Новости за 19.02.2016

The government today filed a motion in federal court asking a judge to immediately compel Apple to assist the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in accessing the iPhone 5C used by Syed Rizwan Farook, one of the people accused of killing 14 in San Bernardino, Calif. two months ago.

We could argue endlessly over the legal, political and technical fine points of the FBI getting a court order requiring Apple to assist it in cracking open a locked iPhone 5c. That’s not really the point.

Apple’s dispute with the FBI over providing access to a mass shooter's smartphone could lead device makers to require stronger passwords in future.

Security software vendor Comodo has patched a security weakness in its GeekBuddy remote PC support tool that could have enabled local malware or exploits to gain admin privileges on computers.

Major companies in the Internet of Things world set aside their differences on Friday to work together toward a single standard for all IoT gear.

IT buyers might be tempted by the proliferation of niche software products that handle various parts of the sales and marketing process. But trying to make those pieces work together will be an integration nightmare, according a report by Technology Evaluation Centers (TEC).

The U.S. Army is exploring the use of drones to deliver supplies to soldiers on the battlefield, a potentially game-changing use for an emerging technology that until now has been mostly identified with the future delivery of household items.

Data is increasingly available, accessible and decipherable. You probably use it every day to help make personal decisions: tracking calories on your iPhone, browsing recommended movies based on what you’ve already viewed, seeing advertisements on your laptop and smartphone based on your browsing behavior and more.

The Unix roots of Apple’s OS X means the operating system offers a range of performance and troubleshooting features every Mac user should get to know.

Brace yourselves, ads are coming to Facebook Messenger: A leaked report says that brands can start IM’ing advertising to us in a couple of months’ time. The leak implies there will be some way to control spam, but brands already seem to be finding ways around that.

When it comes to corporate practices at Akamai, the Cambridge, Mass., content delivery and cloud services provider, CIO Kumud Kalia has just one complaint: "We should tell people how cool it is to work here," he says. "I don't think we say it enough."

One of the biggest challenges for any tech professional is keeping up with change. But sometimes you’re so focused on advances that affect your particular job, industry or strategic goals that you lose sight of the bigger picture.

Carriers' efforts to keep mobile devices well-connected can go to naught once users walk into a hotel or office building, if the signals can't get in. Now someone else can solve that problem, according to Ruckus Wireless.

It's a couple decades back, and this IT pilot fish works for an aerospace and defense contractor that's laying off 30 percent of fish's division -- including fish.

The folk over at RIIS, an IT services firm in Troy, Mich., have put out an annual report over the past few years exploring Android security. That report has opted to look at the largest romance sites as they publish in mid-February, near Valentine's Day.

A new kind of Android malware steals online banking credentials and can hold a device's files hostage in exchange for a ransom, delivering a particularly nasty one-two punch.

ARM has added a wealth of wireless technologies to its arsenal, but has no immediate plans to design a modem for mobile or Internet of Things devices.

Google is working on advancing its Google Glass technology, while also working on the concept of a driverless delivery truck.

There's nothing like raging success to bring on a pack of competitors, and that's exactly what's happening in the enterprise-collaboration arena.

Apple today re-issued iOS 9.2.1 to fix the "Error 53" that had crippled iPhones whose owners had replaced some parts themselves or had a third-party shop do repairs.