Новости за 24.09.2015

Yet again, Apple iOS 9.0 has a nasty lockscreen bug. It allows anyone to see your photos and contacts. And 9.0.1 doesn't fix the privacy vulnerability.

All the analytics tools in the world won't do a company much good if it doesn't know what data it has to analyze. Tamr offers a free, downloadable tool designed to help tackle that "dark data" problem.

Anyone who has ever tried to schedule a meeting with a group of people knows how much of a hassle it can be. People have their own schedules with different idiosyncrasies, so setting up a time that's convenient usually involves a lengthy email or chat chain just to figure out when the meeting can happen. 

After weeks of meetings, the U.S. and China appear to be on the verge of an historic first agreement on hacking and cyberespionage. But besides smiles on the faces of Presidents Obama and Xi in front of TV cameras, what might a deal actually accomplish?

North America has finally run out of new addresses based on IPv4, the numbering system that got the Internet where it is today but which is running out of space for the coming era of networking.

One of the ongoing frustrations with using Google services on iOS is that the company is often late to bring its new tools to Apple's mobile platform.

China's Baidu search engine yesterday said that it's working with Microsoft on a way to upgrade the country's massive number of aged Windows XP PCs to Windows 10.

Tidemark delivers enterprise performance management (EPM) software. What that esoteric acronym means is that Tidemark helps organizations take internal data they already have and use it to plan the future steps they will take, but also to assess the historical performance of their organization. Tidemark was founded only a few short years ago (in 2009, to be precise) but has already raised close to $120 million from a host of investors over multiple rounds. Tidemark is a good example of a new breed of cloud vendor... Читать дальше...

Facebook crashed for at least 10 minutes today and then struggled to fully come back online.

Security researchers have discovered a new malware program that infects automated teller machines (ATMs) and allows attackers to extract cash on command.

Not unlike Photoshop, Adobe Analytics (formerly Omniture SiteCatalyst) is known as being a powerful program that's somewhat difficult to use for all but experienced power users. It's not so much that doing things is so hard, but that a) the interface can be somewhat daunting with so many available options and b) it's not always obvious (i.e. intuitive) how to get things done without having had some training.

After extorting millions from consumers over the past few years, file-encrypting ransomware creators are increasingly focusing their attention on victims who are more likely to pay up: small and medium-sized businesses.

Microsoft yesterday said it had struck a deal with China's Baidu, best known to Westerners as the country's largest search provider, to push Windows 10 to China's massive consumer market.

When it comes to smartwatches, every second counts.

Huawei and Motorola seem to think so, anyway. In what can't be a coincidence, the two companies are releasing their remarkably similar-looking Android Wear devices at the same time -- and thus battling it out directly for your attention and buying dollars.

I've been spending the past week getting to know the new Moto 360 ($300 to $450, depending on style and options) and the Huawei Watch ($350 to $800, depending on model). I've been... Читать дальше...

There has been a lot of speculation why Facebook is adding a dislike button to its repertoire. Yes, I know…CEO Mark Zuckerberg said it wouldn’t be a dislike button — that would be too negative — but rather an icon for users to signify that they have read and acknowledged a certain post concerning things like the announcement of someone's death, but didn't "like" it.

Watch OS 2 is a significant update for Apple Watch, you can read about its new features here and here.

For everyone immersed in Facebook's News Feed instead of work, it's now more immersive than ever thanks to 360-degree videos. 

News this morning from AppDirect that it is acquiring another vendor, AppCarousel. That's lots of apps in there, so what is actually going on?

IBM is adding new smarts to its Watson artificial intelligence system, including the ability to scour photos on social networks to see what you've been up to.

Apple identified 25 apps in its stores that used a rogue version of its Xcode development tool, and advised users to update the affected apps to fix the issue on their devices.

The U.S. has fallen to No. 55 in LTE performance as speeds rise rapidly in countries that have leapfrogged some early adopters of the popular cellular system.

Epson is attempting to rewrite printer history with its new line of EcoTank inkjet printers. Instead of using small, prefilled ink cartridges that have to be frequently (and expensively) replaced, Epson's new printers use permanent tanks in which generous amounts of ink are poured. When you run out of ink, instead of buying and snapping in new ink cartridges, you just pour more in.

Consumers are holding on to their tablets, laptops and smartphones for longer periods, leading Gartner to predict a 1% contraction in shipments of all types of devices globally this year.

Matt Hamblen

Kansas City, Mo.'s 2.2-mile streetcar line, coming next year, sits in the center of an innovation district that will include smart city elements like free Wi-Fi, station interactive kiosks and sensors to guide traffic and control streetlights.

Flashback to the late 1980s, when this pilot fish is working for a small vendor that sells accounting software to small businesses.