The number of LTE subscriptions will pass 1 billion before the end of the year, prompting operators to invest in technologies such as small cells to keep up. There will be nearly 1.37 billion 4G LTE subscribers around the world by year-end, up from nearly 650 million in 2014, according …
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 …
Twitter CEO Costolo steps down Embattled Twitter CEO Dick Costolo will leave his post atop the micro-blogging company on July 1, bowing to intense pressure from investors disappointed with slow revenue growth and the failure to turn a profit. Co-founder and Chairman Jack Dorsey will serve as interim CEO while …
Google must respect the European Union’s ‘right to be forgotten’ court ruling on all its sites, not just those it says target EU countries, the French data protection authority has ruled, giving the company 15 days to comply. The French National Commission on Computing and Liberty (CNIL) ordered Google to …
Drones Image by Northrop Grumman/Chad Slattery/Handout via Reuters The world of drones — military and public — is changing so fast it’s hard to keep up with the changes. Here we take a look at some of the most recent advancements, such as getting drones to fly as a group, …
What does it take to make a smartphone exceptional? It’s a question I’ve been considering as I contemplate the G4, LG’s latest effort at creating a buzz-worthy flagship phone. My problem is that after using the G4 on and off for six weeks — first with the international version of …
Dick Costolo “has decided to step down” as Twitter CEO. Voluntarily. Got that? Apparently, he was not asked to leave — and most certainly not because investors are fed up with Twitter losing money every quarter. Oh no. Not at all. OK then. He’s replaced by co-founder and board chair …
Consultant pilot fish picks up a small industrial company as a client, and finds that his predecessor has engaged in a few rather questionable practices at the site. “The latest of these surfaced when the client complained that one of the network drops had stopped working,” says fish. “I’d not …
Компания Bluboo сообщила, что выпустит две версии смартфона Bluboo X500, а топовая модель “Pro” получит камеру Sony IMX220. Базовая модель Bluboo X500 получит 4 Гб оперативной памяти и мощный процессор MediaTek Helio X10. Также стоит отметить наличие довольно приличной камеры – Sony IMX214, оборудованный 13-Мегапиксельной матрицей, в то время как …
Дик Костоло – генеральный директор Twitter подал в отставку. Несмотря на то, что Дик Костоло покинет рабочее место с 1 июля, он останется в совете директоров компании. Временно исполнять обязанности генерального директора будет Джек Дорси. В заявлении Костоло говорится, о том, чего добилась его команда за прошедшие шесть лет. «У …
В 2012 году японская компания Sony выпустила планшет-книжку Tablet P, но из-за больших габаритов и, что самое главное, разделения дисплеев девайс так и не обрел популярности. Тонкие и гибкие OLED-экраны позволяют устранить оба этих недостатка, и в Samsung работают над тем, как должен выглядеть мобильный ПК нового поколения. Южнокорейская компания получила патент на планшетный компьютер, который состоит …
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has cautioned PayPal that provisions in its new user agreement for contacting customers with autodialed or prerecorded calls and text messages could violate federal laws. In order to comply with the rules, PayPal would have to get “prior express written consent” from customers before making …
Пять пользователей Facebook из Украины подали иск против соц-сети за причиненный репутации вред. Среди пользователей, подавших в суд на Facebook, народный депутат Борислав Береза, литератор Андрей Бондарь, и журналист Юрий Бутусов. Они обвиняют сеть в цензуре – аккаунты каждого из пользователей неоднократно блокировались за нарушение стандартов сообщества. В Facebook опровергают обвинения. Стоит напомнить, что …
With the fast-charging growth in cloud storage, you have to think that the providers would be demanding higher capacity drives to get more storage in the cabinets. Well they are getting their wish. HGST, the former Hitachi hard drive division that has since been acquired by Western Digital, announced an …
Chinese search giant Baidu has fired one of its researchers, after the company found he had deliberately broken the rules of an artificial intelligence contest. The company was among the participants in a computing competition called the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge. However, last month the contest organizers found …
Xbox One sales in April gave Microsoft a glimmer of hope in the console market, but the PlayStation 4 retook the top position in the U.S. last month, according to Sony. The PS4 was the top-selling console and the leader in software sales in the U.S. in May, Sony Computer …
Speculation about whether the Islamic State (IS) group is using bitcoin intensified Thursday in the U.S. when government officials said a Virginia teenager admitted to providing the organization with advice on the virtual currency. Ali Shukri Amin, 17, pleaded guilty to charges of conspiring to provide material support and resources …
The OpenSSL project has released several patches for moderate flaws, including an additional defense against the Logjam vulnerability revealed last month. OpenSSL is widely used open-source software that encrypts communications using the SSL/TLS (Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security) protocol. SSL/TLS prevents clear-text data from being transmitted across the Web, avoiding …
Dick Costolo has stepped down as CEO of Twitter after five years on the job, relinquishing his post amid longstanding problems including sluggish growth and frequent abusive comments posted to the social network. Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey, who is also CEO of Square, will be interim CEO when Costolo steps …
Dick Costolo has stepped down as CEO of Twitter after five years on the job, relinquishing his post amid longstanding problems including sluggish growth and frequent abusive comments posted to the social network. Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey, who is also CEO of Square, will be interim CEO when Costolo steps …
A union representing U.S. government workers says it believes detailed personal information on millions of current and former federal employees that was stolen by hackers was not encrypted. The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) said the attack on the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) resulted in the theft of …
It’s been two years since Google first disclosed Project Loon, and while the company continues to keep most details of the project secret, the technology and challenges behind it are slowly coming into focus. Loon is an ambitious attempt to bring the Internet to the roughly 5 billion people on …
One of the most popular big data processing platforms, Spark, now supports one of the premier statistical programming languages, R, which could pave the way for easier big data statistical analysis. “R is the lingua franca of data scientists and its adoption has exploded in the last two years,” wrote …
A U.S. appeals court has denied requests by several broadband providers and trade groups to delay the Federal Communications Commission’s net neutrality rules while they challenge the regulations. The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Thursday denied 10 requests to delay the implementation of the rules. …
Embattled Twitter CEO Dick Costolo will leave the social networking company on July 1, a move that comes after months of intense pressure from disgruntled investors. Twitter co-founder and Chairman Jack Dorsey will be taking over as interim CEO while the company looks for a new chief executive, the company …
The future of gaming is closer than you think. Or at least, the future of gaming as envisioned by Oculus VR. The company’s Oculus Rift, a virtual reality headset that lets users play epic games with an immersive 360-degree field of vision, will ship by March of next year, and …