Новости за 20.08.2015

Microsoft has pre-empted a new feature Google plans to include in the next version of Android with an update released Thursday for the Bing Search app that lets users get information about what they're looking at by pressing and holding their device's home button.

Either because of market saturation or waning interest, some of the world's largest social networks are seeing slowing growth.

About one in 10 U.S. owners of an iPhone or other iOS device are currently using Apple Music, the Cupertino, Calif. company's streaming service, according to a survey conducted by MusicWatch.

At 19, Eric Dishman began a fight with kidney cancer, and for 23 years he endured what he described as Russian roulette chemotherapy.

Sony is aiming to make a bigger splash in the smartwatch and fitness tracker arena when it ships its Smartband 2 in September with an integrated heart-rate monitor.

Camera enthusiasts assembled on a stage in Tokyo on Thursday for a traditional group photo, taken by a photographer in front of them. But as they gathered, they lifted slender stick-like cameras above their heads, instantly grabbing 360-degree pics of the room. 

Few apps are as consistently loved and relied upon by Android enthusiasts as Nova Launcher. Widely considered the de facto do-it-all home screen replacement for power users, Nova picked up where Android's original launchers left off (here's lookin' at you, ADW) and quickly became the go-to tool for those seeking total control over their home screen environments.

The growth march of Windows 10 slowed this week as gains stalled starting on Monday, according to new data from an Irish analytics firm.

Reports about the Ashley Madison breach are all over the news this week. I’ve rarely seen so much attention given to a data breach. What we know so far is that there are 37 million user records “in the wild” right now that contain personal information including credit card numbers, names, email addresses, and even sexual preferences. It’s intense.

Microsoft's Office 365 has passed Salesforce.com as the most popular service among companies that use Okta's device and identity management products, according to a new report released Thursday.

The exponential rise in security incidents has caused many businesses to look hard at getting their own houses in order before they become the next headline. As part of those efforts, businesses are turning to security consultants to perform audits, penetration testing and other assessments of their systems. These are admirable activities, worthy of consideration by any prudent organization. But these engagements should be entered into with all the care that a business would use in any other... Читать дальше...

A vulnerability in the iOS sandbox for third party applications, like those installed by companies on their employees' devices, can expose sensitive configuration settings and credentials.

Kim Jong Un and other high-ranking officials in North Korea have their own cellular network to help keep their conversations secure, according to a former telecommunications engineer who worked in the country.

Backed by the likes of AT&T, Intel and Qualcomm, industry organization GSMA has launched an initiative to accelerate the rollout of cellular networks customized for machine-to-machine communications.

Tintri is a storage vendor and, as we all know, storage has traditionally been seen as one of the most boring parts of our industry. I mean, nothing ever really happens in storage, and those storage geeks seem to get excited about the weirdest of things — big spinning disks and tall racks with far too few flashing lights on them.

Apple Now

Working alongside Siri, Apple’s iOS 9 flagship feature Proactive tries to work out what you want to do next. It then tries to support and help you do what you want to do.

Proactive will do things like:

• If you call a contact at a regular time on a regular basis, Proactive will start placing the contact’s icon in your Search screen at around the time it thinks you might make that call.
• If you visit the gym regularly and like to play music there, you’ll... Читать дальше...

Huawei's newest smartphone has a rotating rear camera that can flip forward to take high quality selfie photos. 

U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) is to introduce a proposal soon that aims to make geofencing of drones mandatory, following a number of reports of close shaves between the unmanned aircraft and regular planes.

Empowered customers, armed with ever-increasing digital capability, are assaulting your business model.

Are there places in your home or office where your Wi-Fi signal doesn't reach? You're not alone. Because of Wi-Fi's limited range -- and old-school building construction techniques like thick plaster, brick or masonry walls -- even the best Wi-Fi networks have dead zones. If you have that problem, you have several options.

Google will have to find a new way to attach the modules for its ambitious Project Ara smartphone after the device failed a drop test.

Google is sorry to report it's lost some cloud customers' data. Lightning struck four times near its St. Ghislain, Belgium data center, causing some Google Compute Engine (GCE) storage to go bye-bye, without sufficient battery backup to commit.

In his just-released immigration policy paper, Donald Trump, who is seeking the Republican presidential nomination, wants to make it more expensive to hire foreign workers, and in doing so, encourage the hiring of U.S. workers.

This company is growing at a double-digit rate, and adding locations and employees at about the same clip, and the IT manager pilot fish has been pushing for a saner IT procurement process -- with no success.

I have been following my own Defensive Computing advice for a while now, and using the Chrome browser configured to "Let me chose when to run plugin content." In other words, Flash does not run by default when a page loads, I have to manually click on Flash content that I want to see.