Third parties interested in creating Apple Watch bands should keep their designs simple and consider the environment, according to guidelines Apple released for accessory makers. Some of the requirements are obvious, like clauses prohibiting bands from interfering with the smartwatch’s heart rate monitor or the ability to use Apple Pay. …
With Telerik’s open source framework NativeScript, programmers with expertise in JavaScript have a new option for cross-platform mobile app development. The resulting applications will be able to run directly on Android, iOS and Windows. After launching a beta in March, Progress Software-owned Telerik on Tuesday launched the first generally available …
Sprint held on — barely — as the nation’s third-largest carrier in the first quarter of 2015, with T-Mobile continuing in fourth place. Sprint said today it had 57.1 million total connections to its network, compared to 56.8 million for T-Mobile, as reported last week. T-Mobile was expected to edge …
To eliminate the world’s dependency on fossil fuel-generated power, all you need is two billion of Tesla’s new commercial-grade battery systems. That was part of Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s message last week, when he announced a new line of batteries for households and businesses, which will allow distributed electrical storage …
Carly Fiorina has been described as flamboyant, bold, polarizing, decisive, imperious and unqualified. Her six-year tenure as CEO of Hewlett-Packard ended with her forced resignation, something that’s not helpful as she begins a presidential run. If Fiorina’s bid for the Republican nomination, announced on Monday, registers more than a single …
Microsoft yesterday announced Windows Update for Business as one way enterprises can manage the accelerated update and upgrade cadence of Windows 10 after it launches this summer. The new service fleshed out Microsoft’s revelations in late January, when it first touted a pair of business-only update/upgrade tempos — “Long-term servicing …
Free or fee? The plans are so extensive regulators in Europe and the US are asking music business execs questions about Apple and its attempts to persuade labels to withdraw their content from free music streaming services in favor of charging a fee. Spotify would be particularly impacted by such …
Чтобы помочь сохранить конфиденциальность участников своей социальной сети, Facebook внедрил функцию “Анонимный логин”, чтобы пользователи могли не предоставлять личные данные. Ранее новые пользователи должны были соглашаться с тем, что личная информация на Facebook становятся доступны в сторонних приложениях. Теперь участники могут на свое усмотрение делиться только теми данными, которыми хотят поделиться. Это станет возможным благодаря «Анонимному …
Cybercriminals are increasingly copying cyberespionage groups in using targeted attacks against their victims instead of large-scale, indiscriminate infection campaigns. This change in tactics has been observed among those who launch attacks, as well as those who create and sell attack tools on the underground market. A recent example of such …
Facebook’s all-seeing-all-staring CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently announced the new Internet.org Platform, which shows developers how to create pages accessible to users of the free Internet service Internet.org. A noble sounding effort to be sure, but given that it is a Facebook led initiative, perhaps, just maybe, Zuck’s platform warrants closer …
Cybercriminals are increasingly copying cyberespionage groups in using targeted attacks against their victims instead of large-scale, indiscriminate infection campaigns. This change in tactics has been observed among those who launch attacks, as well as those who create and sell attack tools on the underground market. A recent example of such …
In perhaps the first sign that live streaming might spawn its own assortment of sub-players, a visual data analysis startup is putting its chops to work to categorize and rank videos on Periscope, the app owned by Twitter. Dextro, which uses algorithms to analyze the content of photos and videos, …
Chambers steps down as Cisco CEO, Robbins gets the job It’s finally time for the changing of the guard at Cisco, after many months of rumors that John Chambers, CEO for 20 years, was planning his retirement. His surprise replacement is senior VP of worldwide operations Chuck Robbins, who wasn’t …
Users of the upcoming version of Windows will be able to call on its Cortana voice-driven virtual personal assistant to help them parse their organization’s business intelligence data. Windows 10 will also let users run multiple desktops on a single computer, and even move applications across these different desktops. With …
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WORCESTER, Mass. — In about a month, the robotics team at Worcester Polytechnic Institute will have to put their robot up against 24 other teams from around the world in the DARPA Robotics Challenge finals. After working for several years on this project, the team is down to its last …
В добавок к машине времени, которую планируют в НАСА, сотрудники Технологического института Карлсруэ в Германии (KIT) заявили, что им удалось разработать систему, с помощью которой можно спрятать предмет от глаз. Как утверждают ученые, свет огибает их изобретение, которое в настоящее время представляет собой маленькую коробку, так что помещенные туда предметы, …
This IT department builds websites for clients as part of its company’s services, reports a pilot fish who works there. “I was working on one new website, and one of our sales team was closely involved,” fish says. “I pushed out some web updates and notified the salesperson to review …
Every now and then, a product comes along that is either genius-level brilliant or celestially clueless. To get the CC award, product designers must force themselves to not only ignore the bad ways the product could be used or to naively believe that minimal safeguards would prevent them. For your …
Американские специалисты разработали двигатель, с которым возможны путешествия во времени. Суть двигателя в обмане скорости света. Это заявление было озвучено 2 мая, так что это не первоапрельский розыгрыш. В НАСА хотят использовать свое изобретение для изучения космоса, ведь с нынешними скоростями, которые сейчас доступны человечеству, о космосе мы знаем «почти ничего». Но …
AMD is holding a financial analyst’s day is scheduled on Wednesday, May 6, but materials from the event may have leaked out. Slides done in the usual style of AMD have been floating around Reddit show the company is basically treading water this year, but next year comes a massive …