Hewlett-Packard wants to make BYOD easier for small businesses through a new cloud-based service to manage and protect mobile devices and PCs. The company’s Web-based Touchpoint Manager service, launched Monday, can remotely check the health of smartphones, tablets, laptops and desktops. It can also issue alerts and remotely lock or …
Apple is at last offering a simple way for former iPhone users to receive text messages sent into limbo by the company’s iMessage service. The problem affects former iPhone users who transferred their SIM card or phone number to a non-Apple phone. If they had set up their iPhone to …
U.S. President Barack Obama has made his strongest statement on net neutrality to date, calling on the Federal Communications Commission to reclassify broadband as a regulated utility, and to prohibit broadband providers from charging Web content producers for paid traffic prioritization. Obama on Monday called on the FCC to reclassify …
BrowserStack is a cross-browser testing tool that allows its 25,000 customers to test their websites on over 700 different web browsers across various desktop operating systems and mobile platforms. It claims to have some big guns like Microsoft, GitHub, eBay, Adobe, MIT, VISA, and Wikipedia as customers. BrowserStack The fact …
For the past four years a group of sophisticated hackers has compromised the networks of luxury hotels to launch malware attacks against corporate executives and entrepreneurs traveling on business in the Asia-Pacific region. The cyberespionage group, which researchers from Kaspersky Lab dubbed Darkhotel, operates by injecting malicious code into the …
A new version of LibreOffice’s Calc program has broken many spreadsheets, users say, and a perceived unwillingness by developers to address the problem has sparked an ill-tempered argument. The problem has to do with a new method of sorting reference cells that diverges from the method used in both previous …
Certificate authority DigiCert is considering issuing SSL certificates to more Tor .onion address owners after recently providing Facebook with one. However, SSL certificates for pseudo-top-level domains like .onion that don’t actually exist on the Internet are in the process of being phased out and the Tor Project has not yet …
For the past four years a group of sophisticated hackers has compromised the networks of luxury hotels to launch malware attacks against corporate executives and entrepreneurs traveling on business in the Asia-Pacific region. The cyberespionage group, which researchers from Kaspersky Lab dubbed Darkhotel, operates by injecting malicious code into the …
AT&T will pay US$2.5 billion to acquire Mexican wireless company lusacell, in a major push to expand its coverage and improve mobile Internet service for those living south of the U.S. border. The acquisition, announced Friday, includes lusacell’s network assets, licenses, retail stores, and its 8.6 million subscribers. AT&T expects …
Little is known about how U.S. and European law enforcement shut down more than 400 websites, including Silk Road 2.0, which used technology that hides their true IP addresses. The websites were set up using a special feature of the Tor network, which is designed to mask people’s Internet use …
Сегодня в Китае Oppo анонсировал смартфон, получивший необычное для компании название Oppo 1105. С виду аппарат чрезвычайно схож с нынешним флагманом Oppo Find 7, в частности, благодаря аналогичному расположению комплектующих на корпусе. Смартфон Oppo 1105 поставляется с предустановленным пользовательским интерфейсом Color OS 2.0, которая основана на версии операционной системы Android 4.4 KitKat. Аппарат …
Apple continues to grow in the mobile enterprise, according to Good Technology, even while iPhone 6 series devices are on track to grab big gains from Android in the US. 69 Good Technology this morning released the latest iteration of its Mobility Index Report, in which it found iOS holds …
Finding fake goods could become a question of simply taking close-up photos with a smartphone, according to a new NEC technology. The electronics maker has developed an authentication system that compares images snapped with a phone with those in a cloud-based database. Images of the authentic product from the manufacturer …
Китайская компания Gionee анонсировала выпуск смартфона Marathon M3 с аккумуляторной батареей емкость которой достигает 5000 mAh. Такая батарея позволяет заявить о продолжительности работы в режиме телефонного разговора в 51 час, а в режиме ожидания 32,8 суток. Естественно, за звание чемпиона в конкурсе тонких аппаратов этот смартфон бороться не будет, обладая корпусом толщиной 10.4 …
Graphics is not a major consideration in wearables, but Imagination hopes to change that as part of a plan to put its new PowerVR graphics technology in a wide range of computing devices. Imagination’s PowerVR Series7XE and Series7XT graphics processors are targeted at wearables, mobile devices, gaming consoles, PCs and …
MazeNL77 (FindIcons.com), CC-BY-3.0 Windows 8 is quite possibly the worst desktop operating system that Microsoft ever released. Since Windows 8 is going up against such all-time flop-a-doodles as Vista and Windows ME, that’s saying something. And it’s not just me saying that. The marketplace agrees. Look at NetMarketShare’s October 2014 …
Windows PC makers slashed prices to historically low levels in the U.S. during the last three weeks of October, damaging the consumer business just as Microsoft tries to push Windows 10 as its salvation, a retail analyst said last week. “The implications of a much more price aggressive PC market …
Martin Slominis had a problem familiar to lots of IT executives: His staff didn’t have the capacity to fulfill all the demands users put on his department. Cloud adoption does continue to be stymied by security concerns, highly customized software and the complexity of systems, he says, but companies see …
Even though the term “phablet” draws a lot of snarky remarks, some workplace executives have lately come to appreciate large-screen smartphones. And at least one who should know even believes that smartphones with a display that’s 5.5-in. or larger (like the new iPhone 6 Plus or the Galaxy Note 4) …
iMessage — Apple’s answer to the text message — normally isn’t a cause of concern for most iPhone users. But it’s got ex-users of the iPhone in a tiff, sharing complaints and tales of woe: Texts irreplaceably lost, routed by iMessage to a divide-by-zero netherworld of “message not received.” Sobering stuff …
Like its National Park namesake, Apple’s newest operating system can be imposing, perhaps even a little daunting to newcomers. And although you won’t find any bears in the digital version of Yosemite, that doesn’t mean it’s danger free. After all, online security is rarely a walk in the park—and these …
It’s late in the day at the help desk for a big government agency, and this pilot fish is the last one still on the job when he gets a call from a user. User: “I would like to log into the system.” Fish: What system is it? User: “You …
У пользователей РФ социальной сети “ВКонтакте” появилась возможность управлять деньгами не покидая своей страницы. В сети появилась услуга “Сбербанк Онлайн“. Чтобы получить доступ к транзакциям, нужно вступить в группу “Сбербанк: банк друзей” и запустить приложение, а затем зарегистрироваться. – “Это позволит переводить деньги с карты на карту Сбербанка по номеру телефона, платить за …
В мире мобильных устройств свои законы и тенденции. Кто-то их задает, другие им следуют. Стоит выявить закономерности этого процесса и проанализировать, чего поклонникам современных девайсов следует ожидать в следующем году. …
Компания Blizzard Entertainment анонсировала новую игру под названием Overwatch. Проект будет представлять собой многопользовательский командный шутер. Анонс состоялся в рамках фестиваля BlizzCon 2014, который стартовал 7 ноября в Анахайме. На мероприятии показали CG-ролик, а также первый трейлер, в котором демонстрируется игровой процесс Overwatch. …
Разработчики ролевого экшена Lords of the Fallen анонсировали первое дополнение для игры, Ancient Labyrinth. Об этом сообщил портал IGN. Оно поступит в продажу до конца 2014 года. …