Элон Маск известен всему миру как инноватор и изобретатель. Однако мало кто знает, что свой коммерческий успех он начинал вовсе не с компании Zip2 и платежной системы PayPal, а с обычной видеоигры, которую он создал и продал в 12 лет. И сегодня благодаря возможностям интернета опробовать первый успешный продукт миллиардера …
Apple представила iOS 9 на WWDC 2015. Cистема выглядит красиво и современно с улучшенным интерфейсом, повышенной производительностью и новыми функциями. Большое внимание в iOS 9 уделили iPad. Многооконный режим, а также усовершенствованная клавиатура заставляют пересмотреть ответ на вопрос “Может ли iPad заменить компьютер?”. …
Компания Apple объявила о выпуске первых в своей истории приложений для Android. Это знаковое событие, ведь прежде Apple полностью игнорировала эту платформу, даже несмотря на то, что Google и Microsoft активно выпускали приложения для iOS и OS X. …
Международная антивирусная компания Eset провела опрос с целью выяснить опасность социальных сетей для компаний. По словам 80% экспертов в области информационных технологий, злоумышленники могут получить доступ к корпоративным данным через соцсети. …
Каждый раз, анонсируя свои новые программные продукты, Apple заходит на территорию разработчиков сторонних приложений. Так было с iOS 8 и OS X Yosemite, так будет и с iOS 9 и десктопной платформой OS X El Capitan. MacDigger предлагает подборку из приложений и сервисов, которые рискуют уйти на заслуженный покой после …
Інтернет існує менше століття, а в нього вже є маловідомі та цікаві сторінки історії. …
Глава «Лаборатории Касперского» утверждает, что устройства под управлением операционной системы Windows (и Windows Phone) лучше защищены, чем другие программные платформы на рынке. Такое заявление Евгений Касперский сделал на конференции в Австралии. …
Для каждого человека на земле очевидно, что любой компьютер работает на электричестве. Даже если мы используем альтернативные источники, например, солнечный свет, сначала нам необходимо преобразовать полученную энергию в электричество. Однако это фундаментальное понимание смогли сломать ученые, которые заставили работать компьютер на воде. …
В Японии арестованы восемь мошенников, которые создали несколько фальшивых сайтов знакомств. Среди 2,7 миллиона пользователей ресурсов была всего одна женщина. …
A security researcher says a vulnerability in Apple’s mobile email application could be used to trick someone into divulging their iCloud password. Prague-based Jan Soucek published proof-of-concept code that shows how he could send an email to someone with HTML code that resembles the iCloud login pop-up window. Soucek then …
Reddit has removed five online communities, or subreddits, on its site, after they were found to break the website’s rules against the harassment of individuals. The online message board, which was known for its hands-off approach to posts and discussions on its site, said in May it had decided to …
Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information, but in its latest moonshot the search giant wants to help organize cities better. The search giant has launched Sidewalk Labs, a company that will tackle some of the greatest challenges facing cities. It will develop technology to make transportation and government …
Scotty Zifka was looking for a sales job. He started one in late May at a company called EZ Tech Support, a small inbound call center in an older building in northeast Portland, Oregon. The first day of Zifka’s unpaid training involved listening in on sales calls. But within three …
Scotty Zifka was looking for a sales job. He started one in late May at a company called EZ Tech Support, a small inbound call center in an older building in northeast Portland, Oregon. The first day of Zifka’s unpaid training involved listening in on sales calls. But within three …
The IT consulting firm Anthesis Group, in partnership with Stanford University and TSO Logic, has issued a report that suggests there may be as many as 10 million physical servers, or 30% of the servers deployed worldwide, that are not doing any work. The report refers to these idle servers …
Jawbone has filed its second lawsuit against Fitbit in less than two weeks, claiming its activity tracking products infringe several of Jawbone’s patents. The new suit, filed Wednesday in San Francisco by Jawbone parent company AliphCom, seeks unspecified damages and an injunction to block the sale of Fitbit devices such …
Apple’s next mobile OS will run on devices as old as the iPad 2 and the iPhone 4s, but that doesn’t mean the newest apps will run on those products as well. With iOS 9, Apple will allow third-party developers to restrict apps to running only on recently released iPhones …
Jawbone has filed its second lawsuit against Fitbit in less than two weeks, claiming its activity tracking products infringe several of Jawbone’s patents. The new suit, filed Wednesday in San Francisco by Jawbone parent company AliphCom, seeks unspecified damages and an injunction to block the sale of Fitbit devices such …
When security consultants speak of the huge internal threat against retailers, they are generally talking about rogue employees. They fear the people on the inside of your firewalls who might exceed their level of access/authorization to steal data from the company and sell it on their own. Companies try and …
Oracle wants to make it easy for its enterprise customers to move some of their software-based workloads from the vendor to the cloud. To the Oracle Cloud, that is. “Customers are excited about the cloud, but they are concerned about the cloud being treated as something fundamentally separate, as another …
Oracle wants to make it easy for its enterprise customers to move some of their software-based workloads from the vendor to the cloud. To the Oracle Cloud, that is. “Customers are excited about the cloud, but they are concerned about the cloud being treated as something fundamentally separate, as another …
Sony has an ambitious plan to bring 4K video-shooting capabilities to a wide range of its point-and-shoot and SLR cameras over time, and a new sensor developed by the company will make that possible. The Japanese company introduced its first three digital cameras capable of shooting 4K video at a …
Give a marketer a sale, and you’ll keep his company afloat for a day; teach him to predict future sales, and you may just ensure his longevity. That, in essence, is the premise behind predictive marketing, a concept that’s increasingly taking hold in enterprises today. Tapping into the analytics trend …
Give a marketer a sale, and you’ll keep his company afloat for a day; teach him to predict future sales, and you may just ensure his longevity. That, in essence, is the premise behind predictive marketing, a concept that’s increasingly taking hold in enterprises today. Tapping into the analytics trend …
On the heels of Tesla announcing a home and commercial battery product line, Mercedes-Benz today announced its own brand of energy storage products for those with solar systems to store surplus power. The Mercedes-Benz energy storage plants for private use are available for order now and are expected to ship …
When you’re not liking your friends’ photos on Facebook, you’re likely to soon have more opportunities to buy stuff. Facebook is expanding its partnership with Shopify, which helps businesses create online storefronts. Facebook has been testing buy buttons in the News Feed and on businesses’ Pages since last year, with …