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Сегодня носимые девайсы являются одним из самых модных высокотехнологических трендов. Их можно увидеть у случайных прохожих на улице, в метро и, конечно же, в спортивных залах. …
Сегодня носимые девайсы являются одним из самых модных высокотехнологических трендов. Их можно увидеть у случайных прохожих на улице, в метро и, конечно же, в спортивных залах. …
Сертификацию в Bluetooth SIG (Special Interest Group) прошли два новых смартфона Samsung серии Galaxy J, которые, как ожидается, будут представлены в ближайшее время. …
Не так давно компания Sony анонсировала флагманский смартфон Xperia Z4 для японского рынка. …
Apple has warned that an European probe into its tax payments in Ireland could lead to the company having to pay disputed past taxes covering up to 10 years. The company said the impact could be “material,” but did not provide an estimate. The European Commission began a probe last …
Google has developed a new extension for its Chrome browser that aims to stop people from falling prey to phishing sites. The free Password Alert extension stores an encrypted version of a person’s password and warns if it is typed into a site that isn’t a Google sign-in page, according …
Xiaomi led China’s smartphone market as its biggest vendor for the third straight quarter. But Apple is closing in, thanks to demand for its iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, and may even overtake Xiaomi this year. In this year’s first quarter, Xiaomi claimed a 13 percent share, while Apple …
Dell Software today took the wraps off a partnership with data visualization specialist Datawatch. The partnership brings interactive visualization and dashboarding capabilities to Dell’s Statistica advanced analytics platform and is designed to better position it for use by business analysts and other end users. Dell acquired Statistica last year with …
Designed by Apple in California—that nod to its home state has appeared on Apple products for years, but increasingly, Apple’s gadgets are being sold far from its Cupertino headquarters. In the first three months of this year, iPhone sales in China surpassed those in the U.S. for the first time. …
LAS VEGAS — Extreme Networks this week said it will support a community-developed policy framework in its SDN controller as well as tighter integration with Microsoft’s unified communications platform. Extreme is adopting the OpenDaylight Project’s group-based policy model in its OneController SDN software. Cisco contributed the group-based policy framework to OpenDaylight …
Less than a week after reporting that Microsoft’s enterprise cloud business is currently on an annual run rate of $6.3 billion, CEO Satya Nadella says the company’s goal is to increase that figure to $20 billion by fiscal year 2018. “That’s the cloud that we want to build,” he said …
The president of one of the world’s biggest computer security vendors says he is skeptical that a stronger government role in cyberdefense will abate the growing number of attacks. In an interview with IDG News Service, Amit Yoran, president of RSA, also rejected calls by U.S. intelligence chiefs for industry …
The president of one of the world’s biggest computer security vendors says he is skeptical that a stronger government role in cyberdefense will abate the growing number of attacks. In an interview with IDG News Service, Amit Yoran, president of RSA, also rejected calls by U.S. intelligence chiefs for industry …
Microsoft is supporting cross-platform development like never before, introducing tools to port iOS and Android apps to Windows and allow software to run across multiple form factors, from smart phones to virtual reality headsets. The goal is to get 1 billion copies of Windows 10 on devices within the next …
Apple Watch production has been hampered by defective components from a supplier, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Taptic engines produced by one supplier, AAC Technologies, in Shenzhen, China, began to fail reliability tests after Apple ramped up watch production in February, the Journal said, citing unnamed sources. The …
A report that Salesforce.com is entertaining takeover offers whipped up a storm of speculation Wednesday, as analysts and other observers mulled the possibility and what it could mean for the enterprise software market. “It would require a massive deal for that to happen,” noted Ray Wang, founder and principal analyst …
Microsoft says its HoloLens head-mounted computer can bring robots and gadgets based on Raspberry Pi 2 to life as they are being developed. HoloLens is an augmented-reality headset that lets users interact with 3D objects that show up as floating images, much like holographic projections. By blending computer-generated images with …
Microsoft is showing even more cross-platform love as they release a new code editing program called Visual Studio Code – available for download today on Windows, Mac OS, and Linux. Not to be confused with Visual Studio, the world class IDE, Visual Studio Code is more Sublime Text or Notepad++ than full …
U.S. lawmakers are skeptical of an FBI request for Congress to mandate encryption workarounds in smartphones, with critics saying Wednesday that back doors would create new vulnerabilities that bad guys can exploit. It’s currently impossible for smartphone makers to build in back doors that allow law enforcement agencies access to …
Secret, an app for anonymous posts that initially attracted buzz but drew criticism after a redesign, is shutting down. The company, also named Secret, formally launched its app last year and is said to have raised between US$33 million and $35 million in funding. “After a lot of thought and …
A longtime concern about Windows Phone has been a shortage of apps in the Windows Store, but Microsoft on Wednesday took a big step to change things. Developers of iOS and Android apps will be able to bring their apps and games to Windows 10, Microsoft’s next operating system that’s …
Airbnb has developed a new app customized for iOS and Android tablets in an attempt to give those users a better way to browse its million-plus home rental listings than with the devices’ web browsers. The free app, to be released Wednesday, lets users navigate its content as if they …
The dozens of deaths that marred the recent Nigerian elections would be considered shocking by the standards of most developed nations. Compared to past elections, however, the violence this time around was limited, and many observers say social media and technology such as biometric card readers played a big role …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today voted to propose rules to require companies to disclose the relationship between executive compensation and the financial performance of a company. The proposed rules, which would implement a requirement mandated by the Dodd-Frank Act, would provide greater transparency and allow shareholders to be better …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today voted to propose rules governing the application of certain requirements to security-based swap transactions connected with a non-U.S. person’s dealing activity in the United States. The rules require a non-U.S. company that uses U.S. personnel to arrange, negotiate, or execute a transaction in connection …