Flashback a couple decades to the days when this pilot fish is a student working on an IT team at a local government office. “We developed an office management system for them and coded it up,” says fish. “However I had an evil sense of humor, and managed to get …
Qualcomm is under investigation by the European Union’s antitrust authority, which suspects the company of abusing its dominant position in the market for 3G and 4G chipsets used in smartphones and tablets. The European Commission has initiated proceedings against Qualcomm in two investigations, it said Thursday. The first concerns whether …
Renewable energy, combined with prolific battery storage, will soon result in vastly cheaper electricity — and solar power that’s less expensive than what fossil fuel-based power plants can produce. Additionally, solar power with lithium-ion and flow-battery storage systems will make the combination of renewable energy so inexpensive that it will …
Корпорация Microsoft сегодня представила универсальную беспроводную клавиатуру, которая спроектирована для использования с мобильными устройствами такими как смартфоны и планшеты. Кроме того, что новая клавиатура-раскладушка поддерживает работу в системе Windows, она может работать на устройствах с iOS и Android, делая клавиатуру универсальной. Microsoft спроектировала клавиатуру чтобы она была мобильна, поэтому на корпусе присутствуют …
Китайский производитель мобильных устройств Oppo добавил к своему ассортименту новый аппарат – Oppo Mirror 5, работающий под управлением Oppo Color OS 2.1, которая построена на базе Android 5.1 Lollipop. Аппарат, построенный на базе 1.2-Гигагерцового процессора с четырьмя вычислительными ядрами Qualcomm Snapdragon 410, оборудован 5-дюймовым дисплеем с разрешением 960 × 540 пикселей. За графику отвечает …
Jolla, the Finnish developer of an Android alternative, has signed Indian smartphone vendor Intex Technologies as the first licensee for its Sailfish OS. The company also announced Thursday at the Mobile World Congress in Shanghai that its new Sailfish OS 2.0 is now available for licensing with a scalable 4G …
Did you miss out on Dragon Age: Inquisition last year? Well for some weird reason, EA and BioWare are now letting you try the game out for free. I know, right? Someone released an actual game demo in 2015? Weird. And not just a ten-minute slice, either. You can play …
Another day, another artist who’ll soon be missing from your streaming playlists. On Wednesday morning, Neil Young posted a message on his official Facebook page announcing that he’s pulling his music from streaming services. “Streaming has ended for me. I hope this is ok for my fans,” the artist wrote. …
Hulu has come up with exactly the right kind of Apple Watch app, one that turns the wrist-based computer into a simple remote control. The new app doesn’t try to do too much. You can’t browse the Hulu catalog from the watch, but the assumption is that you’ll want to …
Microsoft will soon strip the preview label off its Office for Windows 10 apps — Excel, PowerPoint and Word — and require an Office 365 subscription to use them on PCs, 2-in-1s and larger tablets running the new OS. Gabriel Aul, engineering general manager for Microsoft’s OS group and the …
Apple has no plans to kill the iPod, despite three years without a major upgrade. On Tuesday the company refreshed the iPod touch, nano, and shuffle, though only the touch got a big overhaul. All three iPods will now come in gold, dark blue, and pink, but the iPod touch …
A federal judge dismissed Cisco’s indirect infringement claims against Arista Networks, a complaint that accompanied a patent and copyright infringement case against its data center rival. The patent and infringement litigation, filed late last year, still stands and is proceeding. +MORE ON NETWORK WORLD: Suing Arista was always the plan+ …
At the recent Red Hat Summit in Boston, Executive Vice President Paul Cormier declared victory for open source. “Linux has won in the data center,” he proclaimed to an applauding crowd, acknowledging that along with Windows, Linux is one of two major operating systems in enterprise data centers today. Now, …
In 1977, Commodore International introduced its first personal computer, the PET (Personal Electronic Transactor). It quickly became a popular choice in the newly emerging PC market. Now, that legendary device is back—but this time it’s an Android-based smartphone rocking two emulators for classic Commodore machines. The handsets are launching this …
Microsoft said PC makers would likely miss the Windows 10 launch party, but HP said Wednesday consumers will indeed be able to have a shiny new Windows 10 PC in their hands on the launch date—as long as they order them now. “Customers can go buy Windows 10 machines on HP.com …
Microsoft has stopped producing and distributing anti-malware signatures for its Security Essentials software installed on aged Windows XP PCs. The July 14 deadline was announced a year and a half ago, when Microsoft backtracked from earlier decisions and said it would extend a hand to Windows XP users. “To help …
Until July 29, Microsoft’s mission will be to polish, polish, polish Windows 10. With build 10240, released on Wednesday, the buffing brush has been taken to Microsoft’s Edge browser. But there’s a catch: the Office 365 subscription hammer’s coming down on the Office apps. Microsoft released build 10240 on the …
Facebook and Twitter are increasingly becoming a source for front-page news. A new report released on Wednesday by the Pew Research Center and the Knight Foundation found that 63 percent of American Facebook and Twitter users rely on the social networks to get their daily news. The last time a …
Intel said Thursday that it will add a third 14-nm microprocessor, Kaby Lake, to its roadmap, disrupting the steady tick-tock pace of the PC market as Moore’s Law slows down. For Intel and the PC industry, adding Kaby Lake to the roadmap is a bombshell. Every two years like clockwork, …
SANTA CLARA, CALIF. — As use of Apple products expands in the enterprise, IT managers say Apple’s interest in helping them comes up short. It can even be a little strange. Take the case of Debra Jensen, the CIO of Charlotte Russe, a clothing retailer, with more than 500 physical …
Connected home device makers can already see the guts of future products that will use the Thread wireless protocol. Now’s a good time to get those going, judging from a new Internet of Things forecast. The Thread Group released its specification for low-power mesh networks on Tuesday, and two companies …
Just one day after NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft made its closest approach to distant Pluto, scientists got their first glimpse at images showing that the dwarf planet and its largest moon may both be geologically active. That has the space agency now searching the data coming back from the space …
California regulators have fined Uber more than US$7.3 million after the company failed to hand over data related to Uber’s operations under an agreement between the state and the company. In 2013, California’s Public Utilities Commission issued regulations for mobile ride service providers like Uber, Lyft and Sidecar, which included …
It’s official: Moore’s Law is slowing down. Intel gave an update on its chip-making plans Wednesday and revealed it will take longer than expected to introduce a new manufacturing process that will yield smaller, faster transistors. Intel plans to produce its first “10-nanometer” processors in the second half of 2017, …
It’s official: Moore’s Law is slowing down. Intel gave an update on its chip-making plans Wednesday and revealed it will take longer than expected to introduce a new manufacturing process that will yield smaller, faster transistors. Intel plans to produce its first “10-nanometer” processors in the second half of 2017, …
BitTorrent has long billed its Sync file-sharing service as a peer-to-peer alternative to cloud storage, but on Wednesday the company announced it’s working with Onehub on a new, combined offering for large businesses. Onehub Sync integrates BitTorrent Sync into Onehub’s online file-storage service through what the two companies call a …