Four months after Apple and IBM announced a partnership to amalgamate IBM’s big data and analytics capabilities with Apple’s iPhone and iPad, Apple launched a new support offering that taps both companies’ expertise to assist enterprises. AppleCare for Enterprise, as the new support tier is called, was painted with broad …
Pooja Sankar, founder of Piazza, an online social learning platform, remembers vividly the feelings of isolation and exclusion she faced as a female computer science student. While growing up in India, Sankar attended an all-girls high school, but when she got to college, was one of only three girls, among …
Cisco Systems released patches for its small business RV Series routers and firewalls to address vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to execute arbitrary commands and overwrite files on the vulnerable devices. The affected products are Cisco RV120W Wireless-N VPN Firewall, Cisco RV180 VPN Router, Cisco RV180W Wireless-N Multifunction VPN Router, …
Juniper Networks this week introduced a virtualized version of its MX Series 3D edge router to fulfill carrier requirements for Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). The Juniper vMX 3D Universal Edge Router operates as software on x86 servers. It is designed to let service providers and enterprises rapidly deliver services ahead …
There’s a strange, misanthropic common thread running through stories in the news about Ebola quarantines, the rush of enterprises to the public cloud and the increasingly common but shockingly still non-fatal fad of taking selfies with wild bears. There’s almost no overlap in the substance of the stories, but all …
China may be the biggest smartphone market in the world, but according to Lenovo, the boom days are over. “But now the China market is not hyper-growing any longer,” said Lenovo’s CEO Yang Yuanqing on Thursday. “It has been saturated. If you want to win you have to find new …
Chipmaker Qualcomm is facing regulatory investigations in the U.S. and Europe in addition to an ongoing anti-monopoly probe in China. The company is struggling to collect royalties from its patent licensees in China, which accounts for half of its revenue. It hasn’t helped that Chinas National Development and Reform Commission …
With a new low-power processor and a sleek convertible design that delivers five different computing modes, Lenovo’s Yoga 3 Pro is a hybrid Windows tablet/laptop with an enviable combination of size, weight, battery life and one of the best screens this side of a desktop computer. But is it worth …
Researchers at Palo Alto Networks said they’ve discovered an impressive malware attack against Apple devices, which for now appears to be limited to users of a Chinese application store. The campaign revolves around infecting Mac OS X applications with “WireLurker,” which collects call logs, phone book contacts and other sensitive …
Компании Google и LG объявили о подписании кросс-лицензионного соглашения, затрагивающего «широкий спектр продуктов и технологий». …
Startups vying for top awards at the Web Summit in Dublin this week are developing products for widely different markets, highlighting the growing use and reliance on cloud services and mobile devices on the part of developers and users alike. British company BaseStone and its collaboration tool for the construction …
The type of company you work for may have a lot to do with whether you’re hired as a full-time employee or a contract or contingent worker. Large, end-user companies, those with IT operating budgets of at least $20 million, are cutting back on contract workers after years of expanding …
Китайская компания Xiaomi, ставшая по итогам третьего квартала 2014 года третьим по величине производителем смартфонов в мире, развивает не только «телефонное» направление. Важным направлением для расширения собственного бизнеса в компании считают также создание и развитие экосистемы умных телевизоров. …
Typically, when I review a solid-state drive (SSD) it comes from one of the half dozen or so big name manufacturers, such as Toshiba, SanDisk, Intel, Micron, Samsung and Seagate. But recently, I received a marketing pitch from Angelbird, which refers to itself as “Austria’s Premium SSD Manufacturer,” so I …
Microsoft today said it will issue 16 security updates on Tuesday, the most in more than three years, to patch Internet Explorer (IE), Windows, Office, Exchange Server and SharePoint Server. The 16 “bulletins,” as Microsoft calls its updates, listed in today’s advance notice were nearly double the previous 2014 record …
В очередной раз компания из Купертино заняла лидирующую позицию в рейтинге самых дорогих брендов мира по версии Forbes. В этом году стоимость бренда составила 124,2 миллиарда долларов (по сравнению с прошлым годом этот показатель вырос на целых 19%!). …
Can one little pill save your life? Google is betting on it, or at least willing to sink a lot of money chasing the idea as Andrew Conrad, head of the Life Sciences team at the Google X research lab, revealed recently at The Wall Street Journal’s WSJD Live conference. …
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 …
Агентство ФБР задержало владельца и оператора возрождённой второй версии интернет-магазина наркотиков Silk Road. Об этом ведомство сообщило на своём официальном сайте. …
Spurred by the sudden success of the Docker virtualization technology, platform services provider Joyent and Linux distributor Canonical have each open-sourced their container technologies. Joyent has released a container-based cloud-hosting platform that could be used as the basis for running large-scale, big-data analysis jobs, and Canonical has a new container …
Несмотря на то, что некоторые аналитики предрекают более низкие продажи Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare по сравнению с Ghosts, издательство Activision с ними не соглашается. По мнению его представителя, проект уже сейчас достиг большего успеха, чем его предшественник. …
Крупнейшая в мире соцсеть Facebook начала демонстрировать подсказки и кнопку для прямых пожертвований в благотворительные организации, которые ведут борьбу с лихорадкой Эбола. Об этом сообщается на сайте Facebook. …
По данным аналитической компании Canaccord Genuity, на долю компании Apple приходится 86% всей прибыли на рынке смартфонов. Эксперты считают, что столь высокий показатель достигнут за счет ослабевших позиций конкурентов, и в частности, Samsung. На долю корейского гиганта, сообщается в отчете Canaccord Genuity, сейчас приходится 18% общей прибыли, что является самым …
Компания Shuttle анонсировала Barebone-систему XPC DS87 для построения компактных настольных компьютеров на аппаратной платформе Intel Haswell. …
Из-за боевых действий с самого утра связи нет у абонентов “Укртелекома”. …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced fraud charges against the City of Allen Park, Mich., and two former city leaders in connection with a municipal bond offering to support a movie studio project within the city. An SEC investigation found that offering documents provided to investors during the Detroit …