Сегодня Sony представил новое поколение селфи-фонов Xperia C4. Аппарат представили как духовную наследницу Xperia C3, обладающую широким набором возможностей для создания селфи и входящую в среднеценовую категорию смартфонов. Стоит отметить, что у Xperia C4 имеется матрица Sony Exmor R, которая в комбинации со светодиодной вспышкой, 25-мм объективом и функцией HDR …
Apple выпустила новые версии веб-обозревателя Safari для компьютеров Mac. Обновление браузера для OS X Yosemite – 8.0.6, для OS X Mavericks – 7.1.6, для Moutain Lion – 6.2.6. Апдейт включает в себя ряд исправлений для WebKit и улучшает безопасность работы. …
Сегодня официально анонсировали нашумевший в последнее время смартфон ZTE Nubia Z9 и теперь стали известны все его характеристики. Смартфон получил 5.2-дюймовый Full HD дисплей с разрешением 1920 на 1080 точек, который действительно не имеет боковых граней, что делает дисплей визуально больше. ZTE Nubia Z9 будет выпускаться в двух вариантах из …
It’s the early days of online ticket services, and this pilot fish is sitting with his grandma as he buys tickets for a local event. “Grandma took a keen interest in how the whole thing worked,” fish says. “After all, we were saving a trip to the box office downtown. …
Компания Mophie, известная своими чехлами и батареями для яблочных устройств, выпустила кейс H2Pro для iPhone 6, который кроме того, что водонепроницаемый, имеет дополнительный источник питания. Водонепроницаемый чехол доступен на сайте Mophie в предварительном заказе по цене $129.95. Кейс имеет подтвержденные сертификаты MIL-STD 810G и IP68, подтверждающие водонепроницаемость и защиту от падений, пыли, …
Ola, India’s largest ride-hailing service, is being probed by the Competition Commission of India for ‘predatory pricing,’ including for allegedly spending more than its revenue per trip by offering incentives to customers and drivers. The probe reflects the fierce competition in the Indian ride-hailing market, with a number of well-funded …
Chinese authorities visited an Uber office in the country on Wednesday, just a week after another company office faced a local police raid over its ride-hailing service. Local authorities came to Uber’s office in the Chinese city of Chengdu, Uber confirmed in en email. But the visit was “routine,” it …
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has announced tests of drones in urban areas as well as outside the pilot’s line-of-sight, possibly paving the way for operations such as the aerial delivery of packages as proposed by companies like Amazon.com. FAA administrator Michael P. Huerta announced Wednesday a new Pathfinder Program …
OneDrive may be one of the cheapest cloud storage services, but it’s not necessarily the most convenient. That’s something Microsoft is looking to change in 2015. Thanks to a roadmap that Microsoft showed at this week’s Ignite conference, we know exactly which features the company is working on, and when …
Chinese vendors Tencent and Qihoo have been accused of gaming antimalware tests by releasing optimized versions of their products for testing purposes that wouldn’t be reflected in the real world, several antimalware firms said. Both companies will be stripped of their rankings, AV‐Comparatives, AV-TEST and Virus Bulletin said. The three stripped …
To meet its goal of putting Windows 10 on a billion devices within three years, Microsoft will have to turn every personal computer now running Windows 7 onto the new OS, then find even more to migrate, calculations from recent statistics show. Microsoft staked out the ambitious plan last week …
More than 95 percent of SAP systems deployed in enterprises are exposed to vulnerabilities that could lead to a full compromise of business data, a security firm claims. Onapsis, a Boston-based company that specializes in SAP security audits, also found that the average time-to-patch for SAP vulnerabilities is more than …
A vulnerability within two widely used WordPress plugins is already being exploited by hackers, putting millions of WordPress sites at risk, according to a computer security firm. The plugins are JetPack, a customization and performance tool, and Twenty Fifteen, used for infinite scrolling, wrote David Dede, a malware researcher with …
Emojis: Kids may love their simplicity, but programmers will loathe their complexities. Last month, the Instagram photo-sharing service started recognizing emojis in its hashtag searches, making the company the first major social networking service to offer this capability. A user could affix a sprightly emoji to a photo hashtag so …
Intel is becoming a little more diverse, just several months after announcing an ambitious plan to add more women and minority workers to its ranks. Since January, roughly 17 percent of Intel’s senior hires were historically under-represented minorities—about double the rate last year. Intel also doubled its senior hiring among …
The man behind the idea of the Apple store and the Genius Bar has launched a store where trained employees bring the gadget you bought to your house and help you set it up. Employees at the new company, called Enjoy, will deliver your purchase to you at home, the …
AMD’s recent chips haven’t rocked Intel’s PC market dominance, but new chips based on the company’s Zen architecture could change the narrative next year. The company on Wednesday shared initial details about the new FX and seventh-generation A-series chips, which will be in desktops and laptops next year. The chips …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today approved a proposal by the national securities exchanges and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) for a two-year pilot program that would widen the minimum quoting and trading increments–or tick sizes–for stocks of some smaller companies. The SEC plans to use the pilot program …
Internet of Things projects can yield data and insights that help companies operate more efficiently and improve products, but they also give hackers additional targets to attack. Expect more malware like Stuxnet, a worm that went after Siemens industrial control systems and mostly infected computers in Iran, said Alan Tait, …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today filed fraud charges against four former officers of Wilmington Trust for intentionally understating past due bank loans during the financial crisis. The former Delaware-based bank holding company was acquired by M&T Bank in May 2011 and paid $18.5 million in September 2014 to settle …
Internet of Things projects can yield data and insights that help companies operate more efficiently and improve products, but also give hackers additional targets to attack. Expect more malware like Stuxnet, a worm that went after Siemens industrial control systems and mostly infected computers in Iran, said Alan Tait, CTO …
Just 5% of the nation’s 6,500 emergency dispatch centers are equipped to receive and respond to emergency text-to-911 messages. That’s not good enough for more than 41,000 signers of a Change.org petition. They want Congress to pass legislation requiring emergency centers to update their systems to accommodate texting. Text-to-911 would …
Google now gets more search queries from mobile devices than it does from PCs. The company noted this milestone in mobile computing in a blog post on Tuesday. “Billions of times per day, consumers turn to Google for I want-to-know, I want-to-go, I want-to-do, and I want-to-buy moments,” wrote Jerry …
Oh, the irony. Now that Microsoft has piqued everyone’s interest in holograms with the recent update on the progress of its HoloLens, visions of what this technology can do for business and scientific endeavors are seemingly everywhere. In fact, holograms have been used in business and scientific settings over the …
Will bezel-less phones be the next big thing? China’s ZTE certainly thinks so. On Wednesday, the company’s Nubia brand unveiled the Z9, a product that comes without the black border found on many smartphone screens. I had a chance to try out the device, and found both pros and cons …
AMD hasn’t been competitive in the chip market over the last few years thanks to some poor decisions, but the company is simplifying its product lineup for PCs while getting into some newer, hotter product areas in hopes of reaching consistent profitability by the end of this year. On Tuesday, …