Tech professionals who work at election offices have pretty full calendars these days; but Albert Grimes, CIO at the Massachusetts Office of Campaign & Political Finance, took time out of his busy schedule to chat about how the office handles the flood of political contribution data that comes in shortly …
Многие поклонники Apple любят компанию за потрясающий внешний вид устройств. Ребята из немецкого блога Handy Bus решили попробовать представить, как выглядел бы один из самых многообещающих девайсов Google Gass в исполнение от Apple. …
Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg was sentenced Friday by the Court of Frederiksberg in Denmark to three and a half years in jail for hacking and serious vandalism. Svartholm Warg immediately appealed the judgment and is still in custody, said Judge Kari Sørensen, who presided over the case, adding …
Google plans to remove support for the aging Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) version 3.0 protocol in Google Chrome 40, which is expected to ship in about two months. The decision comes after Google security researchers recently discovered a dangerous design flaw in SSL 3.0. Dubbed “POODLE,” the vulnerability allows a …
Coca-Cola Bottling Company United (CCBCU) has used Dell’s Notes migration services to move 1,100 user mailboxes and 2 terabytes of data from IBM Notes to Microsoft Office 365. Founded in 1902, CCBCU is one of 200 Coca-Cola bottlers around the world, including 70 bottlers in North America. It is the …
OnePlus не собирается рвать отношения с компанией Cyanogen, ведь благодаря ей их One настолько известен за пределами Китая. Но к выходу второго своего смартфона молодой производитель планирует создать собственную прошивку на основе Android, сообщил CEO Пит Лау (Pete Lau). …
Taking a page from the Snapchat playbook, BlackBerry will let BBM messaging service users control how long messages and pictures can be viewed, hoping the feature, along with other new capabilities, will result in a new revenue stream. The BBM upgrade will be available for BlackBerry’s own smartphones as well …
Kiss your free time goodbye Clear your schedule and get ready to apologize to your wallet: Another Steam sale is upon us. Sure, at first glance, the Steam Halloween Sale bucks the traditional Steam sale mold, with no flash sales or cute meta-games built around loading up your shopping cart. …
Сегодня Южнокорейский гигант Samsung анонсировал новые смартфоны Galaxy A5 и Galaxy A3. Samsung называет Galaxy A5 и A3 своими самыми тонкими устройствами на сегодняшний день: 6.7 и 6.9 мм соответственно. Аппараты ориентированы на молодую аудиторию, нуждающиеся в практичности и функциональности в одном телефоне. Как уверяет производитель, Galaxy A5 и Galaxy A3 получили цельнометаллический корпус …
In the six weeks since its release, iOS 8’s app crash rate has declined more than 25% as app developers have adjusted to new APIs and issued updates, an app performance management developer said today. According to San Francisco-based Crittercism, iOS 8’s crash rate as of Wednesday was 2.6%, or …
Facebook has made its site directly available on Tor to prevent access problems for people using the anonymity network and to provide an alternative method of accessing the social network securely. People who have a Tor-enabled browser will be able to access Facebook via https://facebookcorewwwi.onion/, Facebook software engineer Alec Muffett …
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission appears set to reclassify broadband so that it comes under the agency’s authority, but without explicitly prohibiting special access deals between broadband and content companies, according to a news report. FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler is mulling this hybrid answer to the knotty “net neutrality” issue, …
Several major national and international banks are planning to launch their own mobile payments apps next year. The banks would be major competitors to handset makers Apple and Google because unlike others pushing mobile wallet technology, such as mobile phone carriers and retailers, they already have an intimate relationship with …
The corporate shakeup at Google continues and now it’s Andy Rubin, the former head of the company’s Android business and the current head of its robotics arm, who’s out. A Google spokesperson confirmed to Computerworld Thursday night that Rubin is leaving the company, but declined to say how his departure …
Hungary has ditched for now plans for an Internet tax after tens of thousands of people took to the streets last week protesting what they called an absurd and crippling measure. The country’s prime minister, Victor Orbán, announced on national radio on Friday morning that he would scrap plans for …
Free Collaboration and Project Management Software Image by Thinkstock Casey Stengel, Hall of Fame baseball manager once said, “Gettin’ good players is easy. Gettin’ ’em to play together is the hard part.” The same holds true for today’s technology workforce. To read this article in full or to leave a …
This pilot fish works for a subcontractor to the prime contractor that manages a government laboratory — which puts him about as far down the government-contractor stack as it gets. “Several months back, I mentioned to my boss that a co-worker and I had restarted a project that was shelved …
Andy Rubin, key driving force behind the wildly successful Android OS, and ex-current robotics manager at Google is leaving the company for greener pastures. Latest in a series of highly publicized departures, Rubin is moving on after a restructuring blitz has placed control of many key projects into the hands …
NASA engineers and technicians on Thursday put the finishing touches on Orion, the spacecraft designed to take astronauts into deep space. Thursday’s work marked the conclusion of construction on the first spacecraft designed to carry humans past the moon. The Orion spacecraft, which is expected to take humans to an …
After partnering with Apple and Twitter for the enterprise market, IBM is doing the same in China with local Internet giant Tencent in a deal targeting growing businesses in the country. The two companies are joining forces to deliver public cloud and software-as-a-service technologies to small, medium businesses working in …
Как и обещалось, Rovio выпустила игру Angry Birds Transformers для устройств, функционирующие под управлением мобильной операционной системы Android. Напомним, что владельцы “яблочных” девайсов играют в “птичих транформеров” уже неделю. Скачать игру Angry Birds Transormers для Android можно бесплатно в интернет -магазине/каталоге Google Play. …
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission appears set to reclassify broadband so that it comes under the agency’s authority, but without explicitly prohibiting special access deals between broadband and content companies, according to a news report. FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler is mulling this hybrid answer to the knotty “net neutrality” issue, …
The corporate shakeup at Google continues and now it’s Andy Rubin, the former head of the company’s Android business and the current head of its robotics arm, who’s out. A Google spokesperson confirmed to Computerworld Thursday night that Rubin is leaving the company, but declined to say how his departure …
Google is applying a surveying technique from the 1960s to a project that aims to collect data about users’ computers without compromising their privacy. The project is nicknamed RAPPOR, which stands for Randomized Aggregatable Privacy-Preserving Ordinal Response. Google plans to present a paper on it next week at the ACM …
Several major national and international banks are planning to launch their own mobile payments apps next year. The banks would be major competitors to handset makers Apple and Google because unlike others pushing mobile wallet technology, such as mobile phone carriers and retailers, they already have an intimate relationship with …
If you’ve always wondered if Mark Zuckerberg has a favorite hoodie, or a favorite programming language, now’s your chance to find out. Facebook’s chief will host his first community Q&A next Thursday at 5 p.m. Eastern, giving the public a chance to ask any questions they might have for him. …