While thumb-typing or finger-swiping on your smartphone screen may be good enough for tweeting or texting, more wordy activities — like typing long email messages, taking notes at conference sessions or writing documents like this one — are grueling at best. For that, you need a physical keyboard. There’s no …
The arrival of the Apple Watch in stores Friday failed to draw the same crowds that greeted the launch of the iPhone 6—but this may be a sign that Apple fans are prepared to queue overnight to buy, but not just to try. For the next two weeks, visitors to …
The U.K. government’s mass surveillance practices will be challenged at the European Court of Human Rights. Human rights and civil liberties organizations Amnesty International, Liberty and Privacy International have filed a joint application with the court, they announced on Friday. The groups assert that U.K domestic law governing the U.K. …
Sysadmin who has access to all parts of this office’s IT systems decides to play an April Fool’s joke that’s, well, a little too good, reports a pilot fish on the scene. “We have a very good salesman who the sysadmin decided to put on the Secret Service’s most-wanted list,” …
Tokyo Electric Power on Friday sent a robot where no machine has gone before—inside the highly radioactive heart of a reactor at the crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant. The robot, developed by Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy and the International Research Institute for Nuclear Decommissioning (IRID), was inserted into the primary …
Новая часть легендарного файтинга Mortal Combat для ПК и консолей выйдет на следующей неделе, а сейчас пользователи “яблочных” гаджетов уже могут протестировать мобильную версию игры. Управление в новом Mortal Combat почти не отличается от других файтингов компании NetherRealm: все действия персонажа выполняются с помощью обычных тапов (нажатий) по дисплею и свайпов (провести пальцем по дисплею). …
The body that manages the Internet domain name system has asked regulators in the U.S. and Canada to comment on the legality of the high prices and procedures used by Vox Populi Registry for registrations of ‘.sucks’ domain names by trademark owners. The move Thursday by the Internet Corporation for …
Трое исследователей из Университета штата Айова при поддержке Управления перспективных исследований и разработок министерства обороны США (Defense Advanced Research Program Agency, DARPA) разработали новое ПО под названием Security Toolbox. ПО разработано для быстрого обнаружения вредоносного ПО, созданного специально для операционной системы Android. Security Toolbox использует ряд анализаторов для детектирования возможных признаков скрытого вредоносного программного …
U.S. government agencies have stopped Intel from selling microprocessors for China’s supercomputers, apparently reflecting concern about their use in nuclear tests. In February, four supercomputing institutions in China were placed on a U.S. government list that effectively bans them from receiving certain U.S. exports. The four institutions, which include China’s …
U.S. government agencies have stopped Intel from selling microprocessors for China’s supercomputers, apparently reflecting concern about their use in nuclear tests. In February, four supercomputing institutions in China were placed on a U.S. government list that effectively bans them from receiving certain U.S. exports. The four institutions, which include China’s …
After a few weeks of speculation, Altera has apparently walked away from a very generous acquisition offer from Intel. Altera makes field-programmable gate array (FPGA) processors, a field Intel does not play in, and it would have been a whole new market for Intel, which really needs a growth story …
A large hotel management company has confirmed a second payment card breach in less than 14 months, underscoring the difficulties businesses are having with data thieves. White Lodging Services said the second breach was detected on Jan. 27 after unusual payment card activity was discovered on credit cards used at …
IBM and Fujifilm have figured out how to fit 220TB of data on a standard-size tape that fits in your hand, flexing the technology’s strengths as a long-term storage medium. The prototype Fujifilm tape and accompanying drive technology from IBM labs packs 88 times as much data onto a tape …
IBM and Fujifilm have figured out how to fit 220TB of data on a standard-size tape that fits in your hand, flexing the technology’s strengths as a long-term storage medium. The prototype Fujifilm tape and accompanying drive technology from IBM labs packs 88 times as much data onto a tape …
Jawbone’s latest activity tracker, the UP3, will finally ship April 20 after being delayed for months, though without a core feature the company had hoped for. Water resistance issues led to delays in the product’s launch, Jawbone said Thursday. The company was hoping for a product that could be submerged …
It’s coming up on two years since Salesforce acquired Pardot, and on Thursday the company enriched its resulting Sales Cloud B2B marketing-automation product with two new key capabilities. Intelligent Engagement Studio, for instance, offers granular targeting, testing and reporting capabilities designed to help marketers and sales teams connect with prospects …
The Ellen Pao-Kleiner Perkins trial shone a light on discrimination in the tech industry, but for a more immediate look at the challenges women face in corporate America, look no further than a Google Images search. Doing a search at the site for “CEO” reveals just one female face in …
A slowdown in Windows XP upgrades and the wait for Windows 10 sent worldwide PC shipments tumbling to a six-year low in the first quarter this year, according to IDC. Worldwide PC shipments totaled 68.5 million units during the first quarter, declining by 6.7 percent compared with the same quarter …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced fraud charges against the former controller of a suburban Chicago company’s Japanese subsidiary who cost his company millions of dollars in trading losses and manipulated accounting records to avoid detection. The SEC alleges that Katsuichi Fusamae, who was a senior accounting officer at …
Amazon Web Services continues to chip away at the enterprise storage market, with plans for a new service designed to be a nimbler alternative to network attached storage (NAS) appliances. The Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) will provide a shared, low-latency file system for organizations or project teams that need …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Marc Wyatt will serve as Acting Director of the agency’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE). He succeeds Andrew Bowden, who announced that he will be leaving the SEC to rejoin the private sector at the end of April. Mr. Wyatt …
Apple launched Wi-Fi calling for the iPhone last fall as part of iOS 8, but at the time only T-Mobile chose to support the feature. More than six months later, Sprint is following suit and adding Wi-Fi calling support for the iPhone 6, 6 Plus, 5s, and 5c. Wi-Fi calling …
The ties between Dropbox and Microsoft Office tightened Thursday: The two services now integrate with each other. If this sounds vaguely familiar to you, it should: Dropbox and Office began their integration path with the Office apps for Android and iOS, and now have moved to the Web. What this …
Google is said to be developing a version of Android Wear to let iPhone owners sync their phones with smartwatches running Google’s OS. Google is close to finishing the final technical details, according to a report in The Verge which cited one unnamed source close to the development team. A …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced fraud charges and an asset freeze against the operators of a South Florida-based microcap scheme, including three boiler room brokers caught trying to conceal from investors that they have been barred from the industry. The SEC alleges that investors were defrauded in cold …
Nano-серия мини-систем Zbox в исполнении Zotaс пополнилась новыми моделями Zbox MI522 и MI524. Как и прежде Zotac использует уже привычный пользователям дизайн своего продукта, сочетая в нем черный глянец и матовые серебристые элементы, выполненные из алюминия. На этот раз в состав мини-компьютеров включены процессор Core i3-5010U (MI522) или Core i5-5200U (MI524), представляющие 14-нанометровое энергоэффективное поколение …