The line between smartphones and tablets is officially gone. It’s been blurring for a while now, but with the size of phone screens pushing up to 6 in. and tablet displays dipping as low as 7 in., I think it’s safe to say that the way we categorize a device …
By mid-2015, you may be able to use an app to find out what exercises to do, what to eat and what medical tests to ask your doctor for… all based on your medical history and your genetic makeup. San Diego-based Pathway Genomics Corp., a company focused on genetic testing, …
Xiaomi подготовила смартфон с 6-ядерным процессором …
Why did Microsoft make Office free for Android users? Microsoft’s Office suite has been in the headlines a lot lately, with many people surprised that the company has decided to make it free for Android (and iOS) users. Office has always been one of the crown jewels in Microsoft’s software …
Hard drive software that IT administrators use to monitor drive health is highly inconsistent from drive to drive and manufacturer to manufacturer, according to data collected from nearly 40,000 spindles. The data, released today from cloud service provider Backblaze, also indicated which five of the 70 metrics that SMART stats …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced charges against two India-based operators of an alleged high-yield investment scheme seeking to exploit investors through pervasive social media pitches on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. The SEC’s Enforcement Division alleges that Pankaj Srivastava and Nataraj Kavuri offered “guaranteed” daily profits as they anonymously …
U.S. retailers will mark down Apple’s iPad with steep discounts this Black Friday, according to store circulars and a retail analyst. Best Buy, which published deals for Black Friday — the day after the Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S. — on Tuesday, will discount all models of the just-released iPad …
Европейская версия HTC One (M8) начала получать системное обновление 3.28.401.9, сообщают владельцы устройства. Судя по описанию, оно лишь вносит небольшие улучшения в режим работы смартфона в роли роутера Wi-Fi. …
Adobe Systems released critical security updates Tuesday for Flash Player to address 18 vulnerabilities, many of which can be remotely exploited to compromise underlying systems. Fifteen of the patched vulnerabilities can result in arbitrary code execution, one can be exploited to disclose session tokens and two allow attackers to escalate …
Tidemark is adding predictive analytics functions to its cloud-based financial planning and analysis software to help companies include unstructured big data sources, like social media messages and sensor information, into forecasting and budgeting decisions. The update allows users to incorporate data from 40 sources including Twitter, Thomson Reuters, the U.S. …
Оборудование было повреждено в результате боевых действий …
This is a massive update for Microsoft Patch Tuesday with 16 patches released for November 2014. Generally, November is a quiet month, with an average five or six security updates over the past 10 years. We have seen a general increase in the number of patches overall, but nothing like …
Tidemark is adding predictive analytics functions to its cloud-based financial planning and analysis software to help companies include unstructured big data sources, like social media messages and sensor information, into forecasting and budgeting decisions. The update allows users to incorporate data from 40 sources including Twitter, Thomson Reuters, the U.S. …
To get up to speed with the Google antitrust investigation, the European Union’s new antitrust commissioner wants to talk to parties that are directly affected by the case. Margrethe Vestager said she had been following the investigations into Google’s search practices closely before she was nominated as Commissioner, but said …
Как мы знаем, компания Samsung начала осваивать новый для себя рынок устройств виртуальной реальности. На выставке IFA 2014 корейский производитель представил очки Gear VR, которые выступают в связке с новым фаблетом Galaxy Note 4. …
Not every new online marketplace would dare to go with a tagline of “you’re going to hate it,” but then again there are not too many digital marketplaces setup for blackmail and for psychopaths willing to anonymously sell out their peers in exchange for bitcoin. That’s not the entire purpose …
The race to upgrade smartphones to Android 5.0 (also known as Lollipop) is on, with LG Electronics and Motorola vying with Google’s Nexus devices for bragging rights. Motorola Mobility posted upgrade details and instructions for second-generation models of the Moto G and Moto X, and on Wednesday at least some …
Китайские Xiaomi и Leadcore создают совместное предприятие по разработке однокристальных платформ с поддержкой связи стандарта 4G, сообщает DigiTimes со ссылкой на тайваньских поставщиков. …
Groupon loses war with the open source community over GNOME trademark Yesterday I covered Groupon’s attempt to seize the GNOME trademark for a tablet product. Well it didn’t take long for the folks at Groupon to realize that they had made a dreadful mistake in taking on the open source …
When I heard about Amazon’s new $199 Echo device for the home, my initial worry was was how noisy my house can be, especially when my dog is barking. Echo has microphones and speakers and hopes to revolutionize the way digital, voice-controlled assistants help us in many ways. You activate …
Программа, предназначенная для раннего предупреждения киберпреступности, обойдется государству в €300 миллионов. …
В настоящее время существует ряд сервисов шифрования данных при сетевом общении, однако часть из них сложна для неподготовленного пользователя, и многие не работают с популярными социальными сетями. …
Microsoft анонсировала «Skype для бизнеса» (Skype for Business) — новый продукт корпоративного уровня для общения внутри компаний и с внешними собеседниками. Появится он в первой половине 2015 года как обновление популярного в определенной среде сервиса Lync, который и заменит полностью. …
Список, состоящий из 12 пунктов, призван проинформировать компании и простых пользователей о потенциальных угрозах, с которыми они могут столкнуться во время праздничного сезона. …
На сегодняшний день на каждого интернет-пользователя нашей страны в среднем приходится одно устройство с доступом во всемирную паутину, тогда как еще в прошлом году этот показатель составлял всего 0.7 устройства на душу взрослого населения Украины. Однако украинцы оказались одной из наименее тесно связанной с интернетом наций: такое же среднее количество …
Samsung Electronics has accused Nvidia of infringing its patents in a response to a September action by Nvidia that accused the South Korean company and Qualcomm of infringing patents related to its GPU technology. The complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Alexandria division, accuses …