Amazon delivers read-in-the-dark Kindle Paperwhite
Written by: Stephen Withers | Published in: Entertainment Along with the Kindle Fire HD, Amazon has introduced the Kindle Paperwhite, an e-reader with a front lit display. …
Written by: Stephen Withers | Published in: Entertainment Along with the Kindle Fire HD, Amazon has introduced the Kindle Paperwhite, an e-reader with a front lit display. …
Quanta QCT on Thursday announced a new low-power cloud server based on Intel's upcoming Atom processor code-named Centerton, and said the server would ship by the end of this year. read more
Written by: Stephen Withers | Published in: Mobility When Amazon announced that its Kindle Fire had sold out, a lot of people assumed a replacement model must be close at hand. The arrival of the Kindle Fire HD – along with the Kindle Paperwhite – proved them right. …
Конечно же, громкое дело о Pussy Riot уже дошло и до зарубежных социальных сетей, на что западная общественность отреагировала целым рядом комиксов и карикатур. …
За 100 дней с момента релиза смартфона Galaxy S III компания Samsung смогла продать более 20 млн аппаратов. В Европе он разошелся тиражом примерно в 6 млн экземпляров, в Азии — 4,5 млн, в Северной Америке — 4 млн, в Южной Корее — 2,5 млн. …
After a month on the surface of Mars, NASA’s robotic rover Curiosity has driven more than the length of a football field and has started gearing for some real scientific work. …
The "core values of Hong Kong" (freedom, democracy, human rights and rule of law) are the most debated topics in many election forums of the upcoming Legislative Council (LegCo) Election, which is scheduled on Sunday (September 9). …
В среду компания Nokia представила новые смартфоны на базе Windows Phone 8 – флагман Lumia 920 и бюджетную версию Lumia 820. …
Судя по всему, эта необычная парочка с самого рождения вместе и относятся к друг дружке с большой нежностью. Хотя больше это относится конечно к скунсенку, котенок лишь наслаждается его заботой. …
In a decision likely to be sobering for firms fighting insider threats, an appeals court has ruled that a worker who used valid computer access rights to access data from his company can’t be prosecuted under a federal anti-hacking law. …
Для разработки дизайна нового здания Facebook, которое соцсеть планирует построить для расширения своей штаб-квартиры в Менло-Парке, компания обратилась за консультацией к известному архитектору Фрэнку Гери (Frank Gehry). «Моей целью являлось создание такой среды, которая будет стимулировать развитие инновационной культуры, созданной основателем Facebook Марком Цукербергом», – говорит архитектор. …
Компания Sony объявила о начале приема предварительных заказов на телевизор XBR-84X900, оснащенный 84″ дисплеем с разрешением 4К (3840×2160 пикселей). Поставки модели начнутся в ноябре. В американском интернет-магазине Sony за новинку просят $25 тыс., что больше средней стоимости нового автомобиля. …
Written by: Stuart Corner | Published in: Market GSM – the technology underpinning billions of mobile phones today – was born 25 years ago today on 7 September 1987 when mobile network operators from 13 European countries signed a memorandum of understanding in Copenhagen. …
В Донецке будет открыт один из 10 новых офисов IBM в регионе Россия/СНГ в рамках кампании по расширению географического присутствия. …
Amazon announced new e-readers and tablets Thursday, but the biggest surprise to analysts was a $499 Kindle Fire HD 4G LTE tablet. …
RIM's upcoming BlackBerry 10 managed to eke out a bit of attention this week even though most of the buzz has been reserved for the new Windows 8-based Nokia phones, Motorola's new Droid RAZR lineup and Apple's anticipated iPhone 5. read more
Компания Amazon представляет сегодня устройства для чтения электронных книг следующего поколения. По этому знаменательному случаю она решила, что следует сбросить цены на более ранние модели. Теперь, как сообщает Engadget, самый недорогой ридер, который демонстрирует пользователям рекламные объявления, обойдется всего в 69 долларов. …
Apple's cryptic invitation on Tuesday to an event set for next week triggered another surge in trade-in activity by consumers wanting to unload older iPhones in time to buy the new model. read more
Nearly a quarter (23 percent) of LinkedIn's users visit the service through a mobile site, according to new stats released on its blog. That's up from 10 percent a year ago. read more
A judge has approved an e-book price-fixing settlement between the U.S. Department of Justice and three book publishers. read more
Microsoft will issue just two security updates next week, giving give IT admins time to prepare for an October update that invalidates all certificates with keys less than 1,024 bits long. …
The Tennessee Valley Authority's help desk was a career graveyard. It was that way for years and customers suffered for it. Not any more. read more
Turns out Twitter needs considerably more than 140 characters to explain its increasingly restrictive application-programming interface (API) changes to developers. On Wednesday, the company started spelling out more details of version 1.1 of that API. (Third-party Twitter apps function using the API, which provides the necessary hooks for developers to …
United Airlines just can't win. Last week a data center hardware failure grounded caused nine cancellations and 580 delays. Recently, too, the carrier's computer systems let members of its Mileage Plus frequent traveler program book reservations involving either a connection or a final destination in Hong Kong, for travel in …
Western Digital announced its smallest form factor external hard drive for Macs and PCs that includes a USB 3.0 port, backup software and encryption. read more
A 30-year-old Phoenix man was sentenced Thursday to 30 months in prison for using botnets and selling access to them, the U.S. Department of Justice announced. read more