Новости за 18.12.2015

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) yesterday announced that the anti-identity-theft company LifeLock will pay a record $100 million to settle a contempt complaint that originated with a court order of five years ago.

Microsoft has furthered its pursuit of enterprise analytics with the acquisition of Metanautix, a company that makes it possible for businesses to pull together all their data and gain insights into it. 

The United Nations' International Telecommunication Union (ITU) agency has long worked to promote global cooperation in a variety of technical areas, and on Friday it announced its first-ever standard for big data.

Your next enterprise wireless network might use LTE -- if Qualcomm and some powerful partners succeed in pushing cellular beyond just mobile operators.

Tens of thousands of secure websites might start to display certificate errors to their visitors in January, when Microsoft plans to stop trusting 20 certificate authorities (CAs) from around the world.

Blackberry CEO John Chen hopes that what happens in Vegas won't stay in Vegas.

The past year brought big changes to the core software applications and tools that companies use every day, and some of those shifts promise to have a particularly enduring impact. Here are five ways the past year changed enterprise software for good.

We hear it almost every day, splashed on front-pages and buried deep in articles on technology, politics, foreign relations and government operations; each time there is a new exposure of government privacy invasion, or whenever a tragedy strikes a part of the world, the call for and against encryption makes its way to the forefront of the world stage. And for good reasons -- encryption is not a clear-cut issue; it blurs boundaries between political allies and enemies, pits technologists and privacy... Читать дальше...

What?! Another year, almost over? How is that even possible?

I don't know where the time goes, but I do know this: 2015 has been an absolute blur here in the land of Googley goodness. From the arrival of Marshmallow to the expansion of Photos and the launch of Google's finest flagship lineup to date (Nexus 6P, Nexus 5X, and Pixel C -- c'mon!), we've had more than enough to keep our brains a-spinnin'.

With the holiday break ahead of us, now's the perfect time to catch up on everything related to your favorite gadgets. Читать дальше...

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Neeraj Vijay, CIO, GE Flow & Process Technologies, GE Oil & Gas

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Apple today announced it had partnered with China UnionPay, the state-run company that is the country's only bank-card issuer, to bring Apple Pay to the People's Republic of China (PRC).

Apple today announced it had partnered with China UnionPay, the state-run company that is the country's only bank-card issuer, to bring Apple Pay to the People's Republic of China (PRC).

There’s more to life than novelty cases, so why not take a look at this short selection of interesting gifts for the iPhone (or iPad) user in your life.

When I first heard the story, I didn’t believe it. I mean, really, a Paris airport forced to shut down because a computer running Windows 3.1 crashed? Seriously?

I’m typing this on a Microsoft Lumia 950 XL.

It’s not as convoluted as it sounds. The phone is connected through a Microsoft Display Dock to a Philips HD monitor with exceptional color quality. (Shh, it’s an unreleased model under embargo.) The Display Dock has an HDMI-out port and a USB-C input for the phone -- plus three extra USB ports. The dock is tiny -- about the size of mouse but heavy (at just over 8 ounces), which helps it stay put on a desk.

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Apple CEO Tim Cook staunchly defended personal privacy and the use of encryption on iPhones amidst renewed concerns about terrorists hiding covert electronic messages when they plan deadly attacks.

Microsoft yesterday expanded its partnership with one of China's largest defense and technology conglomerates as it announced a joint venture to get Windows 10 on government PCs in the People's Republic.

Apple exec team gets shakeup. Jeff Williams is now COO, which is the job Tim Cook did before Steve Jobs promoted him.

Imagine holding two iPad Air 2 tablets in your hands, side by side. If you could combine them into one tablet, you’d likely be more productive, right?

The year's worst social media gaffes

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When a brand is in the middle of an ongoing PR nightmare, it's generally not a great idea to hold an open Twitter Q&A session. However, that's exactly what one well-known theme park did earlier this year. This is just one example of the kind of hard-to-believe, what-were-they-thinking social media mistakes that took place in 2015.

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10 signs layoffs are coming for your job next

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At this pilot fish's new job, his boss Fred admits he's not very computer savvy -- which means he quickly comes to rely on fish so the boss's lack of basic computing skills isn't documented in endless IT help requests.

For more than 15 years, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has been a part of the H-1B debate, calling for raising or eliminating visa caps. He did so again this week.

Juniper, a major manufacturer of networking equipment, said on Thursday it found spying code planted in certain models of its firewalls, an alarming discovery that echoes of state-sponsored tampering.

There's something very black-coal-in-your-stocking about having a price-match policy that is 90% exceptions and exemptions. Your lawyers may think it is protecting you, but the only practical impact is that it associates your brand far more with declining a price match than agreeing to one.