Бюро патентов и торговых марок США выдало Apple патент на технологию интеграции гибких дисплейных панелей в смартфоны, планшеты, плееры и «умные» часы. Документ предусматривает использование в мобильных устройствах дисплеев с тактильной обратной связью. …
About a year ago, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos made a bold publicity move – he sat down for a 60 Minutes interview and showed off the company’s planned use of drones for same-day delivery to its customers. Those familiar with the reluctance surrounding drones in the U.S. knew that Bezos …
A former Apple engineer on Friday told a federal jury that he worked on a project meant to deny rivals access to the lucrative iTunes digital music and iPod device markets, according to the Wall Street Journal. Previously, the engineer, Rod Schultz, had characterized Apple’s frequent updates of iTunes as …
Южнокорейский гигант Samsung привезёт на выставку CES 2015 бытовую электронику на операционной системе Tizen, выход которой на мобильный рынок постоянно откладывается. …
Ресурс NokiaPowerUser, ссылаясь на собственные достоверные источники, сообщает, что новые флагманы на базе мобильной операционной системы Windows Phone будут представлены не раньше релиза Windows 10, который намечен на осень следующего года. …
A successful iPhone 6 launch in the U.S. helped Apple increase its share of the smartphone market in the third quarter, but nemesis Samsung Electronics struggled, with upstart Chinese manufacturers nipping at its heels and growing ever stronger. Thanks to record sales in emerging markets and the popularity of Apple’s …
Тим Бернерс-Ли, по праву считающийся отцом Всемирной паутины, выступая на конференции Le Web в Париже, выразил мнение о том, что Интернет должен наконец-то начать рассматриваться как одно из ключевых и неотъемлемых прав каждого человека. Бернерс-Ли считает, что каждый человек на планете должен иметь возможность беспрепятственного со стороны государства и более …
There’s a new ride-sharing app in town that actually lives up to its name. People in the U.S. can now download Carpooling, a mobile app that connects car owners going on trips with passengers looking for a ride. The free app, available in the Apple and Google Play stores, lets …
Hotel reservation site Booking.com has offered to settle antitrust cases brought against it in Sweden, France and Italy, and on Monday antitrust authorities invited hotels to give their views on the settlement. Antitrust authorities in those countries targeted Booking.com because its contracts oblige hotels to offer it the same or …
While the technological world increasingly renders geography meaningless, no one appears to have informed lawmakers of this fact. Data can move easily and seamlessly from Uruguay to Spain to the United States, but in doing so, three separate data privacy and protection regimes are implicated. As more companies, individuals and …
The new Google Nexus 9 and Amazon Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 (2014) are both quality high-end tablet options, but the Nexus outshines the Kindle in a number of notable ways. (cio.com) To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here …
When Apple CEO Tim Cook unveiled the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus in September, amid the “oohs” and “ahs,” some of us were thinking, “Wow, these stretched iPhones look a lot like Samsung’s Galaxy devices.” So it’s ironic that the two companies just resumed a years-long war over Samsung’s supposed …
Китайская компания Huawei готовится анонсировать свой новый смартфон уже завтра. этим смартфоном будет Huawei Honor 6 Plus, фото которого можно увидеть ниже. Huawei Honor 6 Plus обладает 5.5-дюймовым Full HD дисплеем с разрешением 1920 на 1080 точек и построен на базе 8-ядерного процессора HiSilicon Kirin 930 с графическим чипом Mali T628 и …
Ride-sharing service UberPop will be banned in France from Jan. 1, a government official said Monday, as Paris taxi drivers blocked traffic around the capital in protest at a court decision Friday not to impose an emergency ban on the service. French taxi drivers are protesting that services such as …
It seemed that no matter where I was this year the topic of computer security reared its ugly head. Whether consulting with business executives, sitting on a plane next to a deep security expert, watching a news story about the Chinese government’s concerns about U.S. hardware and software products thanks …
A lot of security processes failed during the breach of Target’s systems during last year’s holiday season, but one surprising revelation was that the retailer actually did receive security alerts about the malware in its system. Yet because the security team was bombarded with alerts — estimated at hundreds per …
Ride-sharing service UberPop will be banned in France from Jan. 1, a government official said Monday, as Paris taxi drivers blocked traffic around the capital in protest at a court decision Friday not to impose an emergency ban on the service. French taxi drivers are protesting that services such as …
Google, fresh on the heels of shuttering its doors in Russia, announced it will shortly do the same to its Google News service in Spain. Why? Bloggers (try) to explain a recent law passed in Spain that chased Google away. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers bookmark Spanish web pages. Filling in …
Software vendor has a contractual requirement to deliver a product design to this pilot fish’s company by a set date — and the vendor delivers right on schedule. “Fast forward three months,” says fish. “My teammate has asked the vendor for test results on one of the product’s subsystems. “While …
Samsung Electronics has begun production of the A9 processor, the next generation ARM-based CPU for Apple’s iPhone and iPad, according to the Korean IT Times. This processor uses 14nm FinFET manufacturing, a cutting-edge design for semiconductors that many other manufacturers, including AMD, IBM and TSMC, are adopting. It uses a …
Microsoft plans to release as open source the framework that helps developers of cloud services like those behind the popular Halo 4 game. Building cloud services for millions of users means connecting and coordinating thousands of servers, and handling tasks and information across all of them. Project Orleans is a …
A further dump of Sony Pictures corporate secrets appears to have been put on the Internet over the weekend, with hackers warning of more to come. A message pointing to 5 gigabytes of data was posted to the Pastebin website and signed by GOP. Thats presumably the same “Guardians of …
В конце ноября в базе данных TENAA появился смартфон Huawei Honor 6 Plus, оснащённый двумя основными камерами. Как стало известно, две камеры будут использоваться для возможности изменения точки фокусировки уже после получения снимка. …
Xiaomi Mi4 при характеристиках довольно высокого уровня стоит почти вдвое дешевле, чем подобные ему телефоны. У Xiaomi есть свой магазин приложений. …
Jeopardy — это телевикторина, которую показывают на американском телевидении. Как и в любой другой викторине, в ней есть вопросы и участникам предложено на них ответить. Именно это шоу смотрел пользователь Reddit под ником Professa91, когда обнаружил весьма необычные способности ассистента Google Now. …
В игре Mortal Kombat X могут появиться самые настоящие зомби. Как стало известно Gamebomb.ru, рассказывая о сюжетной линии игры разработчики поделились новыми подробностями. …