The Securities and Exchange Commission today issued a stop order to prevent a Northern California-based company from issuing stock after including false and misleading information in its amended registration statement for an initial public offering (IPO). Stop orders prevent the sale of privately held shares to the public under a …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today filed fraud charges against a former Florida-based stock promoter currently serving a two-year prison sentence for lying to SEC investigators. The SEC’s complaint filed in U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Florida alleges that Robert J. Vitale defrauded investors in a Florida …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today filed insider trading charges against a former accounting manager at Nvidia Corp. who tipped a friend with confidential company information that set in motion a chain of tipping and illegal trading among a network of hedge fund traders who reaped millions of dollars in …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Mauri L. Osheroff, associate director for regulatory policy in the Division of Corporation Finance, is retiring on April 30 after nearly 40 years at the SEC. “Mauri Osheroff’s career is an inspiration to all those called to public service,” said SEC Chair …
В конце прошлого года мы писали о разработке компанией Lytro весьма необычной камеры “светового поля”, где фокус на фотографиях можно было менять уже после съемки фотографии. Первое поколение доступных для приобретения подобных фотоаппаратов не стало хитом продаж, во многом из-за своей странной формы, которая и близко не напоминала привычные фотоаппараты. Этот недостаток …
В этом году AMD представит мобильные процессоры поколения Beema, которые являются третьим поколением решений класса ULV и придут на смену актуальным моделям на ядре Kabini. В основе новинок используется 28-нанометровый технологический процесс. В рамках обновления AMD покажет модели с максимум четырьмя вычислительными ядрами, графикой на микроархитектуре GCN, а также функцией Security Processor. Сообщается, что …
Сегодня в Китае официально анонсировали интересный смартфон под названием OnePlus One, где также были озвучены его технические характеристики и стоимость. One Plus One построен на базе процессора Qualcomm Snapdragon 801, работающий на тактовой частоте 2.5 ГГц и имеющий графический ускоритель Adreno 330; объем оперативной памяти составляет 3 Гигабайта LPDDR3; для хранения видео, фото, музыки …
Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi plans to enter ten foreign markets later this year, including Brazil, Mexico and Russia, in a bid to expand globally with its low-cost but cutting-edge phones. read more
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Partners Toshiba and SanDisk have developed 15-nanometer process technology for NAND flash memory widely used in smartphones and tablets. read more
Сегодня из Тайваня поступила информация, в которой говорится о том, что корпорация Apple не может найти надежного производителя аккумуляторов, в связи с этим выпуск 5.5-дюймового iPhone откладывается до 2015 года. По некоторым данным, следующий iPhone будет настолько тонким, что толщина встроенного аккумулятора составит не более 2 мм! Для сравнения, толщина батарей большинства аппаратов составляет 2.8 …
Microsoft is throwing open an advertisement-free version of its Bing search engine to all eligible kindergarten to 12th grade schools in the U.S., after completing the pilot stage of this program that was first run in five large public school districts. read more
Revelations about U.S. secret surveillance programs have left China's Huawei Technologies exhausted on the public relations front, a top company executive said Wednesday. read more
Современные планшеты по своей конструкции достаточно хрупкие, именно поэтому выпускаются такие гаджеты, как Xplore XC6, которые выделяется своей прочностью. Планшет облачен в корпус из технической резины и магниевого сплава, что защищает его от пыли и погружения в воду на 30 минут на глубину до 1 метра. Благодаря военному стандарту сертификации на ударопрочность MIL-STD-810G, …
Brazil's Federal Senate has passed a proposed Internet law that aims to guarantee freedom of expression and privacy to the country's Internet users, and also requires foreign Internet service providers to fall in line with the country's rules. read more
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission will vote Wednesday on a proposal to pump US$1.8 billion into a fund that subsidizes broadband deployments in rural communities. read more
Some Android apps thought to be vulnerable to the Heartbleed bug were spared because of a common coding error in the way they implemented their own native OpenSSL library. read more
The cash-strapped man Newsweek magazine named as the creator of Bitcoin has thanked supporters who donated over US$23,000 of the virtual currency to him. read more
Apple today followed Microsoft in opening up pre-release, or beta, versions of its personal computer operating system to all comers. …
The panic over the Heartbleed bug is proving to be a convenient distraction for hackers using standard techniques in a fresh wave of attacks targeting at least 18 U.S. universities, according to a computer security researcher. read more
A partnership between Microsoft and Violin Memory will let enterprises tightly tie a new all-flash storage array to their servers, speeding up popular Microsoft applications. read more
A partnership between Microsoft and Violin Memory will let enterprises tightly tie a new all-flash storage array to their servers, speeding up popular Microsoft applications. …
Installment plans for cellphones are starting to squeeze out the time-honored practice of paying a subsidized price up front, AT&T says. read more
Installment plans for cellphones are starting to squeeze out the time-honored practice of paying a subsidized price up front, AT&T says. …
Google agreed to take over some of Samsung’s defense against patent claims brought by Apple under a secret agreement reached in 2012, a federal court jury heard Tuesday. …
Reddit has removed from its front page the popular r/technology subreddit after what it called bad editorial choices by the page's moderators. read more