Twitter’s stock spiked in midday trading Tuesday after a fake Bloomberg news report said the company had received an offer to be acquired for $31 billion. The story appeared convincing, with a Bloomberg Business logo, but Bloomberg quickly tweeted that it was fake. There were some telltale signs it wasn’t …
A new feature of Wi-Fi could help people find both each other and things nearby, without being near a hotspot. The group that puts the Wi-Fi badge on phones, laptops and countless other gadgets is starting to certify products for Wi-Fi Aware, a way for apps to make their presence …
I am a big fan of walking into a retail store versus buying things online. This is specifically true for clothes from my favorite retail chain since it gives me access to physically see a wide variety of options combined with great ambiance, music, and sales assistants who go the …
SanDisk today announced the newest addition to its wireless storage line – the SanDisk Connect Wireless Stick. The Connect Wireless Stick ranges in capacity from 16GB to 128GB and in price from $30 to $100. SanDisk The SanDisk Connect Wireless Stick To read this article in full or to leave …
Surveillance software maker Hacking Team has provided its government customers with the ability to infect the low-level firmware found in laptops and other computers that they wanted to spy on. The company developed a tool that can be used to modify a computer’s UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) so that …
One of the coolest things about Android Wear is the ever-expanding array of face designs you can find for your watch. I’ve already put together a collection of some of my favorite Android Wear faces, but there’s a more specialized category that also deserves to be addressed: watch faces that …
Microsoft on Monday suspended delivery of new preview builds of Windows 10, saying that it was “very close” to wrapping up the operating system. “We’re suspending the availability of Windows 10 builds briefly while we prepare for [using the official roll-out process], and the next build that we flight to …
Mozilla Firefox now blocks Adobe Flash, thanks to its horrible ongoing security problems. Not the least of which are the three plugin bugs exploited by Italy’s now-notorious Hacking Team, which we covered yesterday. The block will last until you’re running a version with all known vulnerabilities patched. After the earlier revelations …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged OZ Management LP with providing inaccurate trade data to four prime brokers, causing inaccuracies in the brokers’ books and records and in data provided to the SEC in investigations. OZ Management, an investment adviser for numerous Och-Ziff funds, admitted wrongdoing and agreed to …
Big data is around us. However, it is common to hear from a lot of data scientists and researchers doing analytics that they need more data. How is that possible, and where does this eagerness to get more data come from? Very often, data scientists need lots of data to …
Корпорация Samsung зарегистрировала патент на технологию анализа количества жировой ткани в теле человека с помощью мобильного устройства. Данная информация была опубликована на веб-портале Всемирной организации интеллектуальной собственности. Представители Samsung утверждают, что новый способ сможет определять количество жировых отложений в человеческом теле. Для этого владельцу смартфона необходимо будет просто держать аппарат на вытянутых руках перед …
Apple’s HomeKit plans are being impacted by manufacturers reluctance to deliver solutions sufficiently secure for the new connected age. That’s why only a few have been introduced so far. The Register reports Apple is demanding hardware makers use HomeKit certified chipsets and specialized firmware for security reasons (also reported here). …
C++ is making big gains in the monthly Tiobe language popularity index, while JavaScript continues to rule the day. The venerated C++ language has been Tiobe’s biggest climber so far since July 2014, according to a report accompanying the July index. “Compared to last year, C++ gained more than 3.1 …
Sometimes, emotions make it difficult to see the most effective way of accomplishing an objective. And emotions can definitely arise when the subject is underage cyberthieves. Security blogger Brian Krebs (KrebsOnSecurity) recently took a hardline stance in opposition to the lenient sentencing of a Finnish 17-year-old, who was found guilty …
A U.S. government agency will start its third attempt to develop voluntary privacy standards for an emerging area of technology, this time with a series of meetings on drone privacy scheduled to begin Aug. 3. The U.S. National Telecommunication and Information Administration has already hosted similar discussions on mobile app …
Mozilla on Monday began blocking all versions of Adobe Flash Player from running automatically in its Firefox browser, reacting to news of even more zero-day vulnerabilities unearthed in a massive document cache pilfered from the Italian Hacking Team surveillance firm. Computerworld confirmed that the current production versions of Firefox — …
China’s largest state-owned computer chip design firm, Tsinghua Unigroup Ltd. has offered $23 billion to buy Micron Technology, one of the largest U.S. memory makers, according to The Wall Street Journal. If Micron accepts, the deal would be the biggest Chinese takeover of a U.S. company on record. Micron, however, …
Британский производитель телефонов премиум-класса Vertu всегда славился изысканным внешним видом продукции, используя в её производстве дорогостоящие материалы высочайшего качества. При этом смартфоны Vertu никогда не отличались выдающимися техническими характеристиками. Тем не менее вскоре это может измениться, так как в базе популярного бенчмарка GeekBench был замечен новый смартфон Vertu, который может …
Support center pilot fish is reviewing case notes from front line support techs when he comes across a user complaint that’s even more questionable than usual: User stated when they got this server six months ago it did not come with enough BIOS to effectively run it. This has been …
Input from Wells Fargo’s commercial banking customers has been vital in steering a massive mobile banking redesign project, according to a bank executive. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here (Insider Story) …
Марку Цукербергу предъявлен иск в невыполнении обещания, данного им торговцу недвижимостью Мирче Воскерисяну, продавшему основателю Facebook дом со скидкой в $2,8 миллиона, сообщает Bloomberg. …
Антивирусная компания Trend Micro проанализировала ряд нападений, проведенных хакерами из Pawn Storm, и выяснила, что злоумшленники эксплуатируют уязвимость нулевого дня в Java. Для платформы это первая брешь такого рода за последние два года. …
На сайте регулирующей организации TENAA, китайского аналога федеральной комиссии связи США (FCC), появилась информация о двух версиях смартфона Xiaomi Redmi Note 2. Как правило, после завершения процесса сертификации в TENAA устройство спустя короткое время появляется в продаже в Китае. …
Как бы усердно Apple ни молчала по поводу 12,9-дюймового iPad Pro (он же iPad Air Plus), о сведенья о нем нет-нет, а появятся в сети. Вероятно, у девайса уже успела сформироваться группа поклонников, ожидающих его появления. Их энтузиазм будет несколько охлажден свежей информацией. …
Финская компания Nokia, которая более года назад объединила свое мобильное подразделение с Microsoft, планирует вернуться на рынок мобильных устройств. И если ранее это были всего лишь слухи, то теперь Nokia официально подтвердила желание вернуться в сегмент по производству мобильников и теперь ищет партнера, который поможет ей в этом. Nokia, ранее лидирующая на мировом рынке смартфонов и …
A networking protocol that could be whizzing around your home’s airspace in a few years came one step closer to reality on Tuesday. The Thread Group released its Internet of Things network specification to a membership of more than 160 companies that have rallied around the Google-backed organization since its …