Продажа Android-смартфона или планшета, передача его родственнику или просто желание начать жизнь с чистого листа — данные процедуры обычно сопровождаются удалением всей информации на гаджете. В систему уже встроен механизм, позволяющий проделать все это предельно быстро — возврат к заводским настройкам. …
Американская ассоциация производителей видеоигр (ESA) подсчитала количество посетителей, побывавших в этом году на специализированной выставке Е3 в Лос-Анджелесе. Мероприятие собрало 52,2 тысячи гостей — примерно на три тысячи больше, чем в 2014 году, когда был установлен предыдущий рекорд. Об этом сообщается в официальном пресс-релизе, опубликованном на сайте выставки. …
Самой большой проблемой для массового распространения Bitcoin по-прежнему остается угроза захвата 51% мощностей сети. Так считает руководитель защиты прав потребителей и финансовых инноваций в Европейской банковской ассоциации (EBA). …
Компания Samsung Electronics сообщила о планах выпустить больше смартфонов на платформе Tizen. С целью привлечения разработчиков к созданию софта для этой операционной системы южнокорейский гигант собирается провести ряд конференций. …
Как и любой новый продукт, Apple Watch вызвали у публики самые различные реакции. Кто-то восторгается (судя по прогнозам продаж таких немало), а кто-то относится скептически. А что думают об устройстве братья наши меньшие? Таким вопросом на неполном серьезе задались ребята с сайта Mashable. В результате на свет появился забавный и …
Слух о том, что над новым смартфоном линейки Nexus работает Huawei, и так не вызывал сомнений, однако теперь это подтвержденный факт. …
In another sign that Japan loves cute robots, SoftBank’s Pepper is proving to be a hit with its consumer launch. The mobile carrier said 1,000 units of the household robot sold out in one minute on Saturday, its first day of consumer sales. The humanoid machine is designed to be …
Marketers now face tougher restrictions on their use of “robocalls” and other automated telemarketing techniques thanks to a new set of declaratory rulings issued by the FCC on Thursday. Although the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 requires prior consent for autodialed, prerecorded or artificial voice calls to wireless and …
Hackers who breached a database containing highly personal information on government employees with security clearances had access to the system for about a year before being discovered, The Washington Post reported on Friday. The breach at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management dates back to June or July last year …
Google will begin removing explicit images posted without the subject’s consent in a crackdown on “revenge porn” announced Friday. Amit Singhal, the senior vice president of Google Search, said in a blog post that it’s an attempt to fight back against ex-partners and hackers who try to harass and humiliate …
Twitter has long positioned its site as a way to see what’s happening in the world. Now, it wants to tap into our desires as consumers. The company is testing a new way to highlight products and places on its site, bringing relevant tweets to the fore while also providing …
EBay has sold its 28.4 percent ownership stake in Craigslist as part of an agreement between the companies announced Friday . The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but eBay said the companies have also agreed to end the outstanding litigation between them. The online auction house paid …
I just found out my company’s employees have been finding ways to get around my Web filtering. And that came as a surprise, because I use a best-in-class product that employs a database to categorize and block website URLs, which I thought I could rely on. But as I found …
A new study says that 30% of all physical servers in data centers are comatose, or are using energy but delivering no useful information. What’s remarkable is that that percentage hasn’t changed since 2008, when a separate study showed the same thing. The latest research was reported in a paper …
Editor’s note: Traction Watch is a new column focused obsessively on growth, and is a companion to the DEMO Traction conference series, which brings together high-growth startups with high-potential customers. The next DEMO Traction will take place in Boston on September 16, 2015. Growth companies can apply to present, or those similarly obsessed can register here to …
Editor’s note: Traction Watch is a new column focused obsessively on growth, and is a companion to the DEMO Traction conference series, which brings together high-growth startups with high-potential customers. The next DEMO Traction will take place in Boston on September 16, 2015. Growth companies can apply to present, or those similarly obsessed can register here to …
Google App Engine users may have some migration work ahead of them, because Google is contemplating not upgrading some popular programming languages currently running on the service, notably Java and Python. Instead, the company may support the language upgrades only in the second iteration of Google App Engine, which the …
Ever wondered how Facebook is able to assemble personalized news feeds, in real time, for any of its billion-plus users who may log in at any given moment? Now we know, because the company has just released the source code behind the magic. Drawing from their considerable expertise running large …
When Target announced this week that it was selling its pharmacy business to CVS, it was good news for CVS, which will add more than 1,660 pharmacies across 47 states — plus 80 clinics — to its network of some 7,800 drugstores and almost 1,000 clinics. But lost amid all …
The European Commission is almost ready to file final antitrust charges against Google: It has shared a redacted copy of charges with complainants and given them four weeks to provide additional evidence and comments. The Commission charged Google in April with abusing its dominant market position as a search provider …
Apple today quietly stopped selling the original iPad Mini, the 7.9-in. tablet that debuted in 2012. The smaller sibling to the 9.7-in. iPad no longer appears on Apple’s online store, a fact first reported by 9to5Mac.com earlier Friday. The iPad Mini had been superseded by a pair of follow-ups, including …
Organizations should know how to budget and pay for IT products and services — they’ve been doing so for more than 50 years. This is not rocket science. Unfortunately, many organizations continue to make the same mistakes year after year. To read this article in full or to leave a …
Компания Lenovo сообщила о том, что в ближайшем будущем состоятся выпуск компьютера-брелока IdeaCentre Stick 300, работающего под управлением операционной системы Windows. Судя по описанию, новинка является аналогом мини-ПК Intel Compute Stick. Новинка обладает 32 Гигабайтами на встроенном накопителе eMMC, связь обеспечивают модули беспроводной связи Wi-Fi и Bluetooth, а вывод на телевизор или монитор осуществляется за …
Voat.co servers shut down due to politically incorrect content Voat.co has been in the news a lot lately thanks to a huge exodus of redditors that swamped the site in response to censorship on Reddit. Now Voat.co itself has been hit with an unexpected server shutdown because of content on …
Steve Lohr recently wrote an interesting article titled “If Algorithms Know All, How Much Should Humans Help?” for The New York Times that examines our ability to collaborate with and trust the increasingly intelligent systems that are entering both the workplace and our homes. He noted that without some level …
The Apple Watch is expected to snag nearly two-thirds of the smartwatch market for all of 2015, according to a new forecast from market research firm IDC. IDC had said two weeks ago that Apple will ship to retailers about 21 million Apple Watches in 2015. That’s in the mid-range …