Haswell, Broadwell, Ivy Bridge. Dual Core, Quad Core, Turbo Boost. Mobile, i5, i7. There are so many different terms used to describe the processor in the current crop of Macs that trying to figure out which is best for you is enough to make your head spin. So which processor …
Суд Нью-Йорка приговорил шведского распространителя компьютерного вируса к тюремному заключению на срок четыре года девять месяцев. Об этом сообщает Associated Press. …
The U.S. House of Representatives has voted to require ICANN, which coordinates the Internet’s domain name system, to jump through several hoops before a government agency ends its oversight of the organization. The House voted 378-25 late Tuesday to approve the Domain Openness Through Continued Oversight Matters (DOTCOM) Act, a …
Apple CEO Tim Cook has called 2015 “the year of Apple Pay,” referring to the company’s highly successful mobile payments system, which was developed across several years. Step 1: Set up Apple Pay on iPhone Apple Pay works with iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus and an Apple Watch that’s paired with …
QlikTech’s Qlik Sense, introduced in 2014, is a do-it-yourself BI and visualization product based on the same in-memory associative data indexing engine as the company’s QlikView product, which has long been used by IT and more technical users for building interactive dashboard applications. You don’t need to be a business …
Along with the arrival of summer, late June marks the arrival of the Eclipse Foundation’s annual release train, with the open source tooling organization simultaneously releasing a multitude of technologies. This year’s release train, dubbed Mars, is the 10th in the series. It improves the organization’s stalwart Java IDE and …
Судиться с компанией Apple — дело обычно неблагодарное. Особенно тогда, когда на стороне Купертино правда. Намедни одной из предприимчивых компаний предоставился отличный случай в этом убедиться, и теперь неудавшийся «патентный тролль», помимо судебных издержек, рискует заплатить штраф в размере 15 миллионов долларов. …
Several antivirus products from security firm ESET had a critical vulnerability that was easy to exploit and could lead to a full system compromise. The discovery of the flaw, which has now been patched, comes on the heels of a report that intelligence agencies from the U.K. and the U.S. …
Thanks to Google Street View, you can explore oceans underwater without getting wet and now you can climb Yosemite’s El Capitan without breaking a sweat. Although Street View has quite a bit of Yosemite National Park coverage, at almost 1,200 square miles, there’s so much more of Yosemite to see. …
Apple’s iOS 9 will ask users if they want to delete apps to make room for the upgrade if their devices are short of space, then automatically select those marked for temporary elimination, according to online reports. The new feature, revealed yesterday by several users of the iOS 9 preview …
В первые дни лета компания Meizu представила в Китае M2 Note – сиквел довольно успешного 5,5-дюймового смартфона M1 Note, который поразил рынок крайне невысокой ценой. Компания довольно ощутимо поработала над телефоном: изменился дизайн, обновилась аппаратная часть, дебютировала новая версия графической оболочки Flyme 4.5. …
CareerBuilder has long been known primarily for its namesake jobs-listing site, but on Wednesday the company launched a new recruitment platform that’s aimed squarely at enterprise HR departments. With components for job distribution, sourcing, workflow, candidate relationship management and data analytics, CareerBuilder1 is delivered as Software as a Service in …
Facebook has begun opening up source code for its Nuclide IDE, which is designed to offer a unified experience for Web and native mobile development. Nuclide was designed for use by engineers at Facebook, but with the source code release, Facebook wants developers elsewhere to leverage the technology for themselves. …
As Southern California Edison (SCE) began replacing its IT workers with foreign labor, several IT employees asked the U.S. government for help. They submitted an application for Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA), and explained why they believe trade played a role in their job loss. The SCE workers noted that the …
Компания LG представила на корейском рынке новый музыкальный смартфон Band Play, главной особенностью которого стал громкий 1-ваттный встроенный динамик, и наушниками LG QuadBeat 3, изначально выпущенными в качестве одного из аксессуаров для флагманского смартфона LG G4. LG Band Play относится к аппаратам среднего уровня и обойдется будущему владельцу в $356. Он функционирует под управлением мобильной операционной системы …
Ford drives into car-sharing space As car-sharing and ride-hailing apps make it ever easier for people, especially the urban young, to shrug off the expense of actually owning a car, at least one automaker wants to get in the driver’s seat and steer the trend in a more favorable direction. …
If you’re a tech worker looking for a job these days, the news continues to be generally quite good. In fact, if tech jobs were candy, they’d be Good & Plenty. However, based on the results of a new study of job hiring data, there is one minor downside to …
The creator of a tool that was used to steal data from a half-million computers will go to prison for close to five years, the U.S. Department of Justice said Tuesday. Alex Yucel, 25, of Sweden, pleaded guilty in February in federal court in New York to one count of …
Now you can jailbreak your iOS 8.3 or 8.2 iPhone or iPad. Are you ready to escape from Apple’s pomaceous walled garden of parody-free, sexless, family friendliness? Now that TaiG has delivered, here are the best jailbreaking resources. But do take care, lest you brick your shiny. Don’t say you …
Samsung is partnering with Red Hat to build mobile apps for business users in a deal that recalls Apple’s tie-up with IBM this time last year. Red Hat and Samsung will build “enterprise-ready, industry-specific” apps in areas like business intelligence, customer service and inventory management, they announced Tuesday. Companies will …
With the world officially on a collision course with Windows 10 on July 29, it’s time to clear up common misconceptions about Microsoft’s latest, evolving version of its flagship OS. Perhaps not surprising, there’s quite a bit of misinformation floating around, some of it harmless, but some of it potentially …
IBM and online storage firm Box have formed a wide-ranging cloud technologies partnership that will allow Box users to apply Watson Analytics know-how to their content while IBM customers can use Box’s content collaboration platform. The international alliance is designed to make large volumes of data easier to use, especially …
Amazon.com’s troubled bid for the .amazon generic top-level domain (gTLD) has got support from the U.S. Congressional Trademark caucus, which is asking for a speedy resolution of the long-standing dispute between the online retailer and countries in the region through which the Amazon river flows. J. Randy Forbes and Suzan …
China’s largest chip foundry is entering into a joint venture with Qualcomm to develop chips, at a time when the country is looking for technology to emerge as a semiconductor producing powerhouse. The foundry, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), has partnered with Qualcomm, Huawei Technologies and Belgian firm Imec to …
In the international race to create a hoverboard, Toyota Motor thinks it’s got one that Marty McFly would love. The hero of the 1989 science-fiction film “Back to the Future II” famously rode a floating skateboard to escape his enemies, inspiring real-world engineers to try to build one. On Wednesday, …
A tool to watch regionally restricted video content will no longer be offered in New Zealand, ending a lawsuit that could have clarified the legality of such services in the country. GlobalMode allowed people to watch video content that is restricted by IP address, or geoblocked. The service uses a …