A day after Microsoft shoved Windows 8 into the background with its introduction of Windows 10, an analytics firm reported that Windows 8’s user share plummeted by its largest amount ever. September’s numbers from Net Applications put the combined user share of Windows 8 and 8.1 at 12.3% of the …
More than 2.4 million people have signed letters calling on the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to stop its proposed "takeover" of the Internet in an effort by conservative activist group American Commitment to reframe the debate about the agency's proposed net neutrality rules. read more
The Xen Project has revealed the details of a serious vulnerability in the Xen hypervisor that could put the security of many virtualized servers at risk. read more
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is taking steps to ensure that both current and emerging wireless devices don't get left out when it reorganizes the frequency bands now used for television. read more
Activists are meeting with Facebook officials Wednesday, challenging the company's real-names policy and other rules they say violate free-speech rights, sense of identity and safety. read more
Chip design company ARM is stepping outside its area of expertise to release a new operating system that could play a big role in building out the Internet of Things. read more
One of the coolest things about Android is the ecosystem of creativity that surrounds it. With the platform’s open nature, there’s practically no limit to what you can do with your device — and the Android developer community is constantly pushing the limits and finding new ways to enhance our …
Interop New York speakers opened the conference with a provocative message: Instead of ignoring "shadow IT" in their organizations, IT pros should try to understand what they are failing to deliver that workers wind up taking care of themselves. read more
Interop New York speakers opened the conference with a provocative message: Instead of ignoring “shadow IT” in their organizations, IT pros should try to understand what they are failing to deliver that workers wind up taking care of themselves. “Shadow IT is an opportunity to become closer to our business and …
After suffering a series of setbacks on the way to getting 64-bit ARM servers into the hands of users, company CEO Simon Segars prefers to take a fresh look at market opportunities instead of dwelling on the past. read more
Cody Wilson, the developer of the world’s first fully 3D-printed plastic gun, is preparing to sell a consumer-grade machine that can make metal guns. Wilson calls the tabletop machine the Ghost Gunner, and describes the project as a non-profit open source hardware effort by his company Defense Distributed. Defense Distributed …
Some U.S. television stations could make tens, or even hundreds, of millions of dollars by giving up their spectrum so that the U.S. Federal Communications Commission can sell it in an upcoming mobile broadband auction. read more
The Joomla project pushed out new updates for its popular content management system Wednesday after a glitch was found in the high-priority security patches it released a day before. read more
Китайский производитель мобильных устройств THL пополнил свой ассортимент новым, доступным аппаратом – THL T6S. Новинка построена на базе процессора MT6592M и обладает 5-дюймовым дисплеем с разрешением 854 на 480 точек, поддержкой двух SIM-карт, лотом для карт расширения стандарта microSD, а вот объем встроенной и оперативной памяти не уточняется. Разрешение камеры заявлено в …
Reacting to chronic complaints that Office applications have become unwieldy with endless menus and features, Microsoft is developing a streamlined presentation application built from the ground up for mobile devices and cloud computing. read more
What kind of jerk would want something bad for kids? If you buy what some top U.S. government officials are selling, then the kind of jerk who wants bad things for kids would be anyone supporting encryption. Heck, you don’t even have to be “for” encryption if you have an …
Virtual private network servers based on OpenVPN might be vulnerable to remote code execution attacks through Shellshock and other recent flaws that affect the Bash Unix shell. The OpenVPN attack vector was described in a post on Hacker News Tuesday by Fredrik Strömberg, co-founder of a commercial VPN service called …
The Securities and Exchange Commission, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), and the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB) today announced the opening of registration for the first Compliance Outreach Program for Municipal Advisors that will take place in Chicago on November 3. The SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations, in …
In a move to minimize legal risks, Google has stopped showing news snippets and thumbnails for some well-known German news sites in search results. read more
Image by Shutterstock Janco Associates recently reported a trend among CIOs: Taking into account base salary and ‘other’ types of compensation, many CIOs are pulling in over $1 million a year. “The striking component of the compensation plans for each of the executives who made this list is that none …
Günther Oettinger, the European Union’s proposed Commissioner for the Digital Economy and Society, gave a disappointing performance at his confirmation hearing, dodging questions and calling the victims of a recent data breach “dumb.” Critics said Oettinger’s remarks about the celebrities whose iCloud accounts were compromised, allowing hackers to release nude …
Apple now offers a smartphone for everyone with its entry-level iPhone 5C being made available for free, but no one seems too excited about this — even though it is what everyone said it should do. Blind spot That’s likely because in the mind of many who should know better, …
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Apple on Tuesday released a “golden master” of OS X Yosemite to developers, signaling that the upgrade is on track to ship within the next three weeks. “Golden master,” or GM, is a label some developers apply to software that is ready, or nearly ready, to ship or sell. Rival …
The Internet of Things is billed as an almost magical realm of possibilities where everything from thermostats to cars will be online. Industrial applications are a key proving ground. Combined with big data analytics, plants full of smart things could generate billions of U.S. dollars in cost savings. But manufacturers …
Appcelerator Titanium has been a player in the mobile development space for several years, with a JavaScript-based development environment that compiles to native code for iOS, Android and other targets. With the release of Appcelerator Studio 3.3 and Appcelerator Platform 2.0 in July, the company added a mobile back end …