Uptake of Apple’s new iOS 8 mobile operating system has failed to catch up to the boom of last year’s iOS 7, according to Apple and third-party measurements. By Apple’s own iOS distribution tracking, iOS 8 has gained just one percentage point since Sept. 21, moving from 46% then to …
Nokia will stop production at its mobile handset manufacturing facility near Chennai in south India after a deal with Microsoft to manufacture phones fell through. read more
Managing the wireless environment at the average college or university can be a difficult task at the best of times, and when students and staff start using personal hotspots -– the sort that provide wireless data access from the same — it's not the best of times. read more
VCE unveils first all-flash-based integrated IT infrastructure system. read more
Just as graphics card makers like Nvidia found a secondary market for their wares as system-fortifying co-processors, Micron is plotting to sell booster computational elements based on its memory technologies. read more
Criminals have stolen millions of dollars from ATMs worldwide using a specialized malware program that forces the machines to dispense cash on command. read more
Wasting no time, the European commissioner who could soon be co-leading the EU's digital agenda is already firing warning shots at the U.S. over data protection. read more
Two astronauts today began what is expected to be a six-and-a-half-hour spacewalk to repair a robotics system, along with cooling pump and a television camera on the International Space station. NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman and Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency set their spacesuits to internal battery power and …
It’s almost that time, kiddos — time to start staring longingly at your phone and wondering when the latest Android upgrade will arrive. In case you’ve been living under a rock lately, Google’s on the brink of launching one of its biggest-ever updates to Android: the thus-far-unnamed Android “L” release. …
Hewlett-Packard's break-up plan will give the company's cloud unit more room to maneuver, which it needs to make faster progress on private and public clouds. But success will still be hard fought because of a slow start. read more
Hewlett-Packard’s break-up plan will give the company’s cloud unit more room to maneuver, which it needs to make faster progress on private and public clouds. But success will still be hard fought because of a slow start. HP will be split into two companies within 12 months: Hewlett-Packard Enterprise will …
A "like" on Facebook is worth a lot to advertisers there. Now it's also worth something to advertisers in other mobile apps. read more
Salesforce.com has given its customer-support and sales software new names and announced a slew of additional features in advance of its annual Dreamforce event, which kicks off next week in San Francisco. Beyond generating early hype for its conference, the announcements reflect the new reality Salesforce.com and other business software …
В ближайшие неделю-две южнокорейская компания LG Electronics планирует выпустить в продажу на рынке Южной Кореи смарт-часы LG G Watch R. Сообщается, что это первые часы Android Wear с по-настоящему круглым экраном. Впервые данная модель была продемонстрирована на выставке IFA 2014 и благодаря своему дизайну выиграла приз «Best of IFA 2014». …
Three scientists who succeeded in inventing efficient blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs) where many companies had failed have won the Nobel Prize in Physics. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Tuesday announced the award to Isamu Akasaki of Meijo University and Nagoya University, Hiroshi Amano, also of Nagoya University, and …
Amazon.com may have received illegal state aid from tax authorities in Luxembourg, where the company has a subsidiary that records most of its European profit, according to the European Commission. The commission is investigating the company’s tax affairs because it is concerned that it gained an unfair economic advantage by …
Microsoft and other companies that provide education technologies and services to U.S. schools aim to assuage parents’ concerns about the collection and handling of student data with a pledge to protect that data. The companies signing the pledge are, however, only a small section of providers to the kindergarten to …
Eyeing use in car dashboards and consoles, Sharp has developed an LCD panel that can be cut to almost any shape. Conventional LCD panels are rectangular — something that’s required because the tiny chips that drive each pixel of the display are fitted along the edge of the glass panel …
AT&T fired an employee who improperly accessed about 1,600 customer accounts and could have viewed customers’ Social Security and driver’s license numbers. The breach came to light after a form letter that AT&T sent to affected customers was submitted to Vermont’s attorney general’s office, which published it on its website. …
The field of artificial intelligence may not be able to create a robotic vacuum cleaner that never knocks over a vase, at least not within a couple of years, but intelligent machines will increasingly replace knowledge workers in the near future, a group of AI experts predicted. An AI machine …
Technology professionals are among today’s most infamous whistleblowers. The list of those who have made headlines for exposing corporate or government skulduggery includes Shawn Carpenter, a network security analyst who blew the lid off a Chinese cyberespionage ring; Bradley (now Chelsea) Manning, who shared more than 250,000 classified State Department …
Yahoo said Monday it has fixed a bug that was mistaken for the Shellshock flaw, but no user data was affected. Three of the company’s servers with APIs (application programming interfaces) that provide live streaming for its Sports service “had malicious code executed on them this weekend by attackers looking …
Telecoms behemoth AT&T is in trouble again. Another ‘rogue’ employee has been caught ‘obtaining’ customer data. Bad news often comes in threes, so, in IT Blogwatch, bloggers wonder what’s next for la T. (D’oh.) <!– Not to mention: XXXXXXXXXXXX… –> Your humble blogwatcher curated these bloggy bits for your entertainment. …
В 2012 году компания Qualcomm выкупила бостонский стартап Pixtronix, который занимался разработкой MEMS-дисплеев с низким энергопотреблением. После нескольких лет затишья стало известно, что инновационная технология будет применена в производстве 7-дюймового IGZO-дисплея для планшетного компьютера от компании Sharp. Начало продаж мобильного ПК намечен на первую половину 2015 года, хотя изначально инженеры планировали закончить разработку ЖК-панели лишь к …
В 2012 году компания Qualcomm выкупила бостонский стартап Pixtronix, который занимался разработкой MEMS-дисплеев с низким энергопотреблением. После нескольких лет затишья стало известно, что инновационная технология будет применена в производстве 7-дюймового IGZO-дисплея для планшетного компьютера от компании Sharp. Начало продаж мобильного ПК намечен на первую половину 2015 года, хотя изначально инженеры планировали закончить разработку ЖК-панели лишь к …
Google last week did something that is really hard to find objectionable: It said it deleted quite a few (“tens of thousands”) nude pictures stolen from celebrities. But as with anything that involves such an influential company as Google, this move creates a precedent, and it’s a dangerous one. This …