iPhones made up four out of the five best-selling smartphone models over the past three months, Kantar Worldpanel said today. iPhone 6 is a hit Huge iPhone 6 sales mean Apple should deliver record smartphone sales this quarter, even as recent data suggests the company’s customers are the only ones …
A Mozilla manager yesterday said that the open-source developer would create a browser for Apple’s iOS, the mobile operating system that powers the iPhone and iPad. “We need to be where our users are so we’re going to get Firefox on iOS,” said Lukas Blakk, the release manager for Firefox, …
Министерство культуры предъявило соответствующие обвинения провайдеру Tencent и поисковику Baidu. …
В следующем году тайваньская ODM-компания Pegatron может стать основным партнером Apple по производству ее смартфонов. По данным аналитиков, на которых ссылается издание Focus Taiwan, Pegatron, по всей видимости, получит большую часть заказов Apple на сборку новых iPhone, выход которых ожидается в сентябре 2015 года. …
The mission Orion is the first spacecraft built for astronauts destined for deep space since the Apollo missions and ultimately it is destined for deep space travel — but this week the spaceship went out for a short jaunt outside Earth. NASA says Orion’s unmanned test flight – slated for …
Оператор мобильной связи “МТС Украина” восстановила работу 41 объекта связи в Донецкой и Луганской областях. Об этом говорится в сообщении пресс-службы компании. …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced fraud charges against two former top executives at a Wisconsin-based assisted living provider accused of listing fake occupants at some senior residences in order to meet the requirements of a lease to operate the facilities. The SEC Enforcement Division alleges that then-CEO Laurie …
Создатели Skype разработали новое приложения для общения Wire. Об этом говорится в сообщении компании. …
Платежная система Apple Pay была представлена 9 сентября текущего года. Использовать новый платежный сервис, основанный на NFC-соединении и биометрических технологиях, начали с 20 октября. Несмотря на короткий срок присутствия услуги на рынке платежей, он уже стал достаточно популярным среди пользователей. …
Российская компания Yota Devices презентовала второе поколение смартфона YotaPhone 2. Аппарат получил более округлый дизайн, процессор с четырьмя вычислительными ядрами Qualcomm Snapdragon 800, 2 Гигабайта оперативной памяти, 32 Гигабайта на накопителе и две камеры – 8 Мп основную и 2.1 Мп фронтальную. Как и предшественник, YotaPhone 2 имеет два экрана. Основной AMOLED-дисплей слегка подрос в размерах …
It seems incredible to believe that of all the people on the planet, Stephen Hawking’s communication system has never used the sort of predictive typing found in modern smartphones, or even a backspace key. Now it does, via a partnership between Intel and Swiftkey. Hawking, who suffers from an advanced …
Microsoft’s Windows 10 is still in testing, but hardware makers can’t wait for the day the OS replaces the controversial Windows 8. Millions of PCs are aging, and those who have resisted Windows 8 will likely upgrade to computers with Windows 10. The initial reception to a test version of …
Why, Hello there The fact that modern browsers update silently and often occasionally takes some of the savor out of a new release. Rapid releases mean new features are deployed in a dribble, rather than in bursts. With Firefox 34, however, Mozilla has bucked the trend, giving us a swath …
Industrial control systems have been at the center of some scary security stories recently, but investigating malware infections in such environments is not easy because analysts often having a hard time telling suspicious and good files apart. Security researchers have identified two malware campaigns this year that targeted SCADA (supervisory …
More than half of employees across the global bring a mobile device to work, but practices vary widely from country to country in terms of ownership and adoption. Surprisingly, some tech-loving countries are lagging behind. (cio.com) To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here …
Capriza has long offered a drag-and-drop tool for porting Web apps from desktops to smartphones, and now is extending it to work with tablets. The growing popularity of smartphones and tablets has put pressure on CIOs to let users access existing apps from those devices. While Web technologies offer the …
There’s a standard in the works for Ethernet gear to feed faster Wi-Fi access points, but with rival industry groups pushing two different specifications, it might take a while to finish. Wi-Fi is getting fast enough that Gigabit Ethernet can’t keep up with the most advanced access points, which use …
The Django REST framework, a toolkit for building Web APIs to back-end services, is undergoing a series of upgrades covering under-the-hood capabilities as well as developer and user features. Version 3.0, released Monday, fixes issues that were “a bit gnarly” and is a less user-facing release, Tom Christie, primary maintainer …
Storage predictions for 2015: The future looks bright! In 2015, infrastructure convergence will become the standard and the new norm in data centers. IT vendors have been hyping “Hyper-converged” solutions as the focus of their value proposition for reducing costs and simplifying IT roll-outs as they provide you with modular …
Los Angeles: City of Angels. But yesterday, LA could have easily been known as “City investigated by the FBI because of suspicions involving bidding irregularities for iPads purchased as part of the Unified School District’s (LAUSD) Common Core Technology Project.” In IT Blogwatch, bloggers turn on their tablets and take …
It’s the early 1980s, and this pilot fish is working at a TV station as an electrical engineer. “The TV antenna was outside the station in the parking lot, and whenever there was a thunderstorm — and we got a lot during the summer — the antenna would get struck …
The Django REST framework, a toolkit for building Web APIs to back-end services, is undergoing a series of upgrades covering under-the-hood capabilities as well as developer and user features. Version 3.0, released Monday, fixes issues that were “a bit gnarly” and is a less user-facing release, Tom Christie, primary maintainer …
Looking around at how things are done at my new company, it’s pretty easy for me to find security problems lurking virtually everywhere. Trouble Ticket At Issue: Starting a new job where you’re in charge of security can be overwhelming — you see problems everywhere. Action Plan: Settle on the …
After quizzing Uber on its data collection practices, U.S. Senator Al Franken now wants rival Lyft to explain its privacy policies. The questions being raised about the handling of customer data by Uber and Lyft are the latest in a string of problems smartphone apps based ride-hailing companies face as …
Someone thought touchscreen notebooks were a good idea. Someone also thought Windows 8 was a good idea. Both arrived on the market at the same time. Now both are about to disappear at roughly the same time. Windows 10 is making its way to the market early next year, and …
Netflix is pushing for a level Internet playing field while apparently looking for ways to give its own video a fast lane, FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai says. In a letter to Netflix CEO Reed Hastings on Tuesday, Pai questioned how Netflix could advocate strong net neutrality regulations while rebuffing an …