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 …
Just two weeks ago, the Disney ABC Television Group told a team of approximately 30 to 35 application developers that they were being laid off. Their jobs were being moved to an IT contractor with large offshore operations. Some were told their last day would be at the end of …
A software update to the Apple Watch’s OS gave third-party developers access to the device’s sensors this week, fulfilling a request they’ve had since Apple unveiled the wearable. With watchOS 2, which Apple showed on Monday at its annual developer’s conference, developers can create more-capable apps that directly tap into …
A software update to the Apple Watch’s OS gave third-party developers access to the device’s sensors this week, fulfilling a request they’ve had since Apple unveiled the wearable. With watchOS 2, which Apple showed on Monday at its annual developer’s conference, developers can create more-capable apps that directly tap into …
Браузером по умолчанию в Windows 10, как известно, будет Edge, ранее известный как Project Spartan. Он займёт место сменившего уже одиннадцать поколений обозревателя Internet Explorer, но, как выяснилось, не во всех версиях «десятки». …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that it is seeking public comment to help inform its review of the listing and trading of new, novel, or complex exchange-traded products (ETPs). The request for comment addresses key issues that arise when exemptions are sought by a market participant to trade …
Ранее в Интернет уже попали скриншоты нового ролевого экшена Dark Souls 3, а также сведения о том, что игру покажут на предстоящей выставке E3, которая стартует на следующей неделе. …
A bill aimed at making it more difficult for so-called patent trolls to file unfair patent-infringement lawsuits has passed in a U.S. House of Representatives committee. The House Judiciary Committee’s approval of theInnovation Act late Thursday adds momentum to a congressional push to limit the ability of patent-licensing firms to …
Last week, the IRS released an updated damage estimate of the hack of the tax transcript request website — cyberthieves used the transcripts to file fraudulent returns in order to get their hands on as much as $39 million in tax refunds. What is more disconcerting, though, is that the …
На сегодняшний день обновлённая версия прошивки Windows Phone 8.1 GDR2 доступна лишь на некоторых смартфонах. …
The slow and ugly death of SourceForge SourceForge has been in the news a lot lately, and not for any positive reasons. The site seems to stumble from one bad situation to the next, and some think that SourceForge is making a long, slow and ugly exit. Christine Hall at …
Компания Mozilla увеличила размер максимального вознаграждения в рамках программы по поиску уязвимостей в браузере Firefox. Теперь за обнаружение критических брешей исследователи смогут получить $7,5 тыс. Не исключено, что такое решение вызвано появлением большого количества аналогичных (и довольно прибыльных) проектов, запущенных крупными производителями ПО и аппаратного обеспечения. …
Американский рэпер Снуп Дог (Snoop Dogg) заявил о своей готовности возглавить компанию Twitter. Об этом он написал в своем микроблоге. …
В сети появилось новое видео сравнения качества графики Fallout 4 и Fallout 3. Специально для тех, кто считает, что графика в Fallout 4 не изменилась с момента выхода третьей части серии, фанаты специально подготовили видео сравнения на основе скриншотов и трейлеров из обеих игр. …
Microsoft will breathe life into Windows Live Writer by open sourcing the eight-year-old blog-publishing tool, a company manager said earlier this week. “We are going to open-source Live Writer, so don’t worry,” tweeted Scott Hanselman, a principal program and community manager for Microsoft. Hanselman, who has long advocated taking Live …
A deal for Taiwanese PC maker Asustek Computer to buy struggling phone-maker HTC makes sense to some, and on Friday Asus’s chairman said he wouldn’t rule it out. An acquisition of HTC would certainly help the PC maker boost its presence in the smartphone market. Asus has only recently begun …
Apple Watch and Apple Music dominated WWDC coverage this week, but the company had several announcements of interest to enterprise users, including gestures, pinned websites, and natural language search for OS X El Capitan. Swift Swift 2 as an open source programming language is a huge deal. Enterprise users will …