Новости за 23.10.2015

A new report identifies the U.S. as one of the top five most attractive nations for manufacturing solar panels.

With the new Priv slider Android smartphone going on sale Friday for $699, BlackBerry is chasing mainly after enterprise users who want a hard keyboard in addition to a touchscreen and who want access to Google apps and the Chrome browser, analysts said.

Microsoft yesterday reported declines in revenue for Windows, its Surface line of hardware and its smartphones, key components to the new More Personal Computing group that debuted its earnings with the September quarter.

In the run-up to the launch of Windows 10 earlier this year, users noticed that Microsoft's operating system would be collecting more data on them by default than it had in the past -- including information about their location and what they're typing -- and sending it off to Microsoft.

My iPhone started making a loud chirping sound yesterday.

It wasn’t a new email or text, so I knew something was up. I noticed my wife had a puzzled look on her face -- she has a Motorola Moto X and it was also sounding an alarm. Then, one of my kids received an alert as well.

It turns out that this was the first time any of us had ever received an Amber Alert.

I later received another message in my Facebook stream.

It's a good example of how tech is changing society, even as we keep hearing about distracted driving... Читать дальше...

A controversial severance agreement clause by SunTrust Banks requiring laid-off employees to be available to help without pay, has been removed, the bank said today.

BlackBerry began taking pre-orders today for its first Android smartphone, a slider handset called the Priv. The phone has a price tag of $699 and will start shipping Nov. 6.

Microsoft on Thursday confirmed that its Edge browser, the new default for Windows 10, will not get the support for add-ons in 2015 that it once promised.

In "Java 101: Inheritance in Java, Part 1," you learned how to leverage inheritance for code reuse, by establishing is-a relationships between classes. This free Java 101 primer focuses on composition, a closely related programming technique that is used to establish has-a relationships instead. Whereas inheritance extends the features of one class to another, composition allows us to compose a class from another class. The distinction may seem subtle, but it will make more sense once you see it in code. Читать дальше...

A Russian cyberespionage group that frequently targets government institutions from NATO member countries tried to infiltrate the international investigation into the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17), according to security researchers from Trend Micro.

Disk Utility has stayed more or less the same for years, but Apple has given the Mac power user’s much-loved maintenance tool a big overhaul in El Capitan, making it look different and removing familiar tools, including the popular "Repair Permissions"  command.

In my previous article I talked about the first half of the journey toward consulting – increasing responsibility as an employee, from getting direction, to owning your own process, to finally being a trusted advisor to senior management. The next step, the step of faith, is leaving the safety of the employer to the cold, external world.

HTC's new flagship smartphone, the One A9, is just an Apple copy. Critics accuse the company of ripping off the iPhone 6 design.

Start menu secrets every Windows 10 pro should know

Microsoft’s recently released RTM version of Windows 10 marks the official return of the Start menu, which has many Windows aficionados rejoicing. The run-up has been an open book, with numerous iterations of the evolving Start menu hitting the streets since the Windows 10 Technical Preview was released nearly a year ago. It’s high time to update my original Win10 Start menu tips, now that the bits are (nearly) baked.

This organization has set up automated monitoring for almost every piece of equipment on its network, says an IT pilot fish working there.

It has often been said that humans can make mistakes, but to truly wreak havoc, technology is necessary. Although true, a recent awkward situation with U.K. retailer Marks & Spencer — that the chain blamed on technology — really has the smell of not only a human, but a mischievous one at that.

From the get go, it was inevitable that Apple's new iPad Pro would be compared to Microsoft's Surface Pro 3 (and the newer Surface Pro 4). The iPad Pro borrows heavily from the Surface Pro design with its larger form factor (a 12.9-in. screen), keyboard cover and support for a stylus -- Apple calls it the "Pencil." Diverging from Microsoft's vision, however, the iPad Pro relies on a purely mobile operating system -- iOS -- while the Surface Pro runs the same version of Windows as a desktop PC.

If mobile and cloud are the two key technology markets of the future, it's good that Microsoft seems to have a handle on at least one of them.

Joomla, a popular content management system, released patches on Thursday for a vulnerability that can allow an attacker to get full administrative access to a website.

It's already sorting your email and translating your voice searches, and machine learning will play a bigger role in Google's services moving forward.

Tens of thousands of people who bought MacKeeper have filed for refunds as part of a proposed class-action settlement against the application's former developer.

Much of Amazon's sunny Thursday earnings report for the third quarter of 2015 can be traced back to its Web Services cloud division.

Microsoft's cloud successes buoyed the company through its last quarter, which was otherwise a mixed financial bag.

Would your employees recognize a phishing email if they saw one? Social engineering, or the act of attacking the human element of information security, poses a significant risk to businesses. With the level of sophistication of cyberthreats increasing by the day, many organizations can greatly improve the steps they take to defend against these types of attacks.