Salesforce.com has acquired Toopher, the developer of a mobile two-factor authentication app that uses location-awareness. Toopher in Austin, Texas, said on its website that it will no longer sell its current products, but is “thrilled to join Salesforce, where we’ll work on delivering the Toopher vision on a much larger …
The unique attack method used to disrupt the code-sharing site GitHub over the last week could have been prevented if more websites enabled encryption, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) said Wednesday. The attack against GitHub was enabled by someone tampering with regular website traffic to unrelated Chinese websites, all of …
The unique attack method used to disrupt the code-sharing site GitHub over the last week could have been prevented if more websites enabled encryption, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) said Wednesday. The attack against GitHub was enabled by someone tampering with regular website traffic to unrelated Chinese websites, all of …
That two law enforcement agents allegedly stole Bitcoins while investigating the Silk Road underground marketplace indicates fundamental flaws in the government’s February conviction of Ross Ulbricht as the mastermind of the operation, Ulbricht’s lawyer asserted Wednesday. “The government’s considerable efforts at keeping this monumental scandal from being aired at Ross …
Переход торговли, финансовых сервисов и других услуг в онлайн-пространство провоцирует создание новых способов идентификации личности в сети. Вместо традиционных паспортов, водительских прав, или именных платежных карт специалисты предлагают использовать профили в социальных сетях. …
Про це пише Business Insider з посиланням на інтерв’ю колишнього працівника Центру. …
Windows 7 last month powered nearly two-thirds of all personal computers running a version of Microsoft’s OS, according to an analytics company. Net Applications’ monthly user share tracking — an estimate of the percentage of all systems that rely on a specific operating system — pegged Windows 7 at 63.7% …
Смартфон удивительная штука. Если ничего с ним не делать, он может держать заряд хоть неделю, хоть месяц. Но в большинстве случаев батареи в нем едва хватает на сутки. Тем не менее, существуют способы снизить потребление энергии и тем самым продлить время автономной работы смартфона. …
The Apple Watch supports Apple Pay, but it’s unlikely that the smartwatch, coming April 24, will significantly boost the number of mobile payments made by U.S. customers. “Apple Watch will mostly overlap with the same people” using Apple Pay on iPhones, said Leon Majors, senior vice president of Phoenix Marketing …
North Carolina is considering “religious objection” legislation similar to Indiana, a move that could raise the stakes for the tech industry firms battling these laws. North Carolina is a major technology center and home to one of the leading research areas in the United States. The Research Triangle Park just …
Как и другие представители мобильной индустрии, компания Microsoft решила не оставаться в стороне от первоапрельского веселья. Австралийское подразделение софтверного гиганта разместило в Twitter-аккаунте изображение неких таинственных часов. …
An enterprise mobility partnership between Apple and IBM has yielded more iPhone and iPad apps, including the first ones for the health care industry and industrial production management. Under an agreement announced last July, the two companies develop enterprises mobile apps together, and IBM sells and supports Apple hardware. The …
Команда CD Projekt поделилась хорошими новостями с обладателями не совсем передовых персональных компьютеров. По словам разработчиков The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, опробовать заключительную часть серии Ведьмака смогут даже обладатели относительно слабых компьютеров. …
Do you want a Raspberry Pi 2 laptop? A new hardware kit coming from Pi-Top will help you build one at home in a matter of minutes. The popular US$35 Raspberry Pi 2 is an uncased computer that is already being used in drones, robots, gadgets, tablets and even desktops. …
В базах данных сертификации беспроводного оборудования Bluetooth и Wi-Fi появилась информация о новой модели портативной игровой консоли Shield, которую в скором времени может представить компания NVIDIA. …
Facebook has released a new app for making videos that it thinks can win over the competition by allowing collaboration among friends. The company on Wednesday released Riff, a mobile app that lets people create short videos and then share them with friends. A video creation and sharing app alone …
Cisco plans to beef up its SDN [software-defined networking] technology by acquiring Embrane, a startup with an architecture for virtualized network appliances. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Cisco is already an investor in Embrane, which is based in Santa Clara, California, near Cisco headquarters. The acquisition is expected …
Китайские разработчики из OnePlus выпустили для смартфонов на базе Android 4.3 и выше погодное приложение из грядущей операционной системы OxygenOS. Это значит, что хоть выпуск официальной прошивки OxygenOS немного отсрочили, некоторые её элементы уже готовы для тестирования. …
A wireless charging start-up says it has developed a chipset that easily integrates with mobile devices to allow them to charge from existing Wi-Fi and Bluetooth transmitters. Ossia originally announced its Cota wireless charging technology, in 2013, saying the antenna and chipset could receive power from wireless transmissions up to …
The latest chapter in RadioShack’s bankruptcy drama brings a bit of good news for past customers and current employees. For now, RadioShack has agreed not to auction off its trove of more than 65 million customer names and mailing addresses and 13 million email addresses, the Dallas Business Journal reports. …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged the owner and chief executive of a North Carolina business with defrauding a publicly-traded telecommunications company and its shareholders during and after its acquisition of his business. The executive, Timothy Scronce, agreed to settle the charges against him without admitting or denying the …
If every business is now a software business, as the saying goes, then many companies might benefit by automating their routines for creating and updating the software that keeps them in business. A new product from the open source configuration management software provider Chef, called Chef Delivery, is designed to …
На днях мы сообщали, что Samsung планирует использовать в некоторых мобильных устройствах технологию биометрической идентификации Iris on the Move (IOM), предусматривающую сканирование радужной оболочки глаза. Соответствующую аппаратную платформу предоставит фирма SRI International. Теперь стало известно, что Samsung рассматривает и другие средства биометрической проверки личности пользователей. …
Корпорация Microsoft представила новые приложения “Музыка” и “Видео” для персональных компьютеров под управлением готовящейся к релизу операционной системы Windows 10. Компания полностью ушла от использования бренда Xbox в этих приложениях, делая акцент на том, что они предназначены для всех устройств под управлением Windows. Пользователи тестовой версии Windows 10 Technical Preview …
Смартфон Samsung Galaxy Alpha появился на рынке в конце прошлого года и в отличие от большинства премиальных устройств южнокорейской компании до сих пор не получил обновление до Android 5.0 Lollipop. …
U.S. President Barack Obama has signed an executive order authorizing the U.S. government to impose sanctions on people, organizations and governments that partake in “malicious cyber-enabled activities” that harm the country. “The same technologies that help keep our military strong are used by hackers in China and Russia to target …