The administration of U.S. President Barack Obama urged the Senate to pass the USA Freedom Act, which would curb the bulk collection of telephone records by the National Security Agency in the wake of widespread concerns about potential violations of privacy. The administration has asked the Senate to pass the …
It’s no surprise when China censors a site with anti-government content, but starting last week the country has potentially cut access to scores of non-political sites with a block on U.S. content delivery network EdgeCast Networks. The “Great Firewall of China” has begun filtering out more sites and networks connected …
Microsoft’s upcoming Skype for Web service will use the new WebRTC standard so it works in all modern browsers — but not right away: Early users will have to download a plugin that’s only available on Mac and Windows. That’s something Microsoft has already done for years in its Lync …
Microsoft выпустила новую версию системы Windows Phone 8.1 Update 1 (номер сборки 4203.306). …
A new organization supported by Mozilla, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and others is working to set up a new certificate authority (CA) that will provide website owners with free SSL/TLS certificates. The new CA will be called Let’s Encrypt and is expected to become operational in the second quarter of …
The cost of rooftop solar-powered electricity will be on par with prices for common coal or oil-powered generation in just two years — and the technology to produce it will only get cheaper. The prediction, made by Deutsche Bank’s leading solar industry analyst, Vishal Shah, is part of a report …
Extreme Networks this week announced new products and technology partners for its Software Defined Architecture data center product line. Extreme’s Software Defined Architecture is designed to provide unified management, application analytics and data center orchestration for virtualized enterprise, cloud service provider and high performance computing and Big Data deployments. It …
Last week, Microsoft made huge waves when it announced that its long-proprietary .Net application framework was now available as open source, completely rocking the Redmond, Wash., giant’s cross-platform strategy and public image, all in one fell swoop. It’s the latest, and arguably the biggest shift in strategy for Microsoft as …
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of the Chief Accountant and Division of Corporation Finance today released a Staff Accounting Bulletin (SAB) to rescind portions of the interpretive guidance included in its SAB Series for what’s known as pushdown accounting. In order to reflect private sector developments in U.S. Generally …
Грядущий документальный фильм Atari: Game Over, продюсированием которого занималась Microsoft, будет распространяться абсолютно бесплатно. Доступ к нему уже на этой неделе получат все владельцы Xbox 360, Xbox One и PC. …
Крупный промышленный конгломерат Samsung работает в различных сегментах технологической отрасли. С недавних пор южнокорейская компания осваивает достаточно новую для себя нишу — процессоры приложений (Application Processor, AP). Как сообщает в понедельник The Korea Times, Samsung достигла договоренности с Apple по вопросам поставок AP-решений для следующего поколения iPhone и iPad. …
Несмотря на превосходство по чистому количеству скачанных приложений, экосистема Android значительно проигрывает iOS по объёмам доходов, генерируемых за счёт этих самых приложений. Об этом пишет MacDailyNews, ссылаясь на данные отчёта «Emerging Markets and Growth in the Global App Economy», составленного совместно аналитической компанией App Annie и ассоциацией MEF. …
В сети появились первые фотографии нового флагманского смартфона Huawei Ascend P8. …
Эксперты организации предлагают внедрить новые фундаментальные принципы для обеспечения безопасности всех видов связи. …
Симулятор козла Goat Simulator превратят в многопользовательскую фэнтезийную игру с помощью бесплатного дополнения, которое выйдет 20 ноября, сообщает портал IGN. …
Южнокорейский телекоммуникационный оператор SK Telecom объявил о запуске первой в мире коммерческой 2G/3G over LTE-технологии, что позволяет включать 2G и 3G услуги в LTE сети. Оператор ожидает, что технология повысить стабильность сервисов компании и увеличит потенциал сети и возможности работы. …
A consortium that develops guidelines for protecting payment card data is hoping that emerging security technologies will help prevent breaches that made this year one of the worst ever on the security front. “It’s been a bad year,” said Jeremy King, international director of the PCI Security Standards Council, at …
Stores, sports venues and other users of Apple’s iBeacons will have to walk a fine line between helping users and angering them with new in-app messaging from Adobe Systems’ Marketing Cloud. A beacon is small device that uses a Bluetooth Low Energy signal to send data to users and keep …
Intel will combine its PC and mobile processor divisions under one roof, reflecting a changing market in which the line between tablets and laptops has blurred. The chip maker will form a new division at the start of next year called the Client Computing Group, which will include the teams …
Nokia выпустила свой последний планшет – Nokia N1. Новинка функционирует под управлением последней версией мобильной операционной системы Android 5.0 Lollipop с фирменным пользовательским интерфейсом Nokia Z. Размер дисплея, выполненный с использованием Gorilla Glass 3, достигает 7.9 дюймов, а его разрешение 2048 на 1536 пикселей. Планшет Nokia N1 построен на базе 64-битного …
Китайский производитель Zopo поработав с флагманом ZP999, решила выпустить “урезанную” его версию. Zopo X3, именно такое имя получил преобразованный аппарат, продается всего за $299, при этом он имеет большинство спецификаций старшего брата. Первое на что стоит обратить внимание, это на то, что вместо 32 Гб он имеет 16 Гб встроенной памяти, но …
Intel will combine its PC and mobile processor divisions under one roof, reflecting a changing market in which the line between tablets and laptops has blurred. The chip maker will form a new division at the start of next year called the Client Computing Group, which will include the teams …
A consortium that develops guidelines for protecting payment card data is hoping that emerging security technologies will help prevent breaches that made this year one of the worst ever on the security front. “It’s been a bad year,” said Jeremy King, international director of the PCI Security Standards Council, at …
The fastest computers in the world It was a familiar top 10 released today by the authors of the twice-annual Top500 ranking of world supercomputers, with most entries largely unchanged from this summer’s list. Here’s a look at the 10 fastest machines in the world. #10: Mystery computer (U.S.) A …
Google is retiring its Google Wallet for Digital Goods API and is encouraging users to find other solutions. It will be retired on March 2, 2015, and Google has said there will be no replacement product. The API was intended for selling digital goods via in-browser desktop and mobile Web …
It turns out that TRUSTe, the provider of privacy certifications for online businesses, may not be so trustworthy after all. The company failed to conduct annual recertification checks for hundreds of companies holding its privacy seal, despite promising to do so, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission has charged. The FTC …