The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a pair of Canadian citizens with conducting an international microcap fraud scheme by stockpiling shares in a coal mining company and funding a multi-million dollar promotional campaign to hype the stock while simultaneously dumping their shares and routing the proceeds through offshore accounts. …
Если ваш Samsung Galaxy Note II кажется уже не таким технологичным и продвинутым – это ещё не повод покупать новое устройство. …
Hilton and Starwood will soon allow guests to unlock their rooms via a smartphone app. Starwood, owner of the Sheraton, Westin and “W” hotel chains, has upgraded 30,000 room locks in nearly 150 hotels so they can be unlocked with the new app. Hilton is planning to enable guests to …
With the midterm elections on Tuesday, Americans are increasingly using social networks and their cell phones to learn about the candidates and the issues. According to a national survey by the Pew Research Center, the number of Americans who follow candidates or any political figures on social media jumped from …
Amazon в прошедшем квартале была вынуждена списать в убытки $170 млн из-за слабых продаж 3D-смартфона Fire Phone, который хоть и щеголяет комплектом из четырёх инфракрасных камер, позволяющих отслеживать положение головы пользователя, по многим параметрам проигрывает своим конкурентам. …
Finding that aggregate Web searches alone cannot provide an accurate assessment of where flu has struck and its severity, Google has decided to take into account data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in its Google Flu Trends model. The Google tool is based on the premise …
Windows 8’s user share surged last month, while Windows XP’s plummeted by a record amount, a metrics company said this weekend. October’s statistics from Net Applications put the combined user share of Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 at 16.8% of the world’s desktop and notebook systems, an increase of 4.5 …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today sanctioned 13 firms for violating a rule primarily designed to protect retail investors in the municipal securities market. All municipal bond offerings include a “minimum denomination” that establishes the smallest amount of the bonds that a dealer firm is allowed to sell an investor …
Push notifications — those pesky alerts from the apps on your smartphone — tread a fine line between being useful and annoying. Facebook wants to tip the scales toward the former. Third-party app developers can now access A/B testing services for push notifications within Parse, the back-end developer platform Facebook …
Планшет Google Nexus 9 поступил в продажу по цене от $399 за 16 ГБ версию …
Команда хакеров PanguTeam работает над четвертым по счету обновлением для джейлбрейка Pangu. Патч Pangu Untether 0.4 должен исправить ошибки с воспроизведением видео в браузере Safari и циклической перезагрузкой iOS-устройств. …
I’ve dreamed up five cool product improvements Apple really should adopt. Do you agree? Continuity It is great to be able to work seamlessly across your Mac, iPhone and iPad, but the phone call feature in Continuity/Handoff is a new kind of madness. You can be sitting innocently working and …
In an effort to make to make Internet and mobile transactions more secure, American Express has launched a new service that aims to replace payment card numbers with unique tokens. E-commerce sites and digital wallet applications that use the company’s new token service won’t have to store customers’ card details. …
Nudging developers towards the open Web, the Mozilla Foundation is customizing a version of its popular Firefox browser that can be used to build Web pages and applications, potentially reducing the number of different tools now required for the job. Although it didn’t provide many details on what features will …
Step up your tech game this school year The school year is well under way, and teachers can use all the help they can get when it comes to keeping kids focused. The right iPad apps let teachers create dazzling lessons, quickly update parents, and stay organized without going crazy. …
Japanese SDN company Midokura is giving away its keystone product. Midokura is open sourcing its MidoNet network virtualization system in an effort to have it recognized as a – or the – default networking component in the OpenStack cloud orchestration system. But the company’s initiative speaks to perhaps a larger …
Nudging developers towards the open Web, the Mozilla Foundation is customizing a version of its popular Firefox browser that can be used to build Web pages and applications, potentially reducing the number of different tools now required for the job. Although it didn’t provide many details on what features will …
Как правило, компания GooPhone всегда старается максимально оперативно выпустить на рынок клон каждого нового флагманского устройства. …
Paradoxically for a platform intended to automate cloud service deployment, a major obstacle to wider adoption of OpenStack is a lack of qualified staff, speakers and attendees at the OpenStack Summit in Paris said Monday. OpenStack, open-source software for building and managing public and private clouds, is gaining a following …
Apple’s new OS X Yosemite now powers about one in five Macs, an uptake rate that surpassed last year’s Mavericks in first-month adoption speed, analytics company Net Applications said. For October, Yosemite accounted for 19.4% of all instances of OS X tracked by Net Applications, which estimates operating system user …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a clinical diagnostic and life science research company based in California with violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) when its subsidiaries made improper payments to foreign officials in Russia, Vietnam, and Thailand in order to win business. An SEC investigation found that …
Корпорация Sony раскрыла количество проданных консолей PlayStation 4 с момента начала продаж в ноябре прошлого года. За неполный календарный год на рынке новейшая приставка Sony была продана в большем количестве, чем её предшественник за полтора года продаж. …
Компания Microsoft активно продвигает мобильную операционную систему Windows Phone в массы. Но несмотря на все попытки софтверного гиганта, доля Windows Phone никак не растет. Несмотря на некоторое улучшение ситуации на корпоративном рынке, мобильная версия Windows все еще далека от своих основных конкурентов. …
Замена ламп светодиодами в модуле подсветки позволила ощутимо сократить энергопотребление дисплеев. Тем не менее, для мобильных устройств проблема высокого потребления энергии в жидкокристаллических дисплеях, что приводит к быстрому истощению аккумулятора, остаётся актуальной. Компания Sharp предложила жидкокристаллическую панель нового типа без подсветки, которая нацелена на использование в портативной носимой электронике. …
Разработчик Кристофер Эллис создал программное обеспечение, которое позволяет любому создать паспорт Гражданина мира. ПО использует PGP программное шифрование и технологию блокчейн, которые помогают создать идентификационный документ. Благодаря децентрализованным технологиям, подделать такой документ математически невозможно. …
Новая бесплатная программа Osquery от Facebook позволит администраторам создавать запросы на базе SQL по различным параметрам системы и таким образом собирать данные о запущенных процессах, загруженных модулях и открытых сетевых соединениях. …