Microsoft has been nothing if not voracious this year when it comes to acquiring promising young companies, and on Tuesday it snatched up yet another: Datazen Software, which focuses on mobile business intelligence. Datazen’s technology will complement Microsoft’s cloud-based Power BI business-analytics service with mobile BI capabilities that are designed …
The possible acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent of France by Finland-based Nokia would bring together complementary patent portfolios and increase their scale against larger global competitors, analysts said Tuesday. Nokia’s patents primarily cover technology used for communications between smartphones and cell towers equipped with base stations that are provisioned with routers and …
You’ve probably heard about the looming shortage of Internet addresses, even if you’ve never gone looking for one. But depending on what websites you visit and how you get to them, you may be helping to solve it. If you go to Google or Facebook through a major carrier in …
Three MIT grads this week are celebrating the 10th anniversary of their clever SCIgen program, which randomly generates computer science papers realistic enough to get accepted by sketchy technical conferences and publishers, with a brand new tool designed to poke even more fun at such outfits. Just a bit late for …
Microsoft’s upcoming Spartan browser is set to be the first big new release in the desktop browser market for quite some time, upsetting a tentative equilibrium that has existed for roughly the past two years. Broadly speaking, the trend has been that Google Chrome is the new 800-pound gorilla of …
With the release of Nginx Plus Release 6, the latest version of its Web server, Nginx looks to replace everything from hardware load balancing to legacy servers. It makes sense for Nginx to broaden its game and its functionality. The company’s explosive growth among the most heavily trafficked sites is …
An Apple a day keeps the doctor away, unless that doctor is now gathering your health data through your Apple iPhone. Apple is embarking on its boldest push yet into health, with a new open source framework for letting medical researchers and software developers gather health data from iPhone owners …
An Apple a day keeps the doctor away, unless that doctor is now gathering your health data through your Apple iPhone. Apple is embarking on its boldest push yet into health, with a new open source framework for letting medical researchers and software developers gather health data from iPhone owners …
Microsoft released Skype for Business on Tuesday, replacing its older Lync service. And if that sounds a little boring—well, that’s sort of the whole idea. As it signalled last November, Microsoft pulled out its older Lync client and rereleased it as Skype for Business on Tuesday. The new software will …
Few would deny the life-simplifying appeal of a one-stop shopping experience, and that’s just what AOL aims to offer brands in the world of programmatic advertising. The company’s new One by AOL platform, unveiled on Tuesday, promises a consolidated and holistic view of brands’ marketing expenditures and performance across all …
Now that machine-learning algorithms are moving into mainstream computing, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is preparing a way to make it easier to use the technique in everyday programming. In June, MIT researchers will present a new programming language, called Picture, that could radically reduce the amount of coding needed …
Web application attacks, point-of-sale intrusions, cyberespionage and crimeware were the leading causes of confirmed data breaches last year. The findings are based on data collected by Verizon Enterprise Solutions and 70 other organizations from almost 80,000 security incidents and more than 2,000 confirmed data breaches in 61 countries. According to …
Apple sold about 1.2 million Watches in the U.S. last Friday, the kick-off of pre-orders for the wearable, a market research firm estimated. According Palo Alto, Calif.-based Slice Intelligence, 957,000 U.S. customers ordered an average of 1.3 Watches each on April 10, for a total of 1.24 million devices. Those …
Web application attacks, point-of-sale intrusions, cyberespionage and crimeware were the leading causes of confirmed data breaches last year. The findings are based on data collected by Verizon Enterprise Solutions and 70 other organizations from almost 80,000 security incidents and over 2,000 confirmed data breaches in 61 countries. According to Verizon’s …
Chinese security policies are threatening to push foreign businesses out of the country’s IT sector by restricting the way data is stored, according to a U.S. lobbying group. On Tuesday, the American Chamber of Commerce in China issued a report urging the country to change the policies. Increasingly, the Chinese …
The rush is on to sue the U.S. Federal Communications Commission over its net neutrality rules, with three trade groups filing legal challenges Tuesday. The agency now faces five lawsuits related to the regulations. Mobile trade group CTIA, cable trade group the National Cable and Telecommunications Association [NCTA] and the …
RadioShack will press on with its plan to sell its customer data, despite opposition from a number of states. The company has asked a bankruptcy court for approval for a second auction of its assets, which includes the consumer data. The state of Texas, which is leading the action by …
How much would you pay for a Chromebook? If you’re more of a power user (and let’s face it, if you’re reading this, there’s a decent chance that you are), you might be willing to pay a little extra in order to get a nicer and/or more powerful system. If …
Apple today announced that its annual developers conference will run June 8-12, and like last year it will assign tickets with a random drawing. The dates fit with past iterations of Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), which have been held in June, usually early in the month, for years. WWDC …
Are Chromebooks a good choice for non-developers? Chromebooks seem to have wide appeal, as you can tell from the very positive user ratings and reviews in Amazon’s list of bestselling Chromebooks. But one redditor wasn’t sure if a Chromebook was suitable for users who don’t know anything about open source …
Компания Asus работает над часами VivoWatch, которые будут нацелены на фитнес и здоровье, а их автономная работа может продлиться до 10 дней. “Умные” часы получат корпус из нержавеющей стали, влаго- и пылезащитой со стандартом IP67, мониторингом сердцебиения и способностью отслеживать сон своего владельца. Возможно, причиной большой продолжительности автономной работы является черно-белый дисплей с отдельным …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced fraud charges and an asset freeze against a man living in central Texas accused of telling false tales about his stockbroking experience to lure current and former U.S. military personnel into investing with him. The SEC alleges that Leroy Brown Jr. touted his …
Apple and IBM have reached a new agreement to use big data analytics to turn digital health into so much more than a step counter – the conjunction between these and others in the healthcare space will impact every part of health provision. Think on it like a car — …
The biggest smartphone security threats to companies caused by workers come from males under age 35 who earn more than $60,000 a year. Those are the findings of a new study commissioned by Aruba Networks that questioned 11,500 workers in 23 countries. Some of the findings in the survey should …
Former Office chief DelBene returns to Microsoft to head strategy Kurt DelBene, who left Microsoft as president of its Office group in 2013, is coming back to Microsoft as executive vice president of corporate strategy and planning, reporting to CEO Satya Nadella. After leaving Microsoft last time, he did a …
Sharp has developed a 5.5-inch display with 3860 x 2160 pixel resolution, which is equivalent to “ultra high definition,” also known as 4K. The prototype LCD display, which could be used in smartphones in the future, has a pixel density of 806 pixels per inch (ppi) and was shown last …