Growing interest in smartwatches has sparked user privacy concerns as companies find ways to collect and use personal health, location and purchasing data found on the wearable devices of their customers and workers. “Consumers need to demand, at a minimum, clear information about what exactly the collected information will be …
It’s decades ago, and this banking company is upgrading its check processing system to let local branches help out with the checks that have been deposited, according to a pilot fish in the know. “Instead of just sending deposited checks by courier from each bank or branch to the main …
We want speaking machines because language is the best way to rapidly communicate ideas. Users want their lives made easier and Hollywood wants their 1960s predictions proven right. But computers don’t work for artificial intelligence (A.I.). Alan Turing, the famous British mathematician, cryptologist and a founding father of today’s computers would …
A trip down memory lane In many ways, a website serves as most companies’ digital fingerprint. While some corporate websites are merely gateways to buy and learn about new products (e.g., Apple), others may entirely define what a company is (e.g., Facebook). That said, it’s always fun to take a …
In the course of this year, almost 10 million antiquated Windows Server 2003 servers will have their applications and data removed and deployed on new servers, and the old servers will be shut down and disposed of. It is a natural assumption that the destination servers will be Server 2012, …
Становясь все более производительными, аппараты китайских производителей продолжают быть лишены поддержки международных сетей 4G. Причиной являются процессоры, особенно производства MediaTek, которые не предоставляют поддержку нужных полос частот. Ситуация меняется с мартовским выпуском чипа MediaTek MT6753. Одним из первых смартфонов с его использованием стал Elephone P8000, имеющий следующие характеристики: дисплей 5.5 дюймов с разрешением Full HD; оперативная …
Charles Tendell is trying to repair a reputation problem for his website, Hacker’s List. The site debuted in November and quickly drew high-profile attention, including a front-page story in the New York Times. It’s an online marketplace where people can list computer-security related jobs for bidding and match them with …
When the Domino’s pizza chain announced on Wednesday (May 20) that it can now take pizza orders via Twitter, it was part of the chain’s buy-anywhere-anyhow campaign. The rationale is that customers can stay within whatever media form they are using — social media, mobile, desktop, Apple Watch, etc. — …
Adult Friend Finder, one of the largest online dating sites, may have been breached more than two months ago, and the sensitive files—include names, ages, email addresses, zip codes and more—are apparently still online. British broadcaster Channel 4 reported Thursday that the website had been breached, although information regarding the …
Traffic jams may become even more of an aggravation than they are today as mobile networks struggle to handle a rapidly increasing number of connected cars. In a future where money from voice and messaging will no longer be the cash cows they once were, connected cars, homes, cities and …
The ICANN leader who kicked off the Internet organization’s move away from U.S. government control will leave his post early, possibly before the transition is finished. Fadi Chehadé, who became president and CEO of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers in September 2012, will step down in March …
The U.S. Senate on Thursday failed to move forward on efforts to extend the section of the Patriot Act that the National Security Agency has used to collect millions of domestic telephone records. Congress is facing an effective deadline of this weekend to extend the phone records collection section of …
Hewlett-Packard has reported another drop in quarterly revenue and profit, with a notable 16% slide in its enterprise services business. The company said it’s on track to divide itself into two companies later this year, but made a last-minute change to its leadership plans: CFO Cathie Lesjak will move to …
Google said Thursday it would make changes to its Maps search system after racist search terms brought up the White House among their top results. In Google Maps, some queries containing racist terms against African-Americans listed the White House and other surprising places among their top results. Google apologized and …
The U.S. Senate on Thursday failed to move forward on efforts to extend the section of the Patriot Act that the National Security Agency has used to collect millions of domestic telephone records. Congress is facing an effective deadline of this weekend to extend the phone records collection section of …
Hewlett-Packard has reported another drop in quarterly revenue and profit, with a notable 16 percent slide in its enterprise services business. The company said it’s on track to divide itself into two companies later this year, but made a last minute change to its leadership plans: CFO Cathie Lesjak will …
For developers who want to expose their Web applications to other computers and Internet services, API platform vendor Apigee is offering a free online tool to help create APIs using the increasingly popular Swagger API specification. With the Apigee API Studio, now in available in beta, developers can build REST-based …
After launching its Community Cloud last August for companies trying to engage their customers online, Salesforce has now given the platform a major update. Community Cloud, designed to let companies create their own “LinkedIn-style” communities for customers, partners and employees, has a new Targeted Recommendations feature aimed at promoting user …
Apple will not enter the television set market with its own long-lauded, long-expected hardware, according to an online report, putting an apparent end to one of the more persistent rumors weaving around the Cupertino, Calif. company’s future. That’s good news, said one analyst. “I never thought it made strategic sense,” …
As PayPal prepares for its upcoming IPO as an independent eBay spinoff, it wants to make at least one thing clear: It’s got mobile covered. Over the past couple years, the payments company has re-engineered its back-end technology to become a stronger platform for merchants, letting them incorporate a wider …
Google’s effort to add features and push Chromebooks into more hands is working, with shipments of the low-cost laptops expected to jump 27 percent this year. Chromebook shipments worldwide will touch 7.29 million this year, research firm Gartner said Thursday. Growth will slow down in 2016, though, with Chromebook shipments …
LONG BEACH, CALIF. — Speaking here today about the tremendous growth of the 3D printing industry, analyst Terry Wohlers slipped one name into a list of potential machine makers that took some by surprise: Apple. Wohlers was presenting at the RAPID 3D Printing Conference and Expo. His firm, Wohlers Associates, …
Hewlett-Packard has sold a majority stake in its China server and storage business to Tsinghua Holdings as they launch a joint venture they expect will boost sales of HP enterprise hardware products in the country. Tsinghua will buy 51 percent of the joint venture, called H3C, for US$2.3 billion. H3C …
Mozilla today announced an expansion and rebranding of its in-browser advertisements, now dubbed “Suggested Tiles,” that will by default show in the new tab page of all Firefox users. Those who don’t want to see the ads can select an option to make then go away. The change to in-Firefox …
Google’s Chrome OS is known for being a dead-simple platform with a specific and limited focus — but all signs suggest that’s about to change. Google appears to be on the brink of revamping Chrome OS to broaden its appeal and give it a whole new kind of life. The …
Building on its support for the OpenStack open source cloud computing platform, IBM this week unveiled a new slate of IBM Cloud OpenStack Services intended to help clients and developers integrate applications and data across hybrid clouds — including public, private and local cloud environments. [ Related: OpenStack company Nebula …