The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced securities fraud charges accusing a New York businessman and his software company of making false statements to investors while raising more than $3 million to fund operations. The SEC’s Enforcement Division alleges that Gregory Rorke falsely told investors that he possessed millions of …
Earlier this week we told you privacy and security critics were concerned about how Verizon inserts unblockable cookies into HTTP requests sent via the company’s wireless network. One of the major concerns was that other companies might use this identifier, called a UIDH, and potentially build a dossier on a …
Wednesday night Microsoft confirmed what we all expected—that it too, has a smartwatch that it wants you to wear 24/7, for work and for play, called the Microsoft Band. Looking as much like a hospital bracelet as anything else, the $200 Microsoft Band features a rectangular, 320 x106 TFT display …
Объемы поставок панелей для планшетов по итогам месяца достигли исторического максимума, информируют аналитики WitsView, исследовательского подразделения тайваньской компании TrendForce. По данным специалистов, в сентябре 2014 года производители отгрузили в общей сложности 22,5 млн экранов для “таблеток”, что почти на 20% выше августовского показателя в 18,8 млн штук. …
Starbucks says mobile payments are taking off in a big way and it’s already handling almost 7 million a week at its U.S. coffee shops. That accounts for 16 percent of all transactions at its stores and, the company says, meant it transacted 90 percent of all of mobile payments …
As Halloween 2014 will be upon us shortly, I tried to think of a good scary Halloween themed post for this blog, and realized that data storage is not a very scary subject. So what would be scary to an IT person who’s primary focus is storage? Maybe getting accidentally …
Команда PanguTeam обновила джейлбрейк Pangu8. Новая версия под индексом 1.1, в отличие от оригинального выпуска, переведена на английский язык и включает в себя магазин Cydia, который загружается на iPhone и iPad сразу после выполнения взлома. Загрузить Pangu можно по ссылке в конце статьи. …
OS X Yosemite официально вышла 16 октября, и за это время пользователи успели обнаружить несколько мелких багов в операционной системе. Однако именно в последние пару дней многие стали жаловаться на серьезные проблемы с работой Wi-Fi-соединения на Yosemite. При подключении к любой сети интернет либо работает очень медленно, либо компьютер теряет …
Первоначально Macintosh задумывался как компьютер с низким ценником. Члены команды хотели установить такую цену, чтобы обычные люди с небольшим доходом могли позволить себе покупку этого устройства. …
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 …
A white-hat hacker from Sweden says he’s found a serious security hole in Apple’s Yosemite OS X that could allow an attacker to take control of your computer. Emil Kvarnhammar, a hacker at Swedish security firm Truesec, calls the vulnerability “rootpipe” and has explained how he found it and how …
Is bigger really better? That’s the question that immediately comes to mind when you pick up Google’s new Nexus 6 — the company’s latest “pure Google” flagship and the first phone to ship with the shiny new Android 5.0 Lollipop software. The Nexus 6 is a bit different than past …
Apple удалила из каталога App Store популярное мобильное приложение PCalc, позволяющее выполнять математические вычисления при помощи виджета в Центре уведомлений. Об этом разработчик PCalc Джеймс Томас рассказал в своем микроблоге. …
If police suspect that you’ve committed a crime, the odds are pretty good that they’ll want to search your smartphone for evidence. Whether they can actually search your phone depends on the security method you’ve picked—if any—to protect the device. Use Touch ID? Turn over those fingerprints. Have a passcode? …
Sharp is developing a “color memory LCD panel” for wearables that has dramatically lower power consumption, allowing smartbands, smartwatches and other devices with small displays to be used far longer. The prototype panel, described as being in the 1-inch class size, uses 1,000 times less power than conventional LCDs in …
HP’s announcement this week that it’s entering the 3D printing market with an industrial machine that is 10 times faster and 50% cheaper than current systems, immediately brought out the online snark. “The question is, will it print a prototype that’s just in black if you’re out of Yellow polymer?” Reddit user …
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 …
Смартфоны Sony убыточны, к концу этого года компания по собственному прогнозу потеряет на них около 1,7 миллиардов долларов США. Месяц назад в Sony решили отказаться от выпуска недорогих устройств и сосредоточиться на продвижении флагманов, а сегодня стало известно о том, что глава мобильного подразделения компании уйдет в отставку. …
Call me counterintuitive, but facts don’t lie — Android has won the smartphone wars, but it still isn’t a business. Where’s the money? Strategy Analytics tells us Android grabbed 84 percent of global smartphone shipments in Q3 2014 (July to September). That’s a mighty achievement for an OS swiftly retooled …
Перебитый кабель стал причиной перебоев связи МТС по всей Донецкой области. Об отсутствии связи в сети сообщили СМИ Славянска, Мариуполя и Макеевки. …
Попытки организации закрыть пиратские сайты связаны не только с опасениями потерять прибыль от продаж, но и с желанием защитить пользователей от злоумышленников. …
Apple Pay’s eventful early days were full of highs and lows. Excited iPhone users rushed to test the mobile payment service on day one and found it super seamless. Cashier confusion, Bank of America’s double-charging foul-up, and the NFC block at Rite Aid and CVS marred the rollout, but a …
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 …