If your iPhone 4s or iPad 2 have been slowing down since upgrading to iOS 8, today’s 8.1.1 update is designed to improve performance on those devices. The release isn’t as major as the feature-packed 8.1, which delivered Apple Pay to iOS devices, but it will fix a few bugs. …
A proposed $0.16 fee increase on your telephone bill would go toward improving Internet access for kids in school and libraries. About two-thirds of U.S. schools don’t have the broadband speeds they need to provide digital learning services, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler said Monday. Wheeler’s proposal to revamp …
At Amazon Web Services’ third annual re:Invent cloud computing conference the market’s leading infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) public provider revealed a variety of new cloud service features. Here’s a recap of AWS’s announcements from re:Invent 2014. Amazon Aurora Amazon Aurora is a MySQL-compatible database engine for Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS). AWS …
Apple today announced it had struck a deal with UnionPay, China’s most popular credit and debit card system, to accept payments for digital goods on its App Store. “The ability to buy apps and make purchases using UnionPay cards has been one of the most requested features from our customers …
A proposed 16-cent fee increase on your telephone bill would go toward improving Internet access for kids in school and libraries. About two-thirds of U.S. schools don’t have the broadband speeds they need to provide digital learning services, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler said Monday. Wheeler’s proposal to revamp …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged three penny stock promoters with conducting pump-and-dump schemes involving stocks they were touting in their supposedly independent newsletters. The SEC alleges that Anthony Thompson, Jay Fung, and Eric Van Nguyen worked in coordinated fashion to gain control of a large portion of shares …
Facebook may be expanding from a social website where users share photos of their favorite sandwiches and pets, to a network focused on business users. The company, which runs the world’s largest social network, is preparing to launch a network for the enterprise, according to a report in the Financial …
A systemd maintainer for Debian resigns The systemd inferno continues to rage across the Linux landscape. This time the flames have scorched a long-time Debian developer who had also been a systemd maintainer. After prolonged online attacks, he has decided to throw in the towel and quit maintaining systemd. However, …
The Department of Energy has awarded a $325 million contract to IBM to create two supercomputers that will be at least three times more powerful than any existing systems in deployment today. IBM’s partners in this endeavor will be Nvidia and Mellanox. The current leader is Tianhe-2 (Milky Way 2), …
Customers of ShoreTel phones and unified communications gear can stop worrying that their lives might get complicated by a merger between the company and its rival Mitel. Mitel has taken a $575 million offer for ShoreTel off the table stating the refusal of ShoreTel’s board to talk about the offer. …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a San Francisco-based penny stock company CEO with defrauding investors by issuing false and misleading press releases portraying his purported marketing and infomercial company as a successful venture in order to drive the stock price up while he covertly sold millions of shares …
Once a seething cauldron of competition, the twice-yearly Top500 listing of the world’s most powerful supercomputers has grown nearly stagnant of late. In the most recent Top500 compilation, released Monday, the Chinese National University of Defense Technology’s Tianhe-2 has retained its position as the world’s fastest system, for the fourth …
Nvidia’s PC graphics chips may draw all the attention, but supercomputing chips are driving the company’s GPU technology ahead. The company on Monday announced an updated Tesla K80 graphics card, which is its fastest graphics product to date. Tesla is used in some of the world’s fastest supercomputers to solve …
It’s no secret that many IT professionals in large enterprises look down at public clouds — they don’t consider them reliable, secure or safe. But that perception may be shifting, at least when it comes to big data workloads. A new report released this week by Gigaom Research finds that …
The State Department joins the White House, the United States Postal Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on a growing list of hacked government agencies. Expect to hear of more government networks infiltrated as a Georgia Institute of Technology report on emerging cyber threats in 2015 (pdf) states, …
Black Friday is upon us Word is that more retailers will relent to public pressure – I mean do the right thing for their employees – and close on Thanksgiving Day this year. But that won’t prevent them from going all out online, where much is automated and the workers …
Cybercriminals behind a new ransomware program called CoinVault are trying out a new psychological tactic to convince users to pay up — freebies. The new threat was discovered by security researchers from Webroot and is similar in functionality to more prevalent ransomware programs like CryptoWall. It uses strong 256-bit AES …
Here are some useful tips for taking better photographs with an iOS 8 device. The most popular camera on the planet, the iPhone 6’s camera is still 8MP with an f/2.2 lens and processor but it now boasts phase detection pixels so it can focus an image twice as fast …
There’s little that’s more frustrating at work than trying to tell your boss something important and realizing that she’s not listening. You may have a great idea about how to serve your constituents. You may be telling her that her instructions make no sense. Or you may be warning her …
Компания MyTimes анонсировала сразу два новых планшетных компьютера, модели M107 и M807. Внешне новинки напоминают Lenovo Yoga, с закругленной нижней частью, в которой скрывается мощная батарея и встроенная подставка. MyTimes M107 обладает 10.1-дюймовым дисплеем IPS с разрешением 1920 х 1200 точек, 8-ми процессором MediaTek MT6592 с тактовой частотой 1.7 ГГц и 2Гб ОЗУ. Разрешение камеры планшета зависит …
Starting late next year, it will become a tad easier to stream 4K video from mobile devices to ultra high-definition TVs. Mobile devices with the upcoming USB Type C connectors will support the latest MHL (mobile high-definition link) 3 mobile video standard, which can transmit 4K video from mobile devices …
Intel introduced its latest Xeon Phi chip Monday, in what seems to be an effort to prove that its supercomputing chips aren’t just a flash in the pan. The chip, code-named Knights Hill, will go into some of the fastest supercomputers in the world. Intel wasn’t forthcoming on more product …
Intel will start using light pulses next year to move data at blistering speeds in supercomputers, yielding potentially massive advances in high-performance computing. It will use optical cables to move data more quickly than conventional copper wiring for linking computing and storage units. That faster data movement should improve system …
LED lamps lighting merchandise may soon shine invisible data that your smartphone can pick up. Fujitsu Laboratories has developed a method to include ID data in LED light so that pointing a smartphone camera at an object it illuminates calls up linked information stored on a cloud server. The technology …
Facebook lets its users control whether other people can see the information they post, but when it comes to controlling what Facebook itself gets to see, privacy-conscious users are out of luck. In fact, Facebook doesnt think it would make sense to let users do that. “With most online services, …
When it comes to mobile device security, we are our own worst enemies. Despite the fact that many people have come to rely on their mobile devices 24/7, most users don’t appear to be getting any smarter about security, researchers say. The training module presents statistics about devices lost in …