Представленный в конце марта 2015 года планшет Surface 3 имеет те же размеры и дизайн, что и у предшествующих моделей Microsoft. Однако вместо процессора ARM и платформы Windows RT новинка получила аппаратно-программный тандем из Intel Atom и Windows 8.1 (ОС можно будет обновить до Windows 10). Мнением о конкурентоспособности этой …
Компания Samsung создала специальное подразделение, которое будет работать исключительно с конкурентом компании, с Apple. Об этом сообщает Reuters. …
Компания Microsoft продолжает пополнять своими продуктами рынок доступных аппаратов, и очередным из них становится аппарат Lumia 540 Dual SIM, который появится на прилавках определенных рынков. Как видно в названии, он поддерживает работу двух SIM-карт. Смартфон построен на базе 1.2-Гигагерцового процессора с четырьмя вычислительными ядрами Qualcomm Snapdragon 200; объем оперативной памяти – 1 Гб, на встроенном …
Cегодня в Лондоне китайская компания Huawei представила смартфон Huawei P8. Аппарат с поддержкой LTE и двух карт SIM использует процессор с восемью ядрами Cortex-A53 – Kirin 930 разработки Huawei. Объем оперативной памяти составляет 3 Гб, встроенной — 16 ГБ или 64 ГБ. Расширить встроенный накопитель возможно расширить за счет слота microSD. 5.2-дюймовый дисплей P8 типа IPS получил разрешение Full HD с плотностью 424 пикселя …
Researchers in Silicon Valley have developed insect-size robots that can manufacture microstructures that are too small and complex to be built by current machinery or by hand. The robots are part of work by SRI International into next-generation manufacturing technology funded by the Defense Advanced Projects Agency (DARPA), the U.S. …
Google received a U.S. patent this week for technology that would enable it to use the cloud to control an army of robots. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Tuesday issued a patent to the Mountain View, Calif. company for methods and systems associated with managing and giving tasks …
VMware is combining iOS and Android encryption features with its own network virtualization platform to offer more secure access to enterprise applications and resources. Today, organizations typically provide mobile users access through a secure VPN gateway connection into the data center where applications and data reside. But while this perimeter-based …
An IT worker is accusing Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) of discriminating against American workers and favoring “South Asians” in hiring and promotion. It’s backing up its complaint, in part, with numbers. The lawsuit, filed this week in federal court in San Francisco, claims that 95% of the 14,000 people Tata …
Researchers at NASA and the University of California at Berkeley are developing a robot that’s robust enough to be dropped directly onto planets and go straight to work. Current missions to Mars have been complex affairs, typically using parachutes to guide robots and their delicate scientific instruments down to the …
Microsoft yesterday updated the preview of Office 2016 for the Mac, fixing bugs and improving performance and stability. The Redmond, Wash. company debuted Office 2016 for OS X in six weeks ago. According to a change log posted by Microsoft, Tuesday’s update touched all four applications included in the preview: …
IKEA has launched its Wireless Charging collection of furniture, which has built-in Qi-enabled wireless chargers for compatible mobile phones. In addition to offering bedside tables, floor- and table lamps, desks and simple charging pads, IKEA is also selling a DIY kit that lets users embed wireless chargers into furniture of …
Automakers are constantly adding new tech features to cars, but it can be hard to stay on top of the news. These ten innovations in current (or soon to debut) cars and trucks provide a few extra safety and convenience benefits. They show that technology rarely stands still, especially if …
Storm, a top-level Apache project, is a Java framework designed to help programmers write real-time applications that run on Hadoop clusters. Designed at Twitter, Storm excels at processing high-volume message streams to collect metrics, detect patterns or take actions when certain conditions in the stream are detected. Typically Storm scenarios …
Twitter, in an effort to attract new users, is turning its home page into a portal for news and content around dozens of topics. Twitter.com has been redesigned to make content posted to the site more accessible to people who do not have accounts with the service. Those people can …
Microsoft is equipping its Azure cloud service with a tool to debug PHP-based Web applications that are running on the platform. The service “offers in-depth insight into how an application is performing,” said Andi Gutmans, who is the CEO of Zend Technologies and one of the original developers of PHP. …
XYZprinting has been making hay by offering some of the most affordable consumer plug-and-play 3D printers, shipping 30,000 of its da Vinci model machines last year. Its latest — the da Vinci Junior 1.0 — was released today and is the smallest and least expensive yet. Make no mistake, though, …
The term ‘disruption’ gets tossed about a lot — too often — in the technology industry. But it isn’t always hype. Backed by nearly half a billion dollars in investment, CEO Scott Dietzen and Pure Storage are hard at work disrupting a big chunk of the enterprise storage market owned …
In an effort to boost its mobile offerings, Yahoo is reportedly finishing up a deal to buy Foursquare. Foursquare’s search app can be used to as a local city guide to find shops, restaurants and other points of interest. The startup also created the social networking app Swarm, which allows …
With the Social Security Administration estimating that each day for the next 15 years, an average of 10,000 Americans will turn 65, the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) today issued a report to help broker-dealers assess, craft, or refine their …
With the upcoming Surface 3, Microsoft is ending experimentation and bringing back hardware and OS consistency across its line of tablets, hoping that consumers and businesses will find a lot to like. The Surface 3 is radically different than its predecessor, Surface 2, which had an ARM processor and the …
Automated teller machines have been around for decades, but surprisingly few changes have been made to the technologies that run them. That’s about to change. NCR on Wednesday rolled out new software that will transform ATMs to use the cloud with Android and a thin-client model of computing. The result, …
Adobe Systems released security patches for ColdFusion, Flex and Flash Player, the latter addressing a flaw for which an exploit is already available. The Flash Player updates, namely Flash Player 17.0.0.169 for Windows and Mac, Flash Player 11.2.202.457 for Linux and Flash Player Extended Support Release 13.0.0.281, address a total …
The European Commission might have a hard time proving that Google abused its supposed dominant market power in the European search market. The Commission, the European Union’s executive and regulatory arm, filed official antitrust charges against Google on Wednesday after a five-year investigation. Google is alleged to have systematically favored …
“Apparently, hackers really do still party like it’s 1999,” Verizon said in its 2015 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) regarding how often really old vulnerabilities are exploited and result in data breaches. But the real problem is you. It’s me. It’s each and every one of us as the breakdown …
This month Microsoft has released 11 updates, with four rated as critical and the remaining seven rated as important. At first glance, this looks like another large update release from Microsoft, similar to last month’s massive release of 15 patches. However, if you are running a modern Microsoft platform (Windows …
Oracle released patches for 98 security issues across a wide range of products, including 14 in Java. This marks the last free patch for Java 7, and users are being encouraged to upgrade to version 8. Three of the Java vulnerabilities patched Tuesday have the maximum severity score of 10 …