В следующем году мировой рынок ноутбуков продолжит сокращаться, но темпы регресса замедлятся, а в дальнейшем этот ПК-сектор вернется к позитивной динамике, прогнозирует WitsView, исследовательское подразделение тайваньской аналитической компании TrendForce. …
Samsung провела в Корее закрытую презентацию нового устройства — вероятно, 12,2-дюймового планшета Galaxy Note 10.1 Pro. Фотографий устройства нет, так как компания запрещает делать снимки новинок на подобных мероприятиях. Однако некоторая информация о планшете все же попала в интернет. …
Исследователи из Калифорнии, США, разработали программу, которая способна по фотографии определить, к какой субкультуре принадлежит тот или иной пользователь. …
Фонд свободного программного обеспечения (FSF) одобрил к использованию первый ноутбук, который соответствует критериям программы Respect Your Freedom. «Впервые мы можем рекомендовать людям покупать и использовать ноутбук в том виде, в котором он продаётся», — сказано в сообщении FSF. …
SSD-накопители в 2014 году ожидают значительные перемены: на рынке должны будут появиться модели, которые уйдут с интерфейса SATA III на PCIe Generation 2.0. На базе нового интерфейса должны работать модели для датацентров и премиальных лэптопов. …
More than a dozen smart glass products are expected to ship in the first half of next year, ranging in price from $79 to $3,000. So raise your glass to the coming wave of face-top computing gadgets. …
Bitcoin: What is it, really? A digital currency? An investment? An Xbox game? For many people it's not clear, but that hasn't stopped venture capitalists from going gaga over it. …
AT&T has joined Verizon Communications in promising to report on government requests for information about its customers, setting the stage for semiannual disclosures from both the dominant U.S. wireline carriers starting early next year. read more
LGS Innovations, a company formed during the Alcatel-Lucent merger to supply technology to the U.S. government, has been sold to a pair of U.S.-based investment companies for about US$200 million. read more
The downturn in the PC industry may soon reach rock bottom, where it could stabilize even as cheap tablets stay hot, an analyst said today. read more
Tech stocks rose this week on the back of solid economic news and some upbeat results from software vendors, including Red Hat and Oracle. read more
Symantec, the owner of PGP, continues to develop it but some enterprises balk at certificate management. read more
The downturn in the PC industry may soon reach rock bottom, where it could stabilize even as cheap tablets stay hot, an analyst said today. …
The U.S. National Security Agency defended its foreign intelligence surveillance programs Friday after news reports that the agency has targeted foreign leaders and business executives. read more
You thought you were shopping for family and friends this holiday season, but in doing so you may have also given a nice present to retailers: your data. read more
Employees of the online file storage service Megaupload discussed widespread copyright infringement on the site in internal communications released Friday by the U.S. Department of Justice. read more
Google executives showed up at the Homestead Miami Speedway in Florida to show support for their new team and to get a look at the Atlas robot, built by Boston Dynamics, and one of the stars of the challenge. …
T-Mobile USA looks set to reveal the next step in its "un-carrier" plan at January's CES in Las Vegas. read more
T-Mobile USA looks set to reveal the next step in its "un-carrier" plan at January's CES in Las Vegas. …
IBM has reached into its software portfolio to provide a more sophisticated scheduler for the OpenStack deployments it builds for its customers. read more
IBM has reached into its software portfolio to provide a more sophisticated scheduler for the OpenStack deployments it builds for its customers. …
BitTorrent, the company behind the popular file sharing protocol with the same name, is developing a secure chat application that will encrypt all communications between users and won't use any central server to route messages. read more
The rover that NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab has competing in DARPA’s Robot Challenge today is something of a distant cousin to the robotic rover working on Mars. …
This year saw the completion of the city of Munich's switch to Linux, a move that began about ten years ago. "One of the biggest lessons learned was that you can't do such a project without continued political backing," said Peter Hofmann, the leader of the LiMux project, summing up …
Ubuntu's upcoming tablet may just dominate the field in 2014. Plus: A SteamOS install guide, and a screenshot tour of Fedora 20 MATE. read more
After six months of contentious debate over U.S. National Security Agency surveillance programs, prompted by leaks from former government contractor Edward Snowden, the third week in December may have marked a major turning point. …