Стивен Фрай ушел из Twitter на месяц из соображений безопасности
Британский актер и писатель Стивен Фрай сообщил в Twitter, что он не будет писать в микроблог в течение месяца из соображений безопасности. …
Британский актер и писатель Стивен Фрай сообщил в Twitter, что он не будет писать в микроблог в течение месяца из соображений безопасности. …
Coordinated raids by law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and 16 European countries have closed hundreds of underground websites, including dozens dealing in weapons and drugs, and led to the arrest of 17 people. The raids took place on Thursday and were the biggest so far against sites running on …
Software provider Platfora has extended its analysis software to work with data generated by sensors, machines and other devices that are part of the Internet of Things. With IoT systems, “the amount of data that is being collected drives you to change the way the data is modeled and prepared,” …
Microsoft received quite a bit of criticism when it first released Office for iOS, and users were not able to edit documents. The company has changed course and iOS (and soon Android users) will be able to edit documents. But Microsoft Office won’t be free for everybody, any kind of …
Malware has never been as much of a problem for Linux as it is for Windows. But BlackEnergy is a potent malware threat that has compromised Linux systems as well as Windows computers. Recently the threat posed by BlackEnergy has grown as more information has been gathered about this insidious …
Whenever IT hiring picks up, as it did last month, the default explanation from analysts is this: The economy is improving. That might be true, and it may well explain the U.S. Department of Labor’s report today that showed the U.S., overall, added 214,000 jobs last month. Of that total …
Facebook is giving users more options to control what content they see in their feeds. Starting Friday, changes are being rolled out to let users give more feedback to Facebook about whether they want to see certain posts in their feeds, with a more direct way to “unfollow” friends. Additionally, …
Microsoft yesterday made the surprising move to offer consumers more functional Office apps on the iPad after failing to drive Office 365 Home and Personal subscriptions, analysts said today. “Microsoft is feeling pressure from the bottom end of the productivity market,” said Wes Miller of Directions on Microsoft. “In reality, …
WORCESTER, Mass. — Researchers in robotics will meet with health care and aid workers around the country Friday to get ideas on how technology could help fight the deadly Ebola outbreak, as well as the spread of other dangerous viruses. “When someone says robots, I’m old enough that this is …
Hewlett-Packard has no plans to take its new industrial 3D printer into the desktop market for consumers, but it will likely scale the machine to take on large production parts. Last week, HP unveiled its Multi Jet Fusion 3D printer, saying when the device ships in 2016 it will enable …
I wanted to love the Nexus 9. I really did. The thing is, though, I like the Nexus 9. It’s a fine tablet. A good tablet, even. But not a great one. Not one that makes you say, “Yeah, go drop $400 on that sucker. Do it now and don’t …
In the fractious debate over net neutrality, efforts to strike a compromise don’t seem to be working. A proposal reportedly favored by a top U.S. regulator is drawing fire from groups on both sides of the issue, with 70 pro-net neutrality groups speaking up against the plan Friday. Following a …
Codacy, TestCloud and Usetrace are taking different approaches to code and app testing, but all three aim to make it easier for developers to get high-quality apps out the door. The increasing popularity of development processes such as Agile have opened the door for a new generation of test tools, …
Xamarin has launched a new program designed to get its popular mobile app building platform into the hands of America’s students, because children are our future or something like that. Xamarin’s platform theoretically makes it fly-simple to write an app once in C# and quickly and easily adapt it for …
Attackers have used rogue applications for both OS X and Windows to infect iPhones and iPads in China with a malware program that steals contact information and other private data. Researchers from Palo Alto Networks recently reported that the malware, dubbed WireLurker, was being installed on both jailbroken and non-jailbroken …
Microsoft’s first Windows smartphone since it dumped the Nokia brand will arrive on Tuesday, and a teaser from the company hints that it will be a new low-end model. The teaser promises a smartphone for everyone, a typical way to position a budget device. The teaser doesn’t offer many details …
Porn, rumors, and anti-government content are all being targeted in China’s latest push to filter online public expression. At the Chinese government’s request, 29 publications and companies in the country signed a pledge on Thursday to better regulate the online comment threads found on their websites. State-controlled news groups such …
Apple could generate a billion dollars through its currently U.S.-only Apple Pay service across the next year, and is likely to generate millions of dollars on Black Friday sales alone. Big numbers That’s the best case scenario, and of course Apple is unlikely to share its actual results. The estimates …
Among all the headlines yesterday that touted Office as suddenly “free” after Microsoft announced changes to its mobile productivity apps, one thing was overlooked by many: For business, Office still costs money. “The unsung thing in all this is that this news is only about consumers,” said Wes Miller, an …
Компания Lenovo объявила результаты своей деятельности за второй квартал 2014/2015 финансового года. В период с июля по сентябрь выручка производителя ПК в мире выросла на 7%, что примерно до $10,5 млрд. При этом чистый доход увеличился на 19%, перевалив за $262 млн. По сравнению с третьим кварталом 2013 года объем отгрузок ноутбуков и десктопов выросли …
We may be witnessing the beginning of a turnaround for one of the mainstay companies of the IT industry: Microsoft. And by turnaround, I don’t mean financially. Microsoft is a prodigious revenue and profit generator. But the company has been rudderless for years. It has essentially been reactive, not an …
The latest surprise release of Outlook for Mac 15.3 is largely what you’d hope to get in an Outlook refresh: At long last, a version that looks and works almost identically to the Windows version. This is great news if you live exclusively in an Exchange environment, but you may …
Our friends at Home Depot are giving more details about the big breakin. Among the sorry story of stolen card details is the revelation that HD also leaked customers’ email addresses. Oh, brother. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers hope their spam filters are up to the task. <!– Not to mention: …
10 IBM Watson-Powered Apps That Are Changing Our World Image by Thinkstock IBM considers Watson to represent a new era of computing — a step forward to cognitive computing, where apps and systems interact with humans via natural language and help us augment our own understanding of the world with …
It’s many years back, and this newbie IT pilot fish is tasked with setting up a new top-of-the-line 386 PC — the first PC he’s ever touched. “Taking it out of the box and connecting almost all the wires was easy enough,” says fish. “All that was left was connecting …
If you think your Facebook feed has a lot of video now, just wait. “In five years, most of [Facebook] will be video,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Thursday during the company’s first community town hall, in which he took questions from the public on a range of topics. He was …