Microsoft could announce a write-off of a big part of its 2013 Nokia acquisition as early as Wednesday. The write-off was first signaled in late April, when Microsoft warned investors that the smartphone division was at an “elevated risk of impairment.” “Impairment” is a term used to describe the situation …
Вместе с обновлением iOS 8.4 компания Apple выпустила финальную версию OS X 10.10.4, которая направлена на устранение ошибок и улучшение быстродействия Mac. Загрузить апдейт можно на компьютерах с операционной системой OS X Yosemite. …
The Linux Foundation today announced the formation of the R Consortium, intended to strengthen the technical and user communities around the R language, a specialized programming language for statistical data analysis. Representatives from the R Foundation and industry representatives are behind the new consortium. Microsoft and RStudio have joined the …
Expect vendors soon to introduce devices with three forms of wireless support to Fast Identity Online (FIDO) two-factor authentication. The FIDO Alliance today is issuing a new specification for FIDO to support Bluetooth, low-energy Bluetooth (BLE) and near field communications (NFC) wireless technologies in two-factor authentication tokens, according to FIDO …
Cisco is acting quickly on its new Security Everywhere initiative with the announcement that it plans to buy Internet security service provider OpenDNS for $635 million in cash plus other considerations. In announcing Security Everywhere at the Cisco Live conference earlier this month the company said one element of the …
What if your laptop died on your next trip? Image by Shutterstock I’ve long had a backup Plan Bfor when I’m traveling, but only recently did I have to execute it. I’m happy to say it worked, but I had occasion to seriously consider the best way to protect my …
Социальная сеть Facebook в следующем месяце откроет африканский офис для расширения присутствия на континенте, пишет газета The Telegraph. …
Recent concerns from tech luminaries about a robot apocalypse may be overblown, but artificial intelligence researchers need to start thinking about security measures as they build ever more intelligent machines, according to a group of AI experts. The fields of AI and robotics can bring huge potential benefits to the …
Cisco Systems plans to pay $635 million in cash to buy OpenDNS, a company that leverages the Domain Name System (DNS) to provide security services including Web filtering, threat intelligence and malware and phishing protection. The DNS is a core Internet protocol. It’s used to translate Web addresses that are …
Intel has used a model it called “tick/tock” for about a decade now and that model has gone off without a hitch, but new challenges would indicate that model is changing. It used to be that Intel would introduce a new microarchitecture and die shrink at the same time. As …
Как и было обещано, компания Apple выпустила обновление своей мобильной операционной системы до версии iOS 8.4 и главным изменением стал новый музыкальный стриминговый сервис Music, который был представлен ранее в этом месяце на конференции WWDC 2015. Вместе с этим в iOS 8.4 было обновлено стандартное приложение “Музыка”, которое получило новый …
Не успела закончится презентация смартфона Huawei Honor 7 в Китае, как сразу началось мероприятие Meizu, где официально анонсировали долгожданный аппарат – MX5! Новинка, облаченная в металлический корпус, довольно тонкая – 7.6 мм, а если положить его на весы, то они покажут всего 149 граммов. Размер дисплея Super AMOLED по диагонали составляет …
Potentially saving the world from another online security disaster like last year’s Heartbleed, Amazon Web Services has released as open source a cryptographic module for securing sensitive data passing over the Internet. The software, s2n, is a new implementation of Transport Layer Security (TLS), a protocol for encrypting data. TLS …
В сеть утекла информация о 7 многопользовательских режимах Star Wars: Battlefront. На официальной испанской странице EA Star Wars в Facebook появилось перечисление всех режимов, которые появятся на момент релиза игры. …
В документации Intel появилось официальное упоминание процессоров следующего поколения Skylake, предназначенных для настольных компьютеров. …
European Union citizens will have to wait another couple of years before they are able to use their mobile phones anywhere within the EU without surcharge, after a compromise reached by lawmakers Monday night. The European Commission and Parliament had agreed on a target of the end of this year …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Goldman, Sachs & Co. with violating the market access rule in connection with a trading incident that resulted in erroneous executions of options contracts. Goldman Sachs agreed to pay a $7 million penalty to settle the charges. An SEC investigation found that Goldman …
Huawei isn’t a name that’s easy to pronounce. Nor has it been free of controversy. In 2012, U.S. politicians called the Chinese company a potential security threat. So it helps that Huawei is building up a separate consumer brand, one that’s been growing fast in China and hopes to take …
В результате болезни скончался финский инженер Матти Макконен – изобретатель технологии СМС. Ему первому пришло в голову пересылать текстовые сообщения посредством мобильных сетей. “Отцу СМС” было 63 года. …
В Windows 10 Mobile с номером сборки 10149 обнаружен 100-мегабайтный пакет с названием ProjectA. Он находится в папке System 32 и содержит инструменты, необходимые для запуска Android-приложений и игр, в том числе, DDL-файлы, фреймворки, ADBD, Android Debugger Daemon, интерфейс OpenGL ES и драйверы Hyper-V. …
Microsoft is selling a chunk of its advertising business to AOL, and some Bing Maps technology to Uber. In both cases, Microsoft employees will be leaving — totaling as many as 1,300 people. Ohhh, so that’s what he meant when he said he’d “make some tough choices in areas where …
Cisco Systems plans to pay $635 million in cash to buy OpenDNS, a company that leverages the Domain Name System (DNS) to provide security services including Web filtering, threat intelligence and malware and phishing protection. The DNS is a core Internet protocol. It’s used to translate Web addresses that are …
Google has managed to push the resolution of the antitrust case brought against it by the European Commission until after the summer vacation. The company had asked for extra time to examine documents provided by the Commission, which has now given it until Aug. 17 to mounts its defense against …
Не так давно стало известно, что Nokia намерена вернуться на рынок сотовых телефонов. Произойдёт это не раньше конца 2016 года, когда истечёт срок действия соглашения с Microsoft. Но уже сейчас известны некоторые подробности относительно планов финской компании. …
Google might be the new Microsoft Microsoft has long been reviled by the open source community. But Microsoft’s days of dominance ended when the world moved to the cloud and mobile devices. A writer at FOSS Force wonders if Google is becoming the new Microsoft. Christine Hall reports for FOSS …
As a hopeless techie, I was anxious to see the new cyber drama Mr. Robot. In one of the early scenes, a room full of young, energetic and capable information security analysts were busy working to keep their customers safe from hackers, and not without some challenges. The reality in …