Two sister mobile and telecom service providers will pay a combined $3.5 million after the U.S. Federal Communications Commission found that they were storing customers’ personal data on unprotected servers accessible over the Internet. TerraCom and YourTel America failed to adequately protect the personal information of more than 300,000 customers, …
Microsoft is letting developers create apps for its Band fitness tracker that convey information pulled from RSS feeds and display it on the device’s screen. The apps, which Microsoft calls Web tiles, work best at relaying “glanceable” information, like stock quotes or weather reports, the company said Thursday. Creating an …
Apple today released public betas of iOS 9 and OS X El Capitan, giving non-developers their first chance to preview a major release of its mobile operating system and replicating the practice of last year for its Mac OS. The public betas were essentially the same as the third developer …
На сегодняшний день Twitch и YouTube являются самыми крупными платформами для стриминга видеоигр. …
Facebook is adjusting its news feed and adding a tool that will let users pick the content that appears at the top of their news feeds, among other new features. The “see-first” tool for news feeds comes as a minor victory for users who want to wrest control from algorithms …
An Arizona custom car company hopes to produce what it calls the first 3D-printed, street-ready vehicle early next year. Local Motors is readying a “neighborhood” electric car to go on sale sometime during the first quarter of next year. A highway-ready, higher-speed version will go on sale later in the …
Windows 10 inched closer to its public release Thursday when Microsoft released build 10166 of its upcoming operating system to early adopters in the Windows Insider Program. The new build primarily focuses on fit-and-finish changes like the trio of updates that Microsoft launched last week. Most users should expect to …
Социальная сеть Facebook расширила набор инструментов управления новостями в своей ленте. Об этом сообщается в официальном блоге компании. …
NEW YORK — Amazon Web Services continues to pile on the new features and services for its enterprise customers. Speaking to a keynote audience in New York City today at its AWS Cloud Summit, Werner Vogels, chief technology officer and vice president of Amazon.com, said enterprises are beginning to look …
With the arrival of El Capitan on Google Street View last month, you can now haul yourself virtually up one of the most famous rock faces in the world. Navigating certain streets in urban areas, however, can still be a challenge. As Google expands Street View into ever more exotic …
С пятницы 10 июля на японской горе Фудзияма заработает бесплатный доступ в интернет, сообщает японская газета Asahi. …
В прошлом году стартап Doppler Labs громко заявил о себе выпуском стильных наушников, но теперь его заинтересовала новая область, которая может стать новым прорывом в технике. Идея уже заинтересовала целый ряд крупных инвесторов, таких как Universal Music Group. …
T-Mobile on Thursday announced that there would be no added charges for its U.S.-based Simple Choice customers when they call, text or use data to Mexico and Canada or when traveling there. The move, which takes effect Wednesday, makes T-Mobile the first carrier to offer continental phone service under a …
Microsoft today released Office 2016 for Mac to subscribers of its Office 365 rent-not-own plans, and said that standalone licenses would go on sale in September. The Redmond, Wash. company also extended support for the precursor, Office for Mac 2011, by almost two years, giving customers more time to migrate …
An incompatibility with a software update and subsequent attempt to fix it were the root cause of glitch that forced a nearly four hour long suspension of trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday. The exchange traced the problems back to an update applied to a single system …
Windows Phone is dead. Microsoft Lumia is dead. If you didn’t already know this, you’ve not been paying attention. But it’s easy to be blind to the inevitable when you’re emotionally attached to something. Microsoft has written off the entire $7.2 billion it paid for Nokia, with interest: The writeoff …
Сетевые ретейлеры начали продажи компактного компьютера Voyo V2, построенного на аппаратной платформе Intel Bay Trail. …
After entering beta roughly three months ago, Oracle’s VM VirtualBox 5.0 virtualization software is now generally available, offering faster performance and better security. Oracle VM VirtualBox runs on standard x86 desktop and laptop computers and allows users to set up multiplatform virtual-machine environments for software development and testing. Using it, …
An incompatibility with a software update and subsequent attempt to fix it were the root cause of glitch that forced a nearly four-hour-long suspension of trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday. The exchange traced the problems back to an update applied to a single system on Tuesday …
Бюро патентов и торговых марок США во вторник выдало Apple патент на новую док-станцию со специальным разъёмом и поворотным механизмом. Суть конструкции, обеспечивающей подвижность коннектора, находящегося внутри стыковочной станции, наглядно передана на иллюстрациях к документу. …
European Union citizens got their first look at draft net neutrality laws on Wednesday, more than a week after the European Parliament and the Council of the EU reached an agreement. Digital rights activists are guardedly optimistic about the guarantees it offers for access to an open Internet. Only the …
T-Mobile CEO John Legere on Thursday shared preliminary results showing that 2.1 million customers were added in the second quarter of 2015. As a result, he predicted T-Mobile will displace Sprint as the nation’s third-largest carrier, bumping Sprint to fourth. Sprint said in May that it has 57.1 million customers, …
Окружной суд Восточного округа Техаса пересмотрел судебное решение, вынесенное в феврале этого года. По этому иску Apple была обязана выплатить более полумиллиарда долларов в пользу Smartflash за нарушение трех патентов. На этой неделе суд пересмотрел решение, признав беспочвенными обвинения калифорнийского гиганта в незаконном использовании технологии в iTunes. …
Facebook is adjusting its news feed and adding a tool that will let users pick the content that appears at the top of their news feeds, among other new features. The “see-first” tool for news feeds comes as a minor victory for users who want to wrest control from algorithms …
Jeb Bush thinks you need to work more. Taken in context, he was actually referring to part-time employees and those who are unemployed, not telling us we need to keep checking our phones at 11 p.m. and wake up at 6 a.m. to the sounds of incoming emails. He wasn’t …
Корпорация Intel, по информации ресурса DigiTimes, вынуждена отложить вывод на рынок процессоров с кодовым именем Kaby Lake. …