Microsoft gave early testers of Windows 10 a little surprise in the run-up to the Fourth of July holiday in the U.S. by releasing a yet another new build of its upcoming operating system to the public. Build 10162 is the third build Microsoft has released in one week — …
It’s coming up on four years since ex-Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy launched Wayin, but the startup today bears little resemblance to its original self. When it was conceived, Wayin was billed as a social gaming site where users could post photos and questions, create quick minipolls and solicit opinions. …
Главный исполнительный директор корпорации Intel Брайан Кржанич сообщил о ряде изменений в руководстве корпорации. Рене Джеймс, президент корпорации, покидает свой пост. До января 2016 года она будет передавать исполнительное управление. Кроме того, прошел ряд других кадровых и организационных изменений в топ-менеджменте Intel. Эти изменения призваны оптимизировать работу компании и стимулировать …
Microsoft today confirmed that it would roll out the free upgrades to Windows 10 later this month in several “waves,” with beta testers getting first dibs on the OS. Windows 10 Enterprise and Windows 10 Education, editions available only to volume licensing customers, will be ready to download on Aug. …
Fireworks and other loud noises account for nearly 20% of missing pets, according to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA). To help pet owners cope with a missing dog or another pet as a result of noisy July 4 celebrations, thunderstorms and natural disasters, the …
Just months after Yahoo extended its long-term search agreement with Microsoft, Yahoo is testing a search partnership with Google. Actually, Yahoo is keeping its options open and testing search with a number of partners. “Yahoo has been struggling to recapture growth for a long time,” said Jeff Kagan, an independent …
Trouble Ticket At Issue: Some vulnerabilities are pretty much invisible to traditional methods of uncovering them. Action Plan: Be open to receiving information about vulnerabilities from anyone and any place. Vulnerabilities can take many forms, and you can’t expect to uncover them all unless you have a diverse portfolio of …
There’s no mere digital divide in the United States; it’s a chasm. It ensures that the have-nots will always have less, and those with broadband access will have more. It’s time to finally end that, and guarantee that everyone in the country, no matter how poor, gets broadband and its …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) member Lewis H. Ferguson has been reappointed for a second term on the Board. “I am pleased with the Commission’s reappointment of Lew Ferguson as a PCAOB board member,” said SEC Chair Mary Jo White. “Lew …
GM has announced that it will be offering a way for parents to track their teens’ driving behavior in order to help cut down on accidents. In the U.S., the fatal crash rate per mile driven for 16- to 19-year-olds is nearly three times the rate for drivers ages 20 …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced fraud charges and an asset freeze against the operators of a pyramid and Ponzi scheme falsely promising a gold mine of investment opportunity to investors in Spanish and Portuguese-speaking communities in Massachusetts, Florida, and elsewhere in the U.S. The SEC alleges that DFRF …
Intel president Renée James will step down in order to pursue a CEO role at another company, the chip giant announced on Thursday. No successor has been named, but James will remain at Intel through the end of the year to help ease the transition to another executive leader. In …
Servers could be haunted by a ghost from the 1980s, as hackers have started abusing an obsolete routing protocol to launch distributed denial-of-service attacks. DDoS attacks observed in May by the research team at Akamai abused home and small business (SOHO) routers that still support Routing Information Protocol version 1 …
The Snapdragon 210 processor, which is meant to open the door for sub-$100 LTE smartphones, is off to a slow start. But that is about to change, according to Qualcomm. With LTE networks popping up all over the world, the need for affordable smartphones compatible with the network technology has …
With the launch of Windows 10 less than a month away, Microsoft is giving users a heads up on how upgrades will work. The short version is that Windows Insiders will get first dibs when Windows 10 launches on July 29, while everyone else will see a staggered roll out …
Sprint this week quickly reversed plans to impose a 600 Kbps limit on streaming video as part of a promotion called “All-In” that charges $80 a month for unlimited talk, text and high-speed data. The All-In plan, announced Tuesday, ironically was intended to “end consumer confusion & frustration,” according to …
I’ve often heard techies say they wish politics could stay out of IT, but it looks like IT has found its way into politics this year. Hotels owned by Donald Trump, the Republican candidate currently polling No. 2 in a field of 14 GOPers, have reportedly been hit by a payment …
Want an IPv4 address? Get in line Could IPv6’s day be near? The stockpile of unused IPv4 addresses in North America has fallen so low that there’s now a waiting list. On Wednesday, for the first time, the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) had to tell an applicant for …
If you live or work in Chicago, get ready for some new cloud taxes. You’ll be paying an extra 9 percent on media streaming and business cloud services. Think of it as a replacement for the sales tax you used to pay at Blockbuster. Predictably, the ruling is coming under …
Chinese smartphone vendor Xiaomi has hopes of selling at least 80 million smartphones this year, but that goal may harder to reach than the company originally thought. On Thursday, the fast-rising company announced it had sold 34.7 million smartphones for the first six months of 2015. Although the figure means …
The books of summer Image by Thinkstock Vacation season is upon us at last. What better way to spend the lazy, hazy days of summer than catching up on some of the best business and technology books out there? If you’re looking for some reading suggestions that will keep you …
Watching people write software code, or streaming yourself coding, is quickly becoming a thing. While the whole notion of watching people program may sound as exciting as watching paint dry to some, sites like Twitch.TV, Watch People Code, Ludum Dare, and YouTube, which feature live or archived streams of lots …
California lawmakers are considering a bill that would make it difficult for state-regulated utilities to replace U.S. workers with H-1B workers. It may be one of the most significant anti-offshoring measures in years. In the absence of federal action, states have long tried to put the brakes on the shift …
Несмотря на то, что BlackBerry продолжает дистанцироваться от разработки смартфонов в сторону корпоративного ПО, дела компании в софтверной отрасли идут не самым лучшим образом. Тому подтверждением является исследование IDC. …
A Google computer recently made headlines for appearing to become agitated and verbally lashing out at the human working with it. Artificial intelligence and machine learning researchers say have no fear. That’s not what the computer is doing. “They’re using big data for machine learning,” said Alan W Black, a …
It’s decades ago, and this seismic research company’s computer room has operation manuals on cumbersome flip racks — and that’s not the only technology that has disappeared in the years since, reports a pilot fish there. “The computer was huge — think room-size with banks and banks of processor cabinets …