Would you trade ads for a monthly payment? Google wants users to rethink the way their favorite websites are funded. The company on Thursday launched a beta program called Contributor by Google. With a handful of participating websites, the program is focused on enabling people to make a monthly contribution …
Intel is shrinking PCs to thumb-sized “compute sticks” that will be out next year. The stick will plug into the back of a smart TV or monitor “and bring intelligence to that,” said Kirk Skaugen, senior vice president and general manager of the PC Client Group at Intel, during the …
Savvy companies are shopping for talent in what is arguably the best place to find it — their competition. As the talent war heats up, poaching tech professionals is becoming increasingly common. Here’s how it’s done and how to stop it. (cio.com) To read this article in full or to …
Microsoft today updated the Office app for Android smartphones, adding support for Dropbox and further integration with the company’s own OneDrive cloud storage service. The update to Office Mobile — the name of the all-in-one app that includes Word, Excel and PowerPoint — was promised two weeks ago when Microsoft …
Researchers are working on technology that could be shipped to West Africa to help fight the Ebola outbreak as soon as a few months from now, while also looking ahead to bigger plans to combat any disease outbreak. “Absolutely. This is something we can do,” said Robin Murphy, a professor …
Silicon Valley-based ride-sharing company Uber is looking eastward to inject some wisdom into how it handles user data. Reeling from public outcry over alleged data abuses, Uber is working with a law firm in Washington, D.C., to conduct an in-depth review and assessment of its policies, it said Thursday. It’s …
With advances in chip technology, it’s becoming more difficult for Intel to keep up with Moore’s Law, but the company’s CEO says that remains the key baseline when it comes to adding performance and functionality to its processors. “Our job at Intel is to make sure it lives on as …
Small and medium-sized businesses looking to grow need to leverage big data, cloud computing and mobility, and SAP says that its Hana platform can help them on those fronts. “If we can bring the power of Hana to small businesses we can change the world,” said SAP CEO Bill McDermott …
Right now there is a shopper entering one of ten special Lowes Foods grocery stores somewhere in the state of North Carolina. She is most probably rolling her cart past the fruits and vegetable section in the front right hand section of the store where unnoticed and probably unbeknownst by …
Mozilla on Wednesday announced that it had not renewed its lucrative contract with Google, but instead will use Yahoo as Firefox’s default search engine in the U.S. And rather than have a global designated search partner — as it has had with Google in nearly all markets for a decade …
IBM has built a team of experts on “devops,” a hot, emerging approach to fast enterprise application development, and developed a collection of tools for deploying IT operations to the cloud. Devops is a set of practices for accelerating the development and release cycle of software applications by pairing the …
The U.S. National Security Agency is planning no major changes in its domestic telephone records collection program after a bill to rein in those efforts failed in the Senate this week, the agency’s director said. The NSA will continue to collect U.S. telephone records in bulk, while operating under some …
Attackers have started using the Citadel Trojan program to steal master passwords for password management applications and other authentication programs. The Citadel malware has typically been used to steal online banking credentials and other financial information by modifying banking sites on the fly when opened by users in their local …
Comcast today unveiled a mobile app that allows their service techs to be tracked by cable customers in real time. The new service tech mobile tracking feature, which will be available for free through Comcast’s MyAccount app, is being beta tested with customers around Boston this week, the company said. …
As a Guy Who Reviews Tons of Android Devices (my official job title), I see a lot of forgettable phones. Phones that are fine but unremarkable — that get the job done but fail to stand out or make any sort of meaningful lasting impression. I’ve written about this phenomenon …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Los Angeles-based broker-dealer Wedbush Securities agreed to settle a pending SEC case for market access violations by admitting wrongdoing, paying a $2.44 million penalty, and retaining an independent consultant. The SEC’s order finds that Wedbush violated the market access rule by failing …
That fast Mac with an SSD drive delivers blistering performance — until disaster strikes. That’s when you really need to have a backup system in place. Data integrity Most SSD users don’t understand that their Mac’s SSD drive is not another type of hard disk drive (HDD), but works in …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today suspended trading in four companies that claim to be developing products or services in response to the Ebola outbreak, citing a lack of publicly available information about the companies’ operations. The SEC simultaneously issued an investor alert warning about the potential for fraud in …
A day after China’s Xiaomi said it wanted to become the world’s number one smartphone vendor, an Apple executive weighed in and told the Chinese company that’s it’s easier said than done. “It is easy to say, it is much more difficult to do,” said Bruce Sewell, Apple senior vice …
Blockbuster. Nokia. Kodak. Most businesspeople know what they have in common. They are all companies whose footsteps you don’t want to follow. They were all market leaders that fell prey to disruptive technology. How can your company avoid that fate? I’ve been exploring that question, having taken as my topic …
Компания Panram, производитель оперативной памяти DRAM, сегодня представила свою обновленную линейку памяти Ninja – V стандарта DDR4 с производительностью в 2800, 3000, 3200 и 3300 Мгц и предназначена для последних платформ Haswell-E. Выпустив первую серию модулей Ninja – V ранее в этом году, работающие на частоте 2133 МГц и 2400 МГц, специалисты …
Китайская компания Chuwi пополнила ряды доступных планшетов с привлекательной начинкой и симпатичным дизайном. Цена очень радует, так как в на Родине составит всего $82. 8-дюймовый Chuwi Vi8 получил дисплей, выполненный по технологии IPS, с разрешением 1280 × 800 точек, четырехъядерный процессор Intel Z3735F, 2 Гб оперативной памяти и 32 Гб встроенной памяти. Эта модель, функционирует …
Many women gamers and developers, as well as those who support them, have lately come under attack from online trolls. A common intimidation tactic that trolls use is “doxxing,” or publicly exposing their targets’ personal details, including home address, phone number and even financial records. To read this article in …
NEW ORLEANS — The European forecast of Hurricane Sandy in 2012 was so far ahead of U.S. models in predicting the storm’s path that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration was called before Congress to explain how it happened. NOAA administrator Kathryn Sullivan told lawmakers at a hearing last year …
This warehouse needs to hire a new PC Technical Specialist, reports a pilot fish working there as email administrator. “The local job boards were contacted, ads were placed, and my boss checked each day for the resumes to come in,” fish says. “After a week, he confided to me that …
“Yahoo + Firefox” — this was found yesterday, freshly carved on a tree trunk in Sunnyvale, California. Years ago, similar marks were found on a tree in nearby Mountain View, but those read “Google + Firefox.” Unfortunately, that tree has been dying a slow death — lingering on for nearly …