Google Checkout to shut down in November
Google will retire its Checkout payment processing tool on Nov. 20, and warned retailers they will need to move to a different payment processing platform. read more
Google will retire its Checkout payment processing tool on Nov. 20, and warned retailers they will need to move to a different payment processing platform. read more
Sprint Nextel said it had received permission from SoftBank to negotiate a rival acquisition offer from Dish Network. read more
On May 21st at 10am Pacific time, Microsoft will unveil its next-generation Xbox console. And if this article were titled "What we know for sure about the next Xbox," we could end it here. Microsoft has been very tight-lipped about the successor to the Xbox 360, but that's about to …
Sony is trying to steal some of Microsoft's thunder by offering a few fleeting glimpses of the Playstation 4 hardware on the eve of a Microsoft Xbox event. read more
After a decade of double-digit growth, India's offshore IT outsourcing leaders must shift strategies if they want to continue to dominate in technology services as growth slows in a maturing market. Here are six things Indian outsourcers need to do to grow. read more
While Yahoo's acquisition of blogging site Tumblr will make a handful of people very happy, others are not convinced. Here's how to import your posts from Tumblr to WordPress. read more
The Red Cross is using apps to help warn people about potential weather calamities. One of its more popular efforts is its new Tornado app. read more
Hard drives are classic bottlenecks, and they definitely slow down computers. But whether you can significantly open up that bottleneck depends on the speed of your current drive, how many available drive bays you have, how much storage space you need, and how much money you're willing to spend. read …
Few phenomena have been so widely discussed yet remain so puzzling as the world of Bitcoins. Businesses galore are now asking themselves whether Bitcoin is something they need to take seriously, even though most have absolutely no idea what it is. read more
Even though it's totally against Glass's terms of service, a brave citizen of the San Francisco metro area is selling the product. read more
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The Senate immigration bill’s H-1B restrictions have clearly upset Indian firms. But sometimes being in a tough spot can prompt new ways of approaching problems. One firm is implementing software robots. …
As personal and professional clouds converge, IT’s mission to improve productivity while protecting corporate apps and data is getting tougher. …
IT’s problems can draw unwanted notice now that Sarbanes-Oxley requires them to appear in 10-K reports as ‘material weaknesses.’ …
As long as a problem seems present, gnarly and intractable, we enjoy following the process that solves it. But once the problem has been solved, it’s not so interesting to us anymore. …
OnForce CEO Peter Cannone says the use of IT contractors is expanding and will continue to do so. …
China’s remarkable success in infiltrating U.S. government, military and corporate networks in recent years shouldn’t be seen as a sign that the country is gaining on the U.S. lead in cybertechnology, security experts say. They’re just very persistent and very good at remaining undetected for long periods of time. …
About half of the world’s companies will adopt BYOD programs by 2017 and will no longer provide computing devices to employees, a new Gartner report predicts. …
The deployment has already revealed a whole lot of devices that don’t meet the criteria for getting on the corporate network. …
Some people are having fits about Google Glass. True, it will change how we think about privacy in public places, but such rethinking started years ago. …
Michelle McKenna-Doyle, CIO for the National Football League, is driving innovation with analytics, using sensors to track players on the field and monitoring player health and safety with lab analysis of helmets. …
Международная корпорация ICANN одобрила выделение домена верхнего уровня .yandex для «Яндекса». Об этом сообщается 17 мая на сайте (.pdf) ICANN. …
После официального пресс-релиза Apple, в котором компания сообщила о 5 млн проданных iPhone 5 за 3 дня, многие аналитики сочли этот показатель «провальным». Теперь те же аналитики заявляют о том, что результат в 10 млн реализованных Galaxy S4 за 28 дней можно считать рекордным, сообщает AppleInsider. …
Занявшись делами вне отрасли ИТ, я вдруг обнаружил, что делаю всё по-айтишному и неэффективно. Чуть позже я поговорил с другом, который руководит айтишниками, и с позиции мудрости должен бы принять лучшие решения, но, несмотря на опыт больший, чем мой, он с порога предложил делать то же самое, и, будучи руководителем, …
Американский хакер Паркер Томпсон (Parker Thompson) разработал приложение Bunny.py, с помощью которого можно эффективно скрывать трафик в пакетах 802.11. …
После смерти Стива Джобса многие считали, что его жена Лорен Джобс должна основать новый благотворительный фонд имени основателя Apple. Однако вдова Лорен Джобс решила отказаться от этой идеи и долгое время отказывалась давать интервью крупным издательствам. …