Bloomberg blamed a “combination of hardware and software failures” for a two-hour outage that affected users of its popular data and messaging terminals. The problems, which began at 8:20 am (3:20 a.m. EDT) Friday, prevented thousands of traders and investors from carrying out trading activity. The company said it identified …
Could 15 minutes of exercise save you 15% on your life insurance? If you sign up with John Hancock, it could. The company has become the first to offer ratepayers a discount when they use Fitbit wristbands that enable exercise tracking. For years now, consumers have been able to plug …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that its Equity Market Structure Advisory Committee will hold its first meeting on May 13. The meeting will focus on Rule 611 of SEC Regulation NMS, known as the “Order Protection Rule” or “Trade-through Rule.” Rule 611 requires trading centers to have policies …
Apple Pay is poised to cross the border into Canada this fall, but some Canadian banks are reportedly concerned that Apple wants a bigger cut of each transaction than it takes in the U.S. The Canadian banks negotiating with Apple are Royal Bank of Canada, Toronto-Dominion Bank, Bank of Nova …
With updates for both the core Docker engine and its registry software, Docker has endeavored to make its popular software container technology faster to deploy and easier to manage. Docker Engine 1.6 and the Docker Registry 2.0, both released Thursday, work together to simplify the process of managing Docker containers, …
Virtual reality has come a long way: put on a headset and you can peer into an alien world or feel like you’re laying on a beach in Jamaica. But interacting with that world—reaching out your hand to pick up a virtual object on the screen—still has a long way …
Крупнейший онлайн-аукцион eBay и платежная система PayPal подтвердили свое намерение разрешить принимать BITCOIN-платежи через процессинговую систему Braintree. Компанию Braintree купила компания eBay в 2013 году за 800 млн долларов. Теперь Braintree стала частью новой структуры – PayPal Holdings. О создании данной организации было заявлено комиссии по ценным бумагам и биржам …
Facebook has tripled its detection and elimination of “fake” likes, which can artificially inflate a brand’s prominence on the site and deceive users, the company said on Friday. Facebook began improving its processes for eliminating fake likes this past October. They’re a real problem for the site, because they can …
Attacks against industrial control systems doubled last year, according to a new report from Dell. “We have over a million firewalls sending data to us on a minute-by-minute basis,” said John Gordineer, director of product marketing for network security at Dell. “We anonymize the data and see interesting trends.” In …
Call me a data snob, but I’ve got mixed feelings about putting easy, automated analysis into the hands of people who may not totally grasp the limits of what gets spit back. But for better or worse, that’s the promise of BeyondCore Apps for Office — a slimmed-down version of …
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission approved Friday what some commissioners called a “historic” plan to allow private mobile broadband services to share spectrum with incumbent military users. The FCC voted to approve its so-called Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) plan to open up wireless frequencies from 3550MHz to 3700MHz to …
Testers running Windows 10’s preview must keep the OS relatively up to date or face a bricked PC that won’t boot. The first three builds of Windows 10 Technical Preview — 9841, 9860 and 9879, all released in 2014 — will refuse to boot at the end of April, according …
The U.S. government is making it clear to federal employees what they can and cannot post or tweet about on their favorite social networks. It’s an idea that enterprises should note and use to put their own guidelines in place, according to industry analysts. The U.S. Office of Government Ethics …
Google is decluttering its mobile search results page by getting rid of lengthy URLs. Instead of seeing the web address for subdomains, you’ll be greeted with breadcrumbs, which are links that take you to specific sections of a website. You’ll now find those listed right under a site’s name (pictured) …
The Windows 10 Technical Preview has been out for a few months along with various blogs, articles and presentations. There is a lot out there for both businesses and PC users to digest. Let me give you my Top 10 – not meant to be comprehensive of everything new in …
Investors this week poured at least $350 million into cloud computing companies focused on everything from security to Hadoop clusters to industry-specific apps. Funding of cloud computing companies is showing no sign of abating this year. A few weeks back we rounded up 5 other cloud companies that scored a …
Increasingly, computers are deciding what news stories we read, and may even end up teaching our children to speak. But whether we should allow them to is becoming the subject of a heated debate related to the use of algorithms. Algorithms are pieces of code that, much like a recipe, …
The Samsung Galaxy S6 is now the benchmark for high-end smartphones running Android, but there are lots of challengers, including the new P8 from Huawei Technologies. The two smartphone vendors have had many of the same goals when building their respective smartphones, including improving the looks and the cameras. But …
Forge.mil and the US military The US military has become more and more interested in open source software. Forge.mil is one of the latest achievements in the US military’s move toward open source inside its various branches. Chris Nimmer reports for Opensource.com: Forge.mil was founded based on the success of …
French senators have amended a stodgy economics bill with a rider that would require Google to advertise three competitors on its homepage, but stops short of explicitly requiring the search engine to disclose its algorithms. The amendment, added Thursday to an economic growth, activity and equality bill, calls for any …
Одной из самых популярных прошивок мобильной платформы Android является Cyanogen. Компания, при такой большой зависимости от платформы Android, не прочь несколько отдалиться от влияния Google. Это может означать утрату сервисов Google, вроде Google Maps или Gmail, но компенсировать их недостаток поможет другой гигант IT-индустрии. Cyanogen сообщила о заключении стратегического партнерства с корпорацией Microsoft, в результате чего …
Hoping to move new applications to the cloud, Amazon has launched a new virtual server with four high-end GPUs, while Microsoft has made its SSD-based storage offering generally available. Amazon and Microsoft have methodically been launching new services and adding features to EC2 and Azure, respectively, to make the platforms …
WikiLeaks front-man Julian Assange has provisionally agreed to be interviewed by police in London as part of a Swedish investigation into allegations against him of sexual molestation and unlawful coercion, the Swedish prosecutor said Friday. The Swedish Prosecution Authority had wanted Assange to return to Sweden for an interview and …
Four months after Yahoo closed a deal with Mozilla to make its search engine the default in Firefox in the U.S., Yahoo has managed to hold onto most of the share it grabbed from Google. In the last two months, however, Yahoo’s U.S. search share has slipped slightly, losing three-tenths …
Компания Toshiba сообщила о выпуске нового лэптопа, ориентированного на корпоративного клиента – Pertege R30. Новинка получила тонкий и легкий корпус, выполненный из прочного материала со сплавом магния. Размер жидкокристаллического экрана по диагонали составляет 13.3 дюйма с разрешением 1366 × 768 точек; построен ноутбук на базе 2.4-Гигагерцового процессора Intel Core i3-4000M; объем оперативной …
Скандальный питерский депутат Виталий Милонов заявил, что специалистам фонда «Сколково» надо создать гомофобную операционную систему для смартфонов. Новая платформа станет ответом на iOS и помощника Siri. Напомним, что компания Apple выпустила платформу iOS 8.3, где Siri заговорила на русском и некоторые высказывания получили много критических замечаний, а уже 14 апреля во избежание дальнейших …