One of the first casualties of the OpenStack world is Nebula, a company founded by a of the pioneer of the open source cloud computing movement. Twitter Nebula’s Chris Kemp Nebula posted an announcement on its website yesterday announcing it is shutting down. Chris Kemp, the former CTO for IT …
Ruckus became the first enterprise wireless equipment vendor to roll out an 802.11ac Wave 2 access point today, with the release of the ZoneFlex R710. The R710 features the multi-user MIMO capability characteristic of Wave 2 devices, using what Ruckus calls Beamflex technology – built around antenna polarization – to …
Last March, a very satisfied user of the Honeywell Wi-Fi Thermostat left a product review on Amazon.com that shed some light on an unexpected benefit of the smart home – revenge. The reviewer wrote that his wife had left him, and then moved her new lover into the home they …
VirtualBox, the open source virtualization system originally created by Sun and now under Oracle’s stewardship, has released its first revision to the left of the decimal point in nearly five years. Don’t expect anything truly revolutionary, though, judging from the release notes for and the behavior of the beta itself. …
Google is working toward the day when robots have individual personalities, according to the company’s U.S. patent application. If Google’s technology works out, robots will have personalities that can be customized to suit the individual people they will be working with. In another step, the robots should be able to …
The Federal Aviation Administration has received over 2,000 comments on its proposed rules for commercial drone flights in the U.S. The 2,000th comment was received Wednesday and hundreds more are likely to be filed before the deadline on April 24. Some of the comments assail the FAA for allowing companies …
The Federal Aviation Administration has received over 2,000 comments on its proposed rules for commercial drone flights in the U.S. The 2,000th comment was received Wednesday and hundreds more are likely to be filed before the deadline on April 24. Some of the comments assail the FAA for allowing companies …
Gilat Satcom has launched a portfolio of satellite services for rural Africa that will require subscribers to pay as little as US$1.00 per month. The Village Island portfolio of services will allow rural dwellers in Africa to access voice-over-IP (VoIP), cellular, video over IP and Wi-Fi connections via private satellite …
East Africa’s One Area Network initiative is being expanded to include data and mobile money services, a move expected to result in lower costs for subscribers. The One Area Network initiative, launched in January, has led to a decline in mobile phone communication rates across borders in East Africa. The …
A behind-the-scenes switch in the payments industry coming in October will change the way U.S. consumers shop and could bring wider acceptance for Apple Pay and its competitors. Beginning Oct. 1, liability for transactions with fraudulent credit and debit cards will shift from the card companies to retailers, if the …
Snapchat’s service featuring disappearing messages is known for its popularity among teens. Now it’s becoming popular with law enforcement. Snapchat, for the first time, has disclosed the number of requests for user information it has received from governments in the U.S. and in other countries. These requests may come in …
In just under six months, a behind-the-scenes switch in the payments industry will change the way U.S. consumers shop and could bring wider acceptance for Apple Pay and its competitors. Beginning in October, liability for transactions with fraudulent credit and debit cards will shift from the card companies to retailers, …
Streaming movies from mobile devices onto TVs isn’t as easy as it seems. Samsung hopes to make that easier with its new line of 4K Smart TVs, which have the brand-new Tizen operating system. Samsung has started shipping some of its new curved and flat-panel Smart TVs, and announced prices …
Snapchat’s service featuring disappearing messages is known for its popularity among teens. Now it’s becoming popular with law enforcement. Snapchat, for the first time, has disclosed the number of requests for user information it has received from governments in the U.S. and in other countries. These requests may come in …
A new open-source tool can periodically scan an area for rogue Wi-Fi access points and can alert network administrators if any are found. The tool, called EvilAP_Defender, was designed specifically to detect malicious access points that are configured by attackers to mimic legitimate ones in order to trick users to …
The Thread Group and the ZigBee Alliance plan to make their technologies work together in connected home products, which could help bring more order to the Internet of Things. The organizations announced on Thursday they are collaborating to make a ZigBee application layer run over Thread networks. Specifically, ZCL [ZigBee …
If anybody doubted that there’s growing — perhaps unprecedented — competition in the business of providing fiber-optic Internet service to the home, look at what cable giant Comcast announced Thursday. Comcast said it will offer residential 2Gbps service, known as Gigabit Pro, to more than 1.5 million customers in Atlanta …
Although Apple’s new 12-in. Retina MacBook won’t go on sale for another week, benchmark tests confirmed that it’s considerably slower than the Cupertino, Calif. company’s other thin notebook, the 13-in. MacBook Air. According to a single now-removed score on Primate Labs’ Geekbench, a popular website for benchmarking devices, the MacBook …
Intel today unveiled its first consumer-class solid-state drive (SSD) with a PCI Express 3.0 bus and non-volatile memory express (NVMe) high-speed host controller interface. The new 750 Series SSD’s performance tops out with sequential read/write speeds of up to 2,400MBps and 1,200MBps, respectively. Unlike previous Intel consumer flash products that …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged two longtime friends who illegally profited from insider trading on news of a proposed acquisition of Cooper Tire and Rubber Company by Apollo Tyres Ltd. In a complaint filed in U.S. district court in Connecticut, the SEC filed fraud charges against Amit Kanodia, …
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New U.S. government sanctions targeting the bank accounts of suspected cyberattackers raise questions about due process for people who feel they’re wrongly accused and about how agencies will identify the source of attacks. The new sanctions, announced by President Barack Obama’s administration Wednesday, would allow the U.S. Department of the …
What can Windows 10 teach Linux? Microsoft’s Windows 10 operating system is available as a preview release. One Linux user at Network World decided to take the plunge and see if there was anything Windows 10 had to teach Linux. Bryan Lunduke reports for Network World: Really, I’m asking (myself) …
Google has tried it with Inbox, Microsoft handed Outlook Web App users Delve and now, with Verse, IBM is giving webmail a fresh look as it teaches its venerable Domino mail server new tricks. IBM’s goals with Verse, released Thursday, include eliminating clutter, understanding the user, and blurring the line …
Южнокорейский гигант планирует пополнить бюджетную линейку Galaxy J новым доступным аппаратом. \ В сеть слили информацию, что Galaxy J7 получил дисплей с разрешением 1280 х 720 точек, процессор с ядрами ARM Cortex-A53 и операционную систему Android 5.0.2 Lollipop. Пока нет никакой информации относительно объемов оперативной памяти и внутренней памяти, а также о встроенных камерах …
Apple is facing antitrust scrutiny from the European Commission, which has reportedly sent questionnaires to record labels and music services to gather information about the company’s plans to launch a streaming music service. Apple acquired streaming music service Beats Music in May last year and is said to be developing …