В интернете засветились первые фотографии смартфона iPhone 5S, на которых обнаружились двойная LED-вспышка и аккумулятор с увеличенной емкостью. Неясным оставалось происхождение используемого в смартфоне процессора. Прояснить этот вопрос взялись представители портала MacRumors, заполучивших серию дополнительных фотографий и связанную с ними информацию. Слева прототип iPhone 5S, справа iPhone 5 Процессор с …
The U.S. International Trade Commission has launched a pilot program to test whether early rulings on identified crucial issues in some investigations could limit unnecessary litigation, saving time and costs for all sides. …
Western Digital plans to acquire sTec to boost its presence in the market for enterprise solid-state drives. …
New legislation aims to reform the Patriot and FISA Amendments Acts to apply greater oversight and control to the government's surveillance programs. …
Call it another brick in the wall. The surviving members of Pink Floyd have gotten together to slam Pandora for its support of an Internet radio bill that the rockers say would lead to an 85 percent pay cut for musicians. …
While mobile payments transform financial life in many less developed countries, retailers and payment providers in the U.S. and Europe are still trying to find the right incentives to drive adoption. …
Sales of devices based on Apple's Mac OS and iOS will overtake those of products running all flavors of Windows in 2015, a Gartner analyst predicted Monday. …
Gartner today projected that the overall decline in shipments of desktop and laptop PC’s will be 10.6% in 2013, while tablet shipments will grow by 67.9%. …
Oracle and Microsoft have announced a partnership that will see Oracle's database, application server, Java programming language and other products find a home inside Microsoft's Azure cloud service. read more
Oracle and Microsoft have announced a partnership that will see Oracle’s database, application server, Java programming language and other products find a home inside Microsoft’s Azure cloud service. …
U.S. officials Monday testily asked the Russian government to expel fugitive document leaker Edward Snowden, who arrived there Sunday after spending several days in hiding in Hong Kong. …
When Rusty, the red panda, went missing Sunday night from his exhibit at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, zoo keepers turned to Twitter to find him. read more
Gartner today downgraded its estimate of Windows’ 18-month future, saying that Microsoft’s platform will take a hit this year, then rebound in 2014 at a more muted pace than it forecast two months ago. …
Google Earth users can do more than just fly around a virtual globe. The free mapping application can display real-time weather, help compose photographs and measure distances much more easily than its Maps cousin. read more
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission should limit the two largest U.S. mobile carriers from buying too much spectrum in an upcoming auction, but the agency should also set a minimum price for the spectrum as a way to ensure that it receives the revenues projected, carrier T-Mobile USA proposed Monday. …
AT&T kicked off a smartphone trade-in deal today that knocks 50% off the price of several of the newest smartphones — including the iPhone 5 and Samsung Galaxy S4 — subject to a new two-year agreement. read more
About midway through 2013, the computing and network world has already seen the passing of a handful of people who had larger-than-life influences on the industry. read more
If you don't use a password to unlock your device, most encryption software won't protect your data read more
As money and corporate information have morphed from hard currency and blueprints to digital files, small and midsized businesses have become the new banks to rob. read more
Microsoft took a two-year-old contest and turned it on its head to come up with a new reward program that will pay security researchers up to $100,000 for demonstrating novel attack tactics against Windows 8.1. read more
Social interfaces are changing the very nature of IT service management, with internal toolsets and icon-driven service platforms helping users and IT departments manage the extended enterprise. read more
Some of the remains of sci-fi legend Arthur C. Clarke, Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, and the actor who played chief engineer Scotty in the popular TV show, will be flown into space next year. read more
With the unemployment rate for tech workers below 4% nationally, there's growing competition for IT talent. Lately, some of the demand for tech candidates is coming from outside the IT department. Who's behind it? Marketing. read more
Trusting the cloud to handle sensitive transactions and security services isn't for every enterprise, but organizations from banks to app developers are starting to give it a try. read more
Крупнейший в мире рынок сбыта для компаний-производителей техники является предметом детального изучения со стороны исследовательских агентств. Именно этим занялись Canalys и IDC, сделав упор на деятельность Apple, которая за первый квартал 2013 года продемонстрировала внушительный рост. …
В сети появился первый трейлер фильма «Джобс: Империя соблазна» (носит название jOBS в международном прокате). В ролике мельком показывают основные эпизоды из биографии сооснователя Apple — от создания первого компьютера до ухода и триумфального возвращения Стива Джобса в компанию. …