Только вчера компания Microsoft объявила о расширении партнёрских отношений с Samsung, в рамках которых на некоторых планшетах корейского производителя будут предустановлены приложения и сервисы от гиганта из Редмонда. …
Whether it’s two, five or 10 years from now, virtual reality technology may change the way people play and communicate on social networks. Virtual reality is among the topics that Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and CEO of Facebook, is expected to talk about today, the second day of the company’s annual …
Not to be outdone by the iPhone 6 Plus, Chinese vendor ZTE has come out with its own high-end phablet, the Nubia Z9 Max—an aluminum smartphone with a feature-packed camera. The Android phone, unveiled Thursday, is slated to come to China first, but the company plans to bring it to …
Корпорация Microsoft разрабатывает недорогой планшет, работающий под управлением операционной системы Windows 8.1, сообщает WinBeta. Устройство характеризуется как «преемник Surface RT и Surface 2, но базирующийся на полноценной операционной системе», подчеркивает издание. Под полноценной ОС подразумевается система, позволяющая запускать приложения, написанные для Windows 7. …
One of every seven Windows PCs will be running Microsoft’s new Project Spartan browser within a year of the firm launching Windows 10 this summer, according to historical data from a Web metrics company. The calculations by Computerworld, based on operating system and browser user share statistics from Net Applications, …
Watch out, world: Samsung’s Galaxy is about to soar into a whole new dimension. After years of producing flagship phones that were more chintzy than sophisticated, Samsung is finally stepping up its game and going for a premium vibe with its new Galaxy S6. The Galaxy S6, set to launch …
Microsoft has increased by a factor of eight the maximum size of OS drives that can run on its Azure cloud, hoping to get enterprises to migrate more workloads. Microsoft is methodically launching new services and adding features to Azure to make the platform more competitive and a better fit …
Back in the dark ages, when the only way to get onscreen entertainment was by tuning in a television set at a specific time (get home late? miss your favorite show? too bad for you!), networks had a habit of scheduling similar shows opposite each other. The notion was presumably, …
Uber keeps crashing into laws and regulations in Europe, but it’s keeping the foot on the accelerator. Following raids in Belgium and France, Dutch authorities raided Uber’s Amsterdam office on Thursday as part of an investigation into the ride-hailing service UberPop, which a court ruled illegal in the Netherlands. The …
The European Commission plans a competition inquiry into cross-border trading by companies such as Amazon.com. The inquiry, proposed by Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager on Thursday, will focus on possible restrictions on cross-border purchases, by which companies prevent people from buying goods in other European Union countries. One of the founding …
Cisco Systems released firmware updates for several routers and switches that run its IOS and IOS XE software in order to fix flaws in their autonomic networking infrastructure (ANI) feature. ANI is an automatic device management feature that allows Cisco IOS devices to securely join a domain and be configured …
Cisco Systems released firmware updates for several routers and switches that run its IOS and IOS XE software in order to fix flaws in their autonomic networking infrastructure (ANI) feature. ANI is an automatic device management feature that allows Cisco IOS devices to securely join a domain and be configured …
The Internet of Things is mostly about achieving greater scale, but in the case of an upcoming demonstration project, it will show how electrical grids can work at a smaller scale. The testbed announced Thursday by the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) will bring together software and other components for microgrids, …
Facebook lawsuit says it stole data center design Facebook is being sued by a British engineering company that claims the social network stole its technique for building data centers and is encouraging others to do the same through the Open Compute Project. BladeRoom Group says it contacted Facebook in 2011 …
Nokia – не единственная компания из Финляндии, которая работает над выпуском планшетных компьютеров. Eve, производитель мобильных устройств, анонсировал интересную новинку – планшет под названием T1, который выполнен в 8-дюймовом форм-факторе и работает на базе Windows 8.1. За планшет придется выложить €159, при этом он имеет простой 8-дюймовый дисплей с разрешением 1280 х 800 точек и процессор Intel Bay Trail …
At Facebook’s F8 conference yesterday, founder Mark Zuckerberg was trying to convey his thoughts about Facebook Messenger: It is now the end-all-be-all of everyone’s existence. No, he really didn’t say that, but Zuck and company made it clear to attendees and the world-at-large, that Facebook no longer considers Messenger a …
Several state consumer protection agencies in the U.S. have joined the state of Texas in objecting in bankruptcy court to the proposed sale by RadioShack of personal information of its customers. In a filing Wednesday, the state of Texas said it had received support from 21 governmental consumer protection entities …
If you have a hankering to learn programming, but don’t have the time or money to invest in going back to school to get a computer science degree, there are lots of free options to help you pick up some coding (and other CS) skills. For example, you could take …
Китайские производители мобильных устройств начали выпускать смартфоны со новым встроенным портом стандарта USB C. Одним из первых аппаратов стал Innos D600. Кроме нового стандарта USB, Innos D600 получил довольно внушительную батарею, емкость которой достигает не мысленных 6000 mAh! Которые ранее не получал до сих пор ни один смартфон. Учитывая огромную емкость …
Похоже, что HTC планирует в ближайшее время выпустить следующий смартфон в серии HTC Butterfly. Согласно источникам, HTC Butterfly 3 будет представлен в Японии в Апреле и будет доступен в сетях мобильного оператора KDDI. Напомним, что предыдущая модель, HTC Butterfly 2, был оборудован Full HD дисплеем, а новый аппарат может получить …
Several state consumer protection agencies in the U.S. have joined the state of Texas in objecting in bankruptcy court to the proposed sale by RadioShack of personal information of its customers. In a filing Wednesday, the state of Texas said it had received support from 21 governmental consumer protection entities …
Foxconn Technology Group isn’t satisfied with just making iPhones, and plans to break into the information security market through an upcoming joint venture. On Thursday, the Taiwanese manufacturing giant announced it would set up in May a joint venture with Korea’s SK C&C, an IT services provider, to develop information …
Facebook’s Like button is a pervasive feature of the Web, a way to gauge the popularity of a website or piece of content. But researchers have found it’s easy to inflate the numbers, undermining its value as an accurate measure of popularity. The problem of bogus Likes has been around …
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said its decision not to prosecute Google over its search practices was in line with the recommendations of its staff. The statement issued Wednesday by FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez and Commissioners Julie Brill and Maureen Ohlhausen was in response to the leak of an internal …
Facebook-owned WhatsApp, the popular mobile messaging and calling service, has no immediate plans to offer tools to outside developers to let them build services on top of it. Doing so could potentially introduce unwanted content into the app, slow it down, and disrupt the flow of one-to-one messages and interactions …
In a move that could help spread IoT (Internet of Things) devices, Fujitsu has developed a thin, flexible IoT beacon that can send out location and ID information to smartphones and other mobile devices. Measuring 2.5 millimeters thick and weighing 3 grams, the beacon is mounted on an elastic silicone …