Apple произвела революцию на рынке планшетов, выпустив в 2010 году первую модель iPad. С тех пор компания Стива Джобса навсегда изменила представление потребителей о планшетах. А не так давно в сегменте планшетов премиум-класса попыталась закрепиться и Microsoft.Обозреватели издания PhoneArena решили сравнить две флагманские модели планшетов обеих компаний – iPad Air …
Компания Google решила немного рассказать о своем проекте Project Loon. Если в общих чертах о том, что собой представляет данная идея, было известно и раньше, большинство деталей остаются неизвестными до сих пор. …
Trends in social, search, mobile, wearable and the Internet of things will alter our perception of reality. Change is in the air, says columnist Mike Elgan. …
Sony's Playstation 4 launched last night at midnight and so far things have been pretty smooth, with one exception. read more
People using the transportation apps Lyft and Sidecar in California will no longer be able to skimp on their fares, now that both apps have ditched their donation model. read more
Google has acknowledged that the best time to be on your computer might not be while you're driving. read more
The prospect of raising the cap on H-1B visas is worrying some academics, who say it would mean still competition for grads from lower-wage H-1B workers. …
Dell has started selling a thin and light touchscreen laptop called the XPS 13 Developer Edition, which will have Ubuntu Linux OS and Intel's fourth-generation Core processors, code-named Haswell. read more
Now that the extent of the U.S. National Security Agency's surveillance programs has been exposed by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, it's beholden on the public to fight back or else find themselves "complicit" in the activities, according to Massachusetts Institute of Technology linguistics professor and philosopher Noam Chomsky. read …
A fresh round of quarterly results and market research this week show some shadows over the networking and component markets while smartphones, as usual, were the stars of the tech arena. read more
The Internet Security Alliance, a multi-sector trade association, wants to know what adoption of a new cybersecurity framework will entail for companies in critical infrastructure industries …
Conventional third party controls are no longer sufficient to cover the ever-expanding attack surface presented by web and mobile applications developed by service vendors and/or commercial software providers. The current third party controls established in the past 10-15 years were adopted by financial service firms and incorporated into their respective …
NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft has been given the go to launch Monday on a mission to help scientists figure out what happened to all of the water that once flowed on the Martian surface. …
Facebook on Friday moved ahead with some proposed changes to its privacy policies to clarify that users' posts on the site can be used in advertisements, but that users have controls to limit their appearance. read more
The technology team working on the troubled HealthCare.gov has made significant progress in recent days, with error rates on the U.S. government’s health insurance shopping site down to less than 1% from 6% just after its launch, officials said Friday. …
A member of the hacker group Anonymous was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison for hacking into the computers of a geopolitical analysis firm. …
Microsoft’s abandonment of its so-called “stack ranking” method of evaluating employees should not come as a surprise, said an expert in human resources today. …
Apple's global marketing chief told a California courtroom on Friday that Apple had a tougher time selling the iPhone after Samsung launched its own smartphones with a similar design. read more
Apple's global marketing chief told a California courtroom on Friday that Apple had a tougher time selling the iPhone after Samsung launched its own smartphones with a similar design. …
Google plans to build solar power plants in California and Arizona that are expected to be operational by early 2014 and will generate enough clean electricity to power more than 17,000 U.S. homes. …
The release candidate for Linux Mint 16 Cinnamon and Mate is available for download. Plus: Will preloads help grow the Linux user base? And see the top five Linux games. read more
Google Play Music, a rival option to streaming services like Spotify and Rdio, is now available for iOS, six months after launching on the web and Android-based devices. read more
Enterprises should own and manage all keys, but that's easier said than done. read more
Jumping on the trend of using printers to churn out objects, Microsoft has developed a 3D printing app for Windows 8.1, betting that this will become mainstream. read more
With its new AppStream offering, Amazon is offering intensive graphics processing as a service, with the promise of freeing developers from worrying about the rendering capabilities of each user's device. read more
Is Apple's profit share better than Android's market share? Plus: Steve Jobs bet the company on the success of the iPhone, and a review of the retina iPad mini. read more