Смартфон Elephone P4000 получит мощный аккумулятор и чипсет MT6735
Китайская Elephone уже анонсировала смартфон Elephone P5000 с мощным аккумулятором ёмкостью 5350 мАч. …
Китайская Elephone уже анонсировала смартфон Elephone P5000 с мощным аккумулятором ёмкостью 5350 мАч. …
Компания Samsung представила планшет Galaxy Tab A, который пополнит ряды планшетов начального уровня, обладает поддержкой S Pen, а на Тайваньском рынке появится в продаже уже в следующем месяце. Рекомендованная стоимость: $292 за 8-дюймовую модель с поддержкой Wi-Fi; $422 за 8-дюймовый планшет с поддержкой LTE; за версию с 9.7-дюймовым дисплеем с …
Flashback to the days before smartphones, when this IT pilot fish is approached by a co-worker who has the same model of mobile phone — but a different carrier. “He wanted to borrow my phone,” fish says. “It seems that his battery had died, and he didn’t have a charger. …
Targeting sales of 80 million phones this year, Xiaomi is planning to end “flash sales” of small quantities of its best-selling products. The fast-rising company is China’s largest smartphone vendor, but its devices haven’t always been easy to buy. Xiaomi typically sells limited quantities of its smartphones once a week …
SendGrid is resetting the passwords for all of its customers after an investigation showed a cyberattack it sustained earlier this month was more extensive than first realized. The company, which provides a service for companies to mass email their customers without getting blocked, said earlier this month an account of …
Best Buy said its customers could start using Apple Pay from Monday to make purchases on its app through the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, thus appearing to break ranks with a group of leading U.S. merchants who are backing an alternative payment system. “The acceptance of Apple Pay …
The Apple Watch is getting the initiation that inevitably comes to all new gadgets: the torture test. Yes, there are those willing to spend money on a top-flight gadget just to see how far you can push its before it breaks. Why this matters: Apple has some bold claims about …
Google might buy your patents to keep them out of the hands of litigious patent trolls that critics contend are hampering innovation. For a two-week period next month, Google will accept submissions from patent owners and possibly bid on the patents as part of its Patent Purchase Promotion, wrote Allen …
WordPress patched a second critical vulnerability in its Web publishing platform on Monday, less than a week after fixing a similar problem. Administrators are advised to upgrade to WordPress version 4.2.1. Some WordPress sites that are compatible with and use a plugin called Background Update Tester will update automatically. WordPress …
Microsoft has lost the latest round in a patent-infringement case that could lead to an import ban on its phones. Administrative Law Judge Theodore Essex of the U.S. International Trade Commission ruled on Monday that Nokia and Microsoft Mobile products infringed two patents held by R&D company InterDigital. Essex’s decision …
Apple achieved its second straight quarter of record results as demand for the new iPhone 6 surged and China became Apple’s second most important market after the U.S. The company sold 61.2 million units of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus during the first three months of 2015, blasting past …
Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX), a group of large U.S. merchants, said Monday it expects to launch an early version of its CurrentC mobile payment app mid-year in an unnamed, mid-sized market. The group unveiled CurrentC in September, saying it had already launched the payment service by that time in private …
Apple achieved its second straight quarter of record results as demand for the new iPhone 6 surged and China became Apple’s second most important market after the U.S. The company sold 61.2 million units of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus during the the first three months of 2015, blasting …
Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2015 second quarter ended March 28. The company posted quarterly revenue of $58 billion and quarterly net profit of $13.6 billion, or $2.33 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $45.6 billion and net profit of $10.2 billion, or $1.66 …
Apple today announced that its board of directors has authorized an increase of more than 50 percent to the company’s program to return capital to shareholders. Under the expanded program, Apple plans to utilize a cumulative total of $200 billion of cash by the end of March 2017. As part …
Drivers for Web-based, ride-hailing services in Massachusetts would be subject to criminal background checks by the state and their company if a bill unveiled Friday by the state’s governor becomes law. That safety provision is just one outlined in a bill that is designed to regulate companies like Uber and …
As the number of solar panels on business and home rooftops multiply, America’s power grid is bearing an electrical load that it was never designed to handle: bidirectional power transfer. “There’s no grid system in the world designed for that,” said Anise Dehamna, principal research analyst at Navigant Research. “Every …
Security professionals are in dire need of a solution that provides visibility into where sensitive and confidential data resides, as well as visibility into the data’s risk.[1] This knowledge would allow those responsible to take an effective, proactive approach to combating cybercrime. By focusing on the data, Informatica and our …
Microsoft last week acknowledged that Windows revenue took a beating in the first quarter, with sales of licenses to computer and device makers falling $698 million, or 22%, compared to the same stretch in 2014. The quarter’s downturn was the second straight double-digit decline, following a 13% drop in revenue …
Users can now place free video calls with Messenger, as Facebook continues to extend the app beyond simple text-based chats. With the feature, Facebook is also taking a jab at competing products like Apple’s FaceTime, Microsoft’s Skype and Google Hangouts. Facebook previously allowed video calling through its site on the …
As you move workloads to the cloud, you’ve probably already discovered that keeping track of your monthly cloud computing bills is not an easy task. Certainly, using a cloud provider can be cheaper than purchasing your own hardware, or instrumental in moving a capital expense into an operating one. And …
A surprisingly long history Though most people today consider the electric car to be a modern phenomenon, electric cars actually date all the way back to the 1800s. While some of the first electric car models were rather crude, both in appearance and in function, there was a period in …
Proliferation tends to be a consequence any time a new technology trend takes off, and enterprise social networks are a prime example. Jive, Yammer and Salesforce Chatter are all among the competitors in this arena, and more than a few organizations are struggling under the weight of several of them. …
The annual Verizon 2015 Data Breach Investigations Report was just released, and many in the IT world are already finding the information disturbing, in part because Verizon’s conclusions appear difficult to remediate. If you study the report closely, however, you will see there’s some good news about improving your information security …
Get ready for PHP 7; it’s going to be fast. In fact, 100-percent-plus performance improvements have been seen in version 7, Rasmus Lerdorf, the founder of the scripting language, said at the O’Reilly Fluent conference in San Francisco. Lerdorf further noted that this performance gain has been experienced in most “real-world” …
To overcome emotional barriers to cloud computing, cloud providers often give customers complete control over their data, including encryption keys. Microsoft has been unveiling features in that vein for Azure, and yesterday, the company took a few more steps in that direction with Office 365. The features are about more …