Компания Lenovo объявила результаты своей деятельности за второй квартал 2014/2015 финансового года. В период с июля по сентябрь выручка производителя ПК в мире выросла на 7%, что примерно до $10,5 млрд. При этом чистый доход увеличился на 19%, перевалив за $262 млн. По сравнению с третьим кварталом 2013 года объем отгрузок ноутбуков и десктопов выросли …
We may be witnessing the beginning of a turnaround for one of the mainstay companies of the IT industry: Microsoft. And by turnaround, I don’t mean financially. Microsoft is a prodigious revenue and profit generator. But the company has been rudderless for years. It has essentially been reactive, not an …
The latest surprise release of Outlook for Mac 15.3 is largely what you’d hope to get in an Outlook refresh: At long last, a version that looks and works almost identically to the Windows version. This is great news if you live exclusively in an Exchange environment, but you may …
Our friends at Home Depot are giving more details about the big breakin. Among the sorry story of stolen card details is the revelation that HD also leaked customers’ email addresses. Oh, brother. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers hope their spam filters are up to the task. <!– Not to mention: …
It’s many years back, and this newbie IT pilot fish is tasked with setting up a new top-of-the-line 386 PC — the first PC he’s ever touched. “Taking it out of the box and connecting almost all the wires was easy enough,” says fish. “All that was left was connecting …
10 IBM Watson-Powered Apps That Are Changing Our World Image by Thinkstock IBM considers Watson to represent a new era of computing — a step forward to cognitive computing, where apps and systems interact with humans via natural language and help us augment our own understanding of the world with …
If you think your Facebook feed has a lot of video now, just wait. “In five years, most of [Facebook] will be video,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Thursday during the company’s first community town hall, in which he took questions from the public on a range of topics. He was …
Home Depot has shed more light on a recent data breach that compromised 56 million payment cards, saying hackers used login credentials belonging to another company to access its network. It also revealed that 53 million email addresses were also stolen. The stolen login credentials didn’t provide direct access to …
Apple’s erstwhile sapphire supplier, GT Advanced Technologies, acknowledged Thursday that it is being investigated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). In a filing with the SEC, GT said that the federal agency had contacted the company three weeks ago. “On October 15, 2014, [the SEC] sent a letter …
Полиция штата Вашингтон арестовала Дэвида Калака по подозрению в убийстве своей подруги Линн Коплин, после того как он выложил фотографию трупа женщины на анонимном веб-форуме 4chan, сообщает «Би-би-си». …
Норвегия поможет Нацкомфинуслуг модернизировать IT-систему в 2015 г. Об этом «Капиталу» сообщил и. о. председателя комиссии Максим Поляков. …
Гид по компьютерным играм, которые понравятся тем, кто давно завязал …
There’s a scary new piece of malware that collects call logs, phonebook contacts and other sensitive information from Apple iPhones and iPads. Should you be worried? The malware was first discovered by researchers at Palo Alto Networks who dubbed it WireLurker and said it exhibited behavior that had never been …
A proposed Internet sales tax that could see new life in Congress in coming weeks would cost U.S. online shoppers $24 billion in its first year, according to a study from an anti-tax group. Supporters of the Marketplace Fairness Act, passed by the Senate in May 2013, could push the …
Для затруднения анализа вирус хеширует названия использующихся функций, а также игнорирует некоторые системные процессы. …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged an attorney in Orange County, Calif., and two men in Massachusetts behind a pump-and-dump scheme that defrauded investors in a Boston-based ticket brokering business. The SEC alleges that Richard Weed, a partner in a Newport Beach law practice, facilitated a scheme to pump …
Watch out, Docker! You’re no longer the only container-based virtualization technology on the block — spurred by the sudden success of Docker, platform services provider Joyent and Linux distributor Canonical have each open-sourced their container technologies. Joyent’s collection of container technologies could be used as the basis for running large-scale, …
A security researcher has developed a tool to demonstrate how the unauthenticated data packets in the 802.11 wireless LAN protocol can be used as a covert channel to control malware on an infected computer. The protocol relies on clients and access points exchanging informational data packets before they authenticate or …
Microsoft is giving corporate BYOD programs a boost by upgrading its Office offerings for iPhone, iPad and Android to deliver more features free, increasing the likelihood that mobile workers will have better tools available to be more productive. The company announced new free versions of Office apps for non-Windows devices …
A bug, now fixed, that caused unexpected battery drain in some Android smartphones, reportedly delayed some over-the-air rollouts of a developer build of Android 5.0 (Lollipop). Google wouldn’t comment officially on reports of the bug or its fix, or on a release timeline. However, a source told Computerworld today that …
Amazon revealed a new voice-controlled speaker called Echo that works like Apple’s Siri or Microsoft’s Cortana in that it responds to user requests for information or to play music uploaded from Amazon Music and other services. The tube-like speaker/voice command system is connected via Wi-Fi and can be connected to …
Among a blizzard of announcements about Office today, Microsoft also snuck in a loose release date for the touch-centric Office it has long planned to ship for Windows. “We will deliver touch-optimized Office apps for Windows with Windows 10,” Microsoft said in one of several blog posts trumpeting changes to …
Microsoft today began taking registration requests from Android tablet users for a beta of Office for Google’s mobile operating system. The final version, which Microsoft dubs “general availability,” will be available in early 2015, Microsoft said, without naming a specific date or month. Meanwhile, the preview will be offered to …
The alleged operator of Silk Road 2.0, a website used to sell illegal drugs, computer-hacking tools and fraudulent identification documents, has been arrested and will face charges in a U.S. court. Blake Benthall, 26, was arrested Wednesday in San Francisco and will appear in court there Thursday, the U.S. Department …
On Thursday, Microsoft released a new version of Office for iOS that unifies the user experience across all devices—great and small—and opens the door to free editing and content creation, whether you have an Office 365 account or not. This new Microsoft Office for iOS suite includes Word, Excel, and …
Многие владельцы смартфонов и планшетов не готовы использовать свои мобильные устройства для осуществления платежей. Так, 48% респондентов, которые пользуются мобильным телефоном, ни разу не использовали его для оплаты товаров и услуг. Информация представлена в исследовании голландского провайдера цифровых технологий Avangate. …