Новости за 04.11.2015

Sprint Chairman and SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son told reporters in Tokyo early Wednesday that job cuts at Sprint will be "in the thousands" as part of a restructuring plan.

In a move many consider long overdue, Microsoft and Red Hat on Wednesday announced a new partnership through which Microsoft will offer Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the preferred choice for enterprise Linux workloads on Azure.

Are you an engineer who has dreamed of working on the International Space Station or maybe on the surface of Mars?

Mozilla's Firefox, returning to a multi-month cycle of user share losses, is again flirting with the dangerous 10% milestone, according to data from analytics company Net Applications.

If there’s one question hanging over Dropbox these days, it’s about the company's enterprise strategy. While the cloud storage provider has proved wildly popular among consumers, its products have had a slightly harder time gaining massive adoption in the enterprise. But the company has grown rapidly over the past several months.

Google continued its enterprise push on Wednesday with the launch of new programs relating to Android for Work, its group of features and services that help make the mobile operating system easier to manage for businesses.

Attackers are creating rogue versions of popular Android applications that compromise the security of devices and are extremely hard to remove.

Billions of dollars later, the TSA is still incompetent and its screening process is full of fail. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee wanted answers about TSA security gaps. The DHS Office of Inspector General released a damning report and testified the TSA has not made any real improvements since it failed the last round of covert testing.

OneDrive users on Tuesday took to an online petition website and to Microsoft's own UserVoice feature request service to demand that the company rethink its decision to reduce free storage allotments by 83%.

For several years, Microsoft has been promising a compelling vision in Office 365: a common platform of productivity and collaboration tools that all departments could use, with the extra security assurance of integrating policies and access into Active Directory. Over time, Microsoft delivered a compelling road map for how all the pieces would work not only in Windows but in other operating systems like OS X, iOS, and Android.

Airbnb and the so-called "sharing economy" got a shot in the arm as early results on Tuesday suggested that the voters in San Francisco had voted down a measure that would place tight restrictions on the operation of short-term vacation rental businesses.

Dozens of U.S. enterprises are still using Apple mobile apps seeded with malware for a clever hacking scheme revealed last month known as XcodeGhost.

The International Space Station hit a significant milestone this week -- 15 years of humans living and working onboard the orbiter.

October saw the OpenStack Foundation hold its six-monthly summit, this time in Tokyo, Japan. I've been covering OpenStack since it was created, and in that time have seen it grow massively, albeit with a few stumbles along the way. (Disclosure: The OpenStack Foundation covered some of my travel and expenses to attend the event.)

The Four Points by Sheraton in Halifax, Nova Scotia, had an ongoing challenge typical to most hotels: putting guests in the rooms with the amenities they desire most.

Firefox now has “Tracking Protection” built into its Private Browsing mode. Mozilla argues that all the other browsers leak information in their Incognito, InPrivate or (ahem) pr0n modes.

Flashback to 1985, when this sysadmin pilot fish has just gotten a job helping to manage IT for 400 engineers and related staff.

Striving to keep up with the increasing demands of delivering users' News Feeds, Facebook is pressing hard to advance artificial intelligence.