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 …
Many companies have ghosts in their systems. Employees who’ve gone on to a better place — say, with better pay — but are still wandering through company files, cloud services, and social media accounts. According to a study by Intermedia, 89 percent of adults retained access to at least one …
Cybercriminals in Japan are targeting iPhone users with an online scam that tricks them into installing a malicious application when they attempt to view porn videos. This type of attack, known as one-click fraud, is not new and has been used for years against Windows, Mac and Android users. However, …
Команда исследователей из Дармштадтского технического университета (Technische Universität Darmstadt) в ходе анализа баз данных облачных сервисов Google, Amazon и Facebook выяснила, что миллионы учетных данных пользователей находятся под угрозой атак из-за некорректно реализованной разработчиками приложений аутентификации. …
Как сказано в новом патенте, Apple изобрела необычный кабель для наушников. Внутри проводов могут находиться сразу несколько сенсоров, определяющих количество человек, одновременно слушающих звук с одного устройства. …
Finding stolen data on the Internet is often the first sign of a breach, and a Baltimore-based startup says it has developed a way to find that data faster and more securely. The company is called Terbium Labs, named after a malleable, silver-gray element. CEO Danny Rogers and CTO Michael …
Hewlett-Packard, the last of the large monolithic IT enterprise firms for everything from supercomputers to Unix and tablets, was put to rest this week. The official split, the separation of its PC and printer unit from its enterprise division, will be completed by Nov. 1. That will be legal end …
Microsoft formerly offered a rather confusing array of centralized business intelligence, reporting, and analytics products aimed primarily at IT developers, with users often assumed to be working with Excel against on-premises SQL Server Analysis Server and SharePoint data sources. The company added cloud-based collaboration in Power BI for Office 365 …
If you aren’t a big fan of flying drones, consider that more and more of them will likely be streaming live high-definition video to YouTube. Taiwan’s Altek is demonstrating a low-cost, lightweight compact camera that can ride on a drone, dashboard or bicycle while sending real-time imagery to the video-sharing …
Microsoft gave visitors to Computex 2015 a sneak peek at several new devices that will launch with Windows 10, highlighting the capabilities of the new OS. In a brief preview to manufacturing partners, Nick Parker, vice president at Microsoft’s OEM Division, showed off a new super-portable 11.6-inch, 2-in-1 notebook from …
Представители компании Microsoft объявили дату выхода версии Windows 10. Данная операционная система будет доступна пользователям в 190 странах мира. Кроме того, потребители могут обновить свои старые версии программы, такие как Windows 7 и Windows 8.1. Обновление доступно бесплатно. Терри Мейерсон, вице-президент Mircosoft, подчеркнул, что обновленная версия будет совершенно новой. Она …
Gamers, buckle up: AMD will launch its highly anticipated graphics processing unit, code-named Fiji, on June 16 at the E3 conference. Many were expecting Fiji to launch at a press event at Computex on Wednesday, but that didn’t happen. Instead, AMD show off its key technology, which will first appear …
Chromebooks may be hot-ticket items, but with its sixth-generation A-series chips for mainstream laptops, AMD is placing its bets on Microsoft’s Windows 10. The new chips, code-named Carrizo, will appear in laptops priced between $400 and $800 from Asus, Acer, Lenovo, Hewlett-Packard and Toshiba. The first wave of laptops will …
Apple CEO Tim Cook recognizes an opportunity when he sees one — especially when opportunity ‘no knocks’ on the door like a FISA warrant. Yesterday, Cook made a speech critical of the way rivals — like Facebook and Google — exploit user data for profit. Sure, Cook seized the moment, …
The super-slim 12-in. Apple MacBook brought a radical design change to laptops with its USB Type-C port, but it won’t support faster Thunderbolt 3 data transfers. Intel at Computex announced Thunderbolt 3, which can transfer data between computers and external peripherals at speeds of 40Gbps, the fastest among connector technologies …
Facebook will require application developers to move later this year to a more secure type of digital signature for their apps, which is used to verify a program’s legitimacy. As of Oct. 1, apps will have to use SHA-2 certificate signatures rather than ones signed with SHA-1. Both are cryptographic …
Google совместно с Levi’s планируют создать линию одежды, которая будет включать в себя ряд новейших технологий, работающих, на первый взгляд, в совершенно несовместимых отраслях. Ожидается, что новые джинсы Levi’s создадут, оборудовав их набором датчиков, над которым работают разработчики Google. Одежда, оснащенная ними, сможет взаимодействовать с различными устройствами производства Google. Первая модель умных джинсов, созданных …
When it comes to videoconferencing, Daniel Post Senning would like to remind you the game is yours to win — or lose. “Your ability to handle and manage [videoconferencing] tools says something about your professional brand and who you are,” says Senning, author of Emily Post’s Manners in a Digital …
Microsoft is preparing to rebrand and expand its almost-unknown Skype WiFi service to make it both a consumer service and a perk for enterprises already subscribing to Office 365, according to a briefly-available website. The draft site — MicrosoftWiFi.com — was up for hours Tuesday, but was eventually pulled and …
It’s a decade or so ago, and a Desktop Services manager stops by this IT pilot fish’s desk, laughing out loud. “Seems his favorite BNSC user — brash, near-sighted complainer — had done it again,” fish says. “The BNSC had just gotten two new toys: a wireless mouse and a …
Microsoft объявила дату выхода финальной версии Windows 10. Представители корпорации уточнили, что операционная система будет доступна потребителю в 190 странах мира. Также пользователи смогут обновить свои старые версии системы такие, как Windows 7 и Windows 8.1 совершенно бесплатно и смогут пользоваться новинкой, дата выхода которой запланирована на 29 июля 2015 года. По словам вице-президента …
Ранее в СМИ уже появлялась информация о том, что после выпуска смартфона Nubia Z9 компания ZTE начала работать над моделью, которая придет на смену флагману – Nubia X8. И вот в китайской социальной сети Weibo засветились первые снимки, а также характеристики нового устройства. Ожидается, что Nubia X8 будет оборудован 6-дюймовым дисплеем и тонким корпусом unibody. …