Результаты недавнего исследования китайских специалистов показали, что злоумышленники могут отслеживать местонахождение мобильных устройств в то время, когда они находятся в вагоне метро под землей и независимо от того, использует ли жертва GPS и мобильную сеть. Подобную возможность злоумышленникам дает встроенный почти в каждый смартфон акселерометр. Точность такой слежки составляет до …
На днях журналисты авторитетного издания BusinessInsider опубликовали небольшую, но достаточно интересную статью. Она посвящена одной из самых крупных социальных сетей в мире – Facebook. Из этого материала все желающие смогут узнать 9 малоизвестных фактов о соцсети, созданной Марком Цукербергом и его соседями по комнате во время обучения в Гарвардском университете. …
Стива Джобса мы знаем, как гениального предпринимателя и новатора, который буквально совершил революцию в целых секторах IT индустрии. Его опыт берут на вооружение руководители и бизнесмены по всему миру. Но, прежде чем стать легендарным предпринимателем, он много раз ошибался и набил не так уж и мало шишек. …
Национальная комиссия по регулированию связи и информатизации рассчитывает завершить подготовку к внедрению стандарта связи четвертого поколения LTE к 2017 году. Об этом во время выступления на Украинском телекоммуникационном форуме заявил председатель Нацкомиссии Александр Животовский, передает ВВС. …
Служба безопасности Украины 21-23 мая разоблачила в Донецкой области группу сепаратистов, которые обманом выманили у граждан для ДНР более 200 тысяч гривен. …
Lenovo is bringing three budget laptops to market in June, including one that can be equipped with Intel’s RealSense 3D camera. The Lenovo Z51 is a 15-inch Windows 8.1 notebook that’s meant to be both a workstation and a home entertainment center, the company said Wednesday. The PC also has …
Sometimes there’s simply is no replacement for displacement. And if you believe in the philosophy that more cores is better, Falcon Northwest wants to show you its latest micro-tower PC: A 4-inch wide PC packing no fewer than 18 cores inside of it. No, that doesn’t count the Hyper-Threading. The …
When a startup’s $10 million in funding is followed two months later by a further $41 million, it’s safe to say they’re tapping into a trend. In the case of Rubrik, that trend is enterprise data management. Promising an all-in-one approach to enterprise backup and recovery, Rubrik announced its Converged …
Hyundai today announced it will begin using Android Auto in vehicles this year, making it the first carmaker to enable vehicles to mirror a connected Android smartphone to the car’s dashboard infotainment system. Android Auto is premiering on the 2015 Sonata with navigation capabilities at dealerships nationwide, and will later …
Android, already the most widely used operating system in smartphones, could soon find its way into refrigerators, door locks and all manner of other “smart” appliances around the home. The OS will be in the spotlight at Google’s massive I/O conference in San Francisco later this week. As well as …
Microsoft apps will soon come pre-installed on more Android devices thanks to 20 new partnerships the company has forged with tablet makers around the world. The group of global and regional partners, which includes LG, Sony, Haier and Wortmann, will pre-install Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, OneDrive and Skype on devices …
Virtual reality headset maker Oculus VR has acquired Surreal Vision, a company developing image recognition technology that can recreate scenes from real life inside simulated 3D environments. The technology could help Oculus to create more varied and realistic virtual environments as the Facebook-owned company prepares to launch its flagship consumer …
Microsoft confirmed today that its voice-controlled assistant, Cortana, will live not just on Windows Phone and Windows 10, but available for Android and iOS as well. From their Windows blog: The Cortana app can do most of the things Cortana does on your PC or on a Windows phone. You …
Criminals stole sensitive information about roughly 100,000 taxpayers through the Internal Revenue Service’s “Get Transcript” application, a major data breach at the U.S.’s national tax agency. The thieves first stole information including Social Security details, dates of birth and street addresses from an outside, non-IRS source, the government agency said …
Criminals stole sensitive information about roughly 100,000 taxpayers through the Internal Revenue Service’s “Get Transcript” application, a major data breach at the U.S.’s national tax agency. The thieves first stole information including Social Security details, dates of birth and street addresses from an outside, non-IRS source, the government agency said …
Rampant power outages are hitting Africa’s telecom sector hard, and are likely to cause aftershocks in related industries. Southern African Development Community (SADC) and West African countries including Zambia, Nigeria, South Africa, and Malawi face an increasing number of power shortages, affecting the ability of businesses to run base stations, …
Researchers in Denmark say that it’s child’s play to track your Android phone via Wi-Fi even if the Wi-Fi is nominally turned off – and even if you didn’t let an app track your location. Apps distributed via Google Play have to enumerate the precise permissions they require in order …
A right-wing senator stands to make legal history in Italy when he becomes the first person to be prosecuted for insulting another person on Twitter. Maurizio Gasparri, a senator with Silvio Berlusconi’s conservative Forza Italia party, is well known for his polemical verve and has earned the title of “cyber-bully” …
Geeky plates The geeky license plates continue to pop up as those who are not afraid to proclaim their nerdiness on their car. Here are the latest and greatest. Send any entries you might have to rfrancis@nww.com. RELATED: The world’s geekiest license plates To read this article in full or …
HP this week signed a definitive agreement to acquire ConteXtream, a provider of OpenDaylight-based SDNs for service providers. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. ConteXtream develops an SDN controller for Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), software-based services that replace hardware-dependent Layer 4-7 functions, like load balancing and firewalls. ConteXtream’s products …
A discrimination lawsuit alleging that Infosys favored “South Asian” workers over all others will not be dismissed, a federal judge has ruled. Infosys had asked for a dismissal of the case brought by four of its IT workers. U.S. District Court Judge Pamela Pepper granted some of what Infosys was …
The number of people using the Internet is growing at a steady rate, but 4.2 billion out of 7.4 billion will still be offline by the end of the year. Overall, 35.3 percent of people in developing countries will use the Internet, compared to 82.2 percent in developed countries, according …
With Google I/O coming up this week, developers, as well as people in the industry at large, are waiting to see what the company will trot out on stage. And while everyone is confident they’ll see Android M, a new version of the operating system, they’re also wondering if Google …
Cell phones are constantly transmitting radio signals, whose energy can also be used to boost the battery life of mobile devices. Researchers at Ohio State University have developed circuitry that converts radio signals from a handset into energy, which is then fed back to the device’s battery. The researchers say …
Microsoft today made official what had been rumored two months ago: It will release Android and iOS mobile apps that feature Cortana, the Redmond, Wash. company’s intelligent assistant. “It all starts with the big picture,” Patrick Moorhead, principal analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy, argued in a Tuesday interview. “Microsoft …
Cell phones are constantly transmitting radio signals, whose energy can also be used to boost the battery life of mobile devices. Researchers at Ohio State University have developed circuitry that converts radio signals from a handset into energy, which is then fed back to the device’s battery. The researchers say …