По данным отраслевых источников, спот-цены на рынке микросхем оперативной памяти ощутимо повысились. Недавно всего за один день DRAM-чипы подорожали на 5%. Это спровоцировано увеличением заказов от китайских производителей планшетов. При росте спроса поставки остаются на том же невысоком уровне, что вызывает дефицит в отрасли. …
Facebook делает ставку на глубокое машинное обучение (оно же – deep learning): руководители компании хотят, чтобы их социальная сеть могла обрабатывать информацию и принимать решения подобно человеческому мозгу. …
Disqus is updating its widely-used comments platform after a Swedish tabloid exposed politicians and other public figures for allegedly making highly offensive comments on right-wing websites. read more
Dell said it would join a growing market of thin-and-light Chrome OS laptops with the new Chromebook 11, but the system will initially be available only to educational institutions. read more
Twitter has made its direct messaging service easier to use and added the ability to send photos, in an update to the Twitter app for Android and iOS released Tuesday. read more
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission should limit the amount of spectrum that giant mobile carriers AT&T and Verizon Communications are able to buy in an auction scheduled for mid-2015, some U.S. senators said Tuesday. read more
The availability of fast, affordable Internet connectivity, rising awareness of options for tech businesses and an ambiguous regulatory framework has allowed Kenya's online content business to blossom. read more
Humavox this week unveiled Eterna, a new platform that uses RF signals to wirelessly power the Internet of Things, especially medical and wearable devices such as hearing aids, smart watches and augmented-reality glasses. …
The latest round of monthly patches from Microsoft illustrates the need for organizations to move from older versions of Microsoft software if they haven't done so already. read more
The latest round of monthly patches from Microsoft illustrates the need for organizations to move from older versions of Microsoft software if they haven't done so already. …
The U.S. Senate voted in favor of the renewal of the Undetectable Firearms Act of 1988 last night, with the intention of preventing an increase in the production of plastic, 3D-printed guns. read more
Microsoft introduced Windows XP in 2001, and it became an instant success. It combined the well-received consumer user interface from Windows 98 with the stability of Windows NT, was out-of-the-box Internet capable with an excellent browser — Internet Explorer (IE) — and quickly took over the market. …
Says notice last week was 'in error;' falls back on 'TBD'. read more
A third-party advertising framework integrated in hundreds of Android apps contains a vulnerability that could allow hackers to steal sensitive information from users' phones, according to security researchers from antivirus firm Bitdefender. read more
As Twitter rings in the new year, it's got some big ideas for expanding its audience by forging more news partnerships. read more
When financial times are tough, the capability to streamline business processes, improve efficiency and achieve agility would appeal to any company. That's why firms today are increasingly finding new and sometimes unique ways to use BPM tools. …
IT managers facing the task of explaining the business value of IT to the C-suite don’t necessarily have an easy time of it. But eBay believes it has fixed this problem with a metric that translates IT resources into key business metrics …
Oracle is now a corporate sponsor of the OpenStack Foundation and plans to weave parts of the open-source infrastructure platform into its own products, saying it will give customers more flexibility and options for managing clouds. read more
A slightly-smaller percentage of American families plan to buy a tablet during the holiday season than last year, but tablets remain a hot-ticket item, a market research company reported today. …
BMC Software has set up a private-label marketplace service that will allow independent software vendors (ISVs) and other organizations to run their own online app stores. read more
Will Microsoft lose billions in Android revenue? Plus: The release candidate of Linux Mint 16 Xfce is available for download. And a review of openSUSE 13.1 GNOME. read more
SugarSync, which has offered 5GB of free capacity since its founding, today announced it will only offer that as a trial and that all capacity after the trial will have to be paid for. …
Huddle's enterprise content collaboration suite now has a native component for creating, editing and sharing documents, an attempt by the company to reduce its customers' usage of Microsoft's Word and OneNote applications. read more
Qualcomm and competitor MediaTek are working on chipsets that will open the door for LTE in low-cost smartphones and tablets, allowing people all over the world to benefit from the higher speeds it offers. read more
Hewlett-Packard has added Intel's Haswell processors to a pair of new EliteBook business laptops, while making them slimmer. read more
Hewlett-Packard has redesigned its beige-boxed desktop PCs, sizing them down into mini-desktops without compromising on components. read more