With the holiday shopping season coming up, and crooks lining up to take advantage of the stress and confusion, this is a good time for merchants to review their payment security procedures. Here are the areas where the most merchants have vulnerability gap, according to a report published earlier this …
Google will offer a basic version of its broadband service for no monthly charge when it launches soon in Austin, Texas, with the 1Gbps service priced at $70 per month. The basic plan will provide download speeds of up to 5Mbps (megabits per second) and upload speeds of 1Mbps, according …
Google will offer a basic version of its broadband service for no monthly charge when it launches soon in Austin, Texas, with the 1Gbps service priced at $70 per month. The basic plan will provide download speeds of up to 5Mbps (megabits per second) and upload speeds of 1Mbps, according …
In time for the holiday shopping season, Microsoft has refined how Office 365 handles bulk promotional emails from vendors like Amazon, eBay and Macy’s. Those messages, which contain special offers, newsletters and other sales incentives, fall into a gray area between legitimate email and obvious spam. Depending on a variety …
LED-светодиоды уже получили распространение для комнатного освещения. Теперь они открывают новый путь — для подключения мобильных устройств к Интернету с потенциалом куда более широкой полосы пропускания и быстрого времени отклика, нежели Wi-Fi. По крайней мере, на это надеются исследователи, в том числе Харальд Хаас из Университета Эдинбурга. …
Корейская LG твердо намерена опередить А-бренды и первой среди них выпустить обновление до Android 5.0 Lollipop. …
Things are out of whack at Samsung and a number of fairly drastic changes are in store. Start with the company’s crown jewel, the Galaxy S5 smartphone: Samsung sold 40% fewer Galaxy S5 smartphones than expected, leaving the phones piled up in warehouses, according to the Wall Street Journal. Sales …
Forget typing in passwords, Intel wants you to use your body to log into email and online bank accounts. McAfee software that will use biometric technology to authenticate users will be available for download by the end of the year, said Kirk Skaugen, senior vice president and general manager of …
A federal court gave a green light last week to a lawsuit by a union and IT workers challenging a student visa work program, known as Optional Practical Training (OPT). The court denied a U.S. government motion to dismiss the case brought by the Washington Alliance of Technology Workers, or …
Для полного устранения последствий атаки потребовалось глобальное изменение настроек DNS. …
The U.S. National Security Agency’s surveillance programs are legal and under close scrutiny by other parts of the government, the agency’s internal privacy watchdog said Monday in an online Q&A. NSA surveillance and data collection programs conform to the U.S. Constitution, Rebecca Richards, the agency’s first civil liberties and privacy …
Slack, whose chat app aims to help workers get stuff done, might now have them running scared, knowing the boss could access their chats. The company’s upcoming paid Plus plan will include an optional feature called Compliance Exports, announced Monday, which will let administrators access their team’s communications, encompassing public …
Компания Yahoo! продолжает укреплять свои позиции на интернет-рынке за счет приобретений. Новым объектом для поглощения американским гигантом стала фирма Cooliris, занимающаяся разработкой мобильного программного обеспечения. …
Прошло уже два года с того момента, как Google выпустила игру дополненной реальности Ingress. Студия Niantic Labs, которая отвечает за разработку Ingress, уверяет, что она хотела создать не просто игру, а построить ещё один мир поверх нашего. Ingress насчитывает миллионы поклонников по всему миру, и в честь второго дня рождения …
How to install Ubuntu on a Chromebook In today’s open source roundup: Use Crouton to run Ubuntu on your Chromebook. Plus: The Register reviews Linux Mint 17.1, and part two of how to run Linux on Android devices How to run Ubuntu on your Chromebook Chromebooks are red-hot right now …
Устройства Apple остаются одними из наиболее безопасных на рынке именно благодаря iOS и OS X. На днях Бюро по патентам и торговым знакам США опубликовало новый патент Apple, который должен значительно увеличить безопасность устройств с iOS. …
Advanced Micro Devices’ interest in tablets has waned as the company restructures operations in an effort to turn around its finances. The tablet market is in a price battle and profit margins for chip makers are minuscule, said Kevin Lensing, senior director for mobility solutions at AMD. “We’re evaluating [tablets] …
Users of Desk.com, Salesforce’s cloud-based customer service product for small and medium-size businesses, now have an app store designed just for them. Called Desk.com App Hub, the store offers 50 apps from Salesforce partner companies that handle functions including group chat, social monitoring, language translation and e-commerce analytics. Customer data …
Security pros don’t need screaming headlines to put them on alert about a dangerous new piece of malware. “New” and “present” are usually enough to do it, though “stealthy” and “nasty” will open their eyes a little wider. So think what the impact would be of this snippet about a …
Checklist for merchants Just about a year from now, retail merchants who currently accept only magnetic stripe payment cards will have to start accepting chip-based smart cards as well. If they don’t, they become liable for any fraud that results from them not being able to accept the chip cards. …
Out with the old Image by REUTERS/Stephen Lam One of the things that makes Apple so successful is that it’s not afraid to abandon/kill popular technologies in the interest of something new. In doing so, the company often creates a bit of controversy, even if in the long run it …
Breaking up Google by separating its search engine from other commercial services is only one of the actions the European Commission could take to resolve the company’s antitrust problems, say members of Parliament who are proposing the split. A draft version of a European Parliament resolution, reported by news outlets …
На основе популярного одноплатного компьютера Raspberry Pi уже созданы ноутбук Pi-Top, неттоп Plusberry Pi, автомобильный медиацентр RetroPi и другие устройства. Теперь к ним добавится планшет Raspitab, проект которого представлен на площадке Kickstarter. …
Breaking up Google by separating its search engine from other commercial services is only one of the actions the European Commission could take to resolve the company’s antitrust problems, say members of Parliament who are proposing the split. A draft version of a European Parliament resolution, reported by news outlets …
Two ads tell you everything you need to know about how crazy notebook PC pricing is. The first, a Dell Black Friday ad from 2010, advertises a Dell Inspiron 15 for $450—the “doorbuster” the PC company used to lure shoppers to Dell.com. The second, another Dell Black Friday ad for …
Thanksgiving is just a few days away, and for many of us, that means entertaining family and cooking up a storm. This can be a recipe for stress, which is the last thing you need leading up to a long holiday weekend. Luckily, a little planning can make Turkey Day …