В течение последних нескольких месяцев Голливуд прилагал немало усилий, пытаясь заставить компанию Netflix ограничить VPN-пользователям доступ к своим сервисам. И хотя руководство интернет-сервиса выполняет требования правообладателей, исполнительный директор компании Рид Хастингс (Reed Hastings) считает, что проблему можно решить другими способами, сообщает портал TorrentFreak. …
Ted Turner, Senior Network Engineer at Intuit, discusses with Network World Editor in Chief John Dix how the company’s business is changing and how it relies on different tools to keep up. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here (Insider Story) …
В понедельник, 23 марта, на аукционе на сайте консалтинговой фирмы Hilco Streambank было выставлено все, что осталось от известной американской сети розничных магазинов по продаже электроники RadioShack. Желающие могут приобрести торговые марки и патенты компании, а также 13 миллионов адресов электронной почты и 65 миллионов имен, адресов и телефонных номеров …
Акции BlackBerry торгуются вблизи самого низкого в этом году уровня, и это притом что вскоре грядет подведение финансовых результатов работы в четвертом квартале, и они, есть мнение, окажутся самыми плачевными за девять лет — с 2006 года. …
Digital transformation is impacting the UK government, and the iPad Air 2’s being handed out to 650 MPs after the next election are just the thin end of the digital wedge. Government, like every other part of life, is subject to disruption. Digital gov The UK initiative is part of …
Coolpad, один из ведущих китайских производителей смартфонов, намерен сконцентрировать внимание на 4G-устройствах и увеличить инвестиции в исследования и разработки в данной области. Об этом в опубликованной накануне отчетной документации сообщил председатель правления и генеральный директор компании Гуо Деин (Guo Deying). …
Website password strength meters, like a spouse asked to assess your haircut or outfit, often tell you only what you want to hear. That’s the finding from researchers at Concordia University in Montreal, who examined the usefulness of those pesky and ubiquitous red-yellow-green password strength testers on websites run by …
Uber keeps crashing into laws and regulations in Europe, but it’s keeping the foot on the accelerator. Following raids in Belgium and France, Dutch authorities raided Uber’s Amsterdam office on Thursday as part of an investigation into the ride-hailing service UberPop, which a court ruled illegal in the Netherlands. The …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged nearly two dozen companies and individuals who regularly bought and sold securities on behalf of a suburban Chicago-based trading firm without registering with the SEC as a broker-dealer as required under the federal securities laws. The broker-dealer registration provisions of the securities laws …
31 марта китайскому производителю Xiaomi исполняется 5 лет. За время своего существования компания уже успела войти в число крупнейших поставщиков смартфонов, обойдя немало именитых конкурентов. …
Только вчера компания Microsoft объявила о расширении партнёрских отношений с Samsung, в рамках которых на некоторых планшетах корейского производителя будут предустановлены приложения и сервисы от гиганта из Редмонда. …
Whether it’s two, five or 10 years from now, virtual reality technology may change the way people play and communicate on social networks. Virtual reality is among the topics that Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and CEO of Facebook, is expected to talk about today, the second day of the company’s annual …
Not to be outdone by the iPhone 6 Plus, Chinese vendor ZTE has come out with its own high-end phablet, the Nubia Z9 Max—an aluminum smartphone with a feature-packed camera. The Android phone, unveiled Thursday, is slated to come to China first, but the company plans to bring it to …
Корпорация Microsoft разрабатывает недорогой планшет, работающий под управлением операционной системы Windows 8.1, сообщает WinBeta. Устройство характеризуется как «преемник Surface RT и Surface 2, но базирующийся на полноценной операционной системе», подчеркивает издание. Под полноценной ОС подразумевается система, позволяющая запускать приложения, написанные для Windows 7. …
One of every seven Windows PCs will be running Microsoft’s new Project Spartan browser within a year of the firm launching Windows 10 this summer, according to historical data from a Web metrics company. The calculations by Computerworld, based on operating system and browser user share statistics from Net Applications, …
Watch out, world: Samsung’s Galaxy is about to soar into a whole new dimension. After years of producing flagship phones that were more chintzy than sophisticated, Samsung is finally stepping up its game and going for a premium vibe with its new Galaxy S6. The Galaxy S6, set to launch …
Microsoft has increased by a factor of eight the maximum size of OS drives that can run on its Azure cloud, hoping to get enterprises to migrate more workloads. Microsoft is methodically launching new services and adding features to Azure to make the platform more competitive and a better fit …
Back in the dark ages, when the only way to get onscreen entertainment was by tuning in a television set at a specific time (get home late? miss your favorite show? too bad for you!), networks had a habit of scheduling similar shows opposite each other. The notion was presumably, …
Uber keeps crashing into laws and regulations in Europe, but it’s keeping the foot on the accelerator. Following raids in Belgium and France, Dutch authorities raided Uber’s Amsterdam office on Thursday as part of an investigation into the ride-hailing service UberPop, which a court ruled illegal in the Netherlands. The …
The European Commission plans a competition inquiry into cross-border trading by companies such as Amazon.com. The inquiry, proposed by Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager on Thursday, will focus on possible restrictions on cross-border purchases, by which companies prevent people from buying goods in other European Union countries. One of the founding …
Cisco Systems released firmware updates for several routers and switches that run its IOS and IOS XE software in order to fix flaws in their autonomic networking infrastructure (ANI) feature. ANI is an automatic device management feature that allows Cisco IOS devices to securely join a domain and be configured …
Cisco Systems released firmware updates for several routers and switches that run its IOS and IOS XE software in order to fix flaws in their autonomic networking infrastructure (ANI) feature. ANI is an automatic device management feature that allows Cisco IOS devices to securely join a domain and be configured …
The Internet of Things is mostly about achieving greater scale, but in the case of an upcoming demonstration project, it will show how electrical grids can work at a smaller scale. The testbed announced Thursday by the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) will bring together software and other components for microgrids, …
Facebook lawsuit says it stole data center design Facebook is being sued by a British engineering company that claims the social network stole its technique for building data centers and is encouraging others to do the same through the Open Compute Project. BladeRoom Group says it contacted Facebook in 2011 …
Nokia – не единственная компания из Финляндии, которая работает над выпуском планшетных компьютеров. Eve, производитель мобильных устройств, анонсировал интересную новинку – планшет под названием T1, который выполнен в 8-дюймовом форм-факторе и работает на базе Windows 8.1. За планшет придется выложить €159, при этом он имеет простой 8-дюймовый дисплей с разрешением 1280 х 800 точек и процессор Intel Bay Trail …
At Facebook’s F8 conference yesterday, founder Mark Zuckerberg was trying to convey his thoughts about Facebook Messenger: It is now the end-all-be-all of everyone’s existence. No, he really didn’t say that, but Zuck and company made it clear to attendees and the world-at-large, that Facebook no longer considers Messenger a …