Новости за 27.08.2015

Facebook is improving its technology to better identify videos uploaded to its site without the permission of copyright holders.

As expected, Apple will hold this year's iPhone unveiling on Wednesday, Sept. 9, invitations that went out today to media and analysts signaled.

Google has finally responded to antitrust charges brought against it by the European Commission over how it presents search results, and its pugnacious reply potentially sets up a lengthy legal battle between the company and the regulator.

Invitations sent

Apple has confirmed it will hold its next key special event on September 9 at the 7,000-capacity Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco at 10am PDT, though if you want to know what the company has planned it’s telling you to ask Siri.

The company has begun sending invitations to the media in preparation for the event, and the focus (at least on the invitation) is on Siri. “Hey Siri, give us a hint,” the company declares.

I discussed what to expect at the event earlier this month (“Apple’s Sept. Читать дальше...

BitTorrent fixed a vulnerability that would have allowed attackers to hijack BitTorrent applications -- used by hundreds of millions of users -- in order to amplify distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.

Less than a decade ago, Microsoft was seen very much as a company denying the validity of the cloud. Its Office tools were a good example of this and steadfastly ignored industry trends in terms of rapid iteration, cloud delivery and subscription business models.

Several DSL routers from different manufacturers contain a guessable hard-coded password that allows the devices to be accessed with a hidden administrator account.

It's safe to say that Turing Award winners know a thing or two about computing, so when they express concern about key trends in the tech world, it's worth paying attention.

Chrome will automatically silence any auto-played audio until that tab is explicitly brought to the foreground, a Google evangelist said Wednesday.

Fitbit retained its title as the world's top wearables vendor for the second quarter of 2015, but Apple is quickly gaining ground.

Google Container Engine is finally out of beta. The search-engine-cum-advertising-broker is also all about that containerization.

Amazon has reportedly laid off dozens of engineers who worked on its slow-selling Fire smartphone in recent weeks, according to a news report.

Don’t hurt me

Ever tried to extricate the pocket lint out of the lightning connector on your iPhone? Ever broken the contacts inside the port when you did so? There’s one reason your local mobile repair shop is geared up to fix a broken power port for you. Wireless charging eliminates this problem.

For most iPhone users, the fantasy of wireless charging is also about convenience. We all love the idea of being able to slap our iPhone down on the mat, knowing the device is getting recharged. Читать дальше...

If you live in the Bay area, you’re in luck. Facebook is rolling out a very limited trial of a new virtual assistant called M. It’s easily accessible right within the familiar chat interface on mobile devices. While the name might not have anything to do with the James Bond movies, a spokesperson gave me a few more details about what M can do, and it sounds quite a bit like the new Cortana assistant in Windows 10, Apple’s Siri assistant, and Google Now. For a lucky few, M shows up as link in your feed. Читать дальше...

Step by step, the 802.11ac standard is taking over wireless networks in the enterprise, offering faster connections for users with the right devices.

Microsoft won't have all the pieces in place for its Windows Update for Business (WUB), a new service touted in May that's designed to ease corporate concerns about Windows 10's maintenance model, until sometime in 2016, according to a company manager.

Lenovo's Motorola Mobility division will take over the company's smartphone development and manufacturing, as part of a reorganization that the company hopes will cut costs and revitalize its handset business. 

When it comes to questions asked online, which ones are best handled by a machine, and which ones require human intervention? Facebook thinks it can perform the triage with M, its new personal digital assistant.

In a world where shopping malls are losing customers by the escalator-load to more convenient and deeper-inventoried digital options, one mall in a lightly populated Nebraska town is making some impressive progress in getting its shoppers to stick around.

A funny thing has happened over the past few years: As plus-sized smartphones have become more common, they've also started to feel less big.

It's the premise of many science fiction novels and movies: Super-intelligent robot machines that can outsmart humans, if not terminate them entirely. But the prospect doesn't exactly frighten some of today's experts in the field.

Eighty-one percent of healthcare executives say their organizations have been compromised by at least one malware, botnet or other kind of cyberattack during the past two years, according to a survey by KPMG.

IT pilot fish goes to work at a large retailer's distribution center, where the policy is that passwords must be changed every 90 days.

Exactly why is digital business so disruptive to traditional business models and traditional notions of industry competition? A useful way to analyze the situation is by looking at Porter’s model of the five forces of industry competition and exploring how digital business is impacting each of the various forces.

Yahoo pitched mobile developers on new tools at a New York conference on Wednesday, aiming to inspire them to go out and build disruptive apps.