When an employee turns on his own company, the results — damaged networks, data theft and even work stoppage — could be devastating. It could rock the company even more than an outside attack because the insider knows where sensitive data is kept, what the passwords are and exactly how …
VMware is offering a new product, Horizon Flex, that lets IT departments run containerized and secured virtual desktops locally on PC or Mac laptops and desktops. Users get a desktop that works when they are traveling or in places without Internet connectivity, Kit Colbert, CTO for end-user computing at VMware, …
China’s Alibaba Group is taking another step to draw international users to its e-commerce sites by offering deep discounts on products during an upcoming sales promotion on Nov. 11. The company is taking the annual sales event global this year, in the hope of attracting buyers from 200 countries, Alibaba …
Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto has established a crowdsourced legal fund that could be used to sue Newsweek for reporting he was the mysterious creator of digital currency Bitcoin. The 65-year-old jobless California engineer, whom Newsweek named as the mastermind behind Bitcoin in a March cover story, is the focus of a …
Google considers Amazon.com as its biggest search competitor, ahead of traditional rivals like Yahoo and Bing, as people looking to buy something are more likely to search on the online retailer’s website. Amazon.com is more focused on commerce, “but, at their roots, they are answering users questions and searches, just …
French telecommunications company Iliad has dropped its bid for a majority stake in T-Mobile US after an improved offer was rejected by the U.S. carriers’ majority owner Deutsche Telekom. Iliad said it had put an end to its plan “following exchanges with Deutsche Telekom and selected board members of T-Mobile …
Dropbox has just provided another reminder not to place complete faith in cloud storage, having allowed a bug to delete some users’ files. The bug was tied to Dropbox’s Selective Sync feature, which helps users save space by only downloading selected folders to local storage, Engadget reports. In earlier versions …
Apps admins will be able to communicate with Google tech support staffers via online chat, complementing other existing options, including phone calls. More than 90 percent of beta testers of the new Apps chat support service gave it a thumbs up recently, so Google has decided to roll it out …
Oracle is requiring database administrators to upgrade their certifications if the ones they hold are for older versions of its platform. “Earning an Oracle certification is a well-respected achievement,” the company said on its website. “However, as products age and are removed from Oracle standard support maintenance, the technology becomes …
Changing databases is not a move to be taken lightly, especially when the switch is to a relatively new kind of database. The Weather Channel, however, found that it had to switch to a NoSQL MongoDB data store in order to more quickly develop apps and add features to its …
SAP’s Hana Enterprise Cloud service will be made available through IBM’s global cloud infrastructure, in a move that expands options for customers around the world who are considering moving their business applications off-premises to the cloud. The deal will give SAP access to a total of 60 data centers between …
Oracle is requiring database administrators to upgrade their certifications if the ones they hold are for older versions of its platform. “Earning an Oracle certification is a well-respected achievement,” the company said on its website. “However, as products age and are removed from Oracle standard support maintenance, the technology becomes …
The Java2D classes, as defined in the java.awt.geom package, define four basic geometric constructions (plus the point, but that hardly counts). The constructions are the line, the ellipse, the rectangle, and the generalized path. Perfect circles are a subset of the ellipse class; regular squares a special kind of rectangle. …
SAP’s Hana Enterprise Cloud service will be made available through IBM’s global cloud infrastructure, in a move that expands options for customers around the world who are considering moving their business applications off-premises to the cloud. The deal will give SAP access to a total of 60 data centers between …
What could be better than an app that lets you make payments to friends, charities or crowdfunding sites with a few taps on your smartphone? How about an app that does all that — and tells everyone what you spent. That’s essentially what French mobile payment company S-money, a subsidiary …
On Thursday, Skype debuted Skype Qik, a “spontaneous” video chat app that allows you to fire off video messages to a group of friends, react to them, and rest easy in the fact that they’ll disappear in two weeks’ time. That may seem like a mouthful, but that’s about the …
Your phone can receive messages from around the world. But how about emanations from beyond our solar system? Scientists from the University of California (UC) have launched an effort to use smartphones to detect signs of cosmic rays, a form of high-energy radiation that sends subatomic particles zipping through space. …
Hackers claim to have stolen a database of almost 7 million Dropbox log-in credentials, but the company says its service was not hacked and that unrelated websites are the data source. The first data dump appeared Monday in an anonymous post on Pastebin.com and contained 400 username and password pairs. …
Hackers claim to have stolen a database of almost 7 million Dropbox log-in credentials, but the company says its service was not hacked and that unrelated websites are the data source. The first data dump appeared Monday in an anonymous post on Pastebin.com and contained 400 username and password pairs. …
It’s official: Most people who tried Windows 10 ignored our warnings. Microsoft released some glowing Windows 10 stats on Monday. Already more than 1 million people have registered with Windows Insider to become a Windows 10 tester. Great! More than 200,000 suggestions or complaints have been filed via the Windows …
The good thing about open source projects getting killed off is that there always seems to be another to take its place. Here’s a look at this year’s carnage to date, including some free software and freeware. TrueCrypt disk encryption The managers of the TrueCrypt open source encryption file and …
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 …
SAP may be trying to become a big player in cloud-based business software, but most of its customers run their applications on-premises and many have no plans to move them into the cloud anytime soon. In recognition of this, SAP has announced the extension of mainstream support for its flagship …
Apple owns the mobile enterprise. That dominance means enterprise developers are building solutions that make iOS even more essential, including BroadSoft‘s latest unified communications solution, UC-One. iBeacon redux In a new twist, UC-One works with Apple’s iBeacon devices to enable more precise identification of an individual’s location within a work …
SAP may be trying to become a big player in cloud-based business software, but most of its customers run their applications on-premises and many have no plans to move them into the cloud anytime soon. In recognition of this, SAP has announced the extension of mainstream support for its flagship …
Камеры видеонаблюдения в одном из автобусов Китая сняли момент взрыва смартфона в руках у женщины. Это случилось, когда она стала менять аккумуляторную батарею устройства. Аппарат вспыхнул у пассажирки в руках, и она поспешила вынести его из автобуса. Другие пассажиры тут же бросились к выходу. Согласно источнику, пострадавших не было, а власти провинции …