Microsoft today issued the first update for Windows 10 Technical Preview, inaugurating its fast-cadence release practice. The update, designated as Build 9860, followed the Oct. 1 release of the preview, which Microsoft has offered businesses and technology enthusiasts to give potential customers a look at the work in progress and …
Samsung Electronics is now mass producing its most advanced 8Gbit, DDR4 memory and 32GB registered dual in-line memory modules (RDIMM). The DDR4 memory is built on a new 20-nanometer (nm) process technology and marketed for use in enterprise servers. “By expanding the production of our 20nm DRAM line-ups, we …
At its most recent Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) event in June, Apple took the lid off something it had been silently cooking for years: Swift, a new programming language in the C family designed to combine the robustness of the Objective-C that iOS and OS X developers were used to …
Google is letting users protect their accounts against password compromises by adding support for two-factor authentication based on physical USB keys. The new feature expands the company’s 2-Step Verification mechanism that is already available for Google accounts, and requires users to input one-time-use codes received via text message or generated …
You might think that next-generation broadband speeds and DSL go together like Amsterdam and New Hampshire, and you’d be right, but perhaps not in the way you think. News out of the Broadband World Forum in Amsterdam this week is that the University of New Hampshire InterOperablity Laboratory (UNH-IOL) has …
Companies looking on open source Hadoop development before they deploy the data processing system are like characters from Samuel Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot, says analyst Gartner. The indecision of the tragic characters in the play is now being played out by those companies not moving to try out Hadoop …
Many workers use their personally owned smartphones and other computers for job tasks, but a new survey shows a big percentage are doing so without their employer’s knowledge. Market research firm Gartner surveyed 4,300 U.S. consumers in June who work at large companies (with more than 1,000 employees) and found …
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s new chief technologist is high-profile digital privacy consultant Ashkan Soltani, a move that signals the agency’s growing interest in policing online tracking and other Internet privacy issues. FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez announced Tuesday she has appointed Soltani, a security researcher who shared the 2014 Pulitzer …
Complaints that Mac OS X Yosemite disrupts or entirely disables Wi-Fi have been flowing into social media sites and discussion forums since the release of the OS last Thursday, but Apple has yet to acknowledge there’s a problem. There are multiple active threads on the topic in the official Apple …
One of the top microchip suppliers for the auto industry has announced its first automotive-grade Ethernet chipset and software, paving the way for car makers to install 100Mbps networks in vehicles. The new processors from Freescale will connect in-car electronics and Wi-Fi routers over standard two-wire twisted pair cable, not …
If you haven’t updated your Flash Player with the fixes released on Oct. 14, you may be vulnerable to new attacks using a commercial exploit kit called Fiesta, security researchers warn. The vulnerability, which is being tracked as CVE-2014-0569 in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database, was fixed in …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that John J. Cross III, Director of the Office of Municipal Securities, will leave the agency in November. Since September 2012, Mr. Cross has served as the first Director of the Office of Municipal Securities, which was established under the Dodd-Frank Act to …
The BBC World Service has launched an app-based “lifeline” Ebola information service for people in West Africa. The service is designed for those using the instant messenger app Whatsapp. The new service is in both English and French and will comprise public health information on Ebola from the BBC, using …
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella may have been on the job only eight months, but his compensation package for 2014 topped $84 million, according to regulatory filings Monday. And if Microsoft’s shares beat the S&P 500 index, Nadella could earn far more, as much as $355 million in stock awards alone …
Citrix Systems’ online storage and file sharing platform ShareFile will get integrated e-signing functionality thanks to the acquisition of RightSignature. Citrix and RightSignature have already been working together for the past year on a joint offering. During this time Citrix has seen how organizations can take advantage of the combination …
Showing all viewers the same commercial six minutes into, say, an episode of “Modern Family” might soon be over. If you’re watching it online. A new partnership between TV measurement company Nielsen and analytics provider Adobe was announced early Tuesday, presenting detailed data about how people watch TV and other …
Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy devices have been approved by the U.S. National Security Agency under a program of the agency to quickly deploy commercially available technologies. The Commercial Solutions for Classified (CSfC) program only lists devices that have met the agency’s security standards, and may not necessarily translate into large government …
It’s pronounced “Ooh-boon-too.” The year of the Linux desktop is here! No, the Linux desktop is dead! Tech pundits differ, to say the least, on a lot of topics in the world of free and open-source software, but it’s inarguable that Ubuntu has been the most influential Linux desktop distribution …
Monday evening, investigative journalist Brian Krebs reported that multiple banking sources were seeing a pattern of credit and debit card fraud. The common thread between each case were purchases made at Staples Inc. stores in the Northeastern U.S. There isn’t a lot to go on if in fact the latest …
About a year ago, I wrote about a snippet of Perl code that was purportedly from the early days of Facebook. If you like that sort of thing, then you’ll like what Nathan Malcolm has recently unearthed and blogged about. Malcolm, who runs Sinthetic Labs, found a number of code …
Истории о том, как устроена работа в самой закрытой и таинственной корпорации мира, продолжают будоражить умы общественности. MacDigger публикует откровения «правой руки» Стива Джобса, легендарного дизайнера Apple Джонатана Айва, участвовавшего в создании iPhone, iPod и iPad. …
Похоже, что увидеть свет самой надёжной защите от вторжения хакеров и прочих кибермошенников (по крайней мере, так подразумевалось изначально) в цепи «домашний маршрутизатор↔компьютер», роль которой отводилась бы роутеру Anonabox, не суждено. …
Sony Xperia Z3 совсем недавно поступил в продажу, а японский производитель уже усиленно работает над следующим флагманом — Xperia Z4, причем в этот раз флагман будет один на весь год, что связано с нежеланием компании отъедать продажи у своих же флагманских устройств за счет предыдущих поколений. …
Японский производитель электроники Kyocera анонсировал новый смартфон под названием Torque XT. Устройство имеет высокую степень защиты, что позволяет пользоваться гаджетом в экстремальных условиях. …
Госспецсвязи стремится получить законодательное право управлять телекоммуникационными сетями во время чрезвычайных ситуаций. Участники рынка называют инициативы госслужбы попыткой взять под контроль информационные потоки страны. …
Психолог из Канады Клэр Мейсонив утверждает, что из-за сбоя облачного сервиса iCloud все ее ежедневные заметки за два последних месяца пропали со всех устройств Apple, включая два iPod, два новых iPad, iPhone и новый MacBook Air. По словам канадки, по этой причине она потеряла многих клиентов и больше 27 часов …