Facebook has revealed a little more about what compelled it to spend close to $19 billion earlier this year to buy mobile messaging service WhatsApp — a deal that had many scratching their heads at the huge sum. Roughly $15.3 billion of the price Facebook paid is attributed to “goodwill,” …
Business relationships between major broadband providers and Internet backbone providers appear to be the cause of major drags on performance from early 2013 to early this year, according to a new study from a think tank advocating for strong net neutrality rules. Five major U.S. broadband providers, including Comcast, AT&T …
After nearly eight years of work, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has finalized the HTML5 standard, bringing the basic Web technology firmly into the era of mobile devices and cloud-driven rich Internet applications. “HTML5 brings the next generation of the Web,” said W3C CEO Jeff Jaffe. “It wasn’t so …
Sensitive technology on board an Antares rocket that was headed for the International Space Station could slow investigation into its explosion shortly after lift-off on Tuesday evening. The rocket was just a few seconds into its flight from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia when flames from the rocket’s exhaust …
Hackers targeted an unclassified White House network but did not damage any systems, a White House official said Tuesday. In the course of assessing recent threats, “activity of concern” was found on the unclassified Executive Office of the President network, the official said under condition of anonymity. “Any such activity …
Meanwhile beyond the smoke and mirrors of mainstream Apple reporting some may want to take a look at the latest claim — OS X Yosemite achieved the kind of adoption in four days that took Microsoft’s Windows 8 two years to accomplish. Two years In that two years, Apple has …
Image by REUTERS/Stringer If you’re an IT security professional, you probably don’t spend a whole lot of time thinking about bugs, plants or fungus, at least not during your work day. However, researchers from the Warsaw Institute of Technology think that you should. In a recently published paper, “Security – …
Investigators began studying the telemetry from the Antares rocket that exploded on launch Tuesday night and began the painstaking job of combing through potentially dangerous debris at daybreak Wednesday. Carrying 5,000 pounds of supplies and scientific equipment, the unmanned Orbital Sciences Corp.’s Cygnus cargo craft and the Antares rocket it …
While the reported $40 billion of insider threat losses for the US economy seem scary, many companies consider insider threats to be more like a ‘black swan’ event – highly visible, but extremely rare, abstract, and too hard-to-predict in order for it to constitute a real threat. But it is …
AT&T it seems, is caught between a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and a hard place. Taken to task by the FTC for redefining the word ‘unlimited’, AT&T’s definition allegedly changes depending on the amount of data a customer consumes per month. More than 2 gigabytes, it appears that unlimited means …
It’s the early 1990s, and this pilot fish at a big computer manufacturer is the only field service rep in the office when a customer call comes in. “You need to go to this hospital and fix their Big Machine,” says boss — knowing full well that fish hasn’t been …
As the recent scandal over leaked celebrity photographs reminded us all, people use their electronic devices for very personal pursuits in the era of smartphone ubiquity. Depending on the age and inclination of its owner, a modern-day digital device might contain not just nude selfies like those that were shared …
В августе разработчик “ВКонтакте” Олег Илларионов заявил о планах выпустить мессенджер, а также отдельные приложения для прослушивания музыки и обмена фотографиями. По функционалу, фотоприложение будет во многом похоже на Instagram. Пользователи социальной сети также смогут редактировать фото и применять к ним различные фильтры. Скорее всего, будут поддерживаться комментарии и отметки “Мне нравится”. Сообщается, в настоящий …
Подготовлен план защиты российского сегмента интернета от внешнего воздействия, также обсуждаются совместные действия по защите критически важных областей интернета со странами БРИКС, заявил глава Минкомсвязи Николай Никифоров …
Первая версия Android была представлена 23 сентября 2008 года. С тех пор прошло уже очень много времени (больше 6 лет), и операционная система изменилась до неузнаваемости (как в плане интерфейса, так и в плане возможностей). …
Служба безпеки України блокує рахунки, із яких надходили кошти терористам. …
Национальная комиссия, осуществляющая госрегулирование в области связи и информатизации (НКРСИ), утвердила условия тендера на получение частот под связь третьего поколения и передала их на утверждение в Кабмин. …
Компания Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) анонсировала новую модификацию сверхкомпактного настольного компьютера LIVA, который можно использовать в качестве домашнего медиацентра. …
Facebook continues to reap rewards in mobile, growing its crucial ads business in large part due to ads placed on smaller screens, the company reported Tuesday. Total sales for the third quarter ended Sept. 30 amounted to $3.2 billion, up 59 percent from the same period last year, and beating …
Хидео Кодзима, создатель сериала Metal Gear Solid, получил награду Golden Joystick Awards за вклад в игровую индустрию. Об этом сообщается на сайте CVG, где приведен список награжденных на церемонии. …
По данным исследователей безопасности, брешь в механизме CBT существует во всех версиях VMware ESXi начиная с 4.х. …
Google is aiming to keep its users healthy — and away from Apple — with a new app that takes a broader view of fitness tracking. Google Fit, released Tuesday, will use the sensors in Android phones to track and organize people’s walking, biking and running activity. Users can set …
Google CEO Larry Page is apprently looking to ensure his company stays forward-looking and innovative as it grows up. To do that, he is putting Sundar Pichai, a senior vice president at Google, in charge of a large swath of the company’s core products and services, according to a report …
Microsoft will launch its next version of Office for Windows in the second half of 2015, according to an online report. ZDNet blogger Mary Jo Foley first reported on comments made by Julia White, general manager of marketing for Office and Office 365, at Microsoft’s Tech Ed Europe conference in …
Первый выпуск игрового сериала по мотивам Game of Thrones («Игра престолов») поступит в продажу до конца 2014 года. Данную информацию подтвердила менеджер по связям с общественностью студии Telltale Games Лаура Перуско (Laura Perusco), отвечая на вопросы фанатов в твиттере. …
The IT market is seeing a rush of startups that monitor apps, data, websites, servers and networks. This is a great trend for best-of-breed IT shoppers, but deployment of multiple tools creates its own problems. These monitoring tools, even if they are producing data about different IT events, may be …