В прошлом году Google совместно с LG представила публике следующее поколение Nexus-смартфонов – Nexus 5. Смартфон получился отличным, и даже сейчас, спустя год, он всё еще актуален и вполне сравним с нынешней волной флагманских устройств. Давайте рассмотрим весь период существования смартфона в модельном ряде Google, которая не так давно сообщила …
Толщина некоторых современных смартфонов просто поражает. Взять, например, Oppo R5 или Vivo X5 Max, толщина которых не превышает 5 миллиметров, но при этом они обладают характеристиками относительно мощного устройства. …
Demand for solar power grew 16% year-over-year in 2014, representing 44 billion watts (gigawatts) of capacity purchased during the year. At the same time, China, which in past years had flooded the market with solar panels, did not see growth as strong as had been expected. The growth was mainly …
Families highlighted in this article: Bob Lozano, founder of Appistry, Paylinx; sons Gabe Lozano of Lockerdome and Dominic Lozano of Contegix Susan Elliott, founder of SSE and daughter Elizabeth Niedringhaus, SSE’s current president Deborah Estrin, Cornell professor and founder of Open mHealth; sister Judith Estrin, jLabs, Cisco, Network Computing Devices, …
When connecting to an enterprise-secured network with Android devices, users are prompted with many settings that could be confusing. When connecting with iOS devices—an iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch—users are typically only prompted for their username and password. They can’t edit the advanced 802.1X settings on the device, but there …
From Katrina to Sandy, tornadoes in the plains, flooding in the south and wildfires throughout the west, natural disasters threaten our world with destruction every year. The cost to rebuild and recover is phenomenal, so companies across the globe are investing in disaster recovery solutions to mitigate their losses and …
Правительство Франции заявило о том, что планирует запретить приложение uberPOP после того, как таксисты Парижа объявили о намерении провести массовую забастовку, пишет The Financial Times. …
While the three largest venture capital deals of the year in the technology industry went to consumer-focused startups, most of the other top investments went to companies building products that could reshape the enterprise IT landscape. Final numbers for the amount of venture capital money poured into startups in 2014 …
Even though systems such as Hadoop and Spark can grapple with large amounts of data, their tools for analyzing and parsing this information efficiently and in real-time are still limited. A two-year old Seattle startup called SpaceCurve on Tuesday will release a new database system aimed to speed the process …
В третьем квартале глобальные продажи мобильных телефонов перестали расти, но сегмент смартфонов по-прежнему демонстрирует высокую положительную динамику. Ситуацию со спросом на трубки изучили в исследовательской компании Gartner. …
A one-year extension to a U.S moratorium on Internet access taxes was buried in a US$1.1 trillion government spending bill passed by the Senate on Saturday. The Internet Tax Freedom Act, which also prohibits states from enacting Internet-specific taxes like email or bandwidth taxes, passed the House of Representatives in …
Even though systems such as Hadoop and Spark can grapple with large amounts of data, their tools for analyzing and parsing this information efficiently and in real-time are still limited. A two-year old Seattle startup called SpaceCurve will release on Tuesday a new database system aimed to speed the process …
A one-year extension to a U.S moratorium on Internet access taxes was buried in a $1.1 trillion government spending bill passed by the Senate on Saturday. The Internet Tax Freedom Act, which also prohibits states from enacting Internet-specific taxes like email or bandwidth taxes, passed the House of Representatives in …
Китайская компания Pipo представила телевизионную приставку X7, которая по ряду параметров выделяется из общей массы доступных на рынке устройств данного типа. …
The U.S. Department of Justice should back off its request for Microsoft to turn over a suspect’s digital documents stored on a server in Ireland, or be prepared for other governments demanding documents stored on U.S. servers, the company’s general counsel said. The DOJ’s ongoing search warrant for email and …
Совсем недавно студия From Software рассказывала об уникальных подземельях, случайно генерируемых для каждого пользователя в ожидаемой ролевой игре Bloodborne. На этом разработчики останавливаться не стали и продолжили делиться новыми подробностями. На сей раз настала очередь коллекционных изданий, которых оказалось сразу два. …
Apple and IBM last week kicked off their five-month-old partnership with an “impressive” 10-pack of focused mobile business apps catering to sectors ranging from financial to law enforcement. “The three that I’ve seen were pretty impressive,” said Van Baker, an analyst at Gartner. “They’re very complex, with some drawing from …
The U.S. Department of Justice should back off its request for Microsoft to turn over a suspect’s digital documents stored on a server in Ireland, or be prepared for other governments demanding documents stored on U.S. servers, the company’s general counsel said. The DOJ’s ongoing search warrant for email and …
На прошлой неделе, вслед за мобильными устройствами, обновление Android 5.0.1 Lollipop начали получать устройства на базе Android Wear. К сожалению, изначально Google не объявила точные сроки старта обновления для конкретных моделей, поэтому владельцы с нетерпением проверяли доступность обновления вручную. …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a New Orleans-based oil-and-gas company and five executives with running a stock trading scheme in which they claimed to have struck oil in Belize in order to manipulate the price of the company’s stock as they illegally sold restricted shares to the public. …
Традиционной игровой платформой на сегодняшний день признана консоль, хотя споры между геймерами по этому поводу не утихают. Кто-то уверяет, что ПК предоставляет не меньшие возможности для виртуальных баталий, кто-то не признает хоть сколько-нибудь значимый вес компьютеров на игровом поприще. …
BT Group has entered exclusive talks to buy U.K. mobile operator EE for 12.5 billion pounds (US$19.5 billion), a deal that would help the carrier offer bundles of mobile and fixed services. The talks don’t guarantee a deal will be reached, BT said in a press release on Monday. But …
Программа Google Maps стала одним из самых любимых приложений для многих путешественников, поскольку имеет весьма удобный навигатор, управляемый голосом. На днях приложение Google Maps получило новое дополнение – голосовой навигатор по некоторым междугородним и международным европейским трассам в таких странах как Германия, Франция, Италия, Испания, Великобритания и Ирландия. …
An international survey of Internet users has found that more than 39% have taken steps to protect their online privacy and security as a result of spying revelations by one-time NSA employee Edward Snowden. The survey, conducted by the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), found that 43% of Internet …
An ICANN spokesman dismissed accusations that the recent growth in the number of generic top-level domains has caused data breaches, on Thursday. There are now more than 700 top-level domains such as .meme, .guru and .blog. The number of TLDs has exploded only recently — between 1985 and 2012, the …
Microsoft didn’t seem bothered about another leak of Windows 10. “How could we be upset about lots of people wanting to try our new stuff?” tweeted Gabe Aul, the engineering general manager for Microsoft’s operating system group in a reply to a comment applauding his company’s “refreshing” attitude about leaks. …