The financial news for Blackberry is potentially bad this week, as it has been for most of the past few years. Some analysts are predicting that the Canadian company will post losses of as much as 7 cents per share, though the consensus seems to be closer to 3 cents. …
With NTVS (Node.js Tools 1.0 for Visual Studio) released Wednesday, Microsoft is enabling its Windows software development platform for use as a Node.js IDE. NTVS is a free, open source extension for Visual Studio 2012 and 2013, the free Visual Studio Community and Visual Studio Express for Web editions, and …
As a further sign of its efforts to open up its platforms and support customers with mixed shops, Microsoft today updated Azure Site Recovery to allow it to be used with VMware virtual machines (VMs) and physical servers using Azure in addition to the Hyper-V VMs it already supports. The …
Microsoft has again changed the lexicon it wants others to use to describe the apps that run on Windows. In a presentation last week at WinHEC, Don Box, a Microsoft distinguished engineer, spelled out the new labels: “Windows apps” and “Windows desktop applications.” “In Windows 10, we have this notion …
Facebook doesn’t want to simply build a virtual reality game where users put on a headset and pretend they’re flying a jet or commanding a tank. Facebook engineers and scientists say they can blur the lines between virtual reality (VR) and reality. During today’s keynote on the second day of …
Facebook has open-sourced ComponentKit, its React-inspired framework for iOS. Facebook says ComponentKit is a native Objective-C++ view framework with a declarative, functional approach to building a UI. “We use this inside of our own Facebook [iOS] app to power News Feed and the other products within the app,” said James …
IBM намерена делиться своими технологиями с китайскими производителями и стимулировать тем самым развитие местной технологической индустрии. Об этом сообщает агентство “Рейтер” со ссылкой на генерального директора американской корпорации Вирджинию Рометти (Virginia Rometty). …
Corporate travelers should be warned that a Wi-Fi router commonly used in hotels is easily compromised, putting guests passwords at risk and opening up their computers to malware infections and direct attacks. The good news is that there is a patch for the flaw, but there is no guarantee affected …
Известная своей консервативностью компания Nintendo долгое время игнорировала такие перспективные возможности, как платные DLC и условно-бесплатная бизнес-модель, а также мобильные проекты. …
В мобильный мессенджер Facebook планируется добавить новые опции, пишет The Wall Street Journal. В частности, это бронирование, отслеживание онлайн-заказов и пересылка пользовательских видео. …
The first glance at the future of Office for Windows is here, in the form of the Office 2016 IT Pro and Developer Preview. It’s the initial public iteration of the suite that will be released sometime in the second half of 2015, so at this point it’s very much …
Корпорация Panasonic сообщила о том, что её североамериканское подразделение открывает безвозмездный доступ к ряду технологий и разработок с целью ускорения развития инфраструктуры «Интернета вещей» (IoT). …
Consumers seem to be coming out on top as a growing number of European telecom and cable operators offer discounted mobile subscriptions as a bonus for choosing other services. Bundles with broadband, telephony and TV across fixed and mobile networks are becoming increasingly important for operators across the continent. The …
Слухи о продаже компании AMD возникали в прессе неоднократно, но пока ни один из них не подтвердился. Окажется ли правдой новая информация о том, что Samsung намерена приобрести американского производителя процессоров, пока неизвестно. …
Nigeria, Africa’s largest telecom market, has joined the list of countries on the continent that will impose prison sentences on officials at mobile operators that continually fail to deliver quality services to customers. Tanzania and Zambia are among African countries imposing prison sentences on mobile operators who do not provide …
The White House has released a memo intended to give clarity over how businesses may use the temporary L-1 work visa, a document derided by critics of the H-1B visa. The memo was previewed on Monday by President Obama who, speaking at an economic development conference, said the changes “could …
Standard consumer SSDs will increase up to an astounding 10TB of storage, thanks to a new type of 3D NAND flash memory that Intel and Micron introduced Thursday morning. The two companies, longtime joint partners in NAND flash development, said the breakthrough isn’t to make larger flash chips, but thicker …
В январе на выставке CES 2015 корпорация Intel представила мини-компьютер Compute Stick. Это устройство, внешне напоминающее обычный USB-брелок, можно подключить к любому монитору или телевизору через разъём HDMI, получив Windows-систему. Теперь сообщается, что Intel готовит более мощные модификации Compute Stick. …
A group of U.S. lawmakers has reintroduced legislation aimed at encouraging government agencies to give up their spectrum by allowing the agencies to share in the profits when the spectrum is auctioned to commercial mobile carriers. The Federal Spectrum Incentive Act, introduced in both the Senate and the House of …
A slew of tech companies have joined privacy groups in calling for the U.S. government to reform its surveillance practices. An open letter from the tech industry and privacy organizations urges the government to not renew the provision in the Patriot Act that allows for the bulk collection of metadata. …
Another day, another data breach. Now it is Kreditech‘s turn in the spotlight, an unfortunate development for a startup that specializes in lending to “unbanked” consumers. The Hamburg, Germany-based company is the subject of a post by Krebs On Security, a blog by security researcher Brian Krebs. He has discovered …
If you’ve got tons of digital photos and music that are a headache to back up, Amazon wants to interest you in two new storage services designed to ease home backups and archiving. The company’s new Unlimited Everything plan provides what promises to be unlimited storage for US$59.99 per year. …
Вчера, 25 марта, была взломана биткоин-биржа Cryptoine. В результате взлома злоумышленники похитили содержимое «горячих» кошельков. В частности, были выведены такие монеты, как: Bitcoin, Litecoin, Urocoin, Dogecoin, Bitcoinscrypt, Magi, Darkcoin, Dogecoindark и Cannabis. …
GNOME 3.16 released The GNOME desktop has certainly had its share of ups and downs over the last few years. Some users fell out of love with it, while others remained faithful to the vision of the GNOME developers. But now version 3.16 has been released, and it offers lots …
Smartphones, tablets and PCs are about to get a whole lot more storage capacity thanks to new 3D flash chips from Intel and Micron that cram more bits into a smaller space. With the 3D NAND chips, which started shipping Thursday, solid-state drives with more than 10TB of storage are …
В течение последних нескольких месяцев Голливуд прилагал немало усилий, пытаясь заставить компанию Netflix ограничить VPN-пользователям доступ к своим сервисам. И хотя руководство интернет-сервиса выполняет требования правообладателей, исполнительный директор компании Рид Хастингс (Reed Hastings) считает, что проблему можно решить другими способами, сообщает портал TorrentFreak. …