It has now been 12 weeks since “mobilegeddon,” the day that Google’s search algorithm started judging the browsability of a website on a small mobile screen and rewarding the sites that make life easier for smartphone users. This as much as anything marks the day when the smartphone became an …
IBM’s Watson has already proven its mettle in the kitchen and on game shows, but its latest skill set is one that could help us all: making sure our writing conveys what we want it to. Now in experimental mode, Watson Tone Analyzer is a new service that can analyze …
Irish rockers U2 are continuing to innovate in their use of video on the current Innocence + Experience tour, and behind the scenes is some extremely high-performance, all-flash technology. Video show director Stefaan “Smasher” Desmedt is using an all-flash configuration of a ruggedized EMC VNXe3200 to help run the spectacle, …
The Flash Player update released Tuesday not only fixed two vulnerabilities that were being targeted by attackers, but added additional protections that will make entire classes of security flaws much harder to exploit in the future. There were three low-level defenses added in Flash Player 18.0.0.209, two of which block …
T-Mobile USA will pay a US$17.5 million fine in a settlement with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission for two 911 emergency dialing outages on the company’s mobile network last year. The separate but related outages left T-Mobile customers without the ability to dial in to emergency response centers for about …
Microsoft and FieldOne have been partners for several years, but on Thursday, Microsoft took the relationship a step further and acquired the New Jersey-based provider of field-service software. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, but it comes just four months after the two companies signed a global strategic agreement to …
The Flash Player update released Tuesday not only fixed two vulnerabilities that were being targeted by attackers, but added additional protections that will make entire classes of security flaws much harder to exploit in the future. There were three low-level defenses added in Flash Player 18.0.0.209, two of which block …
Stop-gap legislation that allowed the British government to continue ordering telecom and Internet companies to retain communications data for 12 months is unlawful, the U.K.’s high court ruled on Friday. The ruling sets an example for other European Union countries looking to introduce new data retention laws following a European …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced a whistleblower award of more than $3 million to a company insider whose information helped the SEC crack a complex fraud. The multi-million dollar payout is the third highest award to date under the SEC’s whistleblower program. The whistleblower’s specific and detailed information …
Africa has a reputation for being on the vanguard of mobile money services, but regulations forcing mobile operators to partner with financial institutions are strangling further growth in the sector, say industry players and market analysts. Recent remarks by Airtel Nigeria CEO Segun Ogunsanya sparked a new round in the …
The license agreement for Windows 10 is, like the OS itself, a different kind of beast, with new clauses that spell out automatic updates, the bundling of Office and what happens when a user tries to upgrade from a pirated copy. Ed Bott of ZDNet first reported on the apparent …
AMD releases yet another set of dreadful numbers. It’s doing really badly at its bread’n’butter — selling CPUs and GPUs. Its custom SoC business is the only highlight in a dark, dark story. Look, I want to root for the underdog, I really do. $DEITY knows, we need competition for …
Much has been written about the monetary impacts of poor data quality. A familiar and easy to understand illustration of this is the cost of bad postal address data: The US Postal Service (USPS) estimated in 2013 that there were approximately 6.8 billion pieces of mail that could not be …
Google reports strong earnings, but slowing growth Google’s second quarter income of $3.93 billion reported Thursday was up 17 percent year-on-year, but its sales of $17.73 billion represented an 11 percent growth rate, the smallest revenue increase reported by the company since 2012. Google is struggling to grow its ad …
If you’re responsible for an industrial component that millions of people depend on, the last thing you want is a middle-of-the-night alert that the part has failed. The Internet of Things could be your ticket to sweet dreams. IBM and National Instruments have built a testbed to find out how …
Reddit, the self-appointed “front page of the Internet” and one of the Web’s most popular sites, is planning to crack down on objectionable content — at least in public areas of the site. The new policies, which don’t appear to be set in stone yet, come in response to a …
Why stop your video for a snack, or when nature calls, when you’ve got a smartphone? On mobile devices, the average length of a viewing session on YouTube is now more than 40 minutes, Google reported Thursday. That’s double what it was last year, CFO Ruth Porat said during the …
27 июля OnePlus представит смартфон OnePlus 2. Производитель не теряет времени до анонса и всячески подогревает интерес к новинке. Но сегодня утечку информации о OnePlus 2 допустил не сама компания, а интернет-магазин Oppomart. OnePlus 2 уже опубликован в листинге Oppomart, подтвердившего многие и без того известные спецификации аппарата. Но важнее всего то, что магазин указал и стоимость OnePlus 2, …
While a recent U.S.-based poll of 375 IT professionals showed the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) fad is fading, there’s new evidence showing that BYOD still has plenty of life. According to a new online poll, most workers use personal mobile phones for work tasks, often outside of work hours. Some 1,320 workers …
A top White House official told House lawmakers this week that the replacement of U.S. workers by H-1B visa holders is troubling and not supposed to happen. But it is hard to tell whether the administration will do anything about it. The signals are mixed. Several federal agencies, at the …
You wouldn’t hurt a cute little robot, eh? A squeaky-voiced robot from Canada is throwing down the gauntlet in a politeness challenge to the U.S.—can it hitchhike across the country and survive intact? HitchBot will begin an epic journey across the U.S. on Friday, thumbing rides from Massachusetts to California …
A look at 6 new Windows 8.1 mini-PCs Image by Thinkstock The idea of a desktop PC traditionally invokes images of a tower or all-in-one that lives at your desk in your home or office. But as tech gets smaller and more mobile, so have desktop PCs. With a mini …
Консольные версии шутера Star Wars: Battlefront будут поддерживать локальное кооперативное прохождение в режиме разделённого экрана. Но в ПК-варианте, как недавно объявили разработчики, эта функция не предусмотрена. …
This pilot fish is a former systems consultant in the banking industry, so he knows the “I hate computers” syndrome very well indeed — as well as the experience of having to walk users through procedures that should be easy but never are. “But when friends and relatives ask for …
There are two levels at which Google excites. There is a systematic stream of advances, such as those presented at the 2015 Google I/O event earlier this year — Android M, Google Photos and the like. Then there is major game-changing news that seems to come out of nowhere but …
Выход на рынок следующего поколения процессоров Intel Core — Skylake — отложен на полгода, что впервые за всю историю существования компании нарушит закон Мура, сформулированный одним из ее основателей. Об этом сообщает The Wall Street Journal, ссылаясь на главу компании Брайана Крзэнича. …