Samsung Galaxy S6: Exynos 7 Octa и другие подробности
На прошлой неделе мы рассказывали, что Samsung представила новое семейство собственных чипсетов Exynos. …
На прошлой неделе мы рассказывали, что Samsung представила новое семейство собственных чипсетов Exynos. …
Администрация популярного сервиса Whisper, позволяющего мобильным пользователям делиться друг с другом анонимными записями и личными сообщениями, раскрыла американским спецслужбам информацию о местоположении участников этой сети. Об этом в конце минувшей недели сообщил The Guardian. …
Пользователи Quora обсудили вопрос о том, как запустить свой сайт, не зная ничего об HTML, шаблонах, дизайне, пользовательском интерфейсе и имея ограниченный бюджет. ЦП выбрал из дискуссии лучшие ответы. …
Высокий стартовый спрос на флагманский смартфон BlackBerry Passport сохраняется до сих пор. В этом уверяет генеральный директор канадской компании Джон Чен (John Chen). …
Очередное издание выложило очередной полет дрона над строящимся кампусом Apple. Про последний полет мы писали 6 октября. За это время ситуация, конечно, поменялась, но незначительно. …
На сайте TENAA (сертификационное ведомство Китая) появилась информация о смартфоне Huawei Honor 4X, который, согласно предварительным данным, является недорогим устройством с поддержкой сетей LTE. Аппарат получил 64-битный процессор Snapdragon с тактовой частотой 1,2 ГГц, 2 ГБ оперативной памяти и 5,5-дюймовый HD-дисплей. …
The first products from Apple’s mobile enterprise partnership with IBM will roll out next month, according to Apple CEO Tim Cook, who said the partnership “could change the way people work.” In July, Apple announced an “exclusive” deal with IBM in which iPhones and iPads would be sold to enterprises …
Smartsheet, whose namesake online project management app uses a spreadsheet interface, has developed a visualization tool to let its customers graph and map workgroups in their organizations for better planning and supervision. The new Account Map tool does an enterprise-wide analysis of data collected in a company’s Smartsheet domain and …
The launch of Apple Pay on Monday has brought considerable publicity to a technology that’s already embedded in millions of Android smartphones yet has so far failed to take off. Clunky implementations, lack of widespread acceptance and poor user knowledge have hampered NFC technology, but some in the payments industry …
Microsoft Monday doubled down on hybrid clouds by unveiling an on-premises system that syncs up with Azure public cloud services. With its new Cloud Platform System (CPS), Microsoft is attempting to differentiate itself vs. rivals Amazon Web Services and Google. + MORE AT NETOWRK WORLD: IBM’s Rometty defends bumpy financial …
Canadian business communications vendor Mitel is offering $540 million for ShoreTel, a U.S.-based competitor, going public with the bid after saying it was snubbed earlier this month. Mitel and ShoreTel sell enterprise phone systems and unified communications software and services. Mitel says the industry is consolidating and it wants to …
Microsoft now loves Linux. That was the message from Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, standing in front of an image that read “Microsoft [heart symbol] Linux,” during a webcast Monday to announce new services it has added to its Azure cloud, including the Cloudera Hadoop package and the CoreOS Linux distribution. …
Apple has announced financial results for its fiscal 2014 fourth quarter ended September 27, 2014. The company posted quarterly revenue of $42.1 billion and quarterly net profit of $8.5 billion, or $1.42 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $37.5 billion and net profit of $7.5 billion, or …
Microsoft now loves Linux. This was the message from Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, standing in front of an image that read “Microsoft [heart symbol] Linux,” during a Monday webcast to announce a number of services it had added to its Azure cloud, including the Cloudera Hadoop package and the CoreOS …
Apple’s iPad shipments declined, but strong iPhone 6 and 6 Plus sales buoyed the company’s profit in its fourth quarter for fiscal 2014. Apple’s net profit was US$8.5 billion during the quarter, up from $7.5 billion in the same quarter one year ago, the company said on Monday. Revenue was …
Sprint recently cut 452 jobs from its headquarters in Overland Park, Kan., an amount that equals about 6% of the 7,500 workers there. The company is expected to make more job cuts this month, including from other locations in the U.S., further lowering the ranks of its 33,000-person work force. …
Some mobile researchers think future networks will reach into higher frequencies to keep up with traffic, and the Federal Communications Commission wants to know how it might help to make that possible. Most of the world’s cellular networks send calls and data traffic over frequencies below 6GHz. Growing demand is …
IBM’s decision to get out of the semiconductor manufacturing business may be of little consequence in a post-silicon world. In a deal announced today, GlobalFoundries is getting IBM’s semiconductor manufacturing business and IBM is paying the company $1.5 billion to take it. In exchange, IBM gets access to manufacturing scale …
One of Samsung’s most affordable consumer solid-state drives is experiencing read slowdowns with older data, a problem the company has now addressed with a firmware upgrade and installation guide. Samsung’s 840 EVO SSD is the company’s second-generation 3-bit multi-level cell (MLC) SSD, and it’s one of the most affordable drives …
IBM may have sold off its chip manufacturing business, but don’t count it out as a hardware force to be reckoned with. It still plans to fight on, developing faster computers and cognitive computing systems like Watson. IBM will pay $1.5 billion to GlobalFoundries to take over its chip-making factories, …
When it comes to big data projects, the biggest challenge most organizations face, regardless of size, is staffing, says Peter Guerra, a principal in Booz Allen Hamilton’s Strategic Innovation Group. Organizations struggle to find trained data scientists, or to find the money to retrain staff, Guerra says. To address that …
In 1966, some Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers reckoned that they could develop computer vision as a summer project, perhaps even get a few smart undergrads to complete the task. The world has been working on the problem ever since. Computer vision is where computers recognize objects like people do. …
IBM CEO Ginni Rometty is moving quickly to quell concerns about the company’s sinking earnings and defend a deal to pay more than a billion dollars to hand off its money-losing microelectronics business to GlobalFoundries. In a conference call held Monday after IBM issued its earnings report, Rometty firmly asserted …
It isn’t every day that a Chromebook manages to grab my attention. We see tons of new models, sure, but let’s be honest: Most of them are pretty ho-hum, with nothing much to set them apart and more than a few major compromises. And the louder the hype, it seems, …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Marc Wyatt has been named Deputy Director of the agency’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE). Mr. Wyatt joined the SEC in December 2012 as a senior specialized examiner focused on examinations of advisers to hedge funds and private equity funds. …
The FBI, via Director James Comey’s latest speech, is not the only authority worried about encryption enabled on Apple’s new iPhones. The iPhone 6 launched in China last week and the new encryption capabilities may be behind Chinese authorities launching a man-in-the-middle attack on Apple’s iCloud. This is not a …