In 2001, the tech industry employed 6.5 million people. Then the bubble burst, and payrolls shrank dramatically. That year remains the tech industry’s employment high-water mark — and it will take another 200,000 jobs to equal it. Tech industry employment reached 6.3 million in the first half of this year, …
Five top executives at GT Advanced Technologies, the New Hampshire company that was to supply Apple with scratch-resistant sapphire, including its CEO and COO, cashed in stock worth more than $10 million in the five months before the company declared bankruptcy on Oct. 6, according to regulatory filings. Two of …
Apple will introduce new iPads today in the hope they will rejuvenate sales, whose growth has slumped in the first two quarters of 2014. But the expectation by analysts is that Apple won’t offer enough to convince current owners to ditch their aging, or even aged iPads, and that Apple …
Приложение Wikipedia для Android теперь предлагает пользователям статьи, которые могут их заинтересовать, в зависимости от их местоположения. Об этом сообщается в описании приложения в магазине Google Play. …
No matter what images we have from the Borg on Star Trek or the Cylons on Battlestar Galactica, NASA says the future of space exploration is all about human and robotic cooperation. “In space it will be robots and humans, not robots versus humans”, said Rob Ambrose, chief of the …
Потенциал “умных” часов на платформе Android Wear невероятно огромен, и вариантов их использования – огромное количество. …
If you have a Mac, and if BadUSB or the code released at DerbyCon to make BadUSB work didn’t scare you off from using thumb drives, then you might want to start using a free app like CleanMyDrive. Why? Because OS X has been accused of leaking data and metadata …
Isolating computers from the Internet, called “air gapping,” is considered one of the best ways to defend critical systems and their sensitive data from cyberattacks, but researchers have found that can be undermined using an all-in-one printer. Renowned cryptographer Adi Shamir, co-inventor of the widely used RSA cryptographic system, and …
Несмотря на слабые продажи традиционных ноутбуков, некоторые ПК-вендоры активно выпускают новые игровые лэптопы, в связи с чем в четвертом квартале 2014 года ожидается усиление конкуренции на этом рынке. …
Holy confection affection, Android fans! Google’s latest version of Android — Android 5.0, a.k.a. Lollipop — is at long last unwrapped and on its way into our lives. Google announced Lollipop along with a trio of new Nexus devices on Wednesday. So what’s Lollipop all about, and what’ll it mean …
Microsoft’s job of moving its device needle from 14%, which its COO said this summer represents “a much bigger opportunity than we’ve ever had in the past,” just got harder. Gartner today forecast that the company’s share will be flat this year and climb only slightly in 2015. For 2014, …
Preserving privacy by keeping information secret isn’t working. Consumers give away precious data for online baubles. Data breaches, large and small, spill data all over the Web. Marketers indiscriminiately gather details about the online lives of people in their target markets. Does that mean we should be reading the last …
Пиратский ресурс случайно был включен в реестр web-порталов, к которым применялась функция. …
This October Patch Tuesday brings a bumper harvest of updates from a number of vendors including Microsoft, Adobe, Apple, Oracle and Google. Of the Microsoft patches, three are rated as critical and six updates are rated as important. MS14-056 — Critical The first update for this October Patch Tuesday is …
Компания Apple закрыла свой официальный онлайн-магазин для обновления данных в преддверии презентации новых iPad. Об этом свидетельствует сайт Apple Store. …
Even as Apple is set to launch new tablets on Thursday, the news about tablet sales isn’t good. Gartner and IDC both recently dramatically lowered their tablet shipment and sales estimates for 2014 and coming years, citing primarily the longer-than-expected time customers keep their existing tablets. (That phenomenon is called …
The top three browser makers announced yesterday how they will deal with the design flaw in SSL 3.0 after researchers revealed that their “POODLE” attack method can steal encrypted information and pilfer browser session cookies. Microsoft, Google and Mozilla all told users of their browsers — Internet Explorer, Chrome and …
Hosted service vendor Telco Systems is hoping to make it easier for businesses to buy cloud-based routers and firewalls, but the company first has to convince service providers it’s a good idea. Virtualization has already changed how enterprises build and manage their IT infrastructure, and now mobile operators are looking …
Четыре года назад экосистема Apple пополнилась еще одним важным устройством — планшетом. Несмотря на различные шпильки скептиков, iPad был прекрасен во всем и было вообще непонятно как мы до этого без него жили. С каждой итерацией он становился лучше и совершеннее. Сейчас, в преддверии нового iPad, самое время оглянуться назад …
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation issued a warning to companies and organizations on Wednesday of cyberattacks by people linked with the Chinese government. The advisory, issued privately, contains “information they can use to help determine whether their systems have been compromised by these actors and provides steps they can …
Тестирование аккумуляторов Sony Xperia Z3 и Z3 Compact показало, что оба смартфона являются рекордсменами в своих категориях. …
Musician and technology entrepreneur Will.i.am unveiled the “Puls” on Wednesday, a high-tech bracelet that lets people make phone calls, check Twitter and Instagram, and tell the time. But don’t call it a smartwatch. “Just because it’s on your wrist, this is not a watch,” Will.i.am said during a joint interview …
AT&T и Asus анонсировали новый недорогой смартфон PadFone X mini с док-станцией в виде планшета. …
A former Oracle employee has sued the company for allegedly conspiring with Google to prevent poaching of certain categories of managers from each other to keep salaries low. Oracle’s restricted hiring agreement with Google was part of a bigger conspiracy by technology companies, located mainly in Silicon Valley, that prevented …
Калифорнийской полиции удалось обнаружить и спасти пострадавшую в ДТП женщину благодаря приложению Find My iPhone. Двигаясь по холмистой трассе в Сан-Хосе, 28-летняя Мелисса Васкес не справилась с управлением, и ее Chevrolet упал в 450-метровый овраг. При падении женщину выбросило из салона, и она оказалась на склоне холма. Из-за тяжелых травм пострадавшая не …
Борис Добродеев, генеральный директор социальной сети ВКонтакте, заявил, что теперь правообладатели также смогут заявлять свои права на видео, уже размещенное в сети, и получать доходы от его показов, путем показов в видеороликах рекламы. При этом станет возможным уже размещенный другими пользователями ролик заменять на его копию более высокого качества. По …