Keep your mobile devices safe Nowadays, when it seems like every week brings news of a new security breach, it seems appropriate to modernize an old saw by saying: You can never be too rich, too thin — or too secure. Most of these security breaches relate to stolen or …
Apple’s CEO Tim Cook was recently named by Fortune magazine as “World’s Greatest Leader,” sure to excite bloggers and Apple fans alike. But that isn’t everything: Bloggers also learned of Cook’s plans to give away the bulk of his personal wealth to charity. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers give credit where …
Several weeks ago, an unknown in the U.S. Chinese firm BLX IC Design was rumored to be looking at purchasing struggling Advanced Micro Devices. Those rumors were quickly dismissed as just that and faded away. Now, a story from a Korean newspaper say Samsung is looking to acquire AMD. The …
The Human Rights Council of the United Nations has voted in favor of a resolution backed by Germany and Brazil to appoint an independent watchdog or ‘special rapporteur’ to monitor privacy rights in the digital age. The council said Thursday that the same rights that people have offline must also …
In 10 years, there may be no need to check Facebook’s site to see what that friend overseas is up to. You might just pick up a pair of goggles, reach out and hold her hand at her birthday party. You won’t have to actually be there. The experience could …
For Web developers, making the jump to building full-fledged smartphone apps can be daunting. Facebook could ease the transition with a newly open-sourced framework its engineers developed to build apps for Apple devices. The React Native framework provides a way to build app user interfaces for Apple iOS devices using …
Finding GPS unreliable in certain situations, the U.S. government is placing a high priority on developing a more reliable real-time position tracking technology whose signals won’t disappear in blind spots and can’t be jammed. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is developing “radically” new technologies to deliver a more advanced …
For centuries in Japan, poets have both lamented and extolled the fleeting beauty of cherry tree blossoms, the quintessential symbol of spring. Today, people are turning to apps instead of verses to enjoy the blooming, which can be as brief as a week. One way to celebrate the blossoms is …
The U.S. government is offering multimillion dollar rewards for information that leads to the arrest or conviction of two alleged Russian hackers. Both were indicted in U.S. courts for their roles in “Carder.ru,” a website and international enterprise that principally operated out of Las Vegas. The site was taken down …
Amazon Cloud Drive is taking the “bang for your buck” throne away from Microsoft with new unlimited cloud storage plans. Amazon’s unlimited plan costs $59.99 per year for all file types. A separate photo-only plan costs just $11.99 per year, and includes an additional 5 GB for other files. Both …
Компания Google всерьез намерена решить проблему в своем веб-браузере Chrome, которая связана с плавностью прокрутки страниц на сенсорных устройствах. Причем помехой не станет даже то, что придется использовать технологии конкурирующей корпорации Microsoft. Об этом сообщает интернет-ресурс The Verge. …
Несмотря на систематические предупреждения правоохранителей в средствах массовой информации о различных видах мошеннических схем, граждане продолжают отдавать свои сбережения аферистам. …
Скорее всего, главным технологическим трендом этого года являются изогнутые грани смартфона. Мода на эту особенность была задана южнокорейским производителем Samsung, который в сентябре показал Galaxy Note Edge. …
The U.S. government is offering multimillion-dollar rewards for information that leads to the arrest or conviction of two alleged Russian hackers. Both were indicted in U.S. courts for their roles in “Carder.ru,” a website and international enterprise that principally operated out of Las Vegas. The site was taken down by …
Finding GPS unreliable in certain situations, the U.S. government is placing a high priority on developing a more reliable real-time position tracking technology whose signals won’t disappear in blind spots and can’t be jammed. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is developing “radically” new technologies to deliver a more advanced …
A federal court has dismissed a lawsuit against Apple over the amount of storage available in mobile devices that come with iOS 8. The district court in San Jose, California, threw out the proposed class-action suit on Wednesday after Apple filed a motion saying the plaintiffs failed to back up …
Toshiba today announced the development of the first 48-layer, three-dimensional flash memory. Based on a vertical stacking technology that Toshiba calls BiCS (Bit Cost Scaling), the new flash memory stores two bits of data per transistor, meaning it’s a multi-level cell (MLC) flash chip. It can store 128Gbits (16GB) per …
В сети появилась информация о намерении компании Waner Bros. Interactive Entertainment оставить PC геймеров без традиционного релиза Batman: Arkham Knight. По неизвестным причинам руководство отказалось выпускать игру в коробке. …
Парламент Великобритании собирается потратить $1,49 миллиона для обеспечения своих коллег ноутбуками и планшетами. …
PDFs are handy for displaying articles and books in a well-designed format. But for data analysis? Not so much. Yet there are times where data you’d like to analyze is only available in a table within a PDF — especially frustrating since odds are, that data began in a much …
U.S. wireless carriers today announced off-contract prices ranging from $600 to $685 for the new 32 GB Samsung Galaxy S6 smartphone and $100 to $129 more in premium pricing for its stylish cousin, the Edge, with both coming to buyers on April 10. April 10 is also the day the …
Не секрет, что Spartan будет браузером по умолчанию в Windows 10. Он использует модифицированную версию движка Trident, который был почти полностью переписан для поддержки новых веб-стандартов, так что это совершенно новый браузер. …
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 …