A one-year extension to a U.S moratorium on Internet access taxes was buried in a US$1.1 trillion government spending bill passed by the Senate on Saturday. The Internet Tax Freedom Act, which also prohibits states from enacting Internet-specific taxes like email or bandwidth taxes, passed the House of Representatives in …
Even though systems such as Hadoop and Spark can grapple with large amounts of data, their tools for analyzing and parsing this information efficiently and in real-time are still limited. A two-year old Seattle startup called SpaceCurve will release on Tuesday a new database system aimed to speed the process …
A one-year extension to a U.S moratorium on Internet access taxes was buried in a $1.1 trillion government spending bill passed by the Senate on Saturday. The Internet Tax Freedom Act, which also prohibits states from enacting Internet-specific taxes like email or bandwidth taxes, passed the House of Representatives in …
Китайская компания Pipo представила телевизионную приставку X7, которая по ряду параметров выделяется из общей массы доступных на рынке устройств данного типа. …
The U.S. Department of Justice should back off its request for Microsoft to turn over a suspect’s digital documents stored on a server in Ireland, or be prepared for other governments demanding documents stored on U.S. servers, the company’s general counsel said. The DOJ’s ongoing search warrant for email and …
Совсем недавно студия From Software рассказывала об уникальных подземельях, случайно генерируемых для каждого пользователя в ожидаемой ролевой игре Bloodborne. На этом разработчики останавливаться не стали и продолжили делиться новыми подробностями. На сей раз настала очередь коллекционных изданий, которых оказалось сразу два. …
Apple and IBM last week kicked off their five-month-old partnership with an “impressive” 10-pack of focused mobile business apps catering to sectors ranging from financial to law enforcement. “The three that I’ve seen were pretty impressive,” said Van Baker, an analyst at Gartner. “They’re very complex, with some drawing from …
The U.S. Department of Justice should back off its request for Microsoft to turn over a suspect’s digital documents stored on a server in Ireland, or be prepared for other governments demanding documents stored on U.S. servers, the company’s general counsel said. The DOJ’s ongoing search warrant for email and …
На прошлой неделе, вслед за мобильными устройствами, обновление Android 5.0.1 Lollipop начали получать устройства на базе Android Wear. К сожалению, изначально Google не объявила точные сроки старта обновления для конкретных моделей, поэтому владельцы с нетерпением проверяли доступность обновления вручную. …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a New Orleans-based oil-and-gas company and five executives with running a stock trading scheme in which they claimed to have struck oil in Belize in order to manipulate the price of the company’s stock as they illegally sold restricted shares to the public. …
Традиционной игровой платформой на сегодняшний день признана консоль, хотя споры между геймерами по этому поводу не утихают. Кто-то уверяет, что ПК предоставляет не меньшие возможности для виртуальных баталий, кто-то не признает хоть сколько-нибудь значимый вес компьютеров на игровом поприще. …
BT Group has entered exclusive talks to buy U.K. mobile operator EE for 12.5 billion pounds (US$19.5 billion), a deal that would help the carrier offer bundles of mobile and fixed services. The talks don’t guarantee a deal will be reached, BT said in a press release on Monday. But …
Программа Google Maps стала одним из самых любимых приложений для многих путешественников, поскольку имеет весьма удобный навигатор, управляемый голосом. На днях приложение Google Maps получило новое дополнение – голосовой навигатор по некоторым междугородним и международным европейским трассам в таких странах как Германия, Франция, Италия, Испания, Великобритания и Ирландия. …
An international survey of Internet users has found that more than 39% have taken steps to protect their online privacy and security as a result of spying revelations by one-time NSA employee Edward Snowden. The survey, conducted by the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), found that 43% of Internet …
An ICANN spokesman dismissed accusations that the recent growth in the number of generic top-level domains has caused data breaches, on Thursday. There are now more than 700 top-level domains such as .meme, .guru and .blog. The number of TLDs has exploded only recently — between 1985 and 2012, the …
Microsoft didn’t seem bothered about another leak of Windows 10. “How could we be upset about lots of people wanting to try our new stuff?” tweeted Gabe Aul, the engineering general manager for Microsoft’s operating system group in a reply to a comment applauding his company’s “refreshing” attitude about leaks. …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a Billerica, Mass.-based global manufacturer of scientific instruments with violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) by providing non-business related travel and improper payments to various Chinese government officials in an effort to win business. An SEC investigation found that Bruker Corporation lacked …
The makers of a new non-volatile RAM said the memory is ready to move from a prototype to a fabrication facility, where 1TB chips the size of a postage stamp will be produced and tested. Silicon Valley start-up Crossbar expects some of its 3D Restive RAM (3D RRAM) products to …
В 2015 году компания Motorola намерена стать третьим по величине производителем мобильной техники в Индии. Чтобы достичь поставленной цели, производитель выпустит на местном рынке ряд бюджетных смартфонов с поддержкой 4G. …
Apple’s in the dock, accused of using copyright protection to lock music fans into iTunes, even though the music labels demanded such protection in the first place. Harmony A court case claims Apple wanted to stop third-party devices, services and software from accessing and using iTunes’ DRM system, FairPlay. To …
В рамках проекта UX Launchpad дизайнеры из Вашингтона провели подробное сравнение пользовательских интерфейсов Apple Maps и Google Maps. Эксперты изучили все аспекты дизайна картографических приложений, оценив дизайнерские принципы, на которых основаны программные решения Apple и Google. …
Android apps really do use those permissions they ask for to access users’ personal information: one online store records a phone’s location up to 10 times a minute, French researchers have found. The tools to manage such access are limited, and inadequate given how much information phones can gather. In …
Сотрудничество между Ford и Microsoft в сфере разработки и выпуска автомобильных информационно-развлекательных систем SYNC, начавшееся в 2007 году, подошло к концу вместе с анонсом SYNC третьего поколения. Головные устройства построены уже на другой программной платформе, полностью совместимой с устройствами на iOS и Android. …
Android apps really do use those permissions they ask for to access users’ personal information: one online store records a phone’s location up to 10 times a minute, French researchers have found. The tools to manage such access are limited, and inadequate given how much information phones can gather. In …
The Chromecast dominates streaming media Google’s Chromecast has been out for more than a year, but it shows no signs of losing its dominance in the streaming media market. It’s currently number one on Amazon’s electronics bestseller list, beating out other streaming media sticks such as the Roku and Amazon’s …
Ни для кого не секрет, что следующий год по праву принадлежит мобильным флагманам на базе новейшего чипа Qualcomm Snapdragon 810. Комбинация из восьми 64-битных ядер ARM Cortex-A57 и Cortex-A53 обеспечивает улучшенное качество взаимодействия с пользователем благодаря расширенному набору технологических возможностей. …