В ходе форума разработчиков Intel IDF 2014 глава компании Dell Майкл Делл и глава Intel Брайан Крзанич продемонстрировали планшет Dell Venue 8 7000 Series. Устройство, по словам создателей, является самым тонким серийным планшетом в мире. …
Apple обманула зрителей на презентации iPhone 6 и iPhone 6 Plus, прошедшей 9 сентября, утверждает автор издания Quartz Дэвид Янофски. Речь идет о разнице между реальной толщиной смартфонов и заявленными компанией параметрами. …
За три дня хакеры сумели украсть учетные записи почтовых сервисов Yandex, Mail.ru и даже Gmail. …
На краудфандинговой платформе Kickstarter запустилась кампания по сбору средств на устройство, пародирующее гаджеты Apple и названное iCups («iСтаканчики»). …
DSLR (Damn Small Linux Remake) — миниатюрный live-дистрибутив Linux для настольных компьютеров, который назван по примеру знаменитого Damn Small Linux, «чертовски маленького» Linux. Это не форк, а совершенно новый проект. …
Addressing an issue often overlooked by cloud storage users when choosing a service, Microsoft has increased the maximum size for files uploaded to OneDrive from 2GB to 10GB. read more
Security experts are urging Gmail users to change their passwords amid reports that hackers gained access to the credentials of 5 million users of the free email service. Some password combinations have been spotted on Russian cybercrime forums. Peter Kruse, head of the eCrime unit at CSIS Security Group in …
If Apple launched its Apple Watch today, between four and six out of every 10 iPhone owners would be able to use the smartwatch, according to statistics from Kantar Worldpanel Comtech and an app analytics firm. Apple Watch will work with the new, not-yet-released iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, …
While Samsung Electronics infringed on Apple’s slide-to-unlock patent, that infringement was not willful, a U.S. court has ruled. Samsung had asked Judge Lucy Koh of the San Jose division of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California to rule that it did not willfully infringe on the patent. …
Laptops that require no wires for charging, display, data transfers or docking will be available by the end of next year, an Intel executive said Wednesday. read more
Twitter wants to help more mobile developers build apps so it will show them how during its first-ever mobile developer conference, called "Flight." read more
The keynote stage at CTIA became a net neutrality boxing ring again on Wednesday as the head of the show's sponsor, CTIA President and CEO Meredith Attwell Baker, sharply disagreed with Tuesday's comments by FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler about how the mobile Internet should be regulated. read more
Google has acquired Lift Labs, which makes a mechanical spoon for people suffering from tremors, in a move giving Google new technology for combating neurodegenerative diseases. read more
Have you noticed more spinning “loading” icons on Web pages today? Organizations backing stronger net neutrality rules certainly are hoping you have. Today is Internet Slowdown Day, which is intended to draw public attention to the debate over net neutrality and efforts to ensure that Internet service providers and governments …
StarTech today released its latest disk duplicator, a standalone USB 3.0/eSATA docking station that offers the company’s fastest sector-by-sector drive cloning to date. The drive duplicator can copy data between two 2.5-in. or 3.5-in. SATA drives at about 400MBps — or 22.2GB per minute. By comparison, StarTech’s previous drive duplicator …
Intel will ship its low-cost Sofia mobile chip to device makers by the end of this year, so smartphones and tablets priced less than US$100 could be on the market early next year. read more
Technology, like comedy, uses improvisation. read more
Apple has finally released its watch, but how does it stack up against Android Wear? Plus: Comedy Central releases a free app for Android, and you can now make free voice calls from Google Hangouts. read more
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! Oh, wait…it’s a smartwatch. With all the hype leading up to the launch of Motorola’s Moto 360, it’s hard not to think of the device as a superhero of sorts. The watch has been positioned as the Holy Grail of Android Wear — the …
VMware has updated third-party libraries and components used by its vSphere server virtualization platform to integrate security patches released in recent months. read more
With the introduction of the Snapdragon 210 chipset, Qualcomm is hoping to push down the cost of LTE smartphones even further. read more
With the introduction of the Snapdragon 210 chipset, Qualcomm is hoping to push down the cost of LTE smartphones even further. The last 12 months have seen a growing focus on smartphones that cost below US$200. But while these products are becoming increasingly competent, they are still just 3G devices. …
By increasing the number of LTE bands to an astonishing 20 on the iPhone 6 models, Apple has paved the way toward global data roaming for the wireless technology. Now mobile operators just have to get their act together and agree on deals to make it a reality. read more
Red Hat Satellite, the software for managing fleets of servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux, can now also manage copies of RHEL that run in the cloud as well. read more
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a Massachusetts-based biotech company and its former CEO with defrauding investors by failing to report his sales of company stock. The federal securities laws require certain corporate executives to report their transactions in the company’s stock in order to give investors the opportunity …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced charges against 28 officers, directors, or major shareholders for violating federal securities laws requiring them to promptly report information about their holdings and transactions in company stock. Six publicly-traded companies were charged for contributing to filing failures by insiders or failing to report …