Google will begin removing explicit images posted without the subject’s consent in a crackdown on “revenge porn” announced Friday. Amit Singhal, the senior vice president of Google Search, said in a blog post that it’s an attempt to fight back against ex-partners and hackers who try to harass and humiliate …
Twitter has long positioned its site as a way to see what’s happening in the world. Now, it wants to tap into our desires as consumers. The company is testing a new way to highlight products and places on its site, bringing relevant tweets to the fore while also providing …
EBay has sold its 28.4 percent ownership stake in Craigslist as part of an agreement between the companies announced Friday . The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but eBay said the companies have also agreed to end the outstanding litigation between them. The online auction house paid …
I just found out my company’s employees have been finding ways to get around my Web filtering. And that came as a surprise, because I use a best-in-class product that employs a database to categorize and block website URLs, which I thought I could rely on. But as I found …
A new study says that 30% of all physical servers in data centers are comatose, or are using energy but delivering no useful information. What’s remarkable is that that percentage hasn’t changed since 2008, when a separate study showed the same thing. The latest research was reported in a paper …
Editor’s note: Traction Watch is a new column focused obsessively on growth, and is a companion to the DEMO Traction conference series, which brings together high-growth startups with high-potential customers. The next DEMO Traction will take place in Boston on September 16, 2015. Growth companies can apply to present, or those similarly obsessed can register here to …
Editor’s note: Traction Watch is a new column focused obsessively on growth, and is a companion to the DEMO Traction conference series, which brings together high-growth startups with high-potential customers. The next DEMO Traction will take place in Boston on September 16, 2015. Growth companies can apply to present, or those similarly obsessed can register here to …
Google App Engine users may have some migration work ahead of them, because Google is contemplating not upgrading some popular programming languages currently running on the service, notably Java and Python. Instead, the company may support the language upgrades only in the second iteration of Google App Engine, which the …
Ever wondered how Facebook is able to assemble personalized news feeds, in real time, for any of its billion-plus users who may log in at any given moment? Now we know, because the company has just released the source code behind the magic. Drawing from their considerable expertise running large …
When Target announced this week that it was selling its pharmacy business to CVS, it was good news for CVS, which will add more than 1,660 pharmacies across 47 states — plus 80 clinics — to its network of some 7,800 drugstores and almost 1,000 clinics. But lost amid all …
The European Commission is almost ready to file final antitrust charges against Google: It has shared a redacted copy of charges with complainants and given them four weeks to provide additional evidence and comments. The Commission charged Google in April with abusing its dominant market position as a search provider …
Apple today quietly stopped selling the original iPad Mini, the 7.9-in. tablet that debuted in 2012. The smaller sibling to the 9.7-in. iPad no longer appears on Apple’s online store, a fact first reported by 9to5Mac.com earlier Friday. The iPad Mini had been superseded by a pair of follow-ups, including …
Organizations should know how to budget and pay for IT products and services — they’ve been doing so for more than 50 years. This is not rocket science. Unfortunately, many organizations continue to make the same mistakes year after year. To read this article in full or to leave a …
Компания Lenovo сообщила о том, что в ближайшем будущем состоятся выпуск компьютера-брелока IdeaCentre Stick 300, работающего под управлением операционной системы Windows. Судя по описанию, новинка является аналогом мини-ПК Intel Compute Stick. Новинка обладает 32 Гигабайтами на встроенном накопителе eMMC, связь обеспечивают модули беспроводной связи Wi-Fi и Bluetooth, а вывод на телевизор или монитор осуществляется за …
Voat.co servers shut down due to politically incorrect content Voat.co has been in the news a lot lately thanks to a huge exodus of redditors that swamped the site in response to censorship on Reddit. Now Voat.co itself has been hit with an unexpected server shutdown because of content on …
The Apple Watch is expected to snag nearly two-thirds of the smartwatch market for all of 2015, according to a new forecast from market research firm IDC. IDC had said two weeks ago that Apple will ship to retailers about 21 million Apple Watches in 2015. That’s in the mid-range …
Steve Lohr recently wrote an interesting article titled “If Algorithms Know All, How Much Should Humans Help?” for The New York Times that examines our ability to collaborate with and trust the increasingly intelligent systems that are entering both the workplace and our homes. He noted that without some level …
Windows 8 users have a little less than seven months to move to Windows 8.1 or be severed from Microsoft’s security update stream. The 2012 operating system will be retired from support on Jan. 12, 2016. After that date — which is the month’s traditional patch-release day — users of …
The European Commission is almost ready to file final antitrust charges against Google: It has shared a redacted copy of charges with complainants and given them four weeks to provide additional evidence and comments. The Commission charged Google in April with abusing its dominant market position as a search provider …
SANTA CLARA — Even though service providers are well on their way with SDNs, enterprise adoption of the technology is slowed by a host of issues. Chief among them is cultural inertia. Large enterprises in particular are loathe to change anything, be it technology, operational processes or organizational structure, especially …
Windows 10’s launch is less than six weeks away, but questions — lots of questions — still remain about the new operating system, from when it will be taken to the bosom of enterprise to whether some of Microsoft’s moves leading up to it were premeditated. Computerworld spoke to one …
Компания Canon пополнила ассортимент новой компактной камерой Canon PowerShot G3 X. Новинка оборудована 20.2-Мегапиксельным сенсором Canon DIGIC 6, 3.2-дюймовым жидкокристаллическим поворотным дисплеем, а поддерживаемый диапазон ISO находится в пределах 100-25600. В качестве объектива выбран 35-миллиметровый объектив с 25-кратным увеличением картинки, что позволяет использовать эквивалент 24-600 мм, светосила f/2.8-5.6. Упоминается поддержка съемки видео высокой …
A recent trend in government has been to build upon lessons learned in the private sector to enhance the quality and effectiveness of government service. One area receiving attention this past year has been in the government’s digital engagement with stakeholders and citizens. Specifically, the fiscal 2016 budget request by …
Bilderberg Group regular, Google chairman Eric Schmidt just took time out to tell the BBC Apple’s claims about Google privacy are “largely false”. Talking Schmidt Here’s what he said: “Their claims are largely false in their description of us.” What does that mean? Is Schmidt accusing Apple CEO Tim Cook …
China is opening up its e-commerce market to more foreign investment, removing restrictions that limited investors to joint ventures with Chinese firms. The country’s top IT regulator announced the change on Friday, months after authorities introduced it on a smaller scale for a newly established free-trade zone in Shanghai. The …
Google’s data centers grow so fast it has to build its own networks 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 …