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, …
До официальной презентации смартфона HTC One M9 Plus осталось менее недели. А для того, чтобы скоротать время до анонса, китайские источники опубликовали несколько официальных промо-материалов, посвященных этому гаджету. Вы не встретите имя HTC One M9 Plus ни на одном из этих изображений, но слоган “More then One” (Больше, чем One) говорит …
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 …
The Mozilla Foundation plans to reject new digital certificates issued by the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) in its products, but will continue to trust certificates that already exist. The move will follow a similar decision announced Wednesday by Google and is the result of CNNIC, a certificate authority …
Samsung выпустила твердотельные накопители, которые выполнены в новом формфакторе 850 EVO SSD. Новинки получили названия 850 EVO M.2 и 850 EVO mSATA SSD и обладают технологией Samsung 3D V-NAND, которая гарантирует лучшую производительность. Предназначенные для ультратонких компьютеров, твердотельные накопители M.2 and mSATA по весу составляют всего одну десятую от традиционных 2.5-дюймовых SSD-накопителей и используют 3-битную технологию …
Chip maker Broadcom wants to increase the number of devices that can accept mobile payments with a new microcontroller for PCs and Internet of Things products. Smartphones and smartwatches with mobile payment functions are getting most of the attention, but increasing the number terminals that can process the payments is …
Chipmaker Broadcom wants to increase the number of devices that can accept mobile payments with a new microcontroller for PCs and IoT products. Smartphones and smartwatches with mobile payment functions are getting most of the attention, but increasing the number terminals that can process the payments is equally important. The …
Obama authorizes sanctions against hackers The White House has added another weapon to the U.S. government’s arsenal in its fight against hackers, with an executive order signed by President Obama authorizing sanctions against hackers who harm critical infrastructure, or expose personal information and trade secrets. The order allows the government …
A Chinese Internet administrator blasted Google on Thursday, after the U.S. search giant decided to stop recognizing digital certificates issued by the group following a security lapse. “The decision that Google has made is unacceptable and unintelligible,” China’s Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) said in an online posting. Google’s decision …
Let this serve as a lesson: Looks can be deceiving. Samsung has introduced two new phones in its Galaxy line, and it’s interesting to compare the two. Samsung’s Galaxy S6 is a gorgeous phone that’s both beautiful and brimming with top-notch technology. It really is an impressive device. The Galaxy …
I never thought I’d say this, but here we go: Samsung is about to release a beautifully designed phone. It’s true: The company long criticized for chintzy devices with cheap-looking plastics has finally upped its game. The Galaxy S6, launching on all the major U.S. carriers on April 10, is …
This big insurance company always has multiple big software projects going at the same time, reports a pilot fish working there as an on-site software contractor. “I was on one project, and the woman across the aisle from me was on another,” fish says. “I knew from talking with her …
After a hiatus of eleven years, the EU is reportedly set to take a huge, powerful, American technology company to court for alleged antitrust violations. Microsoft again? Nope. This time the apple (not yet, anyway) of the EU’s antitrust eye is trained firmly on Google. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers feel …