Microsoft is giving corporate BYOD programs a boost by upgrading its Office offerings for iPhone, iPad and Android to deliver more features free, increasing the likelihood that mobile workers will have better tools available to be more productive. The company announced new free versions of Office apps for non-Windows devices …
A bug, now fixed, that caused unexpected battery drain in some Android smartphones, reportedly delayed some over-the-air rollouts of a developer build of Android 5.0 (Lollipop). Google wouldn’t comment officially on reports of the bug or its fix, or on a release timeline. However, a source told Computerworld today that …
Amazon revealed a new voice-controlled speaker called Echo that works like Apple’s Siri or Microsoft’s Cortana in that it responds to user requests for information or to play music uploaded from Amazon Music and other services. The tube-like speaker/voice command system is connected via Wi-Fi and can be connected to …
Among a blizzard of announcements about Office today, Microsoft also snuck in a loose release date for the touch-centric Office it has long planned to ship for Windows. “We will deliver touch-optimized Office apps for Windows with Windows 10,” Microsoft said in one of several blog posts trumpeting changes to …
Microsoft today began taking registration requests from Android tablet users for a beta of Office for Google’s mobile operating system. The final version, which Microsoft dubs “general availability,” will be available in early 2015, Microsoft said, without naming a specific date or month. Meanwhile, the preview will be offered to …
The alleged operator of Silk Road 2.0, a website used to sell illegal drugs, computer-hacking tools and fraudulent identification documents, has been arrested and will face charges in a U.S. court. Blake Benthall, 26, was arrested Wednesday in San Francisco and will appear in court there Thursday, the U.S. Department …
On Thursday, Microsoft released a new version of Office for iOS that unifies the user experience across all devices—great and small—and opens the door to free editing and content creation, whether you have an Office 365 account or not. This new Microsoft Office for iOS suite includes Word, Excel, and …
Многие владельцы смартфонов и планшетов не готовы использовать свои мобильные устройства для осуществления платежей. Так, 48% респондентов, которые пользуются мобильным телефоном, ни разу не использовали его для оплаты товаров и услуг. Информация представлена в исследовании голландского провайдера цифровых технологий Avangate. …
Four months after Apple and IBM announced a partnership to amalgamate IBM’s big data and analytics capabilities with Apple’s iPhone and iPad, Apple launched a new support offering that taps both companies’ expertise to assist enterprises. AppleCare for Enterprise, as the new support tier is called, was painted with broad …
Pooja Sankar, founder of Piazza, an online social learning platform, remembers vividly the feelings of isolation and exclusion she faced as a female computer science student. While growing up in India, Sankar attended an all-girls high school, but when she got to college, was one of only three girls, among …
Cisco Systems released patches for its small business RV Series routers and firewalls to address vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to execute arbitrary commands and overwrite files on the vulnerable devices. The affected products are Cisco RV120W Wireless-N VPN Firewall, Cisco RV180 VPN Router, Cisco RV180W Wireless-N Multifunction VPN Router, …
Juniper Networks this week introduced a virtualized version of its MX Series 3D edge router to fulfill carrier requirements for Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). The Juniper vMX 3D Universal Edge Router operates as software on x86 servers. It is designed to let service providers and enterprises rapidly deliver services ahead …
There’s a strange, misanthropic common thread running through stories in the news about Ebola quarantines, the rush of enterprises to the public cloud and the increasingly common but shockingly still non-fatal fad of taking selfies with wild bears. There’s almost no overlap in the substance of the stories, but all …
China may be the biggest smartphone market in the world, but according to Lenovo, the boom days are over. “But now the China market is not hyper-growing any longer,” said Lenovo’s CEO Yang Yuanqing on Thursday. “It has been saturated. If you want to win you have to find new …
With a new low-power processor and a sleek convertible design that delivers five different computing modes, Lenovo’s Yoga 3 Pro is a hybrid Windows tablet/laptop with an enviable combination of size, weight, battery life and one of the best screens this side of a desktop computer. But is it worth …
Chipmaker Qualcomm is facing regulatory investigations in the U.S. and Europe in addition to an ongoing anti-monopoly probe in China. The company is struggling to collect royalties from its patent licensees in China, which accounts for half of its revenue. It hasn’t helped that Chinas National Development and Reform Commission …
Researchers at Palo Alto Networks said they’ve discovered an impressive malware attack against Apple devices, which for now appears to be limited to users of a Chinese application store. The campaign revolves around infecting Mac OS X applications with “WireLurker,” which collects call logs, phone book contacts and other sensitive …
Компании Google и LG объявили о подписании кросс-лицензионного соглашения, затрагивающего «широкий спектр продуктов и технологий». …
Startups vying for top awards at the Web Summit in Dublin this week are developing products for widely different markets, highlighting the growing use and reliance on cloud services and mobile devices on the part of developers and users alike. British company BaseStone and its collaboration tool for the construction …
The type of company you work for may have a lot to do with whether you’re hired as a full-time employee or a contract or contingent worker. Large, end-user companies, those with IT operating budgets of at least $20 million, are cutting back on contract workers after years of expanding …
Китайская компания Xiaomi, ставшая по итогам третьего квартала 2014 года третьим по величине производителем смартфонов в мире, развивает не только «телефонное» направление. Важным направлением для расширения собственного бизнеса в компании считают также создание и развитие экосистемы умных телевизоров. …
Typically, when I review a solid-state drive (SSD) it comes from one of the half dozen or so big name manufacturers, such as Toshiba, SanDisk, Intel, Micron, Samsung and Seagate. But recently, I received a marketing pitch from Angelbird, which refers to itself as “Austria’s Premium SSD Manufacturer,” so I …
Microsoft today said it will issue 16 security updates on Tuesday, the most in more than three years, to patch Internet Explorer (IE), Windows, Office, Exchange Server and SharePoint Server. The 16 “bulletins,” as Microsoft calls its updates, listed in today’s advance notice were nearly double the previous 2014 record …
В очередной раз компания из Купертино заняла лидирующую позицию в рейтинге самых дорогих брендов мира по версии Forbes. В этом году стоимость бренда составила 124,2 миллиарда долларов (по сравнению с прошлым годом этот показатель вырос на целых 19%!). …
Can one little pill save your life? Google is betting on it, or at least willing to sink a lot of money chasing the idea as Andrew Conrad, head of the Life Sciences team at the Google X research lab, revealed recently at The Wall Street Journal’s WSJD Live conference. …
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 …