After years of thorny negotiations, top EU and U.S. officials say they are close to agreement on two privacy accords that would regulate the transfer of personal data of European citizens to the U.S. At stake is the ability of U.S. and European companies and governments to share data about …
Chipsets that power equipment capable of smoothly moving 4K video streams inside homes over wireless and wired networks were on display at the Computex trade show. As more devices become connected in homes, home networks have to keep up, and that’s where the new products shown in Taipei this week …
Android M уже будоражит умы пользователей Android-смартфонов и им не терпится испытать преимущества новой версии ПО от Google. …
Hewlett-Packard is developing new capabilities for its OneView systems management software that it says will allow for automated provisioning of applications across pools of servers and storage. The premise is that businesses want to deploy applications more quickly to take advantage of opportunities in areas like mobile and big data …
Skype today updated the Android, iOS, OS X and Windows versions of its Skype chat client to quash a bug that crashed the apps when a few characters were received. The bug, which surfaced Tuesday, crashed Skype clients when they received an instant message composed of http://, the opening characters …
Intel has already done an impressive job packing a Windows PC into a pocket-sized HDMI stick, but it sounds like the next Compute Stick is the one to wait for. Liliputing got its hands on a leaked Intel Compute Stick product roadmap , and it shows a new product based …
A number of high-profile source-code repositories hosted on GitHub could have been modified using weak SSH authentication keys, a security researcher has warned. The potentially vulnerable repositories include those of music streaming service Spotify, the Russian Internet company Yandex, the U.K. government and the Django Web application framework. Earlier this …
The average price that computer manufacturers pay for a 128GB solid-state drive (SSD) dropped to $50 in the second quarter, while the average price of a 256GB SSD plunged to almost $90, according to research from DRAMeXchange. Those prices are significant drops when compared to pricing in the first quarter …
С каждым годом и с каждым релизом новой версии Android компания Google проделывала немалую работу, чтобы эта мобильная платформа стала такой, какой мы её видим сегодня. Но корпорация не собирается останавливаться на достигнутом, и, возможно, именно для улучшения возможностей собственной операционной системы и приложений, разработанных для неё, компания приобрела израильский …
Betting that demand for hybrid clouds will grow strongly, IBM has acquired Blue Box, which specializes in offering OpenStack open source cloud hosting services. IBM will use Blue Box’s technology and infrastructure to help its customers adopt hybrid cloud computing, so that their workloads can be easily moved between a …
The average price that computer manufacturers pay for a 128GB solid-state drive (SSD) dropped to $50 in the second quarter, while the average price of a 256GB SSD plunged to almost $90, according to research from DRAMeXchange. Those prices are significant drops when compared to pricing in the first quarter …
HP has entered into an arrangement with Arista Networks to market Arista’s data center switches along with HP converged IT infrastructure products. In accounts where Arista is the preferred networking supplier, HP will offer the switches along with its Converged Architecture portfolio, which includes HP servers and storage, including HP …
Журналисты ресурса Irish Examiner побывали в ирландском офисе Apple, расположенном в городе Корк. В кампусе трудятся около 4000 сотрудников компании. Отсюда производитель iPhone и iPad курирует свою деятельность во всем регионе ЕБВА (Европа, Ближний Восток и Африка). …
For all of the awesome features of the new Google Photos — and believe you me, there are plenty of ’em — Google’s shiny new image service has some glaring omissions. Some of them are things that were present in the old Google+ Photos app and have mysteriously disappeared as …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today warned investors to thoroughly check the claimed credentials of people soliciting their investments to ensure they are not falsifying, exaggerating, or hiding facts about their backgrounds. The agency has brought several recent enforcement cases along these lines, including two actions announced today. An investor …
Switching on WWDC looms next week and we’re hitting the time of the season when Apple begins to refine what it intends discussing during its Monday keynote by letting slip a few smaller news items, including (it seems) Apple TV in its new incarnation as the hub of your digital …
На сегодняшний день NVIDIA SHIELD Tablet можно без преувеличений назвать лучшим игровым планшетом. …
These days, the best way to get coverage of a new device is to lure tech journalists to an event and try to convey to them how much better your upcoming device is than the competition. If you’re Apple, Google, Microsoft or, say, Samsung — that’s easy. If you’re a …
That plane circling overhead might be one of the FBI’s surveillance aircraft fitted with tech equipment capable of tricking the cellphones below it into connecting to it – and not a legitimate cellphone tower – and then indiscriminately sucking up info of subscribers not suspected of any crime. Then again …
Индийский исследователь безопасности Саумил Шах (Saumil Shah) опубликовал отчет о разработанном им методе атаки, основанном на популярном среди пользователей обмене ссылок на изображения. Специалист смог скрыть исполняемый вредоносный код в пикселях произвольной картинки, оставляя таким образом свой эксплоит на самом видном месте. …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced insider trading charges against four individuals stealing confidential information from investment banks and their public company clients in order to trade in advance of secondary stock offerings. The scheme allegedly involved at least 15 stocks and generated more than $4.4 million in illegal …
Cisco this week announced intentions to acquire Piston Cloud Computing, its second OpenStack cloud computing buyout in less than a year. Terms were not disclosed. Piston Cloud was founded by Josh McKenty, the lead architect of NASA’s cloud platform, which spun off into the open-source OpenStack cloud operating system. Piston …
Исследователи безопасности из Trend Micro обнаружили серьезную уязвимость во фреймворке Apache Cordova, которая ставит под угрозу взлома, по крайней мере, одно из двадцати приложений для Android. …
Ранее в этом году Microsoft объявила о намерении сотрудничать с Xiaomi для создания версии Windows 10 Mobile, которую можно установить на смартфон Mi 4. Как сообщает WMPoweruser, первые владельцы этой модели недавно получили доступ к тестовой версии платформы. …
After announcing in December that it was dropping Microsoft’s platform for Blackberry’s QNX OS on its infotainment systems, Ford today said the first of the new systems will launch in 2016 models. Ford said its new Sync 3 communications and entertainment system will first roll out in the 2016 Escape …
With version 40 of the Firefox Developer Edition browser, Mozilla is adding performance tools to give developers a better understanding of what’s happening in apps from a performance standpoint. The new upgrades profile the performance of websites, apps, or games. “All performance tools can now be found grouped together under …