After suffering a series of setbacks on the way to getting 64-bit ARM servers into the hands of users, company CEO Simon Segars prefers to take a fresh look at market opportunities instead of dwelling on the past. read more
Cody Wilson, the developer of the world’s first fully 3D-printed plastic gun, is preparing to sell a consumer-grade machine that can make metal guns. Wilson calls the tabletop machine the Ghost Gunner, and describes the project as a non-profit open source hardware effort by his company Defense Distributed. Defense Distributed …
Some U.S. television stations could make tens, or even hundreds, of millions of dollars by giving up their spectrum so that the U.S. Federal Communications Commission can sell it in an upcoming mobile broadband auction. read more
The Joomla project pushed out new updates for its popular content management system Wednesday after a glitch was found in the high-priority security patches it released a day before. read more
Китайский производитель мобильных устройств THL пополнил свой ассортимент новым, доступным аппаратом – THL T6S. Новинка построена на базе процессора MT6592M и обладает 5-дюймовым дисплеем с разрешением 854 на 480 точек, поддержкой двух SIM-карт, лотом для карт расширения стандарта microSD, а вот объем встроенной и оперативной памяти не уточняется. Разрешение камеры заявлено в …
Reacting to chronic complaints that Office applications have become unwieldy with endless menus and features, Microsoft is developing a streamlined presentation application built from the ground up for mobile devices and cloud computing. read more
What kind of jerk would want something bad for kids? If you buy what some top U.S. government officials are selling, then the kind of jerk who wants bad things for kids would be anyone supporting encryption. Heck, you don’t even have to be “for” encryption if you have an …
Virtual private network servers based on OpenVPN might be vulnerable to remote code execution attacks through Shellshock and other recent flaws that affect the Bash Unix shell. The OpenVPN attack vector was described in a post on Hacker News Tuesday by Fredrik Strömberg, co-founder of a commercial VPN service called …
The Securities and Exchange Commission, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), and the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB) today announced the opening of registration for the first Compliance Outreach Program for Municipal Advisors that will take place in Chicago on November 3. The SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations, in …
In a move to minimize legal risks, Google has stopped showing news snippets and thumbnails for some well-known German news sites in search results. read more
Image by Shutterstock Janco Associates recently reported a trend among CIOs: Taking into account base salary and ‘other’ types of compensation, many CIOs are pulling in over $1 million a year. “The striking component of the compensation plans for each of the executives who made this list is that none …
Günther Oettinger, the European Union’s proposed Commissioner for the Digital Economy and Society, gave a disappointing performance at his confirmation hearing, dodging questions and calling the victims of a recent data breach “dumb.” Critics said Oettinger’s remarks about the celebrities whose iCloud accounts were compromised, allowing hackers to release nude …
Apple now offers a smartphone for everyone with its entry-level iPhone 5C being made available for free, but no one seems too excited about this — even though it is what everyone said it should do. Blind spot That’s likely because in the mind of many who should know better, …
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Apple on Tuesday released a “golden master” of OS X Yosemite to developers, signaling that the upgrade is on track to ship within the next three weeks. “Golden master,” or GM, is a label some developers apply to software that is ready, or nearly ready, to ship or sell. Rival …
The Internet of Things is billed as an almost magical realm of possibilities where everything from thermostats to cars will be online. Industrial applications are a key proving ground. Combined with big data analytics, plants full of smart things could generate billions of U.S. dollars in cost savings. But manufacturers …
Appcelerator Titanium has been a player in the mobile development space for several years, with a JavaScript-based development environment that compiles to native code for iOS, Android and other targets. With the release of Appcelerator Studio 3.3 and Appcelerator Platform 2.0 in July, the company added a mobile back end …
Japan has chosen Fujitsu to help it regain the top spot in the global supercomputer race with an exascale machine, which at 1,000 petaflops would be about 30 times faster than the leading supercomputer today. The electronics giant said Wednesday it will work with the Riken research center to come …
Let’s be honest: the past few weeks haven’t exactly been the easiest for Apple. From the glitchy livestream during its product announcement to the problematic preorder launch of the new iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, to the public-relations headache-inducing “Bendgate,” to the outright catastrophic iOS 8.0.1 software update (which was …
Google has tripled its maximum reward for finding flaws in its software to $15,000, a figure the company hopes will deter independent researchers from selling their information on shady markets. Before, the company had paid a minimum of $500 and up to $5,000. But it is now becoming more difficult …
The Windows 10 download is ready now: Build 9841 is melting the internets. Wait… So what happened to 9? In IT Blogwatch, bloggers make a rockumentary. Not to mention: Nigel in his prime… Your humble blogwatcher curated these bloggy bits for your entertainment. James Niccolai goes to 10 — look, …
It’s time for this company’s customer-facing network to move from one colocation data center to another one across town, reports the pilot fish who’s managing the transfer. “With 100 servers, switches, load balancers, firewalls, etc., it was a complicated project,” fish says. “And with over 400 companies being served by …
A malware program that targets Hong Kong activists using Apple devices has trademarks of being developed by a nation-state, possibly China, according to a security company. Lacoon Mobile Security of San Francisco wrote on its blog on Tuesday that the malware, called Xsser mRAT, is the “first and most advanced, …
Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison has delivered another dose of hype for the vendor’s cloud platform, but many customers may need more convincing before they make the leap. In many ways, Ellison’s talk at the OpenWorld conference on Tuesday was a rehash of a keynote he delivered on Sunday, although he …
The “Shellshock” flaw has the potential to pose a risk to the payments industry, but doesn’t appear to have caused any problems yet, an official with a consortium run by major credit card companies warned on Tuesday. The PCI Security Standards Council develops technical standards for protecting payment card data, …
Apple has announced that iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus will be available in China beginning October 17 from the Apple Online Store, Apple’s retail stores, and an expansive network of retail stores through all three major carriers and Apple Authorized Resellers. Customers can pre-order iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 …