Финская Rovio Entertainment сегодня выпускает для iOS-устройств новую Angry Birds Epic — RPG-подобную приключенческую игру на тему злых птичек и зеленых свинок. Сценарий новой игры довольно прост: основные характеры Angry Birds — птички Red, Chuck и Bomb исследуют Свиной Остров (Piggy Island), попутно сражаясь с самими свинками. …
Смартфоны iPhone 5s и 5c, поддерживающие сети четвертого поколения, занимают значительную часть мирового трафика LTE, сообщает аналитическая компания Counterpoint Research. При рассмотрении одних только LTE-смартфонов в первом квартале 2014 года доля iPhone составила свыше 42% трафика в мире. …
Компания Huawei опубликовала тизер, согласно которому следующий флагман Honor 6 будет представлен 24 июня. …
Объем мирового рынка софта, предназначенного для обеспечения компьютерной безопасности, аналитики Gartner оценили в 19,9 млрд по итогам 2013 года. Относительно показателя годичной давности этого сегмент рынка программного обеспечения подрос на 4,9%, однако изначально эксперты ожидали более высокую динамику. …
Еще в начале марта начали появляться первые подробности о функциональности iOS 8. Некоторые слухи подтвердились на WWDC 14, другие до сих пор остаются лишь предположениями об изменениях в следующих бета-версиях прошивки. Одно из главных нововведений должно было касаться приложения Карты. …
Компания Xolo представила свой последний смартфон Xolo Q1200. Аппарат, построенный на базе 1.3-Гигагерцового процессора с четырьмя ядрами MediaTek MT6582 с графическим ускорителем Mali-400 MP2, оснащен 5-дюймовым дисплеем IPS с разрешением 1280 на 720 точек защищенный стеклом Gorilla Glass 3 с датчиками распознавания жестов; объем оперативной памяти составляет 1 Гигабайт, в то …
Code from the very early days of Simula, the first OO programming language, has surfaced read more
Intel lost its appeal against a €1.06 billion (US$1.44 billion) antitrust fine on Thursday when the General Court of the European Union upheld a 2009 ruling by the European Commission that the company had abused its dominant market position. read more
After merging with China's Alibaba Group, local mobile browser developer UCWeb is seeking to accelerate its international expansion, and double its user base to 1 billion over the next three to five years. read more
In a marriage of low and high technology, a robot is using a mop to clean up Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant. read more
Google has started an open-source project for a PDF software library, which developers will be able to incorporate into applications designed for a variety of platforms. read more
SAP's former technology chief Vishal Sikka will head ailing Indian outsourcer Infosys, in a marked shift from his focus at his former company on technology and product development. read more
Hewlett-Packard has kicked off an ambitious project that aims at nothing less than reinventing the basic architecture of computers. It looks like servers are its initial target, but HP is also working on an Android version that it says could lead to smartphones with 100TB of storage. read more
Nimble Storage says flash, currently all the rage in enterprises, is best used in moderation. But just to be safe, the company's giving customers a way to use a lot more of it. read more
Microsoft said Wednesday that an updated privacy and services policy will go into effect by the end of July. Here's what you need to know. read more
A U.S. federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that law enforcement officials need to have a warrant to access phone location data from cellular carriers. read more
Rep. Eric Cantor, the House majority leader who lost a primary bid Tuesday for re-election, was a reliable “yes” vote for increasing the H-1B visa cap. The man who beat him, David Brat, won’t be. …
The American Medical Association today voted to approve a list of guiding principles for ensuring the appropriate coverage of and payment for telemedicine services. …
Days after Samsung introduced a Tizen OS-based smartphone, a UK-based analyst declared the operating system a non-starter, despite its backing by a consortium of heavyweights including Intel, Samsung and LG Electronics. …
The mobile OS is years behind Android and iOS with a fraction of the developers, says analyst. read more
Samsung has taken a clear and dominant lead in the smartwatch market, but it's still early days and big changes could be on the horizon. read more
There’s no good reason Microsoft can’t adopt Apple’s “Handoff” technology in its iOS and OS X Office apps, an analyst said today. …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged the founder of an investment advisory firm located in suburban Chicago with defrauding investors in connection with a real estate venture for which his firm offered securities. After an SEC examination of Kenilworth Asset Management LLC detected potential misconduct that was referred to …
This week robots with no human handler will be making their way through a field, searching for hockey pucks, blue rocks, wooden cubes and the like. …
Target has hired a chief information security officer, a move that’s noteworthy mainly because it is the first time the company has had anyone in this role — even though it is one of the largest retailers in the U.S. …
Google hopes to simplify how local businesses manage their information on its sites and apps by consolidating a variety of scattered tasks under a new online service. read more