Падение брендов Samsung и Nokia на телефонном рынке в третьем квартале контрастировало с ростом китайских производителей и корпорации Apple. Об этом сообщается в исследовательском отчете Gartner. …
Blizzard выпустила версию игры Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft для платформы Android. На старте она доступна лишь в избранных регионах, постепенно их будет становиться больше. Как утверждает издатель, охват всех территорий произойдет в ближайшие дни. К сожалению, не все устройства поддерживают Hearthstone: потребуется как минимум 6-дюймовый дисплей, 1 ГБ оперативной памяти …
Руководство компании Sony Pictures Entertainment извинилось перед сотрудниками за утечку данных, пишет The Wall Street Journal. Об этом газете сообщили источники, присутствовавшие на встрече топ-менеджеров с персоналом в понедельник. …
Apple’s online store for Russian customers was offline all day Tuesday after the U.S. company shut down the mart because of the ruble’s plunge. Although Apple did not immediately reply to questions late Tuesday, it had told other news outlets earlier in the day that it had closed the digital …
Could there actually be life on Mars? The mystery deepened as NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover recorded a big spike in methane over the last few months. Since methane, which can be produced by bacteria or microbes even in environments with little or no oxygen, is a sign of life, scientists …
Google is making progress developing a user-friendly tool for fully encrypting people’s messages on their computers, with coding help from Yahoo and a transition to GitHub. Contributions from Alex Stamos, Yahoo’s chief security officer, and his team have been incorporated into an updated pre-release version of the browser extension announced …
Google is making progress developing a user-friendly tool for fully encrypting people’s messages on their computers, with coding help from Yahoo and a transition to GitHub. Contributions from Alex Stamos, Yahoo’s chief security officer, and his team have been incorporated into an updated pre-release version of the browser extension announced …
Google has adopted for use in its cloud a streamlined version of the Canonical Ubuntu Linux distribution tweaked to run Docker and other containers. Ubuntu Core was designed to provide only the essential components for running Linux workloads in the cloud. An early preview edition of it, which Canonical calls …
Two former employees of Sony Pictures have filed a lawsuit against the company alleging it didn’t do enough to safeguard their personal information and prevent its loss in a massive cyberattack in late November. The lawsuit, filed Monday in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, asks the …
Stanford University researchers have built a multi-layered “high-rise” chip that could significantly outperform traditional computer chips, taking on the hefty workloads that will be needed for the Internet of Things and big data. Using nanotechnology, the new chips are built with layers of processing on top of layers of memory, …
T-Mobile today unveiled a monthly data rollover plan for consumers and business customers called “Data Stash,” but the plan still won’t allow workers to share their data with others in a work group. Data Stash works much the same way for users who have a Simple Choice plan (or Simple …
Two former employees of Sony Pictures have filed a lawsuit against the company alleging it didn’t do enough to safeguard their personal information and prevent its loss in a massive cyberattack in late November. The lawsuit, filed Monday in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, asks the …
Mozilla has been running a fundraiser from within its Firefox browser, a program that will continue until Dec. 31. When users launch Firefox they may see a PBS-style pitch for money on the browser’s start screen, which normally is a minimalist display of a search field and a few tool …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced charges against two individuals and their companies behind an alleged gold mining investment scheme based in Miami. The SEC Enforcement Division alleges that Michael Crow and Alexandre Clug promised investors a stake in so-called “quick-to-production” gold mines that their company Aurum Mining LLC …
Instagram’s got five new filters that it hopes will improve people’s smartphone photos by changing them less. Instagram has not released new filters since 2012. And its original filters compensated for the lower quality of photos taken with earlier smartphones, the company said. But now we’re in the heyday of …
Apple didn’t violate antitrust law by restricting music bought on iTunes from being played on devices other than iPods, a federal jury has decided. The jury in Oakland, California, decided in Apple’s favor on Tuesday after a trial that featured testimony on video by the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. …
Returning to its roots as a mainframe software provider, Compuware has spun off its application performance management software unit. Users of mainframe optimization software and APM software could each benefit from the split. The companies acting separately should be better able to serve constituents than a monolithic single entity could, …
Jaguar Land Rover has revealed two new research projects it’s working on: a 360 Virtual Urban Windscreen to give a driver a 360-degree view outside the car and a ghost car navigation aid that projects a virtual vehicle ahead of you to follow. The ghost car is a navigation aid for busy …
The group responsible for the attack on Sony Pictures, the GOP (Guardians of Peace), has moved away from their normal rhetoric, issuing a thinly veiled threat of terror attacks on Christmas Day; the date when Sony’s picture The Interview is set for general release. The threat was attached to a …
The hackers who attacked Sony Pictures have apparently moved on to a new tactic: attempting to spread fear among the general public. In a message on Tuesday, the hackers allude to attacks on movie theaters showing “The Interview.” Due to open Dec. 25, the movie is a comedy about celebrity …
From rattled airline passengers who fear the coming of smartphones to jurors who don’t know a smartphone from a tablet, here are some of the colorful quotes from IT news in 2014. Give the audience a grin “The founders of Snapchat last year turned down a $3 billion offer from …
The state of Linux in 2015? We’re coming to the end of the year, and the first batch of predictions about what 2015 might have in store for Linux have arrived. Share your own predictions about Linux and 2015 in the comments below. What do you think will happen? Jack …
The information and communications technology sector has almost doubled its contribution to Nigeria’s GDP in the last three years and is expected to be a main driver of economic growth, according to the country’s ICT minister. “The industry currently contributes 9.58 percent to GDP (Q3 2014) and is further enabling …
The NBASE-T Alliance – a recently formed umbrella group of networking industry players dedicated to keeping standard Ethernet cabling relevant – announced a dozen new members on Monday, including big names such as Intel, Qualcomm and Brocade. The group was founded just seven weeks ago by a consortium of four …
The Large Hadron Collider, the atom smasher that has hunted for antimatter and the elusive Higgs boson, shut down in February 2013 for an overhaul and upgrade. Now, scientists are getting ready to fire up the collider, which has been called “one of the greatest engineering milestones of mankind,” again. …
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