Some new details have emerged about Jelly, the mysterious startup from Twitter co-founder Biz Stone: The company's app is "very close" to launching, and will be available for free on iOS and Android-based devices, Stone recently said. read more
"I've been involved with security awareness training for several years now, and I can't remember one single compliment on any of our previous courses," sighed Alex Yokley, Director of Corporate Information Security at Western Union. …
Karma, the startup that offers pay-as-you-go mobile data through a portable Wi-Fi hotspot, will catch up with the 4G world next year by moving to LTE. read more
Twitter has set its IPO price at US$26 per share, a dollar above the top end of the price range it predicted earlier this week. read more
YouTube is overhauling comments on videos to highlight the ones that actually mean something to viewers, the site said Wednesday. read more
Microsoft said Wednesday that it prematurely put up a pre-order Web page on MicrosoftStore.com for the Nokia Lumia 1520 smartphone but took it down about 12 hours later. All orders submitted while the page was live will be honored. …
Facebook has released Presto — a distributed SQL query engine optimized for running ad-hoc interactive queries on data sources up to petabytes in size — to the open source community under the Apache license. It says Presto is 10x better than Hive. read more
Consumers would allow a computer to drive their car if it cut their insurance rates by 80%, according to a survey of 2,000 drivers by CarInsurance.com. …
After weeks of speculation about Google's mysterious barges docked in San Francisco and Portland, Maine, the company Wednesday shined a bit of light on them. read more
From basic document collaboration to video conferencing and scheduling, these collaboration tools help small businesses connect people and information. read more
If Twitter’s IPO succeeds and the social network is showered with a new stockpile of cash, the site could become an even bigger threat to social media giants Facebook and Google+. …
The news that KitKat may not be coming to a Nexus phone near you has made waves among device owners, prompting some to protest – and in one notable case, even petition. read more
Is Linux the right operating system for you? Read the pros and cons. Plus: antiX 13.2 released, and the 2013 developer salary survey results. read more
Users of HealthCare.gov, the troubled insurance-shopping website run by the U.S. government, were having problems logging in and completing applications again on Wednesday, an official said. read more
Apple today responded to complaints from Mac users over features dumped from iWork, promising to restore 18 of them to the productivity suite in the next six months. …
Blockbuster L.L.C. announced today that it will end its retail and by-mail DVD distribution operations by early January 2014. …
Officials at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ignored multiple auditor reports warning them of potential problems at insurance-shopping website HealthCare.gov before the site's launch Oct. 1, one Republican senator said Wednesday. …
The six astronauts working and living on the International Space Station are getting ready to welcome three new crew mates early Thursday morning. …
Although Instagram users do not commonly turn to the site to find out what's happening in the world, CEO Kevin Systrom hopes that will change. …
ICANN запускает бета-версию сайта, на котором находятся данные о сервисе Whois – как получить доступ к информации о владельцах зарегистрированных доменных имен, политики Whois и т.д. Об этом сообщает domainnews.com. …
В Киеве правоохранители задержали преступника с целым арсеналом приспособлений, которые считывают информацию и позволяют подделывать банковские карты. Мошенник был пойман при попытке снятия наличных из банкомата одного из крупных банков столицы при помощи Скиммера — накладка, способная считывать и записывать информацию с карты в электронном виде. …
Состоялась встреча Президента Украины Виктора Януковича и президента корпорации “Майкрософт” по странам Центральной и Восточной Европы Дона Грэнтэма, сообщает пресс-служба главы государства. …
Onda V719 3G предназначен для тех, кому нужно недорогое решение для поддержки связи в сетях GSM/WCDMA и навигация GPS. В остальном этот аппарат мало чем интересен. Планшет построен на базе бюджетного 2-ядерного процессора МТ8312, имеет всего 512 RAM и оснащен самой простой 7-дюймовой TFT матрицей с разрешением 1024х600 точек. …
Can the OpenStack open-source private cloud software be tamed for enterprise use? Red Hat is trying: It is expanding its CloudForms management software to encompass Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack deployments. read more
Для многих, релиз новых iPhone и iPad может послужить поводом для того, чтобы накопить деньги на их приобретение. …
Президент Виктор Янукович заявляет, что за первое полугодие в Украине было зарегистрировано более 200 новых IT-компаний. …