Looksharp, a marketplace for internships and entry-level jobs, recently published its annual State of College Hiring Report for 2015. The report was based on a survey of 50,000 U.S. college students and recent graduates this past April about their experiences with recruiting for internships and full time jobs. Respondents shared …
MSC Industrial Supply — one of the largest direct marketers and distributors of metalworking and maintenance, repair and operations supplies — distributes 500,000-plus industrial products to more than 2,000 suppliers for over 300,000 customers. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here (Insider Story) …
Yes, you can get the Windows 10 “RTM” build, right now, for download, even before the release date. Build 10240 is the final, full version. It’s available for update, but you can also get hold of the ISOs (even though Microsoft doesn’t want you to). Of course, there will be …
Switchers “iPhone 6 demand, as measured by consumer review analysis, jumped when customers waiting to purchase and apparently open to buying a Samsung, instead chose an Apple iPhone,” said John Feland, CEO and founder, Argus Insights discussing the release of the latest consumer survey. Apple has fought since its one …
SAP’s SQL Anywhere has long served as an embeddable database option for mobile devices, but the rise of the Internet of Things has opened up a new world of possibilities, and SAP has lost no time in polishing the technology for that purpose. On Wednesday, in fact, the enterprise software …
For some of us, LinkedIn is just a place to plop our résumés to confirm we have an online presence. But to reap the benefits of the largest professional social network — whether you’re job hunting or not — you need to know how to make your profile shine. To …
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 …