Каждая новая модель iPhone становится головной болью для конкурентов. Некоторые из них предпринимают попытки нажиться на телефонах Apple, копируя их дизайн. Причём плагиатом занимаются не только малоизвестные разработчики, но и именитые бренды. Во вторник Lenovo сертифицировала смартфон, откровенно копирующий дизайнерские решения iPhone 6. Благодаря этому стали известны характеристики клона. …
Новые iPhone 6 и iPhone 6 Plus начнут продаваться в торговых точках Украины с 31 октября 2014 г. Об этом сообщается на официальном сайте компании-производителя Apple. …
На сайте Kickstarter успешно собирает финансирование миниатюрный роутер Anonabox, который надежно защищает активность пользователя в Сети, передавая данные через анонимную сеть Tor. Мини-маршрутизатор оснащен 64 МБ памяти и процессором с частотой 580 МГц, чего вполне достаточно для обработки всего объёма трафика. …
Национальная комиссия, осуществляющая государственное регулирование в сфере связи и информатизации (НКРСИ), на заседании 14 октября приняла решение одобрить изменения в порядок проведения конкурсов на получение лицензий для предоставления услуг связи в стандарте 3G. …
Название «Windows 10», а не «Windows 9» было выбрано для новой операционной системы Microsoft для того, чтобы показать пользователям, насколько большой шаг вперед компания сделает с выпуском нового релиза. …
Хакеры обнародовали данные о 400 учетных записях облачного хранилища Dropbox и заявили, что у них есть информация еще о 7 млн аккаунтов, пообещав опубликовать и их в обмен на Bitcoin. В Dropbox отрицают утечку данных, а эксперты по кибербезопасности отмечают: говорить о безопасности информации пользователей пока рано. …
В 2004 году не было ни iOS, ни Android, ни тем более Windows Phone, хотя Microsoft все же небезуспешно пыталась получить свой кусок пирога, развивая Windows Mobile. Nokia, Symbian, Palm и, конечно же, BlackBerry – вот что было на слуху, считалось модным и служило ориентиром для тех, кто хотел обзавестись …
Сервис Skype запустил новое мобильное приложение Skype Qik, которое позволяет обмениваться короткими видеосообщениями с одним или несколькими получателями. Об этом «Ленте.ру» рассказал представитель Skype Питер Сиерра. …
Директор федерального бюро расследований США (ФБР) Джеймс Коуми снова выступил с критикой новых мер Apple и Google, которые приняли для защиты данных пользователей. Система безопасности в новой операционной системе iOS 8 закрыла доступ к мобильным устройствам для спецслужб. …
Компания Oppo опубликовала официальный рендер смартфона N3, оборудованного поворотным фотомодулем. Видимо, следуя примеру, поданному другим производителем, Oppo решила использовать в оформлении новинки пластик «под кожу». Правда, речь идет не о всей поверхности задней панели, а лишь об одном элементе — «бруске» с объективом и вспышкой, размещенном в верхней части смартфона. …
Technology workers have asked an appeals court not to approve a US$324.5 million settlement in Silicon Valley’s controversial employee hiring case, according to a document filed Tuesday. The move by the plaintiffs puts them in alignment with an earlier decision by Judge Lucy Koh of the federal district court in …
Malicious advertisements, some of which were displayed on YouTube, redirected more than 113,000 people in the U.S. to harmful websites in just a month, Trend Micro said Tuesday. Although online advertising companies try to detect and block such ads from being circulated on their networks, bad ones sometimes get through. …
The next frontier for virtualization and standard x86 servers is in service-provider networks, and big computing vendors are moving fast to blaze the trail there. NFV (network functions virtualization) is designed to move the back-end processing in carrier networks from dedicated appliances to software that can run across a virtual …
One of the zero-day flaws patched by Microsoft on Tuesday had been used for some time by a group with suspected Chinese government ties that targets technology companies, CrowdStrike’s chief executive said Tuesday. CEO Dmitri Alperovitch said his CrowdStrike has been battling with the group, which the company dubbed “Hurricane …
The next frontier for virtualization and standard x86 servers is in service-provider networks, and big computing vendors are moving fast to blaze the trail there. NFV (network functions virtualization) is designed to move the back-end processing in carrier networks from dedicated appliances to software that can run across a virtual …
For the first time, Microsoft will offer user-based Windows licenses to enterprises, a change one expert called “substantial” but another downplayed as unlikely to have much of an impact. Neither believed that the changes would herald Windows-by-subscription any time soon, even though Microsoft licenses its “rent-not-buy” Office 365 by the …
NASA’s latest spacecraft sent to study the Martian atmosphere is already collecting data. NASA scientists announced this afternoon that its Maven (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) spacecraft is securely in orbit around Mars, and all of its instruments are working well. The orbiter, which entered Mars’ orbit on Sept. 21, …
Microsoft will patch a pair of zero-day Windows vulnerabilities later today that attackers have been exploiting to penetrate major corporations’ networks, researchers at FireEye said Tuesday. The flaws found by FireEye were different than another discovered by iSight Partners, which today revealed an ongoing campaign by Russian hackers against the …
Salesforce.com’s development platform is known for its ability to create new apps quickly and easily, but with the launch of Lightning, both business users and programmers can get in on the fun. Lightning is the next generation of Salesforce1, the successor to Salesforce’s original Force.com platform, and was unveiled Tuesday …
Image by Shutterstock While growth in the IT industry as a whole continues at a brisk pace, some skills are hotter than others. “There are key areas of technology right now that are growing faster than others,” says Dice.com president Shravan Goli. “What’s interesting is that this growth stretches across …
A new wearable device designed to use your unique heart rhythms to authenticate your identity for everything from your smartphone to your car door is being shipped to developers. Bionym Inc., a Toronto-based company working on what could be the world’s first wearable authentication device, announced today that manufacturing has …
After a relatively quiet few months, Microsoft Patch Tuesday is back in full force, covering three zero-day vulnerabilities that administrators should attend to as quickly as possible. Microsoft issued eight security bulletins Tuesday, covering a total of 24 vulnerabilities found in Windows, Internet Explorer, Office and the .Net framework. Three …
Over the years, consumer electronics have improved in almost every way, becoming thinner, lighter, and more pixel-packed, all while increasing exponentially in performance. But beating at the heart of many mobile devices and even electric cars is a technology that hasn’t kept up with the rapid pace of innovation: batteries. …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced insider trading charges against a Massachusetts man who allegedly tipped his friend with nonpublic information about potential acquisition targets of the pharmaceutical company where he worked. The SEC alleges that Zachary Zwerko was tasked with evaluating potential acquisitions, and he repeatedly accessed confidential …
The dream of an Internet of things could turn into a nightmare for mobile operators, if sloppily written apps or chatty smartmeters were to overload their networks with signaling traffic. To avert such a scenario, a number of operators are backing a new set of network usage guidelines for device …
After a relatively quiet few months, Microsoft Patch Tuesday is back in full force, covering three zero-day vulnerabilities that administrators should attend to as quickly as possible. Microsoft issued eight security bulletins Tuesday, covering a total of 24 vulnerabilities found in Windows, Internet Explorer, Office and the .Net framework. Three …