Новости за 08.10.2015

Adidas has announced a new performance running shoe line called Futurecraft 3D, which will offer consumers a custom-formed and 3D-printed midsole.

AT&T kicked off Wi-Fi calling on newer-model iPhones running iOS 9 on Thursday after winning permission from the Federal Communications Commission two days earlier.

Technology has impacted almost every facet of the job search process from how candidates advertise themselves to how businesses source, recruit and hire talent, but one thing has remained pretty much the same: the resume. It's still one of the best ways job seekers can demonstrate their skills, knowledge and experience to potential employers. And for recruiters and hiring managers, it's a time-honored way to gauge a candidate's value and fit with an organization.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is, the elephant in the public cloud room. The generally accepted triumvirate of public cloud vendors, AWS, Microsoft and Google, all have their particular attributes. For Google it is the immense scale they can leverage from their search and other businesses -- no one is a better cloud operator than Google. For Microsoft it is their incredible exciting customer base in the enterprise -- when it comes to public cloud vendors, Microsoft has the best enterprise history. Читать дальше...

Microsoft's foray into notebooks with the Surface Book is certain to tick off its computer-making partners, but there's little recourse for the latter except to grin and bear it, analysts said today.

Hewlett-Packard and SanDisk today announced an agreement to jointly develop "Storage Class Memory" (SCM) that could replace DRAM and would be 1,000 times faster than NAND flash.

NEC has developed a surveillance system that can spot drones from up to a kilometer away. The system is intended to be used around places like sports stadiums, nuclear power stations and government buildings, and can detect drones in several ways.

Named Data Networking Project

Van Jacobson: "In vocabulary terms, IP is like a good middle school education. There’s a lot of things you can say and communicate in society but it’s not so great for writing a poetry volume or a thesis... The real goal of NDN was to get us into college."

IBM is gunning for a slice of Intel's x86 server chip business with a new family of Power systems that run Linux and will be sold directly to customers over the Web.

Toshiba's Chromebook 2 has been my go-to Chrome OS recommendation for a while -- and for good reason: The system provides a great all-around experience without breaking the bank. It's meaningfully nicer than most entry-level Chromebooks, but at $330, it's still quite affordable.

Researchers have found a new way to attack the SHA-1 hashing algorithm, still used to sign almost one in three SSL certificates that secure major websites, making it more urgent than ever to retire it, they said Thursday.

Segment is a platform for collecting customer data wherever it’s generated. The rationale for Segment's existence is that, while organizations increasingly want to use data to better tailor products and services to their customers, the work involved in capturing and transporting that data is a barrier to realizing that ambition. Segment's hypothesis is that, just like aqueducts in days gone by, there is a latent demand for data (or water) but that the infrastructure to provide that data is the missing piece. Читать дальше...

The sorting hat

Apple has secured a unique worldwide deal to offer enhanced editions of all seven books in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series through the iBooks store, the first time digital versions of the author’s works have been made available outside of her own Pottermore website.

If there's a common refrain in enterprise security these days, it's that nobody wants to become the next Sony, Experian, Scottrade, Target or Home Depot. Moving workloads to a public cloud service means that companies can leave some of the day-to-day work of securing their infrastructure to professionals who manage those services. 

They're restless.

Users of Microsoft's Office for Mac 2016 who upgraded to Apple's OS X 10.11, aka El Capitan, have become increasingly frustrated by repeated crashes of the Office applications, angrily denouncing Microsoft, and to a lesser extent, Apple, on the former's support forum.

"It's called Office '2016' because that's the expected date it 'might' work, although when in 2016 is not clear, assuming we are using the Gregorian calendar!" wrote someone identified only as "bluedolphin"... Читать дальше...

A bill was introduced in the U.S. Senate on Wednesday that will make it a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine or imprisonment for up to a year, for individuals who knowingly operate a drone within 2 miles of a fire, an airport or any other restricted airspace.

Amazon Web Services is holding its 4th annual shindig—AWS re:Invent 2015. Here in Sin City, the cloud unit is gleefully telling all who'll listen that it's the biggest, the bestest, and the awesomest.

LAS VEGAS -- For enterprises considering a move to the cloud, or even in the middle of a move right now, the transition can be daunting -- even a bit overwhelming.

A journalist accused of helping a rogue hacking group briefly take control of the Los Angeles Times website was convicted by a federal jury in California on Wednesday.

At The New York Times, speeding up web page load times on smartphones is a priority, just as it is for any publisher.

College student pilot fish is working for his school's IT department at the help desk, answering phones and troubleshooting issues for students, faculty and staff.

Dell is reportedly in talks to buy all or part of enterprise storage powerhouse EMC, which would mark a bold and unexpected new chapter in the PC maker's history.

Android users in more than 20 countries have been infected with a particularly aggressive malware program that bombards devices with unwanted advertisements.

The security breach at Samsung subsidiary LoopPay was probably more about spying than about gathering consumer data for profit, and the worst could be yet to come, a security analyst said Wednesday.