Кожен «розумний» гаджет з функцією мобільного зв’язку (GSM, 3G чи LTE) працює під управлінням не однієї, а двох операційних систем. Поряд з відомими кожному користувачеві Android, iOS, PalmOS чи Windows Phone існує інша, яку вони не бачать. Просте саме від неї залежить працездатність зв’язку в гаджеті. …
Microsoft ликвидирует российский офис разработки сервисов Skype, расположенный Зеленограде. Часть разработчиков переводят в офис компании в Праге. Об этом сообщили «Ведомости» со ссылкой на пресс-службу Microsoft, которая в мае 2011 года приобрела Skype за $8,5 млрд. …
Microsoft готовится выпустить свой новый флагманский смартфон Lumia 940, который будет работать под управлением операционной системы Windows 10. В распоряжении издания phoneArena оказался документ, в котором описаны технические характеристики новинки. …
BioWare поделилась информацией о коллективе разработчиков, который в данный момент занят созданием следующей части Mass Effect. Среди них оказался сценарист Крис Шлерф (Chris Schlerf), ранее трудившийся над сюжетной составляющей Halo 4 в 343 Industries. …
Запуска новой Apple Pay с нетерпением ждали пользователи «яблочной» техники по всему миру. …
Аналитики IDC предсказывают рынку “интернета вещей” (Internet of Things, IoT) трехкратный подъем, чему будут способствовать развитие облачных технологий и увеличение числа устройств, подключаемых ко Всемирной паутине. …
Профессиональный скейтбордист Тони Хоук работает над новой игрой. Об этом спортсмен сообщил в своем твиттере. По его словам, она выйдет на консолях в 2015 году. Более точной информации о сроках выхода и платформах Хоук не предоставил. …
Back in the 1970s, at the time of the first “oil shock,” when gas prices spiked, researchers at the Institute for the Future conducted a study of what was then being (optimistically) called the “telecommunications/transportation tradeoff.” The hope was that virtual meetings could take the place of the real thing, …
Shaygan Kheradpir is out as Juniper CEO after just a year on the job Juniper Networks has replaced recently appointed CEO Shaygan Kheradpir with Executive Vice President Rami Rahim effective immediately. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Amazon Web Services is in a unique position in the cloud computing market. It has been anointed the market leader in IaaS, with a scale and spectrum of services offered from its cloud that is unmatched by any other company. Researchers have recently estimated that AWS’s Iaas cloud revenue is …
U.S. President Barack Obama, in a strong net neutrality policy statement, has given the Federal Communications Commission the political cover it needs to move ahead with new rules by reclassifying broadband as a regulated utility. Obama’s policy statement, released Monday, calls on the FCC to take the controversial step of …
Project and portfolio managers who want to play with their projected budget numbers can now get a hand from a new extension of CA’s Clarity project and portfolio management software, called the Executive Playbook. “The Executive Playbook will help IT leadership align the portfolio with the business objectives,” said John …
Some researchers are throwing cold water on the belief that the particle discovered in the Large Hadron Collider two years ago actually is the elusive Higgs boson. Teams of scientists said last year that the particle, discovered in July 2012, was increasingly looking like the Higgs boson. The physicists studying …
What happens when the world’s most populous country goes on an online shopping binge? E-commerce giant Alibaba Group gave a glimpse of that on Tuesday, when China kicked off its own version of Cyber Monday. The sixth annual Chinese discount event is expected to clog the packaging industry, ring up …
AT&T has reversed itself on in-flight Wi-Fi, dropping a plan announced just months ago that would have seen the carrier launch services on airliners next year. The entry of a telecommunications giant like AT&T might have reshaped the in-flight wireless business, which so far has been served mostly by specialist …
A brief history of Pi The Raspberry Pi has been the object of a great deal of nerdy affection since its initial release in 2012. A mousetrap-sized, self-contained single-board computer, the Pi is designed to serve as both an educational tool and a handy option for hobbyists – who have …
AT&T has reversed itself on in-flight Wi-Fi, dropping a plan announced just months ago that would have seen the carrier launch services on airliners next year. The entry of a telecommunications giant like AT&T might have reshaped the in-flight wireless business, which so far has been served mostly by specialist …
A picture may be worth a thousand words, but it’s worth fewer with a lousy caption — and let’s not even get into hashtags — so Instagram is trying to help users clean things up. Photo captions and their locations can now be edited after posting, Instagram said Monday. The …
I spent much of last week in Austin, Texas at Dell World 2014, the company’s annual convention/party for thousands of customers and partners. Dell World has many of the same features as other vendor conferences – executive keynotes, customer panels, technical sessions, a show floor crowded with vendor booths. But …
Following President Obama’s statement today backing net neutrality rules, the Federal Communications Commission said it won’t consider the issue at its December meeting and will put off rules changes until 2015. “It has become plain that there is more work to do,” FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said in a statement. …
Debian developer leaves after eighteen years Systemd has been a toxic topic in the Linux community for a long time, and now a long-time Debian developer is leaving the project because of it. Sam Varghese at ITwire reports on Joey Hess’ decision to leave Debian after eighteen years: The ruckus …
Android 5.0 Lollipop reviews Android 5.0 Lollipop has been out for a little while now, and reviews of this latest version of Google mobile operating system have started to come in. Android 5.0 contains many new features and changes, and some think it might be the best version of Android …
Mozilla today pulled out the PR stops to trumpet the 10th anniversary of Firefox, and in celebration released an interim build of Firefox 33 that includes a new privacy tool and access to the DuckDuckGo search engine. Firefox 1.0 was released on Nov. 9, 2004, at a time when Microsoft’s …
Facebook’s Messenger is now one of the most used mobile messaging apps in the world, with more than 500 million people logging in monthly, the company said Monday. “This is an exciting milestone,” said Peter Martinazzi, Facebook’s director of product management, announcing the stat. Facebook’s main app has around 1.35 …
Facebook’s move to spin off messages into a separate app was an unpopular one, but a success nonetheless. Facebook Messenger now has 500 million monthly active users, more than doubling the size of its base in the last six months. Facebook has added several features to make Messenger more appealing …
Security researchers have discovered a vulnerability in iPhones and iPads that allows attackers to install fake apps that take the place of legitimate ones. FireEye, a mobile security company based in California, said the problem, which it calls “Masque Attack,” allows attackers to potentially gain access to vast amounts of …