In the fractious debate over net neutrality, efforts to strike a compromise don’t seem to be working. A proposal reportedly favored by a top U.S. regulator is drawing fire from groups on both sides of the issue, with 70 pro-net neutrality groups speaking up against the plan Friday. Following a …
Codacy, TestCloud and Usetrace are taking different approaches to code and app testing, but all three aim to make it easier for developers to get high-quality apps out the door. The increasing popularity of development processes such as Agile have opened the door for a new generation of test tools, …
Xamarin has launched a new program designed to get its popular mobile app building platform into the hands of America’s students, because children are our future or something like that. Xamarin’s platform theoretically makes it fly-simple to write an app once in C# and quickly and easily adapt it for …
Attackers have used rogue applications for both OS X and Windows to infect iPhones and iPads in China with a malware program that steals contact information and other private data. Researchers from Palo Alto Networks recently reported that the malware, dubbed WireLurker, was being installed on both jailbroken and non-jailbroken …
Microsoft’s first Windows smartphone since it dumped the Nokia brand will arrive on Tuesday, and a teaser from the company hints that it will be a new low-end model. The teaser promises a smartphone for everyone, a typical way to position a budget device. The teaser doesn’t offer many details …
Porn, rumors, and anti-government content are all being targeted in China’s latest push to filter online public expression. At the Chinese government’s request, 29 publications and companies in the country signed a pledge on Thursday to better regulate the online comment threads found on their websites. State-controlled news groups such …
Apple could generate a billion dollars through its currently U.S.-only Apple Pay service across the next year, and is likely to generate millions of dollars on Black Friday sales alone. Big numbers That’s the best case scenario, and of course Apple is unlikely to share its actual results. The estimates …
Among all the headlines yesterday that touted Office as suddenly “free” after Microsoft announced changes to its mobile productivity apps, one thing was overlooked by many: For business, Office still costs money. “The unsung thing in all this is that this news is only about consumers,” said Wes Miller, an …
Компания Lenovo объявила результаты своей деятельности за второй квартал 2014/2015 финансового года. В период с июля по сентябрь выручка производителя ПК в мире выросла на 7%, что примерно до $10,5 млрд. При этом чистый доход увеличился на 19%, перевалив за $262 млн. По сравнению с третьим кварталом 2013 года объем отгрузок ноутбуков и десктопов выросли …
We may be witnessing the beginning of a turnaround for one of the mainstay companies of the IT industry: Microsoft. And by turnaround, I don’t mean financially. Microsoft is a prodigious revenue and profit generator. But the company has been rudderless for years. It has essentially been reactive, not an …
The latest surprise release of Outlook for Mac 15.3 is largely what you’d hope to get in an Outlook refresh: At long last, a version that looks and works almost identically to the Windows version. This is great news if you live exclusively in an Exchange environment, but you may …
Our friends at Home Depot are giving more details about the big breakin. Among the sorry story of stolen card details is the revelation that HD also leaked customers’ email addresses. Oh, brother. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers hope their spam filters are up to the task. <!– Not to mention: …
10 IBM Watson-Powered Apps That Are Changing Our World Image by Thinkstock IBM considers Watson to represent a new era of computing — a step forward to cognitive computing, where apps and systems interact with humans via natural language and help us augment our own understanding of the world with …
It’s many years back, and this newbie IT pilot fish is tasked with setting up a new top-of-the-line 386 PC — the first PC he’s ever touched. “Taking it out of the box and connecting almost all the wires was easy enough,” says fish. “All that was left was connecting …
If you think your Facebook feed has a lot of video now, just wait. “In five years, most of [Facebook] will be video,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Thursday during the company’s first community town hall, in which he took questions from the public on a range of topics. He was …
Home Depot has shed more light on a recent data breach that compromised 56 million payment cards, saying hackers used login credentials belonging to another company to access its network. It also revealed that 53 million email addresses were also stolen. The stolen login credentials didn’t provide direct access to …
Apple’s erstwhile sapphire supplier, GT Advanced Technologies, acknowledged Thursday that it is being investigated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). In a filing with the SEC, GT said that the federal agency had contacted the company three weeks ago. “On October 15, 2014, [the SEC] sent a letter …
Полиция штата Вашингтон арестовала Дэвида Калака по подозрению в убийстве своей подруги Линн Коплин, после того как он выложил фотографию трупа женщины на анонимном веб-форуме 4chan, сообщает «Би-би-си». …
Норвегия поможет Нацкомфинуслуг модернизировать IT-систему в 2015 г. Об этом «Капиталу» сообщил и. о. председателя комиссии Максим Поляков. …
Гид по компьютерным играм, которые понравятся тем, кто давно завязал …
There’s a scary new piece of malware that collects call logs, phonebook contacts and other sensitive information from Apple iPhones and iPads. Should you be worried? The malware was first discovered by researchers at Palo Alto Networks who dubbed it WireLurker and said it exhibited behavior that had never been …
A proposed Internet sales tax that could see new life in Congress in coming weeks would cost U.S. online shoppers $24 billion in its first year, according to a study from an anti-tax group. Supporters of the Marketplace Fairness Act, passed by the Senate in May 2013, could push the …
Для затруднения анализа вирус хеширует названия использующихся функций, а также игнорирует некоторые системные процессы. …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged an attorney in Orange County, Calif., and two men in Massachusetts behind a pump-and-dump scheme that defrauded investors in a Boston-based ticket brokering business. The SEC alleges that Richard Weed, a partner in a Newport Beach law practice, facilitated a scheme to pump …
Watch out, Docker! You’re no longer the only container-based virtualization technology on the block — spurred by the sudden success of Docker, platform services provider Joyent and Linux distributor Canonical have each open-sourced their container technologies. Joyent’s collection of container technologies could be used as the basis for running large-scale, …
A security researcher has developed a tool to demonstrate how the unauthenticated data packets in the 802.11 wireless LAN protocol can be used as a covert channel to control malware on an infected computer. The protocol relies on clients and access points exchanging informational data packets before they authenticate or …