A U.S. Senate committee has voted to approve a bill aimed at curbing abusive lawsuits by so-called patent trolls. The bipartisan Protecting American Talent and Entrepreneurship (PATENT) Act, introduced in late April, now heads to the full Senate for consideration after the Senate Judiciary Committee vote Thursday. The bill targets …
A strand of human DNA is 2.5 nanometers in diameter, and there are 25,400,000 nanometers in one inch. Now consider this, Micron this week announced it’s producing NAND flash based on transistors only 16-nanometers in size, and each microscopic cell is capable of storing three bits of data. The new …
Sprint committed on Thursday to building and managing a free, intelligent Wi-Fi network along a 2.2-mile streetcar line under construction in Kansas City, Mo. The project will be part of one of the largest smart city projects in North America, according to earlier statements by city officials and Cisco, which …
The U.S. National Security Agency is reportedly intercepting Internet communications from U.S. residents without getting court-ordered warrants, in an effort to hunt down malicious hackers. The previously undisclosed NSA program monitors Internet traffic for data about cyberattacks originating outside the U.S., according to a New York Times article published Thursday …
Google Photos, an amped up cloud-based photo storage service, organizer and editor, was one of the big unveils at the Mountain View, Calif. company’s I/O developer conference last week. Reviewers raved about it. Bloggers bragged it up. Analysts applauded it. “Google Photos looks amazing,” wrote independent analyst Ben Thompson, on …
The U.S. National Security Agency is reportedly intercepting Internet communications from U.S. residents without getting court-ordered warrants, in an effort to hunt down malicious hackers. The previously undisclosed NSA program monitors Internet traffic for data about cyberattacks originating outside the U.S., according to a New York Times article published Thursday …
Dropbox wants to gain a stronger foothold in the enterprise, and on Thursday it rolled out several new Dropbox for Business features that sweeten the deal for corporate users. New tiered admin roles are designed to help delegate day-to-day responsibilities, which could make life easier for IT administrators charged with …
Recognizing the growing tension between IT departments and enterprise users eager for more self-serve analytics tools, MicroStrategy has added heightened security and governance capabilities to the latest version of its namesake BI platform. MicroStrategy 10 Secure Enterprise, which arrives a full six years after version 9 of the platform, promises …
The Securities and Exchange Commission staff today made available additional analysis related to its proposed rules for pay ratio disclosure. The analysis by the Division of Economic and Risk Analysis (DERA) considers the potential effects of excluding different percentages of employees from the pay ratio calculation. The analysis is posted …
Earlier this month, in Monterey, Calif., a meeting organized by the Produce Marketing Association provided an opportunity for a group of local growers of crops such as lettuce, artichokes and strawberries to find out how the latest digital technologies were changing agriculture. Participants heard about how technologies like robots, drones …
Apple today said that it has nearly eliminated the backlog in Apple Watch orders, and would start selling some models in its retail stores within two weeks, or by June 18. “We’re making great progress with the backlog of Apple Watch orders, and we thank our customers for their patience,” …
When it comes to the evolution of Android, change usually seems to fall into one of three main areas. First and most immediately noticeable are the broad and sweeping visual overhauls — like what we’ve seen with Android Lollipop and its accompanying Material Design standard. On a less obvious but …
A researcher is warning that a gaming plug-in installed on over 200 million PCs contains a flaw that could let attackers steal users’ data from websites they’re logged into, such as their Web mail and social networking accounts. The technology in question, from Unity Technologies, is used by hundreds of …
While Microsoft has made its voice-driven Cortana assistant available across Windows 10 devices, Japanese mobile carrier NTT DoCoMo is porting its own helper to a different kind of hardware—a toy sheep. Developed with toy maker Tomy, the cartoonish plaything can have simple conversations in Japanese and connects via smartphones to …
If you’ve passed out from a health condition, you’ll be pleased if you’re wearing an NFC ring that can help first responders link to critical medical information—simply by touching it to a smartphone. That’s one of the functions of the Keydex NFC Ring being exhibited at Computex 2015 in Taipei …
Cisco this week announced its leadership team under new CEO Chuck Robbins and three more high-level executives transitioning out of the company. Robbins’ leadership team includes 10 executives, nine from inside Cisco and one from outside the company. Several current officials are being elevated to or assigned new responsibilities. + …
Redditors rally to block SourceForge’s free mirroring SourceForge has been in the news a lot lately, and not for positive reasons. Angry redditors are rallying to encourage the mirror providers of SourceForge to stop supporting the site. Sunshine-x started the thread about SourceForge’s mirror providers: Just a thought – if …
What if virtual reality is actually becoming a reality in 2015? Apart from the fact that VR seems to be one of those buzzwords that has existed since the 90s, the technology has finally caught up to the times. Devices like the Samsung Gear VR and Google Cardboard make VR …
Samsung уже имеет опыт по выпуску упрощенных версий своих предыдущих флагманских аппаратов. Ярким примером этому служат такие смартфоны, как Galaxy Note 3 Neo и Galaxy S3 Neo. А сегодня всплыла информация, что Galaxy S5 постигнет та же участь. Как пишут в SamMobile, Южнокорейский гигант работает над смартфоном Samsung Galaxy S5 Neo (SM-G903F), который, …
I’ve been working in the tech industry for the past 25 years, either within an IT department or as a technology writer. In that time period, I’ve seen a few tech stereotypes that often lead to misunderstandings, hurt feelings, poor work performance and even failed projects. They don’t seem to …
Amazon Web Services has announced the first Developer Preview of its SDK for the Go programming language, giving developers who want to integrate cloud services in their apps more choice. The SDK makes it easier for developers to integrate their Go applications with Amazon’s cloud-based storage, database and messaging services. …
Hewlett-Packard has given a glimpse of what the company’s separation looks like from an internal IT perspective, and not surprisingly, there are some big numbers involved. The ongoing task involves dividing up or retooling 2,800 applications and 75,000 APIs (application programming interfaces) before the company becomes Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and HP …
Prototype of HP’s Machine due next year Hewlett-Packard will have a prototype of its futuristic Machine computer ready for partners to develop software on by next year, though the finished product is still half a decade away. The single-rack prototype will have 2,500 CPU cores and an impressive 320TB of …
Acer is still producing PCs, but the Taiwanese vendor is far more bullish about the Internet of Things (IoT), a market the company doesn’t want to miss out on. On Thursday, the Taiwanese vendor held a news conference not for a new consumer product, but to promote an upcoming miniature …
If you feel that running a major tech company is great preparation for running the United States, then you’re probably already planning to vote for former HP CEO Carly Fiorina in 2016. However, if, hypothetically, a handful of the most well-known current tech CEOs were all running for president next …
SourceForge has been caught out “adopting” open-source projects that are “orphaned”. Observers accuse the project repository of adding malware to compiled downloads and littering the site with deceptive ads. The two most recent victims seem to have been GIMP and Nmap. Oh dear. What a mess. And how the once-trusted …