This pilot fish works for a subcontractor to the prime contractor that manages a government laboratory — which puts him about as far down the government-contractor stack as it gets. “Several months back, I mentioned to my boss that a co-worker and I had restarted a project that was shelved …
Free Collaboration and Project Management Software Image by Thinkstock Casey Stengel, Hall of Fame baseball manager once said, “Gettin’ good players is easy. Gettin’ ’em to play together is the hard part.” The same holds true for today’s technology workforce. To read this article in full or to leave a …
NASA engineers and technicians on Thursday put the finishing touches on Orion, the spacecraft designed to take astronauts into deep space. Thursday’s work marked the conclusion of construction on the first spacecraft designed to carry humans past the moon. The Orion spacecraft, which is expected to take humans to an …
After partnering with Apple and Twitter for the enterprise market, IBM is doing the same in China with local Internet giant Tencent in a deal targeting growing businesses in the country. The two companies are joining forces to deliver public cloud and software-as-a-service technologies to small, medium businesses working in …
Как и обещалось, Rovio выпустила игру Angry Birds Transformers для устройств, функционирующие под управлением мобильной операционной системы Android. Напомним, что владельцы “яблочных” девайсов играют в “птичих транформеров” уже неделю. Скачать игру Angry Birds Transormers для Android можно бесплатно в интернет -магазине/каталоге Google Play. …
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission appears set to reclassify broadband so that it comes under the agency’s authority, but without explicitly prohibiting special access deals between broadband and content companies, according to a news report. FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler is mulling this hybrid answer to the knotty “net neutrality” issue, …
The corporate shakeup at Google continues and now it’s Andy Rubin, the former head of the company’s Android business and the current head of its robotics arm, who’s out. A Google spokesperson confirmed to Computerworld Thursday night that Rubin is leaving the company, but declined to say how his departure …
Google is applying a surveying technique from the 1960s to a project that aims to collect data about users’ computers without compromising their privacy. The project is nicknamed RAPPOR, which stands for Randomized Aggregatable Privacy-Preserving Ordinal Response. Google plans to present a paper on it next week at the ACM …
Several major national and international banks are planning to launch their own mobile payments apps next year. The banks would be major competitors to handset makers Apple and Google because unlike others pushing mobile wallet technology, such as mobile phone carriers and retailers, they already have an intimate relationship with …
If you’ve always wondered if Mark Zuckerberg has a favorite hoodie, or a favorite programming language, now’s your chance to find out. Facebook’s chief will host his first community Q&A next Thursday at 5 p.m. Eastern, giving the public a chance to ask any questions they might have for him. …
Компания Google пригласила на работу нескольких ведущих специалистов и ученых в сфере искусственного интеллекта (ИИ). Google также объявила в официальном блоге о своем партнерстве с Оксфордским университетом для активизации разработки программ и оборудования, копирующих мыслительные способности человека. Новые сотрудники пополнят штат компании Deep Mind, которую купила Google в январе 2014 …
Just five months after Apple took J.D. Power’s tablet satisfaction award away from Samsung, it lost it today to up-and-coming Amazon. Apple’s iPad finished in second place in the latest satisfaction survey conducted by J.D. Power and Associates, with a score of 824 out of a possible 1,000. For the …
Finding new sources of oil underground is an expensive and risky undertaking. Now IBM is working with energy company Repsol to look for ways in which new cognitive computing techniques could help reduce the uncertainty and improve production. The research that the two companies are doing may one day lead …
The critical Shellshock vulnerabilities found last month in the Bash Unix shell have motivated security researchers to search for similar flaws in old, but widely used, command-line utilities. Two remote command execution vulnerabilities were patched this week in the popular wget download agent and tnftp client for Unix-like systems. This …
China’s Lenovo finally has the global smartphone presence it has craved, finalizing the purchase of Motorola Mobility from Google for $2.91 billion. Motorola’s offerings in mature markets will complement Lenovo’s growing smartphone presence in developing countries. Lenovo hopes to unseat rivals Apple and Samsung, and has an ambitious goal of …
Drones have just found their new best friends: coders. On Oct. 13, the Linux Foundation unveiled a nonprofit organization called the Dronecode Project, an open-source development initiative uniting thousands of coders for the purpose of building an aerial operating system for drones. Hopeful that the project will bring order to …
An upgraded version of Sencha’s Space platform has the potential to bring together desktops, smartphones and tablets, with lower management costs along the way. So far, mobile devices have been managed using separate tools, but in the long run that’s too expensive. The big trend in the management sector is …
With the Nexus 9, Nexus 6, and Lollipop all landing in our laps over the next few weeks, you might think we’d be fresh out of room for any more new stuff here in AndroidLand. Well, my friends, you’d be wrong. Behold: the Motorola Droid Turbo — a beefed-up and ruggedized …
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of Investor Education and Advocacy and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) today issued an alert warning investors that some penny stocks being aggressively promoted as great investment opportunities may in fact be stocks of dormant shell companies with little to no business operations. …
Анонсированный месяц назад планшет Dell Venue 8 7000 дебютирует в конце ноября этого года. Напомним, что главной особенностью гаджета является сверхтонкий корпус, толщина которого составляет всего 6 мм. Venue 8 7000 работает под управлением мобильной операционной системы Android 4.4 KitKat. Гаджет оснащен 8.4-дюймовым дисплеем с разрешением 2560 × 1600 точек и процессором Intel Atom …
Microsoft, after slimming down, now wants to stay in shape with the help of its new fitness device. Dubbed the Microsoft Band, the device has been a rumored Microsoft project for months — but it’s now ‘official’, going on sale in the US starting today. Sounds good, yet questions linger …
Ажиотаж, связанный с презентацией новых смартфонов iPhone и планшетов iPad, сделал менее заметной другую важную тенденцию – Apple возвращает себе долю рынка персональных компьютеров. …
It’s 8:22 a.m. when this IT pilot fish gets a call from a user: An important report is due by 9 a.m., with major repercussions if it isn’t run on time — but there’s no one around who knows how to do it. “She said the usual person who pulled …
IT holding its own as 2014 winds down Image by Shutterstock How is 2014 shaping up for IT spending, hiring and overall success? While a third-quarter reality check shows a dip in both IT budgets and hiring forecasts, tech leaders and industry watchers say IT is still on track in …
Компания Motorola представила смартфон Droid Turbo с впечатляющими техническими характеристиками: экран Quad HD, батарея 3900 мАч, 21-мегапиксельная камера, быстрая зарядка, корпус из высококачественных материалов. Как оказалось, он будет продаваться не только в США у оператора Verizon, но и в других странах. …
Компания Google опубликовала в своем блоге подробности о том, какие меры защиты личных данных используются в новой версии Android. …