It’s a short-staffed week for this IT pilot fish — one co-worker has left for another job, another one is on vacation, and fish himself is just back from his honeymoon. But everything is still manageable until fish gets a visit from the customer service team leader. “She needs a …
We techies have a hard time building and maintaining credibility with our stakeholders. High expectations are hard to manage. Bugs happen. And we get blamed unfairly for all sorts of things that are out of our control. But we also have a habit of making things worse, undermining our credibility …
BMC Software has filed a patent infringement suit against ServiceNow, claiming its patents are violated by the rival's IT management technologies. read more
Want a curved screen for you iPhone 6 Plus? Put it in your pocket. read more
In the prior century my dial-up Internet access was provided by an ISP that was eventually assimilated into EarthLink. When I upgraded to cable broadband, a co-operative arrangement between EarthLink and the cable company let me keep my EarthLink account and email addresses. Billing is done by the cable company …
ARM hopes its latest Cortex M7 processor design will lead to more responsive robots, smart appliances and wearables. read more
ARM hopes its latest Cortex M7 processor design will lead to more responsive robots, smart appliances and wearables. The Cortex M7 CPU design, which will be licensed to chip makers, could also go into cars, medical devices and networking and storage devices. The faster and power-efficient M7 will allow device …
One mobile device is wiped every three minutes as part of a corporate security policy, according to a study of 130,000 devices managed by MaaS360, the Fiberlink mobile device management platform. Fiberlink, an IBM company, manages millions of mobile devices for businesses worldwide through the MaaS360 platform. The company said today …
Prices of gray market iPhones have fallen in China, according to a report by the Communist Party’s official house organ today. As of Tuesday, prices of the iPhone 6 in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) were down as low as 7,200 yuan ($1,172 at today’s exchange rate) for a …
Google is looking to launch a fleet of high-altitude balloons that will circle the planet, providing Internet connectivity to remote areas — and it plans to do so within a year. That’s the plan that Astro Teller, head of Google’s secretive “moonshot factory” GoogleX, told an audience at MIT Technology …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged two Florida-based attorneys for their roles in an offering fraud conducted by a transfer agent that was the subject of an SEC enforcement action two months ago. The SEC alleges that Jonathan P. Flom and James L. Schmidt II were designated to receive …
In a copycat PC industry, Dell is trying to attract attention with features and technology firsts that it is bringing to PCs and tablets. Dell is adding new hardware and software features that could make an otherwise mundane PC or tablet more attractive to customers. Buyers may have to pay …
Should you dump Android for the iPhone 6? No, absolutely not and here's why. Plus: Ten Android features that still beat iOS 8, and Android L versus iOS 8. read more
Former Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie has just released a mobile app and service — and it’s not for Windows Phone, but instead the iPhone. They can’t be pleased in Microsoft Land about this. The new service is called talko, and to a certain extent it’s looking to kill …
So far it's just for iPhone, but the goal is support for corporate work groups. read more
CRM data offers all sorts of goodies for hackers. Now's the time to step up your protections. read more
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a Florida-based penny stock company and its CEO with defrauding investors by issuing false and misleading press releases proclaiming large sales and fantastic revenue projections while the purported health food company actually was a failing enterprise. The SEC alleges that Heathrow Natural …
Now that Google has backed away from requiring new Gmail users to automatically sign up for Google+, analysts are wondering whether the company is giving up on its social network. Earlier this month, Google stopped mandating a Google+ signup for new Gmail users, but the company denies the move has …
Canonical releases the RTM version of Ubuntu Touch. Can it compete with Android and iOS? Plus: Fourteen ways to contribute to open source without being a programmer, and advice for open source programmers. read more
Microsoft yesterday made it easier for school and university students to obtain a free subscription to Office 365 by sidestepping institutional IT and going to the self-serve line. A year ago, the Redmond, Wash. technology company announced “Student Advantage,” a program under which educational institutions that licensed Office Professional Plus …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Barclays Capital Inc. with failing to maintain an adequate internal compliance system to ensure the firm did not run afoul of any federal securities laws after its wealth management business in the U.S. acquired the advisory business of Lehman Brothers in September 2008. …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced the appointment of Liban Jama as director of the Atlanta Regional Office, where he will oversee enforcement and examinations in a region covering five states. Mr. Jama currently serves as senior advisor to SEC Chair Mary Jo White, and before that he served …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Rhea Kemble Dignam has been named as senior counsel to the director of the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE). Ms. Dignam will begin her new position when her successor as the regional director of the SEC’s Atlanta Regional Office begins …
Apple CEO, Tim Cook, took a stand against climate change at Climate Week NYC yesterday, saying he hopes the baby boomers won’t be the first generation to leave their children worse off. Time to act The boomers already have. The world reached record levels of CO2 pollution in 2013. This …
Apple очень гордится толщиной новых iPhone и при любой возможности стремится упомянуть этот факт. Данный параметр для iPhone 6 и 6 Plus составляет 6.9 и 7.1 мм соответственно. Однако корпорация забывает про выступающее на 0.7 мм кольцо основной камеры и не учитывает его при расчете толщины гаджетов. Недовольный блогер PeripateticPandas решил устранить …
In a copycat PC industry, Dell is trying to attract attention with the innovative features and technology firsts that it is bringing to PCs and tablets. read more