Salesforce.com has given its customer-support and sales software new names and announced a slew of additional features in advance of its annual Dreamforce event, which kicks off next week in San Francisco. Beyond generating early hype for its conference, the announcements reflect the new reality Salesforce.com and other business software …
В ближайшие неделю-две южнокорейская компания LG Electronics планирует выпустить в продажу на рынке Южной Кореи смарт-часы LG G Watch R. Сообщается, что это первые часы Android Wear с по-настоящему круглым экраном. Впервые данная модель была продемонстрирована на выставке IFA 2014 и благодаря своему дизайну выиграла приз «Best of IFA 2014». …
Three scientists who succeeded in inventing efficient blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs) where many companies had failed have won the Nobel Prize in Physics. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Tuesday announced the award to Isamu Akasaki of Meijo University and Nagoya University, Hiroshi Amano, also of Nagoya University, and …
Amazon.com may have received illegal state aid from tax authorities in Luxembourg, where the company has a subsidiary that records most of its European profit, according to the European Commission. The commission is investigating the company’s tax affairs because it is concerned that it gained an unfair economic advantage by …
Microsoft and other companies that provide education technologies and services to U.S. schools aim to assuage parents’ concerns about the collection and handling of student data with a pledge to protect that data. The companies signing the pledge are, however, only a small section of providers to the kindergarten to …
Eyeing use in car dashboards and consoles, Sharp has developed an LCD panel that can be cut to almost any shape. Conventional LCD panels are rectangular — something that’s required because the tiny chips that drive each pixel of the display are fitted along the edge of the glass panel …
AT&T fired an employee who improperly accessed about 1,600 customer accounts and could have viewed customers’ Social Security and driver’s license numbers. The breach came to light after a form letter that AT&T sent to affected customers was submitted to Vermont’s attorney general’s office, which published it on its website. …
The field of artificial intelligence may not be able to create a robotic vacuum cleaner that never knocks over a vase, at least not within a couple of years, but intelligent machines will increasingly replace knowledge workers in the near future, a group of AI experts predicted. An AI machine …
Technology professionals are among today’s most infamous whistleblowers. The list of those who have made headlines for exposing corporate or government skulduggery includes Shawn Carpenter, a network security analyst who blew the lid off a Chinese cyberespionage ring; Bradley (now Chelsea) Manning, who shared more than 250,000 classified State Department …
Yahoo said Monday it has fixed a bug that was mistaken for the Shellshock flaw, but no user data was affected. Three of the company’s servers with APIs (application programming interfaces) that provide live streaming for its Sports service “had malicious code executed on them this weekend by attackers looking …
Telecoms behemoth AT&T is in trouble again. Another ‘rogue’ employee has been caught ‘obtaining’ customer data. Bad news often comes in threes, so, in IT Blogwatch, bloggers wonder what’s next for la T. (D’oh.) <!– Not to mention: XXXXXXXXXXXX… –> Your humble blogwatcher curated these bloggy bits for your entertainment. …
В 2012 году компания Qualcomm выкупила бостонский стартап Pixtronix, который занимался разработкой MEMS-дисплеев с низким энергопотреблением. После нескольких лет затишья стало известно, что инновационная технология будет применена в производстве 7-дюймового IGZO-дисплея для планшетного компьютера от компании Sharp. Начало продаж мобильного ПК намечен на первую половину 2015 года, хотя изначально инженеры планировали закончить разработку ЖК-панели лишь к …
В 2012 году компания Qualcomm выкупила бостонский стартап Pixtronix, который занимался разработкой MEMS-дисплеев с низким энергопотреблением. После нескольких лет затишья стало известно, что инновационная технология будет применена в производстве 7-дюймового IGZO-дисплея для планшетного компьютера от компании Sharp. Начало продаж мобильного ПК намечен на первую половину 2015 года, хотя изначально инженеры планировали закончить разработку ЖК-панели лишь к …
Flashback a couple decades to the days when this pilot fish is working for an organization that has just about maxed out the available storage for its minicomputer. “I arranged for a new rack to be purchased and installed,” says fish. “On the day of the installation, the computer operator …
Ask a Premier 100 IT Leader: Fernando Gonzalez Title: CIO Company: Byer California Fernando Gonzalez, CIO at Byer California Gonzalez is this month’s Premier 100 IT Leader. If you have a question you’d like to pose to one of Computerworld’s Premier 100 IT Leaders, send it to askaleader@computerworld.com. To read …
Google last week did something that is really hard to find objectionable: It said it deleted quite a few (“tens of thousands”) nude pictures stolen from celebrities. But as with anything that involves such an influential company as Google, this move creates a precedent, and it’s a dangerous one. This …
8 Apple iPad rumors you need to know Just as it did last year, Apple’s about to breathe new life into the tablet “market” with a special event Re/Code now claims is set for Oct. 16. The iPad Air 2 is expected to debut then with the Mini set to …
Samsung Electronics expects its third-quarter operating profit to fall by almost 60 percent on sluggish sales of mobile devices as Chinese companies eat into its market share with cheaper smartphones. Revenue is expected to drop 20 percent to about 47 trillion won ($44.2 billion) in the July-to-September period, from 59.08 …
This being Computerworld, the number of readers who update the firmware in their router is probably high. But, I suspect very few non-techies keep their firmware current. It’s quite understandable. For one thing, the security issues raised by old firmware don’t generally scream at you. And the update process is …
The U.S. International Trade Commission, the country’s top trade court, is launching an investigation into allegations by Nvidia that several Samsung cellphones and tablet PCs contain graphics technology that infringes on its patents. The ITC’s move is in response to a complaint lodged by Nvidia in early September with the …
Хакеры продолжают публиковать интимные фотографии голливудских знаменитостей, извлеченные из облачного сервиса Apple. Предыдущие три серии «клубнички» коснулись Дженнифер Лоуренс, Эмбер Херд и многих других звезд Голливуда, включая моделей, актрис и спортсменок. …
6 октября Министерство юстиции впервые провело электронное анонимное тестирование на право заниматься нотариальной деятельностью. Об этом сообщил министр юстиции Павел Петренко. …
Windows 10 Technical Preview stealthily collects lots of user data and transmits the information to Microsoft, leading some to wonder whether or not the OS will shed these practices once the testing period ends. For now, Microsoft is being non-committal. “When we release the new version of Windows, we will …
В дежурную часть Первомайского ГО УМВД Украины в Николаевской области обратился 44-летний местный житель с заявлением о том, что неизвестный завладел его денежными средствами в сумме 16 тыс. гривен. Об этом сообщает Оксана Кондратьева, помощник начальника Первомайского Го УМВД Украины в Николаевской области. …
VCE is expanding its line of all-in-one cloud systems, adding one with all-flash storage and offering more options for enterprises that want an easier path to the cloud. The company, formed by Cisco and EMC, integrates storage, networking, computing and virtualization into pre-validated systems it calls Vblocks. As demand grows, …
A lawsuit alleging that outsourcing firm Infosys favored hiring Indian workers over U.S. workers now includes an account from a recruiter about the alleged practice. The case, filed in federal court in Wisconsin, is from four IT workers around the country who are suing the company for “ongoing national origin …