Видеосервис YouTube анонсировал давно ожидаемый музыкальный сервис на основе платной подписки. Он получил имя YouTube Music Key и предложит потоковое вещание высококачественных аудио и видеофайлов без рекламы, возможность воспроизведения в фоновом режиме и прослушивание при отсутствии доступа в сеть. Пока неизвестно, какой объем будет доступен для воспроизведения в режиме офлайн и как долго …
Amazing stuff Image by Reuters/NASA The European Space Agency launched the Rosetta mission in 2004 and this week it completed its primary mission: Land on a comet. In its travels the spacecraft has zipped by Mars, snapped a few shots of the asteroids Steins and Lutetia, mostly hibernated for three …
Love your gloves Winter is coming: Are your gloves ready to operate your iPhone in the cold, cold weather? If not, this week’s roundup has a product just for you. Photojojo Gloves with fingertips made to interact with iOS touchscreens have been around forever, but they can’t replace your favorite, …
A 28-year-old man was sentenced to more than nine years in prison Wednesday for buying stolen credit and debit card numbers from an underground online marketplace. Cameron Harrison of Augusta, Georgia, pleaded guilty in April to participating in a racketeer-influenced corrupt organization and trafficking in false identification documents. He was …
Online service providers need to do a better job telling users what information will be gathered about them and how it will be used, a top official at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday. “It’s crucial to provide some form of notice, like in the initial set-up of a …
Microsoft’s new Clutter feature for cleaning up your inbox automatically is the latest of several tools based on machine learning that the Office team thinks are ready for prime time. In fact, it’s the latest of many machine learning tools that researchers at Microsoft have developed over the years. But …
Microsoft has added touchpad gestures, fine-tuned OneDrive syncing and revamped the feedback app in the latest build of Windows 10 Technical Preview, released Wednesday to testers on the OS’s delivery fast track. Build 9879 is the third version of Windows 10 TP and the last one for this year, so …
It’s easy to see why everybody wants to be a platform these days. Just look at Apple: By owning both the hardware and the operating system, it gets total control over what developers build on its platform — and a sizable cut of the revenues besides. In return, developers get …
Чистый доход (чистая операционная выручка) украинского оператора мобильной связи “Киевстар” в 3 квартале 2014 г. составил 3 млрд 160 млн грн, что на 6% меньше показателя за аналогичный период прошлого года (3 млрд 359 млн грн). Об этом сообщает пресс-служба компании. …
It’s hard to change direction when you’re a company the size of Microsoft. In the past 18 months however, they’ve become considerably more open and modern. Today in a not so surprise move, Microsoft announced .NET Core 5, a component of the next version of the .NET framework which allows …
Представить жизнь без мобильного телефона могут сегодня разве что дикие аборигены или откровенные бездельники. …
Правозащитник и депутат Псковского областного собрания Лев Шлосберг, одним из первых обнаруживший свежие могилы российских десантников под Псковом заявил, что страницы погибших в соцсетях продолжали вести после их смерти. …
Киевстар уменьшил стоимость активов на $13 млн – в такую сумму было оценено телекоммуникационное оборудование оператора, оставшееся на территории временно оккупированной АР Крым. …
The cloud is no longer relegated to handling ancillary jobs, but is quickly become the base for mission critical — or even all — enterprise IT operations, the head of Amazon Web Services said. “The cloud is the new normal,” said Andy Jassy, Amazon Web Services senior vice president during …
U.S. companies use Windows tablets slightly more than iPads and Android tablets, according to a recent Harris poll of IT decision makers. A mix of tablets are in use at U.S. companies, but Windows tablets are used by 72% of the companies surveyed, with iPads used by 69% and Android …
Компания Telltale Games с большой неохотой делится подробностями грядущего игрового сериала по мотивам вселенной Game of Thrones («Игра престолов»), выдавая новости в час по чайной ложке. …
Microsoft совместно с платежной системой Skrill занимаются разработкой масштабного проекта по электронной коммерции в Африке. …
Alcatel-Lucent’s Nuage Networks SDN venture has broadened its product line to tackle enterprise WANs, an increasingly vital market for the technology. Nuage’s Virtualized Networks Services (VNS) product is designed to help enterprises simplify the provisioning of secure network services to remote locations. It is intended to extend policy-driven network automation …
Internet companies have run amok with our personal data, and people aren’t entirely sure what to do about it, judging from the results of a new survey. More than 90 percent of Americans feel they’ve lost control over how their personal information is collected and used by companies, particularly for …
Google Fiber has been expanded to small businesses in a handful of neighborhoods in Kansas City, Kan., and Kansas City, Mo. The move marks the first time the 1 Gbps service has been officially available to business users anywhere. Google posted maps of the neighborhoods that will include the small …
Канадская BlackBerry Ltd. ищет партнеров в Китае на рынке смартфонов. Руководитель компании Джон Чен провел переговоры с руководителями Xiaomi Corp. и Lenovo Group Ltd., сообщает Bloomberg. Также он встретился с председателем совета директоров тайваньской HTC Corp. Шер Ван. …
A Google ad server went down Wednesday morning, leaving many websites without advertising. Sites like Computerworld and CNBC.com were affected. The ad server, known as DoubleClick for Publishers, is an advertisement software-as-a-service application. “DoubleClick for Publishers experienced an outage this morning impacting publishers globally, across their video, display, native and …
Internet companies have run amok with our personal data, and people aren’t entirely sure what to do about it, judging from the results of a new survey. More than 90 percent of Americans feel they’ve lost control over how their personal information is collected and used by companies, particularly for …
Samsung has given a sneak peek at a new 3D camera that can capture 360-degree panoramic video and stream it live to its virtual reality headset. Dubbed Project Beyond, it was the “one last thing” Samsung pulled out of its hat at the start of its developer conference in San …
Організація Об’єднаних Націй з питань освіти, науки і культури (ЮНЕСКО) відкрила Всесвітню цифрову наукову бібліотеку …
Four websites run by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have been compromised in recent weeks, the agency said on Wednesday. NOAA, the part of the U.S. Department of Commerce that includes the National Weather Service, “deflected” the attacks, the agency said in a statement. Some services were down …