Intel is strengthening its effort to reduce what it calls the “pain of passwords” by acquiring PasswordBox, a Canadian company that offers an online identity manager designed to let users log on to a range of websites and services with just one click. PasswordBox lets users store login credentials in …
On Wednesday, word broke that Sony was working on a smartwatch that eschews the typical LCD screen and instead uses a wrap-around e-paper display. But this wasn’t a hush-hush secret project like what you’d expect from Apple: The Wall Street Journal reports that Sony’s Fashion Entertainments group did little to keep its smartwatch …
Intel will supply a chip for a new version of Google Glass that will be available next year, according to a news report. The chip will replace one made by Texas Instruments and Intel will promote the new Glass device to workplace users such as hospital and factory staff, The …
Czech startup SQLdep is hoping to simplify database changes and troubleshooting with its code analytics tool. SQLdep’s founders wrote the first line of code about two years ago, and like so many startups the idea for founding the company came from personal experience. “I was part of the data warehousing …
BlackBerry is now free to integrate German security vendor Secusmart’s voice encryption technology on its smartphones and software, after the German government approved its acquisition of the company. BlackBerry CEO John Chen still wants his company to be the first choice of CIOs that want nothing but the best security …
For the Linux nerd who has everything Traditionally, finding gifts for the Open Source-loving, Linux-running person in your life has not been terribly easy to accomplish. Not so this year. It seems the world is filled with Linux-powered gadgets and gizmos galore. What follows are my personal recommendations (ranging in …
Real deals, not cyber scams If you want to see how morally bankrupt the post-Thanksgiving shopping season has become, just poke around online during “Cyber Monday.” You’ll find many of our nation’s major retailers marking up their list prices to advertise “savings” that don’t actually exist, and pushing “limited-time” offers …
Южнокорейский гигант продолжает работать над усовершенствованием мобильных устройств всех сегментов категории, и сейчас замечена работа над мобильником бюджетного сегмента с 64-битным чипом Marvell, тестирование которого засветились в сети. Новинка будет одним из первых доступных аппаратов с 64-битными чипами, а новая версия мобильной операционной системы Android 5.0 Lollipop сделает это возможным, так как …
President Obama recently announced his plan to regulate the Internet under Title II of the 1934 Communications Act. This law nurtured America’s telephone monopoly for 50 years. Under the president’s plan, Internet service would be treated like a public utility, subject to rate regulation and state utilities commission oversight. The …
When you have an organization the size of UPS – with 99,000 vehicles and 424,000 employees – every single little bit of efficiency that can be squeezed out of daily operations translates into a big deal. UPS has been using analytics to do just that for a long time now, …
When it comes to convincing your boss of the value of a data dashboard, nothing works better than when you can save money as a result of a trend that you visualized. This is what Sarah Stone, one of the data-driven marketing staff, did for the Texas Rangers baseball team; …
Gamification, the use of game mechanics and design techniques to motivate people to solve problems or achieve certain goals, has been in use at organizations for several years. But as the concept matures, organizations are expanding their use of gamification to reap additional benefits. To read this article in full …
For the Linux nerd who has everything Traditionally, finding gifts for the Open Source-loving, Linux-running person in your life has not been terribly easy to accomplish. Not so this year. It seems the world is filled with Linux-powered gadgets and gizmos galore. What follows are my personal recommendations (ranging in …
Google has started to roll out a dramatically different bookmarks manager for its Chrome browser, releasing it with the latest beta build and preparing users of the more popular stable version for an appearance within weeks. But when Google asked for feedback, it got a thumbs down from most users. …
Has Sony Pictures become number one enemy of North Korea leader Kim Jun-un? Is his glorious Jong-un-ness angry about an upcoming and less-than-flattering movie called The Interview? So angry, he ordered his elite hacking squad — Unit 121 — to breach Sony’s firewall in retaliation? Is this a stretch of …
Mozilla will automatically change the default search engine in Firefox from Google to Yahoo for most U.S. users when it updates the browser this month. Firefox 34 is to launch later today or perhaps tomorrow, and may include the search engine switch. All U.S. Firefox users who have previously left …
This IT support pilot fish dreads Monday mornings. “They always, without fail, bring the oddest cases,” he says. “There is just something that happens to people that arrive back and attempt to be productive while their brain is still sleeping in. “A call came in from one of the users. …
The iPhone 5C has taken quite a beating in the court of public opinion and the tech press. While not as bad as the treatment Windows 8 has taken, it suffered from the same type of public execution of a product: it was killed more for its looks than for …
The head of the mobile business at Samsung Electronics will continue in his job, as the South Korean company has decided to continue with a three CEO structure adopted last year. Samsung was considering moving out J.K. Shin, the current co-CEO who heads its underperforming mobile division, in an annual …
Intel will supply a chip for a new version of Google Glass that will be available next year, according to a news report. The chip will replace one made by Texas Instruments and Intel will promote the new Glass device to workplace users such as hospital and factory staff, The …
Мобильный рынок сегодня предлагает выбор из двух «религий» — iOS или Android. …
Почту российского предпринимателя и крупнейшего акционера “Ростелекома” Константина Малофеева взломали хакеры из организации “Шалтай-Болтай”. …
Как известно, Intel придерживается особой стратегии разработки процессоров под названием «Тик-Так» (Tick-Tock Model). Она предусматривает разделение цикла разработки на две стадии — «Тик» и «Так». …
Как известно, устройства линейки Nexus первыми получили обновление операционной системы до Android 5.0 Lollipop. …
По слухам, Future Publishing намерена убить ещё одну ветвь своего бизнеса — долго работающий игровой портал CVG, начавший свою жизнь в качестве печатного издания в 1981 году. …
Китайский производитель Xiaomi в настоящее время действительно на подъёме. Компания заняла ведущее место на родном рынке, обойдя Samsung, и третье — на мировом (уступает только Samsung и Apple). А на днях магазин приложений Xiaomi Mi App Store преодолел психологическую планку в 10 миллиардов загрузок. При этом компания собирается выводить свой …