Microsoft has increased by a factor of eight the maximum size of OS drives that can run on its Azure cloud, hoping to get enterprises to migrate more workloads. Microsoft is methodically launching new services and adding features to Azure to make the platform more competitive and a better fit …
Back in the dark ages, when the only way to get onscreen entertainment was by tuning in a television set at a specific time (get home late? miss your favorite show? too bad for you!), networks had a habit of scheduling similar shows opposite each other. The notion was presumably, …
Uber keeps crashing into laws and regulations in Europe, but it’s keeping the foot on the accelerator. Following raids in Belgium and France, Dutch authorities raided Uber’s Amsterdam office on Thursday as part of an investigation into the ride-hailing service UberPop, which a court ruled illegal in the Netherlands. The …
The European Commission plans a competition inquiry into cross-border trading by companies such as Amazon.com. The inquiry, proposed by Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager on Thursday, will focus on possible restrictions on cross-border purchases, by which companies prevent people from buying goods in other European Union countries. One of the founding …
Cisco Systems released firmware updates for several routers and switches that run its IOS and IOS XE software in order to fix flaws in their autonomic networking infrastructure (ANI) feature. ANI is an automatic device management feature that allows Cisco IOS devices to securely join a domain and be configured …
Cisco Systems released firmware updates for several routers and switches that run its IOS and IOS XE software in order to fix flaws in their autonomic networking infrastructure (ANI) feature. ANI is an automatic device management feature that allows Cisco IOS devices to securely join a domain and be configured …
The Internet of Things is mostly about achieving greater scale, but in the case of an upcoming demonstration project, it will show how electrical grids can work at a smaller scale. The testbed announced Thursday by the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) will bring together software and other components for microgrids, …
Facebook lawsuit says it stole data center design Facebook is being sued by a British engineering company that claims the social network stole its technique for building data centers and is encouraging others to do the same through the Open Compute Project. BladeRoom Group says it contacted Facebook in 2011 …
Nokia – не единственная компания из Финляндии, которая работает над выпуском планшетных компьютеров. Eve, производитель мобильных устройств, анонсировал интересную новинку – планшет под названием T1, который выполнен в 8-дюймовом форм-факторе и работает на базе Windows 8.1. За планшет придется выложить €159, при этом он имеет простой 8-дюймовый дисплей с разрешением 1280 х 800 точек и процессор Intel Bay Trail …
At Facebook’s F8 conference yesterday, founder Mark Zuckerberg was trying to convey his thoughts about Facebook Messenger: It is now the end-all-be-all of everyone’s existence. No, he really didn’t say that, but Zuck and company made it clear to attendees and the world-at-large, that Facebook no longer considers Messenger a …
Several state consumer protection agencies in the U.S. have joined the state of Texas in objecting in bankruptcy court to the proposed sale by RadioShack of personal information of its customers. In a filing Wednesday, the state of Texas said it had received support from 21 governmental consumer protection entities …
If you have a hankering to learn programming, but don’t have the time or money to invest in going back to school to get a computer science degree, there are lots of free options to help you pick up some coding (and other CS) skills. For example, you could take …
Китайские производители мобильных устройств начали выпускать смартфоны со новым встроенным портом стандарта USB C. Одним из первых аппаратов стал Innos D600. Кроме нового стандарта USB, Innos D600 получил довольно внушительную батарею, емкость которой достигает не мысленных 6000 mAh! Которые ранее не получал до сих пор ни один смартфон. Учитывая огромную емкость …
Похоже, что HTC планирует в ближайшее время выпустить следующий смартфон в серии HTC Butterfly. Согласно источникам, HTC Butterfly 3 будет представлен в Японии в Апреле и будет доступен в сетях мобильного оператора KDDI. Напомним, что предыдущая модель, HTC Butterfly 2, был оборудован Full HD дисплеем, а новый аппарат может получить …
Several state consumer protection agencies in the U.S. have joined the state of Texas in objecting in bankruptcy court to the proposed sale by RadioShack of personal information of its customers. In a filing Wednesday, the state of Texas said it had received support from 21 governmental consumer protection entities …
Foxconn Technology Group isn’t satisfied with just making iPhones, and plans to break into the information security market through an upcoming joint venture. On Thursday, the Taiwanese manufacturing giant announced it would set up in May a joint venture with Korea’s SK C&C, an IT services provider, to develop information …
Facebook’s Like button is a pervasive feature of the Web, a way to gauge the popularity of a website or piece of content. But researchers have found it’s easy to inflate the numbers, undermining its value as an accurate measure of popularity. The problem of bogus Likes has been around …
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said its decision not to prosecute Google over its search practices was in line with the recommendations of its staff. The statement issued Wednesday by FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez and Commissioners Julie Brill and Maureen Ohlhausen was in response to the leak of an internal …
Facebook-owned WhatsApp, the popular mobile messaging and calling service, has no immediate plans to offer tools to outside developers to let them build services on top of it. Doing so could potentially introduce unwanted content into the app, slow it down, and disrupt the flow of one-to-one messages and interactions …
In a move that could help spread IoT (Internet of Things) devices, Fujitsu has developed a thin, flexible IoT beacon that can send out location and ID information to smartphones and other mobile devices. Measuring 2.5 millimeters thick and weighing 3 grams, the beacon is mounted on an elastic silicone …
According to a new report from Menlo Security, one out of three of the top million websites are either vulnerable to hacking or already hacked. For example, attackers used the Forbes.com website last month for a quick watering hole attack. According to Dallas-based research firm iSIGHT Partners, Inc., the attack …
В данное момент тестируется бета-версия нового интернет-обозревателя компании “Яндекс“. Старт функционирования альфа-теста начался в ноябре 2014 года. Теперь любому желающему будет доступна новая версия современного браузера “Яндекс“. После проведения тестов уже проводятся исправления ошибок. Главной особенностью обновленного браузера является то, что пользователю будет дана возможность вернуться к классической версии “Яндекс“-обозревателя, даже если он уже произвел обновление. …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today adopted final rules to facilitate smaller companies’ access to capital. The new rules provide investors with more investment choices. The new rules update and expand Regulation A, an existing exemption from registration for smaller issuers of securities. The rules are mandated by Title IV …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today proposed rule amendments to require that broker-dealers trading in off-exchange venues become members of a national securities association. The amendments would enhance regulatory oversight of active proprietary trading firms, such as high frequency traders. “This proposal embodies a simple but powerful principle of the …
Новый смартфон производства Xiaomi прошел тестирование и первые его результаты появились на сайте GFX Benchmarks, где также засветились и некоторые спецификации смартфона Xiaomi Ferrari. Новинка получила 4.9-дюймовый дисплей с разрешением 1920 на 1080 точек и функционирует под управлением мобильной операционной системы Android 5.0.2 LolliPop. Построен смартфон на базе 1.6-Гигагерцового процессора с …
Так как Windows не самая популярная платформа для мобильных устройствах, компания Microsoft пытается продвигать свое ПО на конкурирующих системах. В частности, на этой неделе было объявлено, что набор ПО Office будет предлагаться по умолчанию на планшеты от Samsung, Dell и ряда других производителей. Samsung уже имеет опыт подобного сотрудничества с Microsoft. На выставке MWC 2015 было объявлено, что …