Wall Street Beat: Positive earnings news lifts tech shares
Strong earnings news from Internet and IT vendors gave a boost to tech stocks Friday, with Microsoft shares touching a six-year high. read more
Strong earnings news from Internet and IT vendors gave a boost to tech stocks Friday, with Microsoft shares touching a six-year high. read more
In the early days of Healthcare.gov, I praised the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for publishing a dataset with sample rates for every health plan participating in the federal health insurance marketplace. …
Does Valve's SteamOS mean that Linux will run games faster than Windows? Plus: LG's new Fireweb phone, and WordPress 3.7 released. read more
The sun emitted two solar flares today, including one that was the most intense the sun can unleash. …
Cloud is putting new strains on storage, companies like Zadara are looking to fill in the need. read more
The Internet Archive, the online repository of millions of digitized books, wants to shield its readers from other's prying eyes — like the government's. read more
New versions of Apple's signature consumer photo editing and management software–iPhoto for Mac and iPhoto for iOS — have been updated to emphasize iCloud integration and 64-bit compatibility alongside the debut of OS X 10.9 …
Apple's 64-bit A7 chip will improve apps and performance significantly in the iPad Air. Plus: CNN reports that iPad sales are in a steep decline, and John Sculley thinks Apple should ignore Carl Icahn's advice. read more
Developer Ikey Doherty announced this week that work on SolusOS, a Debian-based distro aimed at beginning Linux users, would come to a halt. read more
With its IPO share price now set and its roadshow about to begin, Twitter will soon face some tough questions from potential investors. …
Billionaire trading activist and agitator Carl Icahn is turning the heat up on Apple, saying he would "test the waters" with a proxy fight if the company's board doesn't yield to his demand for an historic $150 billion stock buyback. read more
The newest piece of ransomware is particularly nasty and, once you’ve got it, it’s a real pain to get rid of. Here’s how to protect your corporate assets before getting bit. …
HealthCare.gov, the malfunctioning insurance-shopping website at the heart of the controversial Obamacare program, should be running smoothly for the vast majority of users by the end of November, about two months after its launch, officials said. read more
HealthCare.gov, the malfunctioning insurance-shopping website at the heart of the controversial Obamacare program, should be running smoothly for the vast majority of users by the end of November, about two months after its launch, officials said. …
The European Parliament’s research department has found that four out of five member states surveyed carry out wide-scale telecommunications surveillance. read more
The PHP Group will reset the passwords for accounts on php.net, the official website of the PHP programming language, and will change the site's SSL certificate after attackers compromised two servers and injected malicious code into the website. read more
Despite partisan sniping over the Affordable Care Act, members of a U.S. House committee probing the problems at Healthcare.gov Thursday asked some tough, IT-specific questions that revealed some key facts. read more
Salesforce.com really wants lots of developers to come to its Dreamforce conference next month in San Francisco. As in, really. read more
Vendors are working on products to lower the cost of building copper-based broadband with bandwidth up to 100M bps, and are at the same time getting ready to increase speeds even further. read more
Компания Leef представила USB-накопитель Leef Bridge для устройств, работающих на базе мобильной платформы Android. Накопитель предназначен для использования в планшетах, смартфонах и гибридных устройствах на Android 4.1 Jelly Bean и более поздних версий мобильной системы. Устройство может быть подключено при помощи порта micro-USB типа On-The-Go (OTG), что придает новинке большей универсальности, а необходимый тип разъема можно выбрать через …
Компания Systena представила в Японии первый планшет, работающий под управлением операционной системы Tizen: устройство рассчитано на разработчиков. Если вы помните, Tizen — это совместный проект Linux Foundation и LiMo Foundation, в основу которого легло ядро Linux; система может использоваться на портативных устройствах с процессорами ARM и х86. Проект изначально активно …
Индийский производитель мобильных устройств Micromax представил свой последний Android-смартфон Micromax A250 Canvas Turbo, функционирующий под управлением операционной системы Android 4.2.1 Jelly Bean. Аппарат построен на базе четырехъядерного процессора MeadiaTek с тактовой частотой 1,5 ГГц и обладает 5-дюймовым Full HD дисплеем с разрешением 1920 на 1080 точек. Объем оперативной памяти составляет 2 …
Компания BlackBerry сообщила о выходе обновления BlackBerry OS 10.2. …
Электронные перчатки BearTek Gloves разработаны специально для любителей экстремального отдыха. Они позволяют управлять смартфоном при помощи лёгкого движения пальцев. …
Twitter has hired a top digital executive at NBC News, Vivian Schiller, to help boost its partnerships with news organizations. read more
Первым устройством, получившим третье большое обновление Windows Phone 8, стал HTC 8XT для Sprint. О скором старте отправки GDR3 на пользовательские девайсы Microsoft объявили на прошлой неделе, хотя конкретные временные рамки не указали — слишком много факторов на них влияет. …