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Неподвижный компьютерный манипулятор Flow, по словам его создателей, более удобен для человеческой руки, чем мышь и другие устройства, пишет Engadget. …
Неподвижный компьютерный манипулятор Flow, по словам его создателей, более удобен для человеческой руки, чем мышь и другие устройства, пишет Engadget. …
Apple удалось добиться улучшения качества изображения на экранах iPhone 6 и iPhone 6 Plus за счет склеивания стекла с дисплейной панелью. Об этом написал в блоге исследователь Брайан Джонс, изучивший дисплеи коммуникаторов. На последнем поколении смартфонов изображение выглядит более естественным, оно ярче и обладает более глубоким черным цветом и лучшей …
Национальная комиссия, осуществляющая государственное регулирование в сфере связи и информатизации, определила Украинский государственный центр радиочастот (УГЦР) организацией, которая будет осуществлять централизованное техническое администрирование персональных номеров и перенесенных абонентских номеров. …
Проанализировав данные производителей коммуникаторов и сотрудничающих с ними поставщиков электронных комплектующих, эксперты Digitimes Research составили рейтинг ведущих смартфонных брендов по итогам первых трех кварталов 2014 года. …
Как пишет CNBeta, китайская компания Xiaomi по какой-то причине решила разорвать все деловые отношения с тайваньским производителем процессоров MediaTek. Это означает, что в новые смартфоны и процессоры Xiaomi будут установлены чипы другой фирмы. …
Первые «умные» часы Samsung, способные совершать голосовые звонки в сотовых сетях без синхронизации со смартфоном, начали поставляться в версии, лишённой телефонной функциональности. …
Несмотря на некоторое снижение популярности, Samsung остаётся крупнейшим производителем смартфонов в мире. …
Home Depot spent US$43 million in its third quarter dealing with the fallout of one of the largest ever data breaches, highlighting the costly nature of security failures. The retailer said in a regulatory filing on Tuesday that it expects $15 million of that cost will be reimbursed by a …
Adobe released an emergency patch on Tuesday to fix a Flash Player vulnerability that was fixed last month but was quickly exploited again. The company had issued a patch for the flaw, called CVE-2104-8439, but attackers soon found a way around that fix. The latest update to Flash adds a …
Taking the first step in what NASA hopes will become a key part of future long-term space journeys, engineers have created the first 3D printed object in space. Using a 3D printer that was installed on the International Space Station on Nov. 17, NASA built a faceplate for the printer …
Breaking up Hewlett-Packard is “totally the right thing to do for this company,” CEO Meg Whitman said Tuesday, after HP reported declines in revenue and profit for the last quarter. “We’re going to make more progress as separate companies than as two companies together,” Whitman told financial analysts on a …
Home Depot spent $43 million in its third quarter dealing with the fallout of one of the largest ever data breaches, highlighting the costly nature of security failures. The retailer said in a regulatory filing on Tuesday that it expects $15 million of that cost will be reimbursed by a …
In its latest desperation move, Blackberry says it will pay up to $550 to anyone who trades an iPhone for a Blackberry Passport. The deal kicks off on December 1, but it’s not worth waiting for even if you are the rare bird who’s looking to defect from Apple. Blackberry …
Breaking up Hewlett-Packard is “totally the right thing to do for this company,” CEO Meg Whitman said Tuesday, after HP reported declines in revenue and profit for the last quarter. “We’re going to make more progress as separate companies than as two companies together,” Whitman told financial analysts on a …
Chip-and-PIN payment cards have a strong supporter in the hotbed of payment technologies, with San Francisco’s district attorney promoting the new technology as a way to cut down on fraud. As nearby tech startups like Square and giants like Apple and Google invent new ways to buy things, San Francisco …
Adobe released an emergency patch on Tuesday to fix a Flash Player vulnerability that was fixed last month but was quickly exploited again. The company had issued a patch for the flaw, called CVE-2104-8439, but attackers soon found a way around that fix. The latest update to Flash adds a …
Three days after saying stock of its new Band smart wristband would be replenished throughout the coming holidays, Microsoft changed course. In an email to potential Band customers sent late Monday, Microsoft said “we no longer have any [Bands] available for online sale” and urged customers to check local Microsoft …
PC-BSD 10.1 review Systemd has caused some Linux users to look around for alternative operating systems. PC-BSD is one such option, and the newest version has just been released. LinuxBSDos.com has a full review of PC-BSD 10.1. LinuxBSDos.com LinuxBSDos.com spent four days with PC-BSD 10.1 and notes some serious problems …
Samsung may be dialing back its instant messaging service, ChatOn. The Korea Times reports that the company will start shutting it off gradually in parts of the world where its usage is low. However, Samsung may not nix the service entirely. It’s currently available in 120 countries and 63 different …
Industrial 3D printer maker Stratasys has announced it’s selling a professional grade printer on Amazon for the first time. The machine, the Mojo 3D Printer, will retail for $6,000. While that may seem like a high price for a printer that can fit on your desktop, companies interested in rapid …
Everybody wants to join the DevOps movement. Everybody wants their developers and their operations people to work more closely together and take advantage of greater internal IT harmony with the result of higher agility and a faster time to market. But a new study sponsored by Microsoft finds that while …
Google on Monday gave traditional Google plug-ins a stay of execution and instead outlined a three-step plan that will finalize their demise in 10 months. The delay was the latest move in a year-long plan by Google to ban plug-ins built to a decades-old standard, a decision it has pitched …
It’s time to kiss the tablet boom goodbye, as shipments of the once-dominant Apple iPad decline amid a worldwide slowdown for the devices. Shipments of all tablets worldwide will increase by just 7.2 percent this year, compared to 52.5 percent in 2013, according to a projection from research firm IDC. …
An industry consortium today released a roadmap that new recording technologies could yield 100TB hard drives in about 10 years. That density, 10 times the capacity of today’s biggest hard drives, will be achieved through the use of up-and-coming techniques such as laser-assisted recording technology. ASTC ASTC’s roadmap shows HAMR …
If you’re using a smartphone as a hotspot, you aren’t alone. Sales of USB sticks and embedded PC modems are plummeting as a result of that use. Shipments of these products are expected to decline by 24 percent by year end, following a 17 percent drop last year, according to …
If ads on Twitter weren’t annoying enough, some will start asking for your credit card info, in the hopes you’ll load up on store discounts. Twitter Offers, launched Tuesday, lets companies incorporate in-store promotions in ads that appear in users’ feeds. This is not a way to buy things on …