Устройства Apple остаются одними из наиболее безопасных на рынке именно благодаря iOS и OS X. На днях Бюро по патентам и торговым знакам США опубликовало новый патент Apple, который должен значительно увеличить безопасность устройств с iOS. …
Advanced Micro Devices’ interest in tablets has waned as the company restructures operations in an effort to turn around its finances. The tablet market is in a price battle and profit margins for chip makers are minuscule, said Kevin Lensing, senior director for mobility solutions at AMD. “We’re evaluating [tablets] …
Users of Desk.com, Salesforce’s cloud-based customer service product for small and medium-size businesses, now have an app store designed just for them. Called Desk.com App Hub, the store offers 50 apps from Salesforce partner companies that handle functions including group chat, social monitoring, language translation and e-commerce analytics. Customer data …
Security pros don’t need screaming headlines to put them on alert about a dangerous new piece of malware. “New” and “present” are usually enough to do it, though “stealthy” and “nasty” will open their eyes a little wider. So think what the impact would be of this snippet about a …
Checklist for merchants Just about a year from now, retail merchants who currently accept only magnetic stripe payment cards will have to start accepting chip-based smart cards as well. If they don’t, they become liable for any fraud that results from them not being able to accept the chip cards. …
Out with the old Image by REUTERS/Stephen Lam One of the things that makes Apple so successful is that it’s not afraid to abandon/kill popular technologies in the interest of something new. In doing so, the company often creates a bit of controversy, even if in the long run it …
Breaking up Google by separating its search engine from other commercial services is only one of the actions the European Commission could take to resolve the company’s antitrust problems, say members of Parliament who are proposing the split. A draft version of a European Parliament resolution, reported by news outlets …
На основе популярного одноплатного компьютера Raspberry Pi уже созданы ноутбук Pi-Top, неттоп Plusberry Pi, автомобильный медиацентр RetroPi и другие устройства. Теперь к ним добавится планшет Raspitab, проект которого представлен на площадке Kickstarter. …
Breaking up Google by separating its search engine from other commercial services is only one of the actions the European Commission could take to resolve the company’s antitrust problems, say members of Parliament who are proposing the split. A draft version of a European Parliament resolution, reported by news outlets …
Two ads tell you everything you need to know about how crazy notebook PC pricing is. The first, a Dell Black Friday ad from 2010, advertises a Dell Inspiron 15 for $450—the “doorbuster” the PC company used to lure shoppers to Dell.com. The second, another Dell Black Friday ad for …
Thanksgiving is just a few days away, and for many of us, that means entertaining family and cooking up a storm. This can be a recipe for stress, which is the last thing you need leading up to a long holiday weekend. Luckily, a little planning can make Turkey Day …
Microsoft остановила рассылку обновления операционной системы до Windows Phone 8.1 для смартфонов Nokia Lumia 925 и Lumia 1020 из-за выявления ошибки, которая приводила к зависанию устройства, невозможности выхода из спящего режима и последующей перезагрузке. Ошибка была замечена как в версии для разработчиков, так и в релизной сборке прошивки. Между тем …
Интенсивное противостояние протестующих в Гонконге происходить не только на улицах, но и в Интернете. Крупнейшая кибератака в истории была в последние несколько месяцев проведена против независимых медиа-сайтов в Гонконге, увеличивая интенсивность каждый раз, когда демократические активисты объявляли о новой активности. …
Компания Google запускает в понедельник интерактивную игру на самом большом цифровом билборде в Северной Америке. Игра на огромном экране на Таймс-сквер в Нью-Йорке будет доступна всем проходящим мимо пользователям Android. Об этом сообщает издание Mashable. …
Южнокорейская компания Samsung рассматривает масштабные перестановки в руководстве, пишет The Wall Street Journal со ссылкой на источники. Утверждается, что по одному из сценариев Джей Кей Шин покинет пост главы мобильного подразделения Samsung и, возможно, уйдет с должности соуправляющего директора. …
Using the “less” Linux command to view the contents of files downloaded from the Internet is a dangerous operation that can lead to remote code execution, according to a security researcher. At first glance, less appears to be a harmless command that outputs a file’s content to a terminal window …
World of Warcraft is now officially ten years old, if you can believe it. If you started playing the game as a toddler, you’re now entering your teenage years, teenage players are now working twenty-somethings, and college players are settling down and getting married. Crazy, right? To celebrate, we threw …
If you feel your snazzy new Nexus 6 just isn’t performing as quickly and smoothly as it should be, Android 5.0’s default full-disk encryption could be to blame. AnandTech recently ran storage performance benchmark tests on two Nexus 6 devices: one with and one without full-disk encryption (FDE) enabled. The …
Microsoft is upping its chat game for real-time co-authoring in Office Online. Office Online users will see a dedicated chat button appear inside Microsoft PowerPoint and Word in the coming weeks. Just click that button while you’re collaboratively editing a file to start chatting with everyone working on the document. …
Кто сказал, что ювелирные мастерские с технической специализацией должны располагаться исключительно в престижных районах древних европейских столиц? Вьетнамские мастера, к примеру, вполне готовы данный факт оспорить, и уже выпускают собственные девайсы для сегмента «лакшери». …
It may be a minnow in a market of whales, but Finnish cloud service company UpCloud is hoping that improving its storage performance and adding datacenter capacity in Chicago will make customers take a look. The cloud arena has become very competitive, but there still is room for smaller companies …
Google said Friday that it will offer new Chromebook buyers a free terabyte of Google Drive storage for two years, which at present rates would be worth almost $240. On the surface, there’s really nothing more to it, other than the offer’s expiration on Jan. 1, 2015. The 1TB deal also …
The opportunity to save money, power and space is driving a multi-campus infrastructure modernization project within North Carolina Community Colleges (NCCC), a network of 58 institutions serving more than 800,000 students. So far 14 colleges throughout the state have upgraded to new servers that are more energy efficient, use less …
Members of the European Parliament are readying a motion calling for the break-up of Google, by separating its search engine functionality from other commercial services, according to news reports. A draft resolution calling for the break-up should be finalized early next week, with a vote potentially on Thursday, according to …
Microsoft приложила много усилий, чтобы привлечь разработчиков на создание новых приложений для Windows Phone, обеспечив им максимально комфортные условия для разработки. Тем не менее, Windows Phone Store по-прежнему значительно отстаёт по количеству доступных приложений от Google Play и App Store. …
Asus Chromebook Online retailer Newegg has beaten the Black Friday 2014 rush by revealing deals on brand name laptops, desktops, tablets and other products geared toward both hardcore gamers and everyday tech users. Newegg says the deals will roll out between now and Black Friday, which has really stretched into …