Nest, the Internet-connected thermostat and smoke detector maker owned by Google, is acquiring home security system developer Dropcam as part of a push to connect a wider range of devices in people's homes. read more
Nest, the Internet-connected thermostat and smoke detector maker owned by Google, is acquiring home security system developer Dropcam as part of a push to connect a wider range of devices in people's homes. …
Promotional texts and other messages from Twitter are fine if you consent to them, but some are going out to old phone numbers that have been around the block, according to a new lawsuit. read more
Advanced Micro Devices is reworking its core PC chip design to be 25 times more energy-efficient over the next six years, possibly resulting in laptop battery life of up to 50 hours on idle time. read more
Now that big data technologies like Apache Hadoop are moving into the enterprise, system engineers must start building models that can estimate how much work these distributed data processing systems can do and how quickly they can get their work done. read more
Code Spaces was hacked and had to shut down – what can you learn from this? read more
Police in Dallas are scrambling after snafus involving a new records management system caused more than 20 jail inmates, including a number of people charged with violent crimes, to be set free. read more
Police in Dallas are scrambling after snafus involving a new records management system caused more than 20 jail inmates, including a number of people charged with violent crimes, to be set free. …
U.S. schools could get a cool billion to set up Wi-Fi networks to connect more than 10 million more students by the 2015-2016 school year under a new FCC proposal. read more
If home automation can reduce insurance claims due to fire, water damage and theft, insurers may become advocates for Internet of Things technologies. …
The current shortage of cybersecurity professionals in the U.S will likely resolve itself over the next several years, according to the RAND Corp. But until then, companies will find it disturbingly difficult to find skilled workers. …
With Google’s social network coming up on its third anniversary, industry analysts are wondering if the company is rethinking Google+ and where it goes from here. …
Microsoft today kicked off retail sales of the Surface Pro 3, the 2-in-1 device touted by the company as a notebook replacement. …
A new report shows that 3D printers and the materials that go along with them will explode over the next five years due to a growing comport with the technology fed mainly by inclusion of the tech in academic settings. …
Two U.S. senators have introduced legislation aimed at expanding the amount of Wi-Fi spectrum available in a band now designated for intelligent vehicle communications, satellite service and amateur radio. read more
A new tool called the Modern Honey Network (MHN) aims to make deploying and managing large numbers of honeypots easier so that enterprises can adopt such systems as part of their active defense strategies. read more
Do computers help or hurt students when it comes to learning? Plus: XCOM: Enemy Unknown released for Linux, and how to learn Linux through poetry. read more
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission should leave net neutrality enforcement to antitrust agencies that can bring lawsuits against broadband providers after they see evidence of anti-competitive behavior, some U.S. lawmakers have advocated. read more
An earnings miss by Oracle is usually enough to send tech market forecasters back to their spreadsheets with furrowed brows. But despite the enterprise software giant's weaker-than-expected financials, there was enough good news on the tech sales front this week to keep expectations for IT on the optimistic side. read …
ICANN CEO Fadi Chehadé hopes to make progress on the split with the U.S. government and convince critics that the organization is on the right track when it meets in London next week. read more
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a Philadelphia-area private equity firm with violating “pay-to-play” rules by continuing to receive advisory fees from the city and state pension funds following campaign contributions made by an associate in 2011 to the governor of Pennsylvania and a candidate for mayor of Philadelphia. …
Nintendo's Wii and Wii U game consoles infringe two Philips remote control patents, the England and Wales High Court ruled Friday. read more
Oracle is scooping up co-browsing software maker LiveLOOK in a bid to flesh out its suite of customer experience software. read more
При выборе телевизора каждый задается вопросом: “Какой телевизор лучше”, но учитывая последним данным, можно задаться вопросом: “какой телевизор Samsung лучше?”, так как крупнейшим производителем ЖК-панелей для телевизоров в первом квартале стало подразделение южнокорейского гиганта – Samsung Display, занявшая на этом рынке 24-процентную долю. Прежний лидер LG Display занимал 21.6 %, подсчитали аналитики DisplaySearch. По их …
Компания Toshiba анонсировала на индийском рынке два новых планшетных компьютера, работающие под управлением операционной системы Microsoft Windows 8.1. Устройства отличаются довольно мощными спецификациями и поставляются в комплекте с док-клавиатурой. Планшет Toshiba Portege Z10t-A обладает 11.6-дюймовым Full-HD экраном IPS, процессором Intel Core i5 3439Y, 4 Гигабайтами оперативной памяти и 128 Гигабайтами на встроенном твердотельном накопителе. Также упоминается наличие слота для карт памяти стандарта …
Компания Samsung ранее сообщала, что выпустит смартфон с 64-битным мобильным чипом, а сегодня стало известно, что первый уже прошел тестирование. Новый смартфон Samsung получил модельный индекс SM-G510F и должен будет пополнить сектор устройств среднего класса, а его “сердцем” стал 64-битный процессор Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 с графическим ускорителем Adreno 306. Samsung SM-G510F получил 4.8-дюймовый …