The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced its first enforcement action against a company for using improperly restrictive language in confidentiality agreements with the potential to stifle the whistleblowing process. The SEC charged Houston-based global technology and engineering firm KBR Inc. with violating whistleblower protection Rule 21F-17 enacted under the …
На своем официальном YouTube-канале «мелкософты» опубликовали два сюжетных трейлера к научно-фантастическому шутеру Halo 5: Guardians, а также назвали точную дату релиза игры. …
In early March I reviewed the AWS Mobile SDK, Google Firebase and Microsoft Azure Mobile Services, the mobile back-end service offerings of the three major public clouds. The Microsoft option was a pleasant surprise. I was struck by Microsoft’s thoughtful implementation of mobile services and the respect with which the …
Недавно в сети появилась информация о том, что новая операционная система Windows 10 будет поддерживать стабилизацию видео. Эта функция может оказаться весьма полезной, особенно учитывая тот факт, что сейчас лишь несколько топовых моделей на Windows Phone имеют систему оптической стабилизации изображения. …
For the next version of its Visual Studio, Microsoft has consolidated the enterprise versions of the integrated development environment (IDE) software into a single product so it can be more easily managed by large organizations. “What we’ve been hearing from our customers is that they want to standardize on one …
Сегодня во всём мире празднуется День смеха, и все вокруг подшучивают друг над другом. IT-компании не являются исключением, поэтому в этот день нужно с подозрением и юмором относиться ко всем анонсам и заявлениям. …
В интернете, на ресурсе GFXBench, засветились результаты тестирования смартфона с модельным номером E6533 и похоже, что это Sony Xperia Z4. Ожидалось, что Sony Xperia Z4 получит дисплей с разрешением Quad HD, но в результатах теста, устройство имеет разрешение дисплея в 1920 на 1080 точек. Среди прочих характеристик Sony Xperia Z4 засветился 1.9-Гигагерцовый процессор с …
One hundred years ago this month, Congress established the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), launching the nation into a time of advancing aeronautics and eventually space exploration. A century after the creation of NAC, which later expanded to become NASA, that initial effort has brought advances in not only …
Полностью переработанный пользовательский интерфейс TouchWiz и возможность выбора тем стали важными нововведениями в Galaxy S6 и Galaxy S6 Edge. …
Monitoring or capturing Wi-Fi traffic on Android smartphones and tablets is possible. I’m not just talking about Wi-Fi stumblers or traffic usage apps, but full network sniffers that can capture and display the raw 802.11 network packets from the airwaves. Instead of having to run captures on your bulky laptop, …
Firefox 37 released The Mozilla developers have been rocketing right along with the development of Firefox. Firefox 37 is the latest version and it offers native HTML5 playback on YouTube, a new user rating system called Heartbeat and secure Bing searches. Marius Nestor reports for Softpedia: For end-users, Mozilla Firefox …
Apple откроет предварительные заказы на Apple Watch в пятницу, 10 апреля. Продажи «умных» часов начнутся Австралии, Великобритании, США, Германии, Канаде, Китае, Гонконге, Франции и Японии с 24 апреля, однако приобрести устройства первое время смогут только те, кто успел оставить предзаказ на новинку. …
Google has identified and disabled 192 Chrome browser extensions that injected rogue ads into Web pages opened by users without being upfront about it. The company will scan for similar policy violations in future. The action followed a study that the company conducted together with researchers from University of California …
Китайский производитель мобильных устройств Blackview, выявил желание выпустить смартфон, стоимость которого будет ниже 100 американских доллара. И выпустил! Новинка получила название Blackview Breeze, а внешний вид очень напоминает уже известный аппарат – mini OPPO. Китайские смартфоны за последние годы показали отличные результаты в качестве сборки и выпускаемых комплектующих, что составляет конкуренцию известным популярным брендам …
If you were forced to wear a GPS ankle monitor at all times so your location would be known, that would be a Fourth Amendment search according to the U.S. Supreme Court which ruled on Torrey Dale Grady v. North Carolina (pdf). A GPS ankle monitor was installed on twice-convicted …
I can’t believe Apple is doing this. It seems incredible the company is achieving all of this right under the noses of watchful competitors. Digital transformation I’m talking about Apple and IBM’s continued march into delivering best-in-class, approachable, useful solutions that use the power of big buzz technologies like big …
Amazon wants to try putting physical “buy now” buttons all over your house Because Jeff Bezos hasn’t yet figured how to wire your brain directly to Amazon’s warehouses, the company is experimenting with cluttering your home with special-purpose buttons in the name of e-commerce. Its new Dash Buttons can be …
SmartThings, the home automation company Samsung Electronics acquired last August, has delayed the launch of its new home hub and sensors to the third quarter, as it works to improve performance and stability. Even though the products have been built and are currently being tested, SmartThings felt it necessary to …
Happy April Fools’ Image by Thinkstock It seems everyone is in the April Fools’ spirit today, with pranks coming from Samsung, Virgin and, of course, pretty much every Google business unit there is. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here …
If you’re familiar with GitHub, you’re probably aware that, these days, it’s used to store and manage many things beyond just software code. Now, thanks to the efforts of one developer, it also includes a piece of living history that’s had a global impact for two hundred years: namely, the …
Desktop devices running Chrome OS haven’t exactly found much traction, but that hasn’t stopped Acer from developing an all-in-one PC built for the Google operating system. On Wednesday, Acer announced its upcoming Chromebase device, just after Google and its partners unveiled a range of new Chrome-related products slated to launch …
Google announced it has teamed up with Asus to create the Chromebit, a tiny USB powered device that can “attach to any display.” This of course really means “we’d love it if you would turn your living room TV into a Chrome OS computer.” Although the tiny-computer-on-a-stick concept isn’t new, …
Mac users of Office who have felt left out in the cold by Microsoft (because the last version, Office 2011 for Mac, was released in October 2010) now have reason to be pleased: The preview of Office 2016 for Mac attempts to bring the suite out of the dark ages …
There was a money quote from Michael Cavaretta, a data scientist at Ford Motor, in a recent article in The New York Times. The piece was about the challenges data scientists face going about their daily business. Cavaretta said: “We really need better tools so we can spend less time …
It was probably inevitable: The New York Times announced Tuesday it will produce one-sentence stories and other content on various topics for the Apple Watch, the day the device first goes on sale on April 24. The Times was also early to appear with its content on both the iPhone …
This software developer pilot fish and a teammate have been working on an overtime-request-and-approval web application for the past few months — a project that has been off and on for four years, but is finally almost ready. “We built it to spec, according to the functional specifications document that …