encourage researchers to develop robotics …
Выход мобильной платежной системы Apple Pay на британский рынок запланирован на июль текущего года. Однако миллионы клиентов крупнейшего в Соединенном Королевстве банка Barclays не смогут воспользоваться нашумевшим сервисом: банк не собирается заключать договора с американский компанией. …
Members of the Windows Insider Program’s Slow ring got access to the most recent publicly-available build of Microsoft’s upcoming operating system Friday morning. Build 10130 has been available to early adopters in the program’s Fast ring since May 29, but Microsoft held off on sending it out to the more …
В эпоху Интернета вещей, когда есть реальная возможность соединить всю домашнюю электронику в единую сеть и сделать смартфон пультом управления, мы вновь возвращаемся к идее удобного, а главное удалённого управления. …
Late last year, a Texas-based startup showed up on Kickstarter with a smart device that promised to not only cut residential air conditioning bills by nearly a third—saving homeowners enough money to pay for the unit in a single season—but would also make A/C units last longer. That promise, combined …
Apple didn’t openly declare war on ads at this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference, but quietly included a new feature in iOS 9 that will dramatically cut down on mobile ads you see. The company included a tool for developers in the latest version of iOS that supports ad-blocking extensions in …
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission’s net neutrality rules went into effect Friday, after an appeals court denied multiple requests to delay them while the agency faces 10 lawsuits challenging the regulations. The rules prohibit broadband providers from selectively blocking or slowing Internet traffic and from charging website owners and providers …
Apple singlehandedly turned the digital music marketplace on its head when it launched the iTunes Store in 2003, and now it’s going after the current hottest trend: Streaming media. Apple introduced this new service, Apple Music, during its annual Worldwide Developer’s Conference, bringing out the company’s big guns (record exec …
Nokia never joined the smartwatch craze before it got swallowed up by Microsoft last year, but that doesn’t mean the company had zero plans to do so. Images of a Nokia smartwatch codenamed “Moonraker” recently emerged on a Tumblr blog run by Microsoft design employee Pei-Chi Hsieh. While the blog …
Amazon Web Services has launched new, more powerful general-purpose and data-warehouse virtual servers as it works to stay ahead of the competition by offering users a wider array of cloud-service options. Amazon has had a busy week, expanding its portfolio on Tuesday and Thursday with new virtual servers, or “instances,” …
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission’s net neutrality rules went into effect Friday, after an appeals court denied multiple requests to delay them while the agency faces 10 lawsuits challenging the regulations. The rules prohibit broadband providers from selectively blocking or slowing Internet traffic and from charging website owners and providers …
Отслеживать статистику посещения сайтов или социальных сетей можно не только с помощью специальных сервисов, но и благодаря электронным счётчикам – подобное решение часто практикуется в компаниях для мотивации сотрудников …
For car enthusiasts, this week’s debut of the BMW 7 Series uber-premium sedan was a big event. The look, feel and drive of the car is the usual work of art that the German auto-maker routinely delivers, as are the many little touches that scream out luxury ride: touch-sensitive climate …
Сооснователь и главный исполнительный директор Google Ларри Пейдж назван самым популярным руководителем крупной компании в США, сообщает Slon.ru. К такому выводу пришли составители рейтинга, подготовленного компанией Glassdoor. …
Специалист компании FishNet Security Дэвид Оделл (David Odell) опубликовал отчет об уязвимости в ПО Checkout Environment for Consumer-Service для систем кассового самообслуживания от Toshiba. Брешь затрагивает ключи шифрования в версиях 6.6 и 6.7 разработанного Toshiba ПО. Японская компания призвала пользователей обновить ПО устройств, установив сборку 4014 версии 6.6 и сборку …
BlackBerry may run the Android operating system on a slider smartphone coming this fall, according to unnamed sources in a Reuters report. In response to the report, four analysts offered mixed reactions. None was optimistic that an Android hardware strategy will work for the beleaguered BlackBerry, however. BlackBerry commands just …
В ходе выставки Computex 2015, проходившей на прошлой неделе в Тайбэе, корпорация Intel представила новые процессоры Broadwell для десктопов и ноутбуков, а также чипы Xeon для серверов. Как теперь сообщается, вместе с пополнением продуктового ассортимента Intel решила снять с производства ряд нынешних изделий. …
Beleaguered smartphone manufacturer Blackberry could go Android with its next device, abandoning development of its own platform in the interest of getting a more robust ecosystem of apps into the hands of its few remaining users, according to a report from Reuters. Citing anonymous sources, the news agency said that …