Новости за 15.09.2015

A five-year-old effort by the U.S. government to cut IT costs through data center consolidations, cloud computing and other technology changes may be paying off, according to a report Tuesday by a government watchdog agency.

A project that aims to increase the use of encryption by giving away free SSL/TLS certificates has issued its first one, marking the start of its beta program.

Smart cities have long been a concept, but now more financial muscle is being added to bring them closer to reality.

More than half of U.S. consumers haven't received new chip-based credit or debit cards to improve security of in-store purchases, according to a new survey.

Incase is a small but rapidly growing company that makes accessories for Apple products. The company makes a host of different solutions that are all designed to enable mobility, and protection, of devices. Incase targets traditional Apple customers, creative professionals who traditionally use Apple products. The company, which has been in operation since 1997, has 65 employees.

Xerox today announced two new printed packaging labels that can store 36 bits on rewritable memory. The labels are aimed at combating counterfeiting and helping businesses and government better secure products as they are distributed.

Cybercriminals often leave a lot of digital crumbs, and when organizations get attacked, finding those clues can help reveal who is attacking and why.

Microsoft late last week backed off the claim that its pre-loading of Windows 10 on devices whose owners had not reserved the free upgrade was "an industry practice."

For all of its many strengths, one area where the 2014 Moto X didn't exactly excel was in the realm of photography. The phone took fine enough photos -- more or less average for a device of its caliber -- but it offered nothing exceptional in the imaging department, especially compared to the increasingly impressive photography-focused flagships being put out by other manufacturers.

One day we may have global connectivity -- even in the remotest parts of the world -- thanks to teams of tiny, intelligent, swarming satellites called CubeSats.

Replacing router firmware with poisoned versions is no longer just a theoretical risk. Researchers from Mandiant have detected a real-world attack that has installed rogue firmware on business routers in four countries.

Salesforce is diving deeper into what kind of customer information it can surface to help salespeople manage their relationships with a new tool designed to bring in a richer array of data.

A new cloud offering from Salesforce aims to turn the Internet of Things into the "Internet of Customers," company chairman and CEO Marc Benioff will tell an audience of thousands of customers today.

It is widely agreed that employee buy-in and the adoption of a security culture within organizations is critical to maintaining good information security. Sadly, it appears that many employees are not on board with incorporating secure practices into their work life. This is curious, given that their livelihood depends on the success of their employers. A few years ago, I,would have suggested that this was the result of a lack of communication on the part of the employer. While that is probably still somewhat true today... Читать дальше...

We all know that the Internet of Things is set to change the world. Depending on whose press release you read, the IoT is single-handedly going to deliver world peace, a cure for cancer, eternal youth or a combination of the above. Vendors from A to Z are rushing to deliver something related to the IoT. Salesforce.com, the once CRM vendor and now uber platform deliverer of everything, has, for the past couple of years, been banging on about the Internet of customers. The Internet of customers... Читать дальше...

Satisfaction

The latest customer satisfaction data for Apple Watch should make interesting reading for anyone with a stake in the wearables market, but could be highly significant as the company gets ready to ship WatchOS 2.

This is because according to 451 Research, 54 percent of Apple Watch users say they are “very satisfied” with their device. An additional thirty-three percent confess to being “somewhat satisfied” leaving 6 percent each in the “somewhat unsatisfied” and “very unsatisfied” camps. Читать дальше...

Google is illegaly forcing smartphone vendors to install its apps, including the Google Play store, on Android phones, the Russian antitrust authority has ruled.

In the earliest days of the Web, I used to urge companies to force their developers to test all their sites on the slowest dial-up connections rather than on their enterprise T3 connections. My thinking was that if developers saw things through their users’ eyes, they would be more careful about making sure their sites were fast loading. That problem has gone away, but I have a similar message today about product updates and installations: Have your developers watch ordinary people using ordinary tech support try to install them. Читать дальше...

Apple's iOS 9 is expected to cause a boom in the use of IPv6, which could speed up service provider networks but create a lot of work for mobile developers. 

Andy Grolnick donned a suit coat and tie and readied himself for a frothy commute. The CEO of LogRhythm was among 200 people who tubed down Colorado’s Boulder Creek, outfitted in helmets and business attire, on July 14.

With the visit of Chinese premier Xi Jinping just a week away, the White House won't say whether one of its goals is to reach an agreement with China over cybersecurity.

A robot ethicist in the UK with far too much time on her hands, has decided to launch a campaign to ban the development of "sex robots." Of course the campaign makes excellent news fodder, is completely unwarranted and unneeded, but nevertheless it's a cause Isaac Asimov's fictional robopsychologist Dr. Susan Calvin would be proud to champion. So there, see?

In 2013, the IRS paid out $5.8 billion in refunds for tax filings it later realized were fraudulent, according to a 2015 report by the Government Accountability Office. This news comes as no surprise to the Kentucky Department of Revenue, which is stepping up its own war against rising fraud cases with predictive analytics.

Pilot fish gets a call from a user, who complains that the digital recorder issued by IT won't recharge any longer.

The legacy of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs lives on in many ways, most recently in the debate over the fate of Syrian refugees.