4 factors for avoiding cyber espionage attacks
Malware continues to change at a rapid pace, as evidenced by new types of high-tech, military-grade malicious code grabbing headlines such as Stuxnet, Duqu and Flame. …
Malware continues to change at a rapid pace, as evidenced by new types of high-tech, military-grade malicious code grabbing headlines such as Stuxnet, Duqu and Flame. …
Исследователи из Массачусетского технологического института научились предсказывать темы, которые войдут в список трендов сервиса микроблогов Twitter. Авторы работы утверждают, что их алгоритм предугадывает актуальные темы за полтора часа до того, как те попадут в список трендов твиттера. …
Making fun of Halloween week’s top tech stories, from Starbucks to Star Wars read more
At its conference this week, Microsoft pulled out all the stops to convince developers why they should build Windows 8 apps. …
Alcatel-Lucent reported a third-quarter loss and declining gross margins, as its cost-cutting program failed to keep up with declining sales of its network equipment and related services. read more
Written by: William Atkins | Published in: Space An international team of astronomers used a NASA telescope to determine the average distance between stars. They used what is called “cosmic fog” to make this determination. …
Минэкономразвития включило в проект основных направлений деятельности правительства России на период до 2018 года пункт о борьбе с распространением нелегального контента, “в том числе с использованием торрентов”. Это положение вошло в список основных задач в “области обеспечения безопасного интернета”. …
An unexpected bug cropped up after new hardware was installed in one of Amazon Web Service's Northern Virginia data centers, which caused the more than 12-hour outage last week that brought down popular sites such as Reddit, Imgur, AirBNB and Salesforce.com's Heroku platform, according to a postmortem issued by Amazon. …
Mozilla introduced a pre-loaded list of domains for Firefox that only can be connected to securely in order to help protect the privacy and security of users. read more
This week we talk about a couple of Android gaming devices, and take a quick look at Borderlands: Legends and Ragnarok Odyssey. Also Zynga, Agawi, Haunts and getting prepared for the return of Master Chief! read more
Федеральный суд Иллинойса обязал жителя штата Вирджиния Кивена Фишера (Kywan Fisher) выплатить компании Flava Works полтора миллиона долларов за пиратское распространение 10 фильмов. Фишер купил фильмы на сайте компании и выложил их на торренты. Flava Works специализируется на производстве гей-порно. …
В США скончался кот Марти, который вдохновил своего хозяина, Кристофера Торреса, на создание знаменитого восьмибитного кота Нян Кэта. Причиной смерти стал кошачий инфекционный перитонит. Об этом диагнозе в твиттере написал сам Торрес. По его словам, Марти нельзя было спасти и в четверг, 1 ноября, кот скончался. …
Клип “Gangnam Style” южнокорейского рэпера PSY стал вторым по количеству просмотров на YouTube, обойдя клип Дженнифер Лопес “On the Floor”. Ролик PSY, опубликованный в середине июля, просмотрели 620 миллионов раз. На первом месте находится клип Джастина Бибера с 800 миллионами просмотров. …
За первые сутки работы реестра сайтов с запрещенной информацией Роскомнадзор получил пять тысяч жалоб. Это больше, чем ведомство ожидало получать в месяц. Из пяти тысяч запросов Роскомнадзор отсеял 96 процентов. На экспертизу было передано 190 заявок, а еще 10 сайтов уже внесли в реестр. …
Written by: Graeme Philipson | Published in: Cloud Services The Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) has released three “master usage models” summarising requirements from its existing publications to help simplify the delivery of cloud computing. …
Written by: Mike Bantick | Published in: Entertainment In the lead up to the release of its new game Need For Speed: Most Wanted, Electronic Arts is tricking up a Lamborghini Gallardo for some lucky punters to use as a private taxi around Sydney. …
Written by: Graeme Philipson | Published in: Mobility Telstra will trial the emerging Alcatel-Lucent small cell technology at the Birdcage at Flemington for the Spring Racing Carnival. …
Written by: Graeme Philipson | Published in: Security TPG has released a video surveillance bundle targeted at the small and medium enterprise market. …
Written by: kayla | Published in: Sponsored Announcements AUSTRALIA and NEW ZEALAND—Digital marketing and advertising agencies can become Google AdWords Certified Partners thanks to regional Google-approved training and exam preparation. Engage Bootcamp 201 presented by Loves Data puts Google certification within reach for New Zealand and Australian agencies hoping to …
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: Market Growth in the Asia Pacific Big Data market is expected to accelerate rapidly in two to three years time, from a mere US$258.5 million last year to in excess of $1.76 billion in 2016, with highest growth in the storage segment. …
Written by: William Atkins | Published in: Biology A computational analysis of how vision evolved in animals, including humans, has concluded that light sensitive proteins called opsins, which are critical to the development of sight, developed about 700 million years ago. …
Written by: Stuart Corner | Published in: Cornered! “Superfast broadband essential to long-term competitiveness of UK economy…[but] unlikely to deliver the rapid returns for the UK economy that have been predicted.” …
Written by: David Swan | Published in: Development Australia Post has taken a step closer to modernization with the introduction of a digital mailbox today. …
Written by: Alex Zaharov-Reutt | Published in: Fuzzy Logic Microsoft has launched its Windows Phone 8 operating systems and accompanying ecosystem of Nokia Lumia, Samsung Ativ S and HTC 8S and 8X smartphones, promising integration with Windows 8, RT, Xbox, SkyDrive, Office, a Microsoft ID and plenty more. …
Featured | Written by: Graeme Philipson | Published in: Mobility Optus has joined Telstra and Vodafone in announcing significant changes to the way it retails its mobile offerings. …
Written by: Stuart Corner | Published in: Networking Sydney company imei is helping large organisations deal with the growing problem of managing thousands of smart devices accessing corporate applications. …