A growing number of brick-and-mortar businesses, eager to learn more about what goes on inside their walls, are turning to new technology to gather data from people's mobile phones. read more
Microsoft on Friday said that both Internet Explorer 10 and itspredecessor, IE9, contained an unpatched vulnerability, but that hackerswere currently exploiting only the newest, IE10. …
A new study by Forrester illuminates the changing IT landscape, finding that the share of IT projects primarily or exclusively run by IT department will decline from 55% in 2009 to 47% in 2015. …
Despite some shadows cast by Lenovo and Cisco earnings, IT stocks have had a strong week overall, with Nasdaq tech stocks reaching their highest point since the third quarter of 2000, during the dot-com bust. read more
Music subscription services, such as Pandora and Spotify, are the fastest-growing segment of the music industry, but since they hand over 60% to 70% of their revenue to record labels, they will inevitably fail unless something changes, a new report shows. read more
Now that the National Institute of Standards and Technology has finalized the much-discussed cybersecurity framework, organizations can use it as the guideline for measuring how well their systems are secured. read more
Windows 8 haters can continue to buy PCs pre-loaded with WIndows 7 beyond 2014, but they'll have to splurge on a business machine. read more
Google executives said Thursday that they're working on 10-Gbit optical fiber connections. They won't be the first. read more
IBM's supercomputer is ready to make the leap from analyzing massive data sets to actually helping us make the right decision. But will we be too proud to take Watson's advice? read more
High-tech device theft has claimed its latest victim in San Francisco — and he's just 2 years old. read more
Organizers of The Day We Fight Back, a protest Tuesday against U.S. National Security Agency surveillance programs, called the effort a ‘tremendous success,’ with nearly 100,000 phone calls made to U.S. lawmakers and 185,000 people signing up to send email blasts to their congressional representatives. …
Organizers of The Day We Fight Back, a protest Tuesday against U.S. National Security Agency surveillance programs, called the effort a "tremendous success," with nearly 100,000 phone calls made to U.S. lawmakers and 185,000 people signing up to send email blasts to their congressional representatives. read more
Google has done what the European Commission declined to do: publish the details of the latest commitments Google made in a bid to settle a long-running antitrust case involving its treatment of rival specialist search services, among other matters. …
Google has done what the European Commission declined to do: publish the details of the latest commitments Google made in a bid to settle a long-running antitrust case involving its treatment of rival specialist search services, among other matters. read more
Why it's a good idea to dual-boot SteamOS and Windows 7. Plus: KDE wins desktop Linux poll, and what if Linus Torvalds had gone to work for Steve Jobs at Apple? read more
GE Capital is rethinking the way it does IT and looking to well-rounded technology professionals to keep pace in a fast-changing business environment. …
Ericsson and Ciena have signed a global agreement to develop joint transport solutions for converged IP and optical networks that also use SDN (software-defined networking) features. read more
A self-replicating program is infecting Linksys routers by exploiting an authentication bypass vulnerability in various models from the vendor’s E-Series product line. …
Тайваньский производитель мобильных процессоров MediaTek за последний год достиг высоких успехов, особенно на китайском рынке. Стоит отметить, что был выпущен “реальный” процессор с восемью вычислительным ядрами и сейчас компания готова представить еще один новый мобильный чип. MediaTek готова представить новый 8-ядерный высокопроизводительный процессор, использующий четыре ядра Cortex A17 с тактовой частоте …
‘Thoughtful’ was the watchword yesterday for Tami Reller, Microsoft’s chief of marketing, when she was asked how the company plans to extend its lucrative Office franchise to mobile platforms other than Windows …
Фотография нового смартфона компании Sony серии Xperia опубликованная в сети будет представлен на выставке MWC 2014 в этом месяце. Он получил название Sony Xperia G. Японская компания планирует 24 Февраля на выставке Mobile World Congress провести пресс-конференцию на которой будет представлен смартфон Sony Xperia G, который имеет схожий дизайн с …
We look at Census data to find that the can’t-even-get-a-date stereotype of techies is somewhat of a myth. But there’s also another side to the statistics. …
Japan's Rakuten will acquire instant messaging and calling app developer Viber Media for $900 million, the e-commerce giant said Friday, highlighting its moves to penetrate new markets. …
Из-за хакерских атак на этой неделе крупнейшие биржи по торговле криптовалютой приостановили вывод средств. Если программисты Bitcoin вовремя не примут эффективные ответные меры, это может привести к “закату” валюты, сообщает РБК Daily. …
Очередное подтверждение слухов о том, что Apple планирует увеличить размер экранов в собственных смартфонах, пришло из Китая. Местная газета South China Morning Post со ссылкой на инсайдерские источники, которые якобы видели готовые прототипы новых изделий, пишет, что первый планшетофон под маркой iPhone стоит ожидать осенью. …
Американское издание Which? решило озадачиться временем работы современных планшетных компьютеров. …