Lenovo’s recent acquisitions have taken a bite out of the company’s earnings, with its net profit in the first quarter dropping 37 percent despite strong PC sales. The Chinese company paid US$2.9 billion for Motorola Mobility and $2.1 billion for IBM’s x86 server business. Prior to the acquisitions, Lenovo typically …
Фонд электронных рубежей (Electronic Frontier Foundation, EFF) раскритиковал один из главных проектов Марка Цукерберга и Facebook за последние годы — Internet.org, бесплатный доступ в сеть в бедных и отдалённых регионах мира к ограниченному списку сайтов. …
Ни для кого не секрет, что с момента создания первого телефона наиболее популярным материалом для производства его корпуса оставался пластик. …
Создатели популярного плагина для блокирования интернет-рекламы AdBlock Plus выпустили собственный браузер для Android и анонсировали версию для iPhone и iPad. Приложение обладает встроенным блокировщиком и позволяет на 23% сократить потребление заряда аккумулятора за счет снижения нагрузки на процессор. …
Weeks after the merger talks collapsed, Intel and Altera are talking merger again after Altera got a kick in the rear from some major shareholders. The New York Post, citing a source with “direct knowledge of the talks,” says that a deal could be reached within “few weeks.” Reuters, doing …
Компания Sharp представила наследника прошлогоднего Aquos Crystal. Новинка прибавила диагональ дисплея и технические характеристики, но сохранила главную фишку оригинала — практически полное отсутствие рамок экрана. …
Android компании Google — открытая и бесплатная система. Каждый может делать с ней всё что угодно. А зарабатывает Google на собственных сервисах. …
При выборе устройства решающим фактором остается длительность его работы от одного заряда аккумулятора. Однако, кроме этого, очень важным фактором является быстрота самой зарядки. Согласитесь, не каждый захочет заряжать аппарат около четырех часов. Времена, когда оставлять телефон на зарядке на всю ночь ушли в прошлое, а вместе с ними и технологии …
The U.S. Commerce Department has proposed tighter export rules for computer security tools, a potentially controversial revision to an international agreement aimed at controlling weapons technology. On Wednesday, the department published a proposal in the Federal Register and opened a two-month comment period. The changes are proposed to the Wassenaar …
Сделать планшет из ноутбука было моим давним желанием. Вдохновившись раскопанными в сети материалами я приступил к работе. Что получилось из этой идеи – узнаём под катом. При желании делаем себе такой же. …
Невозможно не заметить, как активно Microsoft догоняет своих конкурентов. Сегодня у них есть отличный софт под различные платформы, революционное устройство дополненной реальности, а их операционная система становится все лучше, и это касается как компьютеров, так и мобильных устройств. А теперь, согласно недавнему сообщению ZDNet, Windows 10 для мобильных устройств и …
Компания LeTV устроила распродажу, во время которой смогла установить рекорд по продажам LeTV One Pro, полностью распродав запасы смартфона всего за одну секунду. …
Компания Eurocom пополнила рынок ультрабуков новым решением — Armadillo 2. Несмотря на простой внешний вид, в тонком портативном компьютере скрывается «зверь», способный подчинить себе 32 ГБ оперативной памяти. При этом толщина новинки составляет всего 2,1 см, а вес — 1,8 кг. …
RadioShack has reached agreement with U.S. states over the sale of customer data, by consenting to limit the number of email addresses to be sold, and giving customers the opportunity to be removed from the list. A coalition of 38 U.S. states, led by Texas, objected to the sale of …
Cousin of FREAK, the just-disclosed Logjam flaw has again sent browser makers and website administrators scrambling to craft and apply patches, a repeat of the March rush to shut down its predecessor. The bug resides in the TLS (Transport Layer Security) protocol used to encrypt traffic between browsers and website …
Companies often frustrate their customers — or make them downright irate — because of product problems, shipping snafus or rude people on customer service lines. The problem for companies, though, is to figure out exactly why their customers are angry before they ditch them for a competitor. To help enterprises …
Data integrity vendor Guardtime hopes its newly announced protocol will replace RSA for the purposes of authentication and digital signatures, touting it as easier to manage and less vulnerable to hacking. Called BLT, the protocol name comes from the last initials of its inventors, Ahto Buldas, Risto Laanoja and Ahto …
Research firm Gartner’s annual report card on the public IaaS cloud computing market shows there is one clear leader – Amazon Web Services – and another clear challenger – Microsoft Azure. And then there is everyone else. “The market is dominated by only a few global providers – most notably …
Alcatel-Lucent this week extended its carrier SDN product line with an automation and network control system designed to accelerate service provisioning from multivendor IP and optical infrastructure. The company’s Network Services Platform combines Alcatel-Lucent’s SDN-based software with its 5260 service-aware management system, Service Router operating system and the 1830 Photonic …
Piston Cloud Computing was one of the darlings of the OpenStack movement. A founding father of the cloud computing project, it produced one of the first private cloud products based on the open source code. Fast forward two years and founder Joshua McKenty has left Piston and the most recent …
A large U.S. health insurer, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, has disclosed it fell victim to a cyberattack that affected about 1.1 million people. The attack, which occurred in June last year, targeted a single database that contained information about CareFirst members and others who accessed its websites and services, the company …
A large U.S. health insurer, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, has disclosed it fell victim to a cyberattack that affected about 1.1 million people. The attack, which occurred in June 2014, targeted a single database that contained information about CareFirst members and others who accessed its websites and services, the company said …
Heated competition in the smartphone and tablet markets has required chip makers to speed up the pace at which they release new processors, the CEO of ARM said in an interview this week. Following in the footsteps of Apple, rivals like Samsung and HTC are upgrading their flagship devices on …
Heated competition in the smartphone and tablet markets has required chip makers to speed up the pace at which they release new processors, the CEO of ARM said in an interview this week. Following in the footsteps of Apple, rivals like Samsung and HTC are upgrading their flagship devices on …
The tech challenges that accompany IoT projects shouldn’t deter companies from attempting to find meaning in data gathered from connected devices. The solutions may be closer than they think. The IT behind the Internet of Things, including sensors, databases and analytics software, has been around for a while. The challenge …
Buying one slick connected device after another until you have a smart home sounds cool, but things may not work out that smoothly. Making products from different vendors work together isn’t always easy. And depending how emerging standards shape up, consumers may opt to rely on someone else to put …