After Microsoft’s chief operating officer last week said the company was going to change the Windows business model, analysts tried to figure out exactly what he meant. Those business model modifications, said Microsoft’s Kevin Turner, would be revealed early next year when the company will outline how it plans to …
U.S. demands to seize emails stored on a Microsoft server in Ireland are threatening the privacy of U.S. citizens, Microsoft said in its appeal in an ongoing lawsuit that threatens international relations and may violate European privacy laws. Microsoft is battling a U.S. district court ruling to hand over emails …
Getting cloudy has always been a mixed proposition in the IT world. Your users want the convenience of using a variety of devices and having their work accessible on all of those devices from wherever they are, whereas you still have to worry about data security, lost computers, federal regulation …
Remember October’s flap about the vulnerability in SSL, known as POODLE? Remember all the smug people running servers that only supported TLS? Well, they may not be so smug this morning. It turns out that some TLS implementations are vulnerable to a variant of the same ‘padding’ issue. Here we …
Фанатам качественной китайской техники будет интересно узнать о том, что новый смартфон Xiaomi Mi5, обладающий экстремально маленьким ободком будет представлен на всемирной выставке Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2015, которая стартует в следующем месяце в Лас Вегасе. Согласно аналитику Mobile Telecom Суну Ченгхью (Sun Changxu), аппарат будет обладать дисплеем, размер которого …
Help desk pilot fish gets a trouble ticket from a user who says her PC suffered a “thermal event” the day before, just before she went home — and now the computer won’t boot. “When I checked on the computer, the built-in system diagnostics had finished running and there were …
Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi is looking beyond typical consumer electronics and making a play for the home appliances market with a new air purifier that can be controlled via a mobile phone. The fast-rising company on Tuesday unveiled its “Mi Air Purifier”, which will go on sale in China through …
Retailers love thinking about how they can use IT analytics of social media to get close to their customers. But when a retailer breaks through the invisible social media wall and reacts to an online post with a very personal in-store interaction, it may not reap the desired increased-sales outcome. …
NEC has developed a camera system that can detect deterioration in bridges and other structures simply by analyzing imagery. The electronics manufacturer is calling it the world’s first system to use high-definition video cameras and image-recognition technologies to analyze and estimate structural vibrations. NEC researchers developed an algorithm that can …
The last time that Congress enacted major telecommunications regulation reform, in 1996, the state of technology was very different than it is today: Fewer than 15% of Americans had a mobile phone, under one-third of U.S. households were online, and virtually all of those that were online had only slow, …
A U.S. secret court has extended the authorization of the National Security Agency to continue surveillance of phone records in its current form, after a reform bill ran into difficulties in the Senate. Besides stopping the NSA from collecting bulk phone records of Americans from phone companies, the USA Freedom …
Apple can have access to China, as long as it protects users’ privacy, a top Chinese official told the company’s CEO last week. The head of the country’s Cyberspace Administration, Lu Wei, met with Apple’s Tim Cook on Saturday as part of a visit to the company, China’s state-run Xinhua …
Oracle is trying to make sure its billion-dollar copyright dispute with Google over the Android OS doesn’t make it to the U.S. Supreme Court. The companies have been battling for years over whether Google infringed Oracle’s copyright when it lifted programming interfaces from Java for use in its Android mobile …
Top executives at Sony Pictures received an email extorting money three days before the company’s computer network was taken offline in a major hack. The email message was among thousands released on Monday when the email boxes of two top Sony executives were leaked online. It was the latest release …
The city of Portland, Oregon, has sued Uber, ordering it to halt its service until it obtains the permits to operate legally. The lawsuit, issued Monday, comes less than a week after Uber began operating in Portland. The city already had said Uber would be operating there illegally without the …
The email boxes of two top Sony executives were leaked online on Monday, the latest release of potentially embarrassing corporate information following a major hack on the company’s computer networks two weeks ago. The files were uploaded to file-sharing sites and the Bit Torrent file-sharing network, and links to them …
The group claiming responsibility for the Sony Pictures hack has denied it threatened Sony employees and demanded the studio halt the release of a movie that makes light of an assassination attempt on the leader of North Korea. The message was posted on the Github website and claims to be …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today sanctioned a computer programmer for operating two online venues that traded securities using virtual currencies Bitcoin or Litecoin without registering the venues as broker-dealers or stock exchanges. The programmer, Ethan Burnside, also was sanctioned for conducting unregistered offerings. He significantly cooperated with the SEC’s …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today sanctioned eight firms for violating auditor independence rules when they prepared the financial statements of brokerage firms that were their audit clients. SEC investigations found that the audit firms, which agreed to settle the cases, generally took data from financial documents provided by clients …
Компания Google ввела новую систему CAPTCHA для определения ботов в сети. В настоящий момент буквы и цифры с искажением сложны для человека. А что особенно неприятно, роботизированные системы распознования CAPTCHA не всегда справляются с задачей. Команда Google представила новую, усовершенствованную и удобную визуально версию CAPTCHA. Теперь пользователь просто соглашается с …
Казалось бы, буквально вчера мы впервые встречали красавицу Аликс, делали робкие шаги по Городу 17, получали фирменную монтировку и боролись с тоталитарным режимом доктора Брина. Но, нет, прошло уже 10 лет. …
Сотрудник Apple Пол Шин Девин, уличенный в продаже секретов компании, касающихся смартфонов iPhone, приговорен к году тюрьмы. По решению суда он также должен будет выплатить штраф в размере $4,5 млн. …
В начале этого года вместе с новой мобильной операционной системой Windows Phone 8.1 компания Microsoft представила виртуального ассистента Cortana, который является аналогом Siri от компании Apple. …
Американский инженер Ральф Баер, которого также называют «отцом видеоигр», умер в США 6 декабря. О его смерти сообщили близкие изобретателя. Инженер скончался в своем доме в Манчестере, штат Нью-Гэмпшир. Ему было 92 года, передает портал Examiner. Причины смерти не уточняются. …
Издание Businessweek опубликовало список из наиболее гениальных идей за последние 85 лет, и в нем Apple заняла десятое место. В рамках этого Стив Возняк дал интервью Businessweek, поделившись историей создания первого компьютера Apple. …
Facebook is still blocked in China, but its CEO Mark Zuckerberg was happy to welcome a top Chinese Internet regulator to the company’s offices, where he again put his Mandarin language skills to use. Lu Wei, the head of China’s Cyberspace Administration, was in the U.S. where he recently visited …