ECMAScript 2015, also referred to as ECMAScript 6, has been approved by ECMA International, the organization said this week. The move provides stability to the technology. The upgrade to the specification underlying JavaScript has been praised for syntax improvements and improving structural issues, and features of it already have been …
В 2015 году в мире будет поставлено около 72 млн носимых устройств общей стоимостью 17 млрд долларов США, прогнозирует тайваньский аналитик IDC Брайан Ма (Bryan Ma). По мнению специалиста, которое приводит издание EETimes, в дальнейшем рынок будет ежегодно расти в среднем на 18%, и в 2019 году его объем в …
The impending debut of Windows 10 near the end of next month will start the clock ticking toward a deadline in 2016 when Microsoft will stop selling Windows 8.1 at retail, and a 2017 shut-off of sales of new devices armed with the soon-to-be-forgotten OS. According to a long-established policy …
Twitter is planning some big changes to the way people follow events using its service, with a major new feature that will group together tweets, photos and videos related to whatever’s happening in the moment. The move could make Twitter more useful for tracking current events at a time when …
Google has been building its own software-defined data-center networks for 10 years because traditional gear can’t handle the scale of what are essentially warehouse-sized computers. The company hasn’t said much before about that homegrown infrastructure, but one of its networking chiefs provided some details on Wednesday at Open Network Summit …
Sprint says it has stopped throttling its heaviest data users on congested networks, in what appears to be the first tangible benefit of the Federal Communications Commision’s new net neutrality rules. Sprint had added a throttling clause for its top 5 percent of data users last year, saying they might …
The Skype Translator beta app now can help people say “guten tag” to their friends in Germany, thanks to an update it received on Thursday. Microsoft’s real-time translation app can now provide live voice and text translations for conversations involving people who speak German and French, in addition to English, …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a Texas-based oil company and its CEO with defrauding investors about reserve estimates and drilling plans, and charged the author of a stock-picking newsletter for his role in a fraudulent promotional campaign encouraging readers to buy the oil company’s penny stock shares. The …
Один из принадлежащих компании Microsoft web-сайтов (digitalconstitution.com) был взломан неизвестными хакерами. Портал, запуск которого состоялся еще в середине 2013 года на фоне серии скандальных разоблачений Эдварда Сноудена, изначально был посвящен борьбе с массовой слежкой правительства США. …
Make it a fun Father’s Day Image by Thinkstock What do you usually get your dad for Father’s Day? A tie he’ll say he loves but will never wear? An embarrassing apron he’ll have to don every time he plays grillmaster at the family cookout? A card with the same …
Capgemini subsidiary Sogeti and IBM forged an alliance today under which Sogeti will bring IBM’s Cloud Foundry-based Bluemix platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering to its developers and clients in 15 countries. Sogeti is also turning to Bluemix to help it power hybrid cloud applications for commerce, the Internet of Things (IoT) and …
Если измерять уровень инновационности компании по количеству патентов, то лучшими в данном вопросе являются IBM и Samsung. На их лидерство указывают данные портала Sqoop, который еженедельно публикует информацию о выданных в США патентах и поданных заявках на регистрацию объектов интеллектуальной собственности. …
Fitbit sprinted into Wall Street in its debut as a public company Thursday, as its shares opened 52 percent higher than the price that the wearables company had set for them. Priced at US$20 on Wednesday, the stock instead opened at $30.40. Earlier in the week Fitbit had increased the …
With Windows 10 about to ship and Windows 8 largely panned, it’s not a surprise that Gartner has recommended that enterprises skip the latter and migrate directly to the former from Windows 7. “It is likely that Windows 8.1 will suffer a similar fate to Windows Vista, whereby industry support …
Корпорация Sony выпустит шлем виртуальной реальности, создающийся по проекту Morpheus, в первом–втором квартале 2016 года. По крайней мере, об этом сообщают сетевые источники. …
Как сообщают исследователи безопасности из «Лаборатории Касперского», неизвестные хакеры (вероятно, спонсируемые неназванным правительством) скомпрометировали цифровой сертификат для аппаратного драйвера Foxconn и использовали его для маскировки вредоносных инструментов. …
Lyft has agreed to pay the state of New York $300,000 to settle claims that it is running a for-hire livery service in violation of state and municipal laws. The agreement comes just under a year after the company was sued by New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and …
В прошлый понедельник Apple выпустила для разработчиков новую прошивку watchOS 2 для смарт-часов Watch, которая приносит ряд новых функций и изменений. …
Microsoft’s 14-month rent of former Nokia CEO Stephen Elop cost the firm at least $18 million, or about $1.3 million each month. Elop was ousted from Microsoft Wednesday after a reorganization of the company eliminated his Devices division by folding it into the same group responsible for Windows. Terry Myerson, …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced enforcement actions against 36 municipal underwriting firms for violations in municipal bond offerings. The cases are the first brought against underwriters under the Municipalities Continuing Disclosure Cooperation (MCDC) Initiative, a voluntary self-reporting program targeting material misstatements and omissions in municipal bond offering documents. …
Трафик анонимной поисковой системы DuckDuckGo вырос на 600% за два года, рассказал в интервью CNBC глава компании Гейб Винберг. По его словам, DuckDuckGo обязана этому разоблачениям Эдварда Сноудена и партнерству с компанией Apple, которая встроила поисковик в операционные системы iOS 8 и OS X Yosemite. …
The European Union faces a huge shortfall of qualified IT staff in Europe by 2020, prompting EU countries to redouble efforts to offer technology training. There are not enough IT specialists graduating in Europe to fill all jobs, creating a digital skills gap that could lead to 825,000 vacancies in …
elementary OS says goodbye to SourceForge elementary OS is a well known desktop Linux distribution. Previously elementary OS had used SourceForge for its download hosting, but now the developers have politely announced that they are leaving SourceForge. Danrabbit posted the announcement on the elementary OS blog: Sourceforge has helped us …
Acting quickly to move away from Windows 8, HP will start pre-installing Windows 10 across its old and new PCs and tablets within days of the release of the new OS on July 29. One of HP’s first products with Windows 10 will be the 8-inch Pro Tablet 608 G1, …
Lollipop brings an awful lot of good stuff to Android devices, from its fresh and distinctive Material Design motif to its bevy of useful new features. But it also brings some annoying quirks, not least of which is the way it handles certain kinds of notifications. I’m talking specifically about …
Хотя компьютеризированные наручные часы Huawei Watch были представлены еще в начале марта 2015 года, они до сих пор не поступили в продажу. Более того, устройство появится в магазинах позднее сроков, называемых производителем. …