The Communications and Regulators Association of Southern Africa (CRASA) is teaming up with Ericsson to encourage countries in the region to adopt national broadband policies and lay the groundwork for the growth of Internet services. CRASA serves nations in the Southern African Development Community (SADC), which are generally considered to …
Гоночный симулятор Project CARS оказался весьма успешным проектом — это доказали не только региональные британские продажи, но и общемировые итоги, которыми поделился разработчик. …
Internet Explorer, always heavily scrutinized by both security researchers and online attackers, has once again gotten the majority of patches in this month’s Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday round of monthly bug fixes. For June, Microsoft issued 8 bulletins, which collectively contain 45 patches. The bulletin for IE alone MS15-06 contains 24 …
Apple on Monday gave a strong hint that it has a larger iPad in the works, analysts said today. “Sometimes Apple gives us signs of where they’re going next,” said Carolina Milanesi, chief of research and head of U.S. business for Kantar WorldPanel Comtech, in an interview Tuesday. “The split …
NASA has big plans for the robot its JPL team used to compete in the DARPA Robotics Challenge finals last weekend. The space agency hopes its four-legged robot, which came in fifth place in the DARPA finals, can one day build parts for the International Space Station and satellites in …
Adobe Systems fixed 13 security issues in Flash Player that could lead to serious attacks, including remote code execution and information disclosure. Users should upgrade to Flash Player 18.0.0.160 for Windows and Mac, Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.466 for Linux, or Flash Player 13.0.0.292 if they are on the extended support …
Во время недавнего стрима The Mayhem Begins компания Blizzard Entertainment поделилась подробностями следующего большого обновления к MOBA-игре Heroes of the Storm. Оно называется Eternal Conflict («Вечный конфликт») и будет полностью посвящено серии Diablo. …
I won’t be using Apple Music when it debuts later this month. I do have an iPhone and an iPad, and I’m sure I’ll see the new service pop up and consider trying it out. Here’s why I won’t. First, you should know I’m a Total Music Snob. I’ve been a …
Residential installations of rooftop photovoltaic (PV) panels in the U.S. led the solar power market in the first quarter of this year, posting a record sequential 11% growth rate. That’s the largest such uptick in history. Residential systems were up 76%, compared with the first quarter of 2014, according to …
Apple’s recent announcement at its Worldwide Developers Conference of giving shoppers even more ways to pay via its Apple Pay service is an interesting example of a set of eight classic (digital) business strategy moves the company has executed over the course of launching its service. I’ve put the term …
To encourage diversity in IT, Intel Capital has established a US$125 million investment program targeted at startups run by women and under-represented minorities. The investment program complements a separate $300 million Intel initiative announced in January whose goal is to bring more women and under-represented minorities into its workforce by …
Компания Yahoo! сообщила о закрытии нескольких сервисов. Интернет-гигант решил избавиться от непрофильных продуктов по требованию акционеров. …
Those who paid attention in science class should not be surprised by the almost daily deterioration in business information security. Entropy, the second law of thermodynamics, is defined by Merriam Webster as “the degradation of the matter and energy in the universe to an ultimate state of inert uniformity.” For some …
Adobe Systems fixed 13 security issues in Flash Player that could lead to serious attacks, including remote code execution and information disclosure. Users should upgrade to Flash Player 18.0.0.160 for Windows and Mac, Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.466 for Linux, or Flash Player 13.0.0.292 if they are on the extended support …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged three men living in California with insider trading in the stock and options of a biotechnology company where one of them worked. The SEC alleges that Michael J. Fefferman learned material nonpublic information as senior director of information technology at Ardea Biosciences Inc. …
Компания Apple выпустила четвертую бета-версию iOS 8.4 для разработчиков. Скачать ее можно, как обычно, на сайте для разработчиков, либо через Wi-Fi, но для этого потребуется девелоперский аккаунт. …
The next version of Apple’s mobile operating system will be even friendlier for readers of languages like Arabic and Hebrew that are written from right to left, thanks to changes that Apple made for iOS 9. Apple’s update brings full support for a mirrored user interface that automatically flips interface …
A few months ago, Enterprise Strategy Group released their 2015 IT Spending Intentions Survey. When questioned about their top priorities only 18% of customers indicated BYOD was a priority issue. And yet nearly twice as many (34%) said that information security initiatives were their single highest priority. This data might …
8 июня Apple выпустила первую девелоперскую сборку операционной системы OS X El Capitan, а сегодня компания опубликовала официальные системные требования для новой десктопной платформы. Большинство пользователей Mac получат возможность перебраться на рельсы OS X 10.11. …
Без каких-либо громких анонсов корпорация Intel пополнила линейку своих процессоров ещё двумя моделями — Celeron 3215U и 3765U. Суффикс «U» в названии новинок говорит об их принадлежности к сегменту экономичных низковольтных решений, и, соответственно, предназначены они для ноутбуков начального уровня или сверхтонких ультрабуков. …
Two years after the first leaks by Edward Snowden about U.S. surveillance programs, the country’s tech companies are still worried about a backlash from other governments. Several foreign governments continue to push policies requiring that data generated in their countries be stored within their borders, said Yael Weinman, vice president …
Groups representing major IT companies have warned President Obama again not to go through with measures that would thwart encryption technologies. Such policies would undermine privacy and compromise the security of tech products and services, they said. In a letter sent to Obama on Monday, the Information Technology Industry Council …
Two years after the first leaks by Edward Snowden about U.S. surveillance programs, the country’s tech companies are still worried about a backlash from other governments. Several foreign governments continue to push policies requiring that data generated in their countries be stored within their borders, said Yael Weinman, vice president …
Alibaba – the Chinese ecommerce giant – is expanding its IaaS cloud offering named Aliyun into the United States and in doing so will take on America’s largest ecommerce company, Amazon and its cloud computing division Amazon Web Services. Alibaba and Amazon each dominate their countries ecommerce markets, and they …
Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing service has been growing fast in China, but a company executive has warned that the government’s changing tech policies could slow its momentum. Authorities here have been crafting new regulations, and the government’s position on tech “can change at any time,” Gary Sun, president of Microsoft’s …
Alibaba, the Chinese ecommerce giant, is expanding its IaaS cloud offering named Aliyun into the United States and in doing so will take on America’s largest e-commerce company, Amazon, and its cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services. Alibaba and Amazon each dominates its country’s e-commerce markets, and they both lead …