Human beings tend to take incremental change in stride. For example, the loaf of bread that was 50 cents a few decades ago that now costs $3 isn’t a big deal to us because the price rose gradually and steadily year by year. What we aren’t adapted for is exponential …
Japanese parents who want to keep close tabs on their kids will soon be able to wrap sensor-laden 3G watches on their wrists. read more
Apple's iPhone 6 will go on sale on Oct. 17 in mainland China, one of the biggest markets for the company, with high demand expected from existing iPhone users. read more
В 2012 году компания TinyCircuits выпустила свои первые Arduino-совместимые микроконтроллеры TinyDuino, а благодаря мини-дисплею TinyScreen на их основе можно создать смарт-часы и “умные” очки, даже если пользователь раньше не имел опыта программирования. TinyScreen – это 0,96-дюймовый цветной OLED-экран с разрешением 96 × 64 точек, который оснащен четырьмя кнопками по бокам корпуса. …
A privacy watchdog filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission against a community college district in Arizona that lost the personal data of 2.5 million students and employees in two data breaches. read more
China has effectively cleared the iPhone 6 for sale in the country, granting the product a license, but not before a government regulator demanded Apple make some security changes in the iOS operating system to fix suspected flaws in the software. read more
Oracle needs to recognize that the consumerization of IT is already here. read more
If you buy a giant phone, pack it into skinny jeans, sit on it for 18 hours and find that it's bent, Apple's not to blame for the damage. read more
Apple released a patch Monday for Shellshock, a serious software vulnerability disclosed last week, although the company had said it posed no risk to most users. read more
Rackspace is in the process of rebooting a substantial portion of its cloud servers before Oct. 1. read more
SuperValu, the grocery store operator hit by a cyberattack in June and July, has suffered a second attack on its payment processing system, it said Monday. read more
Aware that the "if you build it, they will come" principle doesn't always apply to newly deployed IT systems, Microsoft has developed a website to help companies promote Office 365 usage among employees. read more
Hewlett-Packard is fueling Microsoft's battle with Google's Android in low-cost devices with the first Windows-based Stream tablets, starting at US$99.99. read more
CIOs and CMOs like to proclaim to the world that they’ve become best buddies. They’re the Dynamic Duo, Wonder Twins, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid of the digital frontier making rivals look foolish as they fill company coffers with social and mobile marketing-led sales. That’s the public-facing story, anyway. …
Cholera, malaria and the rapidly expanding threat of Ebola have hit African countries with a related health-care problem: the scourge of fake drugs. read more
Microsoft will offer some Windows 8.1 users a free upgrade to the next edition, tentatively labeled as Windows 9, a notorious spiller of the company’s secrets said today. According to Wzor, Windows 9 will be a free upgrade from some but not all copies of Windows 8.1. For those currently …
How Apple realized it made a mistake by not offering a larger screen iPhone. Plus: Android and 64-bit, and a redditor shares his thoughts about the Samsung Galaxy Note 4. read more
Think it will be easier and safer to drive using Google Glass to text or make a call instead of your smartphone? Sorry. Think again. A joint study by the University of Central Florida and the Air Force Research Laboratory showed that driving while using Google’s wearable computer still is …
Though Oracle co-CEO Mark Hurd's title may have changed recently, his job running the company's sales and support operations really hasn't. But he does have a whole lot more to sell and support these days, and it's all in the cloud. read more
Add big data and analytics to the businesses Oracle wants to dominate in the cloud. Oracle Analytics Cloud essentially forklifts the entirety of Oracle’s on-premises analytics software to its cloud platform. It includes a subscription BI (business intelligence) service that users “of all technical skill levels” can use, along with …
The CEO of a Pakistani company has been indicted in the U.S. for selling a product called StealthGenie that buyers could use to monitor calls, texts, videos and other communications on other people's mobile phones, the U.S. Department of Justice said. read more
Lenovo plans on releasing new Yoga tablets and hybrids in time for the end-of-year holiday season, with actor and venture capitalist Ashton Kutcher having a hand in the design and development of the products. The “innovative and stylish” Yoga products “will become very popular presents for the holiday season,” said …
Oracle is giving its entry into the platform-as-a-service market (PaaS) an injection of new services in hopes of differentiating it from the likes of Windows Azure and Salesforce.com’s Salesforce1. Oracle unveiled plans for six new platform services at the OpenWorld conference in San Francisco on Monday. They include a Big …
Microsoft will not webcast the Tuesday press conference where it will unveil at least some parts of the next Windows, the company said today. Instead, the San Francisco event, which will focus on enterprise customers, will be limited to a small number of reporters, analysts and others who were invited …
A 3D printer that can use a patient’s own cells to print skin grafts, including hair follicles and sweat glands, has won a scientific design competition. While still in pilot mode, the PrintAlive Bioprinter is in the process of being commercialized by MaRS Innovations in collaboration with the Innovations and …
When Microsoft unveils its next edition of Windows Tuesday, it will face its greatest challenge ever in operating systems, an analyst argued today. “There’s never been a more critical point for Microsoft related to operating systems than now,” asserted Patrick Moorhead, principal analyst with Moor Insights & Strategy. “Enterprises are …