Bill Loconzolo, vice president of data engineering at Intuit, jumped into a data lake with both feet. Dean Abbott, chief data scientist at Smarter Remarketer, made a beeline for the cloud. The leading edge of big data and analytics, which includes data lakes for holding vast stores of data in …
Meet Inbox. Not your dad’s inbox, but the new (confusingly) named app from Google designed to replace dad’s email inbox. Currently invite only for the hoi polloi, blogger reviews of Inbox are divided. Optimistic bloggers believe existing email paradigms be-a-changin’, but pessimists yawn and remember similar things were once said …
It’s the 1990s, and at a company that supplies colleges with ERP software, this pilot fish gets the call when a school wants a full install of the suite on an IBM DOS mainframe and wants a resource on site. “When I arrived I was introduced around and we got …
Apple will stop support next week for an encryption protocol found to contain a severe vulnerability, the company said on Wednesday. Support for SSL 3.0 will cease as of Oct. 29, it said. “Providers using only SSL 3.0 will need to support TLS as soon as possible to ensure the …
Although fierce rivals in the market for cloud computing services, IBM and Microsoft have pledged to make their technologies interoperable in the cloud for the sake of their users. On Wednesday, the companies jointly announced that many Microsoft enterprise products would run on IBM’s infrastructure and platform services, and that …
Some Bank of America customers have been double-charged for purchases made with Apple Pay, the payment system Apple launched on Monday. Roughly 1,000 transactions made with Apple Pay were logged twice in customer accounts, said Tara Burke, a spokeswoman with Bank of America, which is one of the largest U.S. …
Google is taking another crack at email overload, but this time around it’s resorting to drastic measures, developing a new product apparently built from scratch without relying on Gmail. The new email application out of the Googleplex is simply called Inbox, and, according to a blog post from Google Android …
Microsoft is continuing its crusade to get CIOs interested in Windows 10, touting new security features that include two-factor authentication built directly into the OS. The effort to bake two-factor authentication into Windows 10 is intended at doing away with the old single-password method that has proven so insecure in …
Malicious advertisements made their way last week to almost two dozen popular websites and used browser-based exploits to infect computers with CryptoWall, a nasty file-encrypting ransomware program. The malicious advertising, or malvertising, campaign was discovered by researchers from security firm Proofpoint and had an impact on visitors to at least …
AT&T signed up half a million cars to its 4G network between July and September, the result of deals with Audi and General Motors to connect cars and offer in-vehicle hotspots for riders. The carrier began offering 4G service for GM vehicles in June, with pricing beginning at $5 per …
Исследователи совсем мире работают над созданием схем для приема и передачи данных на все более высоких частотах – от 100 ГГц и выше – поскольку это предоставит возможность использовать для увеличения скорости коммуникаций большую полосу неосвоенного радиоспектра. …
«МТС Украина» продала свое имущество в Крыму за 17,7 млн евро. Это следует из материалов на сайте компании. …
Органи внутрішніх справ уже зафіксували 260 заяв або повідомлень про порушення прав виборців на майбутніх позачергових парламентських виборах, повідомив радник міністра внутрішніх справ Антон Геращенко. …
Компания MicroBlink представила приложение PhotoMath, которое умеет распознавать текст математических примеров и помогать с их решением. …
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Один из лидеров украинского рынка мобильной связи – компания «МТС-Украина» – готовится к продаже части бизнеса. Такая информация, появившаяся вчера в прессе, породила различные предположения о дальнейшей участи мобильного оператора. Вместе с тем топ-менеджмент компании уверяет, что «МТС» не намерена полностью покидать украинский рынок. …
Недавно Google сообщила, что операционная система Android Wear, разработанная для “умных” часов, получит большое обновление. Согласно заявлению компании, апдейт должен сделать носимые устройства менее зависимыми от смартфонов пользователей. Согласно последним данным, у отдельных устройств уже появилась возможность загрузки обновления 4.4W.2 с кодовым номером KNX01Q. …
Our inboxes are all messed up. Information we need gets buried under the constant flow of emails, related emails get dispersed throughout our email clients, and actionable emails get lost among the reference once. Google’s new Inbox app looks like it could greatly improve this experience. The Android, iOS, and …
Although fierce rivals in the market for cloud computing services, IBM and Microsoft have pledged to make their technologies interoperable in the cloud for the sake of their users. On Wednesday, the companies jointly announced that many Microsoft enterprise products would run on IBM’s infrastructure and platform services, and that …
Microsoft patched one bug in Windows last week, but missed another that hackers continue to exploit, according to security researchers at McAfee. On Tuesday, Microsoft confirmed that cyber criminals are targeting victims using tricked-out PowerPoint files that exploit a “zero-day” vulnerability, or a bug that has not been patched. “Microsoft …
IBM’s plan to transfer its semiconductor manufacturing business to GlobalFoundries faces a government review over national security implications. It has the potential of being complicated because of IBM’s role as a defense supplier. GlobalFoundries is based in the U.S., but is owned by investors in Abu Dhabi, which is part …
Судя по свежей информации, Android 5.0 сначала придет не на относительно новый Nexus 5, а на планшетные компьютеры, не поддерживающие 3G и LTE. Оказывается, Lollipop-прошивки для Nexus 7 (2012) и (2013) уже готовы и проходят тестирование. …
Chicago is the U.S. city with the best overall mobile performance ranking, according to tens of thousands of voice and data tests conducted in 125 cities by RootMetrics. The metropolis dubbed the Windy City originally got its nickname in the 1890s because of its reputation for bragging, and not just …
Google arguably reinvented email when it launched Gmail 10 years ago, but the company’s never been one to stick with the status quo or shy away from a challenge. With its brand new multiplatform app called Inbox, Google is hoping — oh, yes — that it can reinvent email once …
The iPhone 6 lineup has introduced iOS users to new smartphones with bigger (and bigger) displays. I was ready for a larger screen, so quickly opted to buy an iPhone 6 last month, thinking it would be the best match. And indeed I found the iPhone 6 to be gorgeous …
На прошлой неделе специалисты «Лаборатории Касперского» рассказали об интересном новом зловреде, образец которого попал на экспертизу. Это модульный троян Ventir для Mac OS X. Он может поставляться с разным набором модулей, среди которых open source кейлоггер LogKext. …