Министерство юстиции РФ отказалось зарегистрировать “Пиратскую партию России”. Как говорится в решении Минюста, партия не может называться “Пиратской”, так как пиратство в России является уголовным преступлением. По такой же причине партии отказали в регистрации в 2011 году. …
Хакеры из движения Anonymous взломали сайт Массачусетского технологического института (MIT). На главной странице университетского сайта было размещено обращение, посвященное покончившему с собой интернет-активиста и основателя Reddit Аарона Шварца. Хакеры потребовали тщательного расследования обстоятельств его смерти. …
В отношении 30-летнего жителя Красноярска возбуждено уголовное дело о хакерской атаке на сайт президента РФ. По данным следствия, обвиняемый с помощью специального программного обеспечения блокировал сайт президента 9 мая 2012 года, чтобы поддержать участников оппозиционного “Марша миллионов”. …
OTG Management, which runs restaurants and other concessions in airports, has found that using iPads and self-service tech can be good for business. And it doesn’t cost jobs. …
After about five months on the Martian surface, NASA’s rover Curiosity is preparing to drill its first rock on Mars. …
The AMA and the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives this week voiced concerns over the pace set by the U.S. government for healthcare organizations to adopt EHRs. …
Facebook is rolling out a major new search engine designed to give users more options in sorting through topics and interests based on their friends. …
Cadillac introduced a high-end hyrbid electric vehicle called the ELR at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit Tuesday. read more
Two U.S. power companies reported infections of malware during the past three months, with the bad software apparently brought in through tainted USB drives, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT). read more
With buyout talks gaining steam, analysts say Dell Inc. could be looking to free itself from quarterly distractions and shareholder pressures. read more
Revenue in the IT segment of the world's smart electricity delivery industry is likely to have grown by 23 percent, to US$9.4 billion, in 2012, in support of smart grid deployments, according to a new study. read more
Revenue in the IT segment of the world's smart electricity delivery industry is likely to have grown by 23 percent, to US$9.4 billion, in 2012, in support of smart grid deployments, according to a new study. …
Facebook is rolling out a major new search engine designed to give users more options in sorting through topics and interests based on their friends. read more
Facebook is unleashing the collective knowledge and opinions of its one billion users to power a new feature called Graph Search. …
Front-and-center in Juniper's SDN strategy is a new software business model that will emphasize variable packaging and licensing of software to implement the company's software-defined networking design. Bob Muglia, executive vice president of Juniper's Software Systems Division, shared some finer points of the company's plan with Network World Managing Editor …
There's good news for a change for BlackBerry maker Research in Motion, as monitoring-software vendor SpectorSoft today announced its first software support for BlackBerry in the enterprise. read more
Dell has released a trial version of public cloud computing services aimed specifically at the retail industry, joining a handful of companies that are attempting to position their products and services to serve specific vertical niches in the cloud computing market. read more
Juniper Networks at long last has laid out its software-defined networking (SDN) strategy, which includes a revamped software licensing plan that the company says will change its business model and differentiate it from competitors. read more
Startup NuoDB is hoping to position itself as having the ideal database for the post-cloud world, now that its Cloud Data Management System is generally available. read more
Startup NuoDB is hoping to position itself as having the ideal database for the post-cloud world, now that its Cloud Data Management System is generally available. …
Корпорация Dell представила клиентское облачное решение нового уровня – портативное устройство для доступа к облаку, помогающее людям решать профессиональные и бытовые задачи. Ультракомпактное устройство Dell Wyse «Project Ophelia» с поддержкой мультимедийных возможностей чуть больше USB-флешки. Оно превращает телевизор или монитор в интерактивный персональный дисплей без использования компьютера, смартфона или планшета. …
With the release of the first service pack for Microsoft System Center 2012, Microsoft is taking another step in its ambitious goal of helping customers manage their on-premises IT and Microsoft Azure cloud services with a single set of IT management controls. read more
Apple and Google's Android have the widest adoption among mobile BI (business intelligence) applications, as the products are becoming more mature, according to a report from market research company Ovum. read more
Apple and Google's Android have the widest adoption among mobile BI (business intelligence) applications, as the products are becoming more mature, according to a report from market research company Ovum. …
6Scan, a Web security startup based in Tel Aviv, Israel, launched a new service on Tuesday that can scan websites for security issues, like vulnerabilities and malware infections, and allows their owners to automatically fix the identified problems. read more
Dell's high market capitalization and its recent struggles to transition from a commodity PC supplier to an enterprise IT vendor mean that multiple private equity firms would have to invest in the company for a buyout to be possible, analysts said Tuesday. read more