Salesforce has a solid lock on the SMB space, and more forward-looking large organizations have moved to its cloud CRM, marketing and sales solutions, apparently to great success. But for every Virgin America or Burberry, there are many, many more older companies out there with siloed-off, older systems; they couldn’t get …
“This year was the year of the breach,” ISACA international president Robert Stroud told CSO Online. ISACA, a global association of risk and cybersecurity professionals, released its global IT Risk/Reward Barometer today, a survey of over 1,600 IT professionals and 4,000 consumers, in which 94 percent of Americans said they …
Facebook wants its users to take control of their own privacy. The social network today launched Privacy Basics, a page set up to offer users advice and how-to tips to make sure they have the level of privacy they want for their Facebook profiles. Facebook also is giving users an …
BlackBerry announced a renewed enterprise focus on Thursday, including a partnership with Samsung that provides secure mobile software for certain Samsung Android smartphones and tablets. The software, to be available early next year, will bring together BlackBerry’s new BES12 Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) software with Samsung smartphones and tablets that …
Microsoft plans to beef up Active Directory’s security with machine learning technology from a startup it has acquired. The security technology from Aorato will give Microsoft customers “a new level of protection against threats through better visibility into their identity infrastructure,” Takeshi Numoto, corporate vice president of Cloud and Enterprise …
LAS VEGAS – Amazon Web Services operates at huge scale – in Gartner’s latest Magic Quadrant the research firm estimated AWS’s capacity at five times larger than the company’s next 14 competitors combined. The cloud has 11 regions around the world made up of 28 availability zones, each of which …
Low battery consumption will be a key to success for IoT products, and chip makers are working on more frugal processors and microcontrollers to make that happen. Improved energy efficiency was a common theme at the Electronica conference in Munich this week, where next-generation IoT chipsets were plentiful. Energy efficiency …
Well, no one can say Facebook is hiding its privacy policies any more. The network just proposed updates to clarify the information it collects on you and how it uses that data to sell ads. Facebook also turned its privacy check-up into an animated interactive tour in a new section …
SanDisk today announced a USB flash drive with a Lightning connector that can be used with iPhones and iPads to automatically offload photos and videos with special software. The new iXpand Flash Drive is three times faster than current portable storage flash devices in its class, with up to 2.5MBps …
For the past two years AWS’s re:Invent conferences have primarily been about Amazon’s public cloud. In 2014, no doubt the focus is still on public Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). But Amazon is starting to embrace hybrid clouds now too, at least in its own way. During the first day’s …
In a landmark ruling that signals a win for the current system of Internet governance, a U.S. court has quashed an attempt to seize Iran’s, Syria’s and North Korea’s domains as part of a lawsuit against those countries’ governments. The plaintiffs in the case wanted to seize the country’s ccTLDs …
With Wednesday’s preview release of a new database service called Aurora, Amazon Web Services claims to have supercharged the open source MySQL with the high performance, reliability, and scalability characteristics typically associated with commercial database systems–at the fraction of the cost for these products. “Lots of enterprises are using MySQL, …
После полугода закрытого альфа-тестирования фитнес-браслета Simband южнокорейский гигант Samsung анонсировал второе поколение устройства, построенное на базе смарт-часов с изогнутым дисплеем Gear S. В браслет девайса встроены шесть продвинутых датчиков для мониторинга жизненных показателей организма. Благодаря открытой платформе SAMI (Samsung Architecture for Multimodal Interactions) все данные о состоянии здоровья владельца хранится в “облаке”. Помимо акселерометра список комплектующих Samsung Simband включает датчики биоимпеданса …
Ассортимент Xiaomi выпустил новое устройство, которое пополнит бюджетный сегмент. Согласно предоставленной информации, Xiaomi планирует выпустить смартфон стоимостью всего $65. В качестве «начинки» будет использоваться чипсет Leadcore LC1860, построенный на архитектуре A7. Ожидается, что будущий аппарат Xiaomi получит 1 ГБ ОЗУ и HD-экран. Пока что это вся имеющаяся информация, но мы обязательно будем держать вас …
Видеосервис YouTube анонсировал давно ожидаемый музыкальный сервис на основе платной подписки. Он получил имя YouTube Music Key и предложит потоковое вещание высококачественных аудио и видеофайлов без рекламы, возможность воспроизведения в фоновом режиме и прослушивание при отсутствии доступа в сеть. Пока неизвестно, какой объем будет доступен для воспроизведения в режиме офлайн и как долго …
Amazing stuff Image by Reuters/NASA The European Space Agency launched the Rosetta mission in 2004 and this week it completed its primary mission: Land on a comet. In its travels the spacecraft has zipped by Mars, snapped a few shots of the asteroids Steins and Lutetia, mostly hibernated for three …
Love your gloves Winter is coming: Are your gloves ready to operate your iPhone in the cold, cold weather? If not, this week’s roundup has a product just for you. Photojojo Gloves with fingertips made to interact with iOS touchscreens have been around forever, but they can’t replace your favorite, …
A 28-year-old man was sentenced to more than nine years in prison Wednesday for buying stolen credit and debit card numbers from an underground online marketplace. Cameron Harrison of Augusta, Georgia, pleaded guilty in April to participating in a racketeer-influenced corrupt organization and trafficking in false identification documents. He was …
Online service providers need to do a better job telling users what information will be gathered about them and how it will be used, a top official at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday. “It’s crucial to provide some form of notice, like in the initial set-up of a …
Microsoft’s new Clutter feature for cleaning up your inbox automatically is the latest of several tools based on machine learning that the Office team thinks are ready for prime time. In fact, it’s the latest of many machine learning tools that researchers at Microsoft have developed over the years. But …
Microsoft has added touchpad gestures, fine-tuned OneDrive syncing and revamped the feedback app in the latest build of Windows 10 Technical Preview, released Wednesday to testers on the OS’s delivery fast track. Build 9879 is the third version of Windows 10 TP and the last one for this year, so …
It’s easy to see why everybody wants to be a platform these days. Just look at Apple: By owning both the hardware and the operating system, it gets total control over what developers build on its platform — and a sizable cut of the revenues besides. In return, developers get …
Чистый доход (чистая операционная выручка) украинского оператора мобильной связи “Киевстар” в 3 квартале 2014 г. составил 3 млрд 160 млн грн, что на 6% меньше показателя за аналогичный период прошлого года (3 млрд 359 млн грн). Об этом сообщает пресс-служба компании. …
It’s hard to change direction when you’re a company the size of Microsoft. In the past 18 months however, they’ve become considerably more open and modern. Today in a not so surprise move, Microsoft announced .NET Core 5, a component of the next version of the .NET framework which allows …
Представить жизнь без мобильного телефона могут сегодня разве что дикие аборигены или откровенные бездельники. …
Правозащитник и депутат Псковского областного собрания Лев Шлосберг, одним из первых обнаруживший свежие могилы российских десантников под Псковом заявил, что страницы погибших в соцсетях продолжали вести после их смерти. …