Непризнанные власти Донбасса продолжают всячески «способствовать» работе интернет-провайдеров региона. Количество абонентов снижается, доходность некоторых интернет-компаний приближается к нулю. Наиболее актуальный для провайдеров вопрос: останутся ли их компании в собственности нынешних владельцев. …
Apple совершает ошибку, заставляя разработчиков выбирать между экосистемами, считают авторы инициативы Phoenix — открытой имплементации проприетарного языка программирования Apple Swift. …
Ранее мы писали об исследованиях, которые подтверждают, что панические настроения среди пользователей соцсетей крайне «заразны». Но сегодня предлагаем поговорить о чём-то весьма заразном в прямом смысле: о вирусе лихорадки Эбола и о том, как СМИ и социальные сети нагнетают обстановку вокруг этой опасной эпидемии. Грозит ли нам всем апокалипсис, и …
Стало известно, что новый владелец мобильного подразделения Nokia – компания Microsoft – начинает процедуру ребрендинга Lumia-смартфонов: смартфонов под брендом Nokia выходить больше не будет. …
В Сети появились фотографии iPhone 6, у которого белые пластиковые вставки приобрели синеватый оттенок. По заявлению автора снимков, корпус новых смартфонов Apple имеет свойство загрязняться при долгом ношении в карманах джинсов. …
Случаи поражений мобильных устройств вредоносными программами зачастую преувеличены, однако эксперты всерьез бьют тревогу: вирусы, поражающие финансовые приложения и получающие доступ к конфиденциальной информации пользователя, мутируют и несут все более серьезную угрозу. …
22 октября 2014 года Министр образования и науки Украины Сергей Квит провел встречу с членами Ассоциации книгоиздателей и книгораспространителей Украины, представителями Института инновационных технологий и содержания образования, Общественного совета при МОН, экспертами ІТ-технологий по эффективному функционированию электронного депозитария учебников на официальном сайте МОН. …
Житель Флориды Роберт Нельсон имплантировал себе в руку чип NFC, а после попытался объяснить, что толкнуло его на такой поступок. По словам мужчины, дать точный ответ на этот вопрос он не может, однако сферы применения технологии для себя определил. Кроме того, энтузиаст подчеркнул, что не намерен становиться «киборгом», внедряя в …
I’ve seen some interesting offers, but SanDisk just took the prize. The company just launched a program called STAR, or “SanDisk Tech-Assisted Refresh.” It’s a program to help IT departments upgrade their notebook PCs by replacing the hard disks with SSDs. SanDisk says that through the STAR program, it will …
Microsoft revenue leaped 25 percent in the first quarter but profit dropped, dragged down by expenses tied to its ongoing wave of layoffs and to the integration of Nokia’s phone business. Revenue hit $23.2 billion in the quarter ended Sept. 30, easily exceeding the $22 billion consensus expectation from analysts …
Amazon.com continued to increase its sales last quarter but losses also mounted, to the growing consternation of investors. Amazon’s overall sales were up 20 percent in the third quarter, amounting to $20.58 billion for the three months ended Sept. 30, the company said Thursday. At the same time, however, Amazon’s …
The launch this week of Apple Pay is giving many people their first taste of NFC payment technology, which allows them to buy things in a store by bringing an iPhone 6 close to a compatible terminal. But the NFC standard also allows payments to be made directly between smartphones. …
The blame game between Oracle and the state of Oregon is going into overtime, even before their dueling lawsuits over the disastrous Cover Oregon health insurance exchange website make it into court. Cover Oregon went live on Oct. 1, 2013, and like the federal Healthcare.gov site that’s a centerpiece of …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that former hedge fund manager Rajarengan “Rengan” Rajaratnam has agreed to pay more than $840,000 and accept securities industry bars in order to settle the agency’s insider trading case against him. The SEC filed civil charges in March 2013 against Rengan Rajaratnam for …
New products for new iPads This week’s roundup of iOS accessories includes a number of new items to accompany Apple’s latest generation of iPads. Belkin Belkin is updating its QODE line of keyboard cases to fit the iPad Air 2. Devices include the $150 QODE Ultimate Pro (pictured); the $130 …
The size and volume of distributed denial-of-service attacks has exploded in the past year, with a 389 percent increase in average attack bandwidth between the third quarter of 2013 and the third quarter of 2014, according to an Internet security report from Akamai Technologies. This should make companies consider using …
Amazon Web Services launched a new region of its cloud in Germany Thursday, in part to serve customers who want to keep data within their country’s borders. Germany has some of the strictest laws in the world related to data sovereignty and Amazon Senior Vice President Andy Jassy, who heads …
Facebook and Yahoo have developed a mechanism to prevent the owners of recycled email addresses from hijacking accounts that were registered on other sites using those addresses in the past. Last year, Yahoo announced a policy that involves deleting inactive email accounts and making their IDs available again for registration. …
Researchers in Australia have developed silicon-wrapped quantum technology that could solve problems that have held back the development of powerful quantum computers. The scientists, working on similar but separate projects at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), used silicon as a protectant shell around the bits, also known as …
Once the novelty wears off, people abandon their health wearable devices, many of which require regular syncing, powering up and other steps needed to keep them running. Only 10% of 1,000 U.S. consumers surveyed who own wearables wear their devices every day, 7% wear them a few times a week …
People may feel overwhelmed by the deluge of email arriving in their inboxes, but will they trust Google to show them the most important messages? Analysts are divided on how well Google can sort and prioritize users’ emails as the company launches Inbox, an email application built without any reliance …
GT Advanced Technologies and Apple have agreed to a deal that will let GT close the Mesa, Ariz. and Salem, Mass. factories where it was producing scratch-resistant sapphire, and void the contracts it had signed with its one-time partner. GT, which filed to reorganize under Chapter 11 protection on Oct. …
Facebook is going old school, with a stand-alone app for discussion boards aimed at letting users talk about shared interests without having to use their real names. The company released Rooms on Thursday, its answer to the craze around posting and sharing anonymously. People can use any name they want …
German publishers said they are bowing to Google’s market power, and will allow the search engine powerhouse to show news snippets in search results free of charge, at least for the time being. The decision is a step in an ongoing legal dispute between the publishers and Google. Publishers are …
Google, the search company that’s investing heavily in robotics, is teaming with Oxford University researchers to work on artificial intelligence. In January, Google bought the London-based artificial intelligence company DeepMind. Now the Google DeepMind group will work with two of Oxford’s artificial intelligence (AI) research teams. The teams will work …
Apple Pay is so easy to use, it’s almost not worth writing about. It’s laughably fast and stupidly simple. So simple it’s confusing the heck out of clerks and cashiers nationwide. Here’s how it works: You walk up to the kind of payment terminal where you would normally swipe your …