Новости за 30.09.2015

Google and NASA are continuing to test quantum computers and this week entered into a new agreement to work with a series of updated systems.

Microsoft's Windows will become a third-place operating system by 2017, research firm Gartner said today.

Old-line industries haven't seen much of a payoff from the Internet yet, but once they get moving they could become bigger users than either tech companies or consumers.

Rotary Club members who donate $1,000 or more to the Rotary Foundation get a lot of special attention. They are named Paul Harris Fellows in honor of the organization's founder. They receive a certificate and an elegant lapel pin. It's an important award in the Rotary world, and one that has been around since 1957. But recently it had become the source of a lot of unhappiness.

Asana, the popular task management system, announced a whole suite of new updates Wednesday morning designed to enhance the experience of using its products.

September has been the month for companies to announce updates to their cloud storage products in order to draw business away from the competition. It's a crowded, rough-and-tumble market, with offerings from Google, Box, Dropbox and other companies

Cybercriminals using the Dyreza computer trojan appear to be shifting gears from online banking and moving into the industrial supply chain.

Intel and Samsung separately announced new solid-state drives (SSDs). Intel's boasts the company's fastest speed to date at 5Gbps.

Box is perhaps the best known pureplay enterprise file sharing and synchronization vendor; while its on-again, off-again and finally across the line IPO wasn't a stellar showing, the company, and its effervescent CEO Aaron Levie, has long been one of the more important players in the space. One vendor that has suffered a little for being in the shadow of Box is Huddle. Founded in the UK, and now firmly ensconced on both sides of the Atlantic, Huddle had some early success with government customers... Читать дальше...

Progression of OS X

More than 14 years ago, Apple unveiled its Mac OS X operating system, which became noteworthy for its UNIX architecture.

Microsoft's board of directors earlier this month downsized the stock award portion of CEO Satya Nadella's 2016 compensation package compared to the year before, according to documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

500 million, yes half a billion, WinRAR users are at risk of being pwned thanks to a critical flaw that could allow hackers to take control of victims’ computers. Vulnerability Lab, via the Full Disclosure mailing list, put the world on notice about a remote code execution vulnerability in the latest version of WinRAR, WinRAR 5.21. If the critical bug in WinRAR is exploited by an attacker, then a victim’s system could be compromised by simply opening the file.

I am a significant pessimist. To me, Murphy was indeed an optimist. As such, I was frankly a bit surprised at myself when I came to the realization today that our cybersecurity situation is worse than I imagined. What pushed me over the edge? Consider:

Today’s the day to install Apple’s latest iteration of OS X, El Capitan. I’ve been using the GM version for a few days - it’s a joy to use - here are 12 reasons you should upgrade.

The Chairman smiles at Tim Cook. Apple's announced it's rolling out Apple Music to the Middle Kingdom, with every expectation it will be just as successful as it is in the US.

Big data can mean big threats to security, thanks to the tempting volumes of information that may sit waiting for hackers to peruse. BlueTalon hopes to tackle that problem with what it calls the first-ever filtering and dynamic masking capabilities for use directly on the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS).

One of the challenges of big data is blending information from multiple sources, and Pentaho has developed new software to make that process easier.

The enterprise file storage and collaboration market is crowded with companies vying to provide the best place for businesses to store information and employees to work together. Box is looking to punch above its weight in a ring that includes Microsoft and Google, and showed a bulked-up set of new products and services at its BoxWorks conference in San Francisco on Tuesday.

With Windows 10 out but customized hardware only starting to appear, there may never be a better time to buy a discounted Windows 8.1 machine -- whether you intend to keep Win 8.1 or upgrade for free to Windows 10. With an eye toward making the upgrade, I put six of the best and most popular 13-inch laptops through my extensive, real-world, “can I really live and work with them” test.

Since taking over from Steve Jobs as CEO, one of the things Tim Cook has brought to Apple is a greater push to address social problems. On Tuesday at the Boxworks conference in San Francisco, Cook said he wants other companies to do the same.

Apple's new Macintosh operating system, OS X 10.11 "El Capitan," is named after a prominent rock formation in Yosemite National Park. That's fitting because the new OS is designed with rock-solid stability in mind. El Capitan is the 12th iteration of the OS powering Apple’s desktop computer lineup, and as the name implies, it stands on the shoulders of its predecessor.

This retailer gets word from its point-of-sale vendor about a completely rewritten version of the vendor's software with lots of great new features -- and it sounds awesome, says a pilot fish on the inside.

3D printer shipments are forecast to more than double every year between 2016 and 2019, by which time worldwide shipments are expected to reach more than 5.6 million, according to new research from Gartner.

Next time you go for an MRI scan, remember that the doctor might not be the only one who sees your results.

Mirantis, the high-flying vendor whose single focus is on delivering OpenStack to the world, is today releasing its latest version of the software. Mirantis OpenStack 7.0 is an incremental release. OpenStack is, of course, the open-source cloud computing initiative first started by Rackspace and NASA some five years ago. Since then there has been massive interest in the project, with a plethora of vendors founded (and, sadly, many now gone) to pursue the opportunity.