Новости за 18.11.2015

The federal government is trying to move more into the cloud, but service providers' lack of transparency is harming adoption, according to Arlette Hart, the FBI's chief information security officer. 

The U.S. government's financial support for the development of smartphone encryption apps doesn't surprise security experts.

Sprint today unveiled a new simplified wireless plan offering 50% off competitors' rates -- part of an effort to lure consumers to try its faster LTE Plus network, which promises speeds of 128Mbps or more.

I'm a big proponent of electronic document signing. I spend a huge amount of my time on the road and being able to sign documents from wherever I am is a major relief. There's nothing worse than trying to find a working fax machine in order to execute some documents while traveling in Outer Mongolia (OK, I've never actually been to Outer Mongolia, but trying to use a fax machine pretty much anywhere away from home or the office is a nightmare). I've been using HelloSign now for a number of years... Читать дальше...

The true test of any luxury car is the sound system. Say what you want about adaptive cruise control or collision detection, but if you can’t crank up a goth-grunge artist at full volume and still make out the words, you haven’t really accomplished anything. That’s why I was so impressed with the new 2017 Lincoln MKZ, a luxury car introduced this week with a sound system that uses something called Quantum Logic by Revel. It’s one of the reasons I’d buy this car.

It would be tough for Microsoft to top the seismic waves it created at last year's Connect developer conference when it announced the open-sourcing of its .Net application framework, but this year the software giant has plenty up its sleeve.

Search queries on Bing in the U.S. last month increased by the largest margin since Windows 10's launch, hinting that Microsoft's strategy to embed the search engine in the OS may be working.

Designed for use with iPad Pro, the $99 Apple Pencil is a precision writing and drawing instrument for creative expression. Here’s everything you need to know about it.

Connect 2015, Microsoft’s online developer event being held this week, is crammed with announcements of new developer tools and sneak peaks at the future of Visual Studio and C#. If you take a step back from the flood of details, though, there’s a clear direction emerging.

Adobe has released security updates for its ColdFusion application server, LiveCycle Data Services framework and Premiere Clip iOS app.

Normally when you walk into a dressing room to try on clothes, the store may know how many items you carried in, but it doesn’t know precisely what items you took in and chose not purchase...unless there is some creepy hidden camera or a two-way mirror. What if a mirror in a dressing room is so smart that it can track the clothing you carry in as well as synchronize with the store’s inventory and point-of-sale systems?

An Egyptian company that launched North Korea's first 3G cellular network and attracted as many as 3 million subscribers has revealed that it lost control of the operator despite owning a majority stake.

Google isn't done with its attempts at running a social network. On Tuesday, the company gave Google+ a redesign focused on people getting together around shared interests.

Citrix Systems has decided to spin off its GoTo collaboration products business into a new company, to focus on its core business in the secure delivery of apps and data.

Cisco is working to build the confidence of prospective customers in its products, two years after disclosures of spying by the U.S. National Security Agency seeded doubt, particularly in China.

A U.S. senator plans to introduce legislation that would delay the end of the bulk collection of phone metadata by the National Security Agency to Jan. 31, 2017, in the wake of security concerns after the terror attacks last Friday in Paris.

Google+ is changing again. To be charitable, it’s pivoting into a site for communities and collections—but the move has aroused the usual chorus chanting, “Google Plus is dead.”

SentinelOne has added a feature to its endpoint detection products that can restore files encrypted by cybercriminals, a common type of attack known as ransomware.

There's been a good deal of confusion about the just-released upgrade to Windows 10. It's been called by a variety of names, including Threshold 2, Fall Update, build 10586 and Windows 10 version 1511, and there's been a lot written about it -- but it may still be difficult to glean exactly what it is, what it does and how to get it.

This is an election where extreme positions have become the norm, and the implications for science and technology may be huge.

Last year OpenShift 2 was my favorite open source PaaS. I said at the time, “OpenShift is outstandingly easy to use, manage, and install, and it presents little learning curve for developers familiar with Git and administrators familiar with Puppet. Enabling automatic horizontal scaling is as simple as checking a box in the application configuration. Automatic gear idling is enabled by default and allows for very high application density. And updating an application is as simple as doing a git push. Читать дальше...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the latest partner to work with Intel on the Internet of Things, announcing it will develop products for computing at the edges of networks.

U.S. government funds have recently been used to support the creation and maintenance of commercially-available smartphone encryption apps, according to public records.

This big manufacturing plant uses electric motors the size of small houses -- along with a mountain of work rules that this IT pilot fish gets to see in action when one of the giant motors needs a controller board replaced.

Today's vast data volumes have spawned a variety of new database contenders, each with particular strengths and features to recommend them. Splice Machine is one such upstart, and while it's always banked on the scale-out capabilities of Hadoop, on Tuesday it placed an accompanying bet on Apache Spark's in-memory technology.