Новости за 26.10.2015

World View says a successful test flight over the weekend puts it a step closer to commercial balloon flights high enough to see the curvature of the earth and the black of space.

Microsoft has again aimed its Surface line at owners of Apple's MacBook notebooks, and offered up suggestions on how the latter can ditch their hardware for Microsoft's new devices.

After one week, the federal government has received nearly 3,000 comments about its proposal to expand the amount of time a foreign STEM student can work in the U.S. on a student visa. Not surprisingly, most comments are supporting the changes proposed by the Obama administration.

With IBM pouring millions of dollars into the emerging field of cognitive computing, Intel got in on the act Monday by announcing its acquisition of Saffron.

Microsoft's latest version of its Office suite is here, and it has been getting rave reviews. Here's what you need to know about Office 2016's capabilities:

The unusual LG V10 smartphone running Android 5.1 (Lollipop) will go on sale online Tuesday on AT&T and Wednesday on T-Mobile, with in-store purchases coming a few days later.

A Florida couple last week filed suit against Apple in a federal court, claiming that a new feature in iOS 9 caused them to exceed their wireless data cap, filings showed.

What happens after the world learns a hacker can wirelessly infect a Fitbit with malware in 10 short seconds? Security drama.

As of late, discussions have run rampant about the impact of intelligent systems on the nature of work, jobs and the economy. Whether it is self-driving cars, automated warehouses, intelligent advisory systems, or interactive systems supported by deep learning, these technologies are rumored to first take our jobs and eventually run the world.

I have a frustrating history with Oracle. I've been trying for many years to engage with the company, after all it has been, for decades, one of the most important technology vendors on the planet. Any industry commentator worth his salt needs to be over what they're doing. But my attempts to engage have always been stymied. Partly that's because I don't fall into the traditional buckets of analyst relations or press relations. I fall somewhere in-between the two and for a rigid organization like Oracle, that makes things complex. Читать дальше...

What follows are a few pointers to help you get the most out of your device when it does eventually arrive.

When Oracle bought Sun Microsystems five years ago, Larry Ellison made a lot of noise about how owning the entire systems stack, from applications to silicon, would allow him to do unique things with Oracle's servers. After five years of bluster and hype, he may finally have delivered -- but will customers buy what he's selling?

Companies suing people that use their sites can be dicey proposition — security firm FireEye recently showed the wrong way to use the courts — but Amazon's legal threats against more than 1,000 people who are allegedly posting bogus reviews is exactly the right move.

Law enforcement technology company Taser said Monday that it will be moving its future cloud services away from Amazon Web Services and onto Microsoft's Azure cloud platform, including the Evidence.com software-as-a-service package and video storage platform for its Axon video cameras.

Bitnami is kind of like the little engine that could. Despite being a modestly-sized vendor, they've managed to see great success convincing cloud vendors to use their application marketplace. What Bitnami does is actually pretty simple, yet very valuable.

Intel Security's plans to decommission select McAfee software-as-a-service products mean customers will have to go through the entire deployment and provisioning all over again if they want to keep getting endpoint and email security.

As Internet of Things invades the enterprise, companies need to revamp their approach to protecting data because the old ways aren’t going to get the job done. Not in a world of 25 billion or more IoT devices connected to the Internet by 2020, as Gartner predicts.

The BlackBerry PRIV is almost here; you can pre-order it today.

Off contract, you can get it at $699 (or C$899 for our neighbors to the north). It's shipping 11/6. But can it revive the struggling, eponymous Canadian company?

BlackBerry (née RIM) says PRIV is the most secure Android phone about. It also enjoys BlackBerryesque features such as a real keyboard and BES.

In IT Blogwatch, bloggers flex their thumbs in readiness, eh.

Your humble blogwatcher curated these bloggy bits for your entertainment. Читать дальше...

Spam emails containing the Dridex malware are being seen almost daily despite the arrest of one of its key operators in August.

Oracle Executive Chairman Larry Ellison unveiled Sunday new cloud applications and services, including a training tool that integrates with the company's human resources application, and gave a glimpse of the company's security strategy.

Six years after stepping into the retail market with smaller mall outlets, Microsoft is literally taking the wraps off its flagship store on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue on Monday, the same day as the general release of its Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book devices.

Yahoo last week unveiled a novel concept: Access to your Yahoo Mail account without a password.

After the town of Cary, N.C., installed a water meter system that automatically radios water usage to the public works department, it eliminated 10 meter-reading positions. The water resources group operates today with a smaller staff, thanks to the Internet of Things.

User complains to this IT support pilot fish that his smartphone doesn't always ring when it's called.