Один из первых компьютеров, собранных основателями корпорации Apple Стивом Джобсом и Стивом Возняком, уйдет с молотка, пишет The Telegraph. Стоимость лота, который будет выставлен в октябре на торгах аукционного дома Bonhams в Нью-Йорке, оценивается в сумму от 300 тысяч до 500 тысяч долларов. …
The single biggest controversy about social media, and one that has persisted for two or three years now without resolution, is whether Google+ is a dying wasteland of non-activity, or a hive of conversation and engagement. It can’t be both. So which is it? And why can’t this fundamental question …
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Sears Holding Corp. said Friday the payment systems at its Kmart retail chain had been breached as a result of malware, compromising shoppers’ credit and debit card numbers. The U.S. retail chain’s payment systems were infected with a form of malware that went undetected by its anti-virus systems, Sears said. …
Sears Holding Corp. said Friday the payment systems at its Kmart retail chain had been breached as a result of malware, compromising shoppers' credit and debit card numbers. read more
Authorities have extradited the founder of Liberty Reserve, a virtual currency allegedly used by cybercriminals for money laundering, from Spain to the U.S. read more
Justice ministers' proposals to relax European Union data protection rules for low-risk personal data are a step in the right direction, according to a lobbying group backed by IBM, Microsoft and Oracle. read more
It's just days until Salesforce.com's massive Dreamforce event in San Francisco, where CEO Marc Benioff and celebrity guests will hold forth before an expected 140,000 attendees. While that number is arguably inflated by the fact that Salesforce provides free access to keynotes, the show is nonetheless important for the cloud …
Microsoft will have no choice but to give consumers free Windows upgrades once it launches Windows 10 and kicks off its fast-fast-fast tempo, an analyst asserted. “If Microsoft wants consumers to update and keep up to date, it really means that Microsoft is going to have to give those consumers …
Putting a tax on Internet access has been compared to charging people to enter a physical shopping mall. The idea strikes many as absurd, including most lawmakers. But Congress is drifting in the direction of letting this tax moratorium expire in mid-December. If Congress does let the moratorium end, states …
Dell has appointed a company veteran to run its server unit following the departure of an executive known for his strong opinions. read more
Dell has appointed a company veteran to run its server unit following the departure of an executive known for his strong opinions. Ashley Gorakhpurwalla was promoted to vice president and general manager of Dell’s Server Solutions unit. He is responsible for planning, development and delivery of server hardware and products. …
Big data's origins lie not with Google or even IBM, but in a 1970's Chilean government effort to move to socialism, so we learned from the latest New Yorker ("The Money Issue"). read more
While hackers say they have broken into a giant Snapchat database filled with Snapchat photos and videos and have been collecting files for years, the content messaging service denies it was hacked. Users on the chat forum 4chan today have been referring to the incident as “The Snappening,” comparing it …
Apple cracked the top five of IDC’s list of global personal computer makers for the third quarter, placing fifth by squeezing out Taiwan’s Asus. According to IDC, Apple sold nearly 5 million Macs in the September quarter, or 6.3% of the worldwide total. That number, if it holds, would represent …
Shellshock continues to reverberate: Attackers are exploiting recently discovered vulnerabilities in the Bash command-line interpreter in order to infect Linux servers with a sophisticated malware program known as Mayhem. read more
Three of the world’s leading social networks — Facebook, Twitter and YouTube — are woefully lacking in their response to online abuse, harassment and violence against women, according to a new report card from the Association for Progressive Communications’ Take Back the Tech campaign. After commissioning research into the corporate …
Lenovo has done its best to perfect the convertible PC with the Yoga 3 Pro, but has still ended up with a light laptop and a heavy tablet. Maybe it’s me: I have always struggled to understand the point of the convertible category, because it’s very difficult to create a …
Apple’s security systems stole another advantage against rivals today when the company finally enabled app-specific passwords to help improve the level of protection its customers enjoy. Switched on Apple yesterday shared this email with iCloud users: “Thank you for using two-step verification to protect your Apple ID and the data …
Apple will live webcast the Oct. 16 news conference where it’s expected to introduce new iPad tablets, launch the OS X Yosemite operating system and perhaps tout refreshed Macs. Early Friday, Apple inserted a notice of the upcoming event on its home page. That notice led to a page with …
It’s been nearly a week since Microsoft announced that it will follow Windows 8.1 with Windows 10 — and released its Technical Preview so that those interested could take a first look at the new operating system. Since then I’ve been exploring the new OS, alongside the sparse documentation Microsoft …
Here comes the Nexus 6 release date. Rumors are rife that Google is about to launch and ship its new Android L phablet, possibly as soon as next week. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers take a Voight-Kampf test. Not to mention: The original… Your humble blogwatcher curated these bloggy bits for …
«Умные» часы ASUS ZenWatch, как и сообщалось ранее, поступят в продажу в ноябре. Сначала их продажи начнутся на Тайване, причём первая партия, как утверждает новостной ресурс VR Zone, составит всего 300 единиц. Причины столь ограниченного количества не объясняются, но, как полагают аналитики, это является очевидным признаком того, что ASUS не …
It’s 1985, and this programmer pilot fish is asked to work on a pioneering banking software project — one that uses PCs. “The bank’s own staff was highly skeptical about the ability of networked microcomputers to do the job of the bank’s old mainframe system,” says fish. “To appease their …
8 cutting-edge technologies aimed at eliminating passwords Image by iStockphoto In the beginning was the password, and we lived with it as best we could. Now, the rise of cyber crime and the proliferation of systems and services requiring authentication have us coming up with yet another not-so-easy-to-remember phrase on …
China is cracking down on its own form of doxing, by making it a prosecutable crime for Internet users to publish the addresses and private activities of anyone without their permission, according to a new legal interpretation that goes into effect on Friday. read more