Новости за 19.08.2015

Researchers have developed a new material for a basic battery component that they say will enable almost indefinite power storage.

Samsung Electronics plans a last-ditch appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court to avoid paying hundreds of millions of dollars in fines for infringing Apple patents.

Being on social media can be serious business for an enterprise.

Major retailer Target can attest to that after a man with no official connection to the company hijacked its social media presence and began talking -- rather sarcastically and often rudely -- to customers.

"This is a big brand and reputational issue," said Nick Hayes, an analyst with Forrester. "As a business, you have to make sure the accounts you own are kept safe. There are serious implications for an organization... Читать дальше...

Microsoft's latest Insider build of Windows 10 has crippled the 64-bit version of Google's Chrome browser.

Every four years the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) in Germany holds a Chaos Communication Camp, which is so cool that it inspired the American-flavored hacker camp ToorCamp. As always there were a plethora of excellent talks, but today we are looking at a talk that covered hypothetical methods to obtain knowledge, via academic research behind payalls, for free...without getting arrested.

Las Vegas was invaded by hackers this month. The Black Hat and Def Con conventions were in town. I attended both this year, which gave me an opportunity to compare and contrast them.

It could be the plot of a science fiction movie. In fact, add in something about saving the Earth and it is: travel through space to rendezvous with an asteroid, land and starting drilling into it. But that's exactly what a small group of scientists at Deep Space Industries are trying to do.

If there were ever any doubt that Windows Phone is dead, the release of Windows 10 should put them to rest. Microsoft may continue to manufacture smartphones for years, but the devices will always remain barely even also-rans, racking up user share in the low single digits as far as the eye can see.

Move over, Docker, and make room for Microsoft in the emerging market for software containers.

A team of researchers this week announced that they can use DNA to store information for at least 2,000 years, and they're now working on a filing system to make it easier to navigate.

Listen to much of the well-peddled advice in the enterprise tech world today, and you'd have to be excused for coming away with the belief that "big data" holds all the answers your company is looking for. Too bad it often can't live up to that promise -- at least, not in its traditional form.

With the resumption of Windows 10 builds to testers, Microsoft has told users they may not have the right to run the software and again begun marking copies with small watermarks.

Sometimes it's the little things that count.

At least, that's the case with the Ditto ($40), a very small, inexpensive and useful gadget that does one thing and does it very well: Gently vibrates to notify you when you're getting a call, a text message or an email.

First, I have to make an admission: I miss a lot of calls. When I'm in a store, or on a city street, I'm likely to be concentrating on what's going on around me rather than the faint sound coming from my bag. If I keep the phone in my pocket... Читать дальше...

When I spent time with Microsoft execs in Redmond last week (disclosure: Microsoft covered my travel and expenses to visit the campus), I was particularly interested to get their take on containers generally, and Docker in particular. It would be easy to think that Docker has little relevance to Microsoft; it is, after all, a Linux concept. But remember a couple of facts: Microsoft has, in recent years, built strong bridges to the open-source and Linux communities and, notwithstanding that fact... Читать дальше...

New technology from Amazon and Microsoft this week highlights how cloud-based storage is, step-by-step, becoming more mature and offering more flexibility for  developers, storage administrators and people in a wide range of other roles.

Adobe Systems released a security patch for LiveCycle Data Services, a development tool used by businesses to synchronize data between back-end servers and rich Internet applications built with Adobe Flex or AIR.

Mac users will soon be able to say "Hey Cortana" and have Microsoft's virtual assistant talk back to them from OS X, thanks to new functionality included in Paralells Desktop 11.

Alibaba Group's cloud business is targeting the Southeast Asian market with a new data center that will go online in Singapore this September. 

Hackers breached the computers of Internet services provider Web.com Group and stole credit card information of 93,000 customers.

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People who develop software for a living obviously spend a lot of time at their computers typing, writing, and refactoring code. It’s not surprising, then, that programmers often develop affinities for specific models of keyboards. Some of them like ergonomic models to reduce repetitive strain injuries, while others prefer keyboards with blank keys to encourage touch-typing, and yet others choose a keyboard with good tactile (and audible) feedback.

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Enterprise software and services vendor Pivotal Software on Tuesday announced that company CEO Paul Maritz is stepping down and will be replaced by Rob Mee, its executive vice president of products and R&D.

Awareness around cybersecurity is at an all-time high. Fueled by a seemingly endless stream of high-profile data breaches, practically every large vendor is spending serious amounts of time (not to mention cash) on beefing up its security. It's not surprising. Enterprise CEOs are increasingly looking toward their IT departments to give them some guarantees about the robustness of their systems. Whereas in the past a breach could potentially be swept under the carpet, today security is a top priority for CEOs. Читать дальше...

A closely watched band of suspected Russian hackers have spied on domestic targets, including two members of the outspoken punk rock band Pussy Riot.

China's efforts to clean up the Internet have resulted in 15,000 arrests related to cybercrimes, authorities revealed on Tuesday. 

When Google needed to expand its network beyond what could be supported by the commercial switches of the day, it looked back in time for a solution—deploying a decades-old architecture novel to the computer industry but widely used by telephone companies.