Новости за 10.09.2015

We find ourselves at a seminal moment in the evolution of information technology: The stuff around us, even attached physically to us, is getting its own brain, and voice. Thanks to the ever-steady progression of Moore’s Law, as applied not only to microprocessor power but also to memory, storage and bandwidth — specifically, wireless bandwidth — plus other key commercial factors, we’re seeing almost anything and everything now capable of telling its own story. Generally, this is being lumped together as the Internet of Things (IoT)... Читать дальше...

Over the past eight or so years that I've been covering Salesforce, I've grown increasingly numb to the sheer number of different "clouds" it sells. There is, of course, the Salesforce Sales Cloud, but that has been joined by the Service Cloud, the Community Cloud, the Marketing Cloud, the Analytics Cloud, etc., etc. A few of us Salesforce watchers have been saying for a while now that perhaps the time has come to combine some of these clouds so that customers can get a consistent and coherent product mix. Читать дальше...

Attackers successfully infiltrated computer systems at the Department of Energy more than 150 times between 2010 and 2014, according to a review of federal documents by USA Today that  were obtained as a result of a Freedom of Information Act request. In all, DoE networks were targeted 1,131 times over the four-year span.

The shortage of qualified IT workers has been an ongoing problem in the business world for many years already, and new research suggests there's no end in sight. Twenty-five percent of projects today are abandoned as a result, and even those that do get finished are delayed by an average of five months.

Hackers have penetrated the IT systems of U.S. health insurer Excellus BlueCross BlueShield and gained access to personal, financial and medical information of more than 10 million people, the company disclosed Thursday.

For the first time in four years, Apple has increased the iPhone's camera resolution. The latest models -- the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus, unveiled yesterday -- now come with 12-megapixel cameras (up from 8 megapixels) and can capture 4K video (at 3840 x 2160 pixels).

First, let me admit: I haven't, until recently, been a user of headphones. I've always found them heavy, awkward and isolating; as a result, I've never enjoyed the close-up audio experience that they offer.

Oh -- hello there, Moto. 

On my desk sits the brand new Moto X Pure Edition (also known as the "Moto X Style" in some parts of the world). It's the much anticipated follow-up to last year's 2014 Moto X -- a phone that delivered an exceptional overall user experience even with its decidedly average camera and stamina.

This year's model picks up where that phone left off and promises to make things bigger (quite literally) and better (all around). And with a new carrier-free sales model and a starting price of just $400 unlocked... Читать дальше...

Engineers at Xerox PARC have developed a chip that will self-destruct upon command, providing a potentially revolutionary tool for high-security applications.

Until today, the creators of the hacked AshleyMadison.com infidelity website appeared to have done at least one thing well: protect user passwords with a strong hashing algorithm. That belief, however, was painfully disproved by a group of hobbyist password crackers.

The head of the nation's primary consumer protection agency on Wednesday paid a visit to San Francisco, where she called on technology startups to do a better job of incorporating security protections as they race to bring new applications into the market.

Remember the good old days when you would walk into your local grocery or convenience store and the person behind the counter would know who you were and give you personal service. It seems hard to believe given the overwhelming move to impersonal big box retailing, but only a generation ago, commerce was more evenly distributed and hence more personal. In the move to mass, homogeneous retailers  delivering cookie-cutter solutions of ultimate consistency, we have certainly reduced the price for the stuff we buy... Читать дальше...

What do you see when you look at the ink blotches below?

Don’t worry; this isn’t part of a psychological evaluation to determine your personality characteristics, emotional functioning or potential thought disorders. However if it were part of an ink blot test (Rorschach Test), then Trunk Archive, a subsidiary of Getty Images, looks at the image and sees dollar signs…$714 to be specific. Trunk Archive, claiming the ink splatter is one of its images, cried, “Copyright infringement!”... Читать дальше...

A California bill that would have forced drones to fly at a minimum height of 350 feet (107 meters) over private property has been vetoed by Gov. Jerry Brown in the wake of criticism that it could have damaged the state's drone industry and the economy at large.

I thought I’d avoid the “hands-on” battle of trying to wax lyrical about new Apple kit on the basis of a 10-minute Apple demo in order dig out a few interesting facts you might have missed.

The Wi-Fi industry is very worried about cellular operators’ plans to deploy an unlicensed version of LTE, the global 4G mobile phone standard, in spectrum already used by Wi-Fi networks.

Whether you’re in the office, at home, in school, or at coffee shops and hotels around the world, laptops are everywhere. The portable computer allows you to stay in touch and do productive work regardless of where you may be physically – especially when you factor in the extended battery life and cloud-based computing applications and services.

Apple yesterday quietly revealed that it will release OS X El Capitan, the successor to last year's Yosemite, on Sept. 30.

In a surprise move, Microsoft sent a pair of representatives to Apple's big event in San Francisco on Wednesday to demonstrate new features in Office for iOS that are tailored for the new iPad Pro. 

The next model of the Apple TV could play a big role in Apple's connected-home strategy, even though the company said nothing about it on Wednesday.

Dell plans to invest $125 billion over the next five years in China, the company's second-largest market outside the U.S.

The U.S. Department of Defense is considering offering rapid seed funding to private companies as a way to encourage more work on technology projects with the commercial sector, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Wednesday.

Analytics and the cloud increasingly go hand in hand, and OpenText has provided the latest example with its Big Data Analytics service announced on Wednesday.

Apple and Adobe loudly criticized for tone-deaf demo: At yesterday's Apple event, Adobe showed off the Photoshop Fix feature, by making a female model smile.

Temp worker in this organization's finance department sends pilot fish a trouble ticket: I'm not sure what happened to the information in my folders called Important and Don't Delete. Can someone please assist me in getting it back?