На IFA 2014 компания Motorola представила свои первые “умные” часы Moto 360. Вскоре после анонса команда популярного ресурса iFixit решила проверить новинку на ремонтопригодность, качество сборки и поближе познакомиться с “начинкой” аксессуара. …
Рок-группа из Чикаго OK Go обвинила Apple в плагиате. Музыканты заявили, что компания из Купертино нелегально заимствовала для своего промо-видео их идеи. …
Google has acquired Polar, a company that specializes in online polls that allows its customers to get "instant opinions on anything." read more
Europe has declared war on U.S. tech companies, but despite this all-out assault, Europeans themselves still love American tech. Just consider these events: The European Commission is demanding big changes to Google’s search algorithms, and if the company doesn’t agree to them, billions of dollars in fines may follow. Taxi …
12 сентября, в день начала предварительных заказов на новые iPhone 6 и iPhone 6 Plus, официальный онлайн-магазин Apple не выдержал ажиотажа желающих купить новые модели iPhone. Предварительные заказы начали принимать в США, Канаде, Великобритании, Франции, Германии, Австралии, Гонконге, Сингапуре и Японии. На 09:30 по Киевскому времени, сайт магазина был недоступен. Начало продаж в странах первой …
Yahoo! is crowing about how it fought an order to hand over private user information. However, it’s emerged that it gave up after the government threatened fines at $250,000/day, doubling weekly. In the end, Yahoo! had to accept two courts’ decisions that the order didn’t violate the Fourth Amendment. In …
Support pilot fish gets a visit from his company’s biggest and brightest hot-shot lawyer. “My laptop is not working,” he tells fish condescendingly. “I need it fixed right away, because I have work to do.” Fish sets to work at once. “I first attempted to power on the laptop. It …
If you’re not using macros, you’re ignoring one of Excel’s most powerful features. Macros save you time and spare you headaches by automating common, repetitive tasks. And you don’t have to be a programmer or know Visual Basic Applications (VBA) to write one. With Excel 2013, it’s as simple as …
Sharp has set 2017 as its target for mass production of a new display it says will reduce power consumption in smartphones and tablets. read more
Любители экстремальных видов спорта и активного отдыха на природе берут с собой камеру, обладающая высокой степенью защиты и способная пережить как погружение под воду, так и падение. Если вы планируете приобретение подобного устройства, то вам стоит обратить внимание на недавно анонсированную Ricoh WG-M1. И хотя данная камера имеет достаточно необычный внешний вид, она …
Технический прогресс не стоит на месте, современные производители мобильных устройств, выпускают все новые и новые изделия, поражающие пользователей своим функционалом. Компания Bliss представила на всеобщее обозрение новый планшет на российском рынке. Кодовое название аппарата Pad M8041. Основной особенностью устройства является возможность одновременного использования двух SIM-карт. 8-дюймовый экран, выполненный с применением …
Sony on Friday began selling new security cameras that can operate in very low light conditions thanks to infrared exposure technology. read more
The CTO of a Costa Rica-based payment network that U.S. prosecutors allege primarily served the cybercriminal underworld pleaded guilty on Thursday to one count of conspiring to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business. read more
Making life easier is the whole point of both home automation and remote controls, so the group behind the ZigBee home network specification has tried to bring the two together more tightly in a new standard. read more
The U.S. government once threatened to fine Yahoo $250,000 a day if it failed to assist with its surveillance efforts, Yahoo said Thursday. Yahoo said it was threatened with the fines after it challenged surveillance powers granted to the U.S. government under the Protect America Act of 2007. The information …
The U.S. government once threatened to fine Yahoo US$250,000 a day if it failed to assist with its surveillance efforts, Yahoo said Thursday. read more
Back-to-back solar flares, including one that received the highest classification of “X-Class,” are striking the earth. U.S. scientists say electronics shouldn’t be hurt, but there could be some GPS issues. The larger of the two coronal mass ejections (CME) will hit sometime between late Friday morning and mid-day. The first …
An effort to free up some of the airwaves used by TV broadcasts and make them available for wireless broadband took a big step forward this week in the U.S. read more
SanDisk today unveiled what it calls the world’s highest capacity SD card — more than half a terabyte. The new SanDisk Extreme PRO SDXC UHS-I memory card comes with up to 512GB of capacity and is being marketed at videographers who record at 4K (3840x2160p) resolution and users of high-speed …
Hewlett-Packard has agreed to buy cloud platform provider Eucalyptus, stepping up HP's efforts in the growing field of cloud computing, read more
Engineers at Stanford University have developed a tiny radio that's about as big as an ant and that's cheap and small enough that it could help realize the "Internet of things" — the world of everyday objects that send and receive data via the Internet. read more
Facebook might be taking a page from Snapchat. Facebook told Computerworld on Thursday that it is testing whether to offer disappearing posts and comments with a small group of mobile users. “We’re running a small pilot of a feature on Facebook for iOS that lets people schedule deletion of their …
For the past year, manufacturers have heralded OLED ultra-high definition (UHD) TVs as a harbinger of sea change in the home entertainment industry, affording thinner and even flexible panels with higher quality pictures than today’s LCD sets. Then last week, China-based TCL, the third largest manufacturer of flat-screen TVs in …
Microsoft yesterday pulled another patch, this one released Tuesday, that was meant to fix OneDrive for Business, the online storage service for employees running Office 365. On Wednesday, Microsoft revised the advisory associated with “KB2889866,” the designation for a non-security update that shipped Sept. 9, part of a larger collection …
NASA’s robotic rover Curiosity is about to take on the mission it was sent to Mars to perform. After a little more than two years on the Martian surface, Curiosity finished a more than six-mile trip to the base of Mount Sharp and is about to begin its next, and …
Google has added features to Drive and the Docs apps suite to make the products easier to use for people who are blind or have poor eyesight, an issue over which the company has been criticized. read more