Russia’s VimpelCom has invited bids from regional and international investors interested in buying its stake in mobile phone operator Telecel Zimbabwe. The winner of the bid to buy the 60 percent controlling stake in Telecel Zimbabwe is expected to be announced before the end of the month. The rest of …
Administrators who spent time this year retiring their last computers running Microsoft Windows XP might have another migration task ahead—Microsoft is set to retire its Windows Server 2003 operating system next July. The good news is that in many cases the necessity of a server software upgrade will also give …
Глава облуправления МВД приказал начальникам райотделов выйти в фейсбук. …
Zendesk sees customer service as a way for its users to distinguish themselves from competitors and now allows them to bring that customer service advantage to their mobile, game and Web apps. The company says a new feature, called Embeddables, will keep people in a mobile or Web app instead …
Сейчас на рынке мобильной электроники прекрасно уживаются и ноутбуки, и планшеты. Но почему один не вытеснит другого? Неужели ни у одного нет явного преимущества? …
E-commerce is poised to dominate African retail markets over the next five years, says the Africa CEO of Kaymu.com, one of the more successful online commerce sites in the region. While market watchers may not be quite as optimistic in their forecasts, no one disputes that e-commerce on the continent …
В китайское агентство связи TENAA поступили данные о новом смартфоне производства Asus — X002. Он получит 5-дюймовый экран с разрешением 1280×720 пикселей и 64-битный четырехъядерный процессор MediaTek MT6732 с тактовой частотой 1,5 ГГц. Asus X002 работает с одной SIM-картой (что редкость для устройств с чипсетами MediaTek) и поддерживает сети LTE …
Throngs of Google Apps customers are demanding access to Inbox, so the company is scrambling to release a version of this new email app for the workplace communication and productivity suite. “Supporting these accounts comes with other demands and we’re working hard on addressing them so we can get Inbox …
The processor architecture behind Apple’s A7 and A8 chips is getting an incremental upgrade. ARM, whose processor designs are used in most mobile devices, is adding features to its ARMv8.1-A architecture that could improve the security and speed of chips. The new architecture is an upgrade from the existing ARMv8-A, …
Android правит балом благодаря бесчисленному количеству смартфонов на этой ОС. …
Backers of an Internet sales tax aren’t taking no for an answer, with supporters continuing to push the U.S. Congress to pass legislation this year. Groups and lawmakers in favor of a widespread online sales tax have stepped up pressure for Congress to pass a bill allowing states to collect …
The processor architecture behind Apple’s A7 and A8 chips is getting an incremental upgrade. ARM, whose processor designs are used in most mobile devices, is adding features to its ARMv8.1-A architecture that could improve the security and speed of chips. The new architecture is an upgrade from the existing ARMv8-A, …
Sick of typing those annoying, and barely readable, letters and numbers to prove to a website that you’re not a robot or a spammer? You may be in luck. Google announced Wednesday that the company is trying to get rid of those annoying tasks – called CAPTCHAs, which is short …
Apple’s larger iPhone 6 Plus grabbed 41% of all U.S. sales of smartphones with screens 5.5-in. and larger during a recent three-month stretch, even though it was available — and only in short supply — for just six weeks. According to Kantar WorldPanel Comtech, which regularly polls consumers on a …
В прошлом месяце Google начала обновление Nexus-устройств до новой операционной системы Android 5.0 Lollipop. …
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Quantum OS: Android’s Material Design in Linux Material Design has been a big hit in Android 5.0 Lollipop. But now a distro developer has plans to incorporate it into a desktop distribution called Quantum OS. Jack Wallen at TechRepublic shares his thoughts about Quantum OS and Material Design: Bridging these …
Barely a month after Elon Musk called artificial intelligence a threat to humanity, another voice – a much bigger voice in the scientific world – warned that the technology could end mankind. Stephen Hawking, the renowned physicist, cosmologist and author, in an interview with the BBC this week, said “the …
Despite 72-year-old Professor Stephen Hawking just receiving a serious upgrade to his computer-generated speech system, smarter tech, he told the BBC, “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.” Prof Hawking says the primitive forms of artificial intelligence developed so far have already proved very …
Сегодня компания Microsoft выпустила обновление программного обеспечения для мобильных телефонов Nokia 130 (RM-1037) и Nokia 130 Dual SIM (RM-1035). …
An online service allowing consumers to pay their medical bills failed to adequately inform them that it would also try to collect highly detailed medical information from their pharmacies, medical labs and insurance companies, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said. The FTC has reached a proposed settlement with PaymentsMD, an …
After years of vowing not to bring Firefox to the iPhone and iPad, Mozilla is changing its tune—and is presumably willing to work with Apple’s rules. “We need to be where our users are so we’re going to get Firefox on iOS,” Mozilla Release Manager Lukas Blakk wrote on Twitter. TechCrunch …
Сети четвертого поколения активно развертываются во многих уголках планеты. Наиболее заметный подъем наблюдается в Азии. …
The single most common issue faced by the IT pros surveyed recently by Kelton Research is network slowdowns or outages, which outstripped application performance problems, availability and even the dreaded “unanticipated change request.” The study, commissioned by IT performance analysis vendor TeamQuest, tracked the opinions of more than 400 IT …
Open-source software plays an increasingly prominent role in many areas of modern business IT – it’s in servers, databases and even the cloud. Vendors like Red Hat, Canonical and others have managed to graft open-source principles onto a profitable business model. The former company became the first open-source-centered business with …
Researchers have created highly conductive and durable silver nanowire ink that can be used to print durable electronic circuits on paper. The technology is being touted by the researchers at the University of Tennessee as a breakthrough in making inexpensive, flexible, disposable electronic sensors that can be used for a …