Новости за 13.10.2015

If the problems that robotics encounters in extreme environments are any indicator, then self-driving cars are a bad idea, according to an MIT engineer and author of a new book on the subject.

I always take note of new advancements with car companies. In some ways, the strict safety standards and semi-annual refresh schedule for new cars makes it difficult to add something totally new. 

Oracle's aggressive licensing practices have gained it considerable notoriety over the years, and on Tuesday, a Texas law firm specializing in technology issued a warning urging enterprises to beware.

Apple today refreshed its iMac desktop family, adding a higher-resolution display option to its entry-level 21.5-in. all-in-one and making the so-called "Retina 5K" screens standard on all its larger 27-in. models.

UL, formerly called Underwriters Labs, soon expects to certify wearables for safety and security, including user privacy.

Aiming to help organizations make the most of the cloud as they create and deploy enterprise apps, Tibco on Tuesday announced two new integration platforms: one for enterprises, and one aimed at mid-market firms.

A California real estate development company plans to install Tesla batteries in nearly two dozen of its highest profile offices in the Los Angeles area.

SteelBrick is a company that is built for a new way of doing business. For those unaccustomed to the vagaries of product pricing and quoting, the fact that a vendor exists (in fact, many vendors exist) to help with this process might seem a little bizarre. After all, isn't it simply a case of working out costs, applying your preferred margin and sending that price to the customer?

Microsoft has recently shown improvement in Windows smartphones and tablets shipments for use in businesses.

Windows 10 users who have not updated their Insider preview since early July have until Thursday to get the latest code or face staring at a blank screen because the PC won't boot.

It would have been bad enough if any Android manufacturer had left two recent high-profile phones off its Marshmallow upgrade list.

One of the more generously funded areas in the technology industry is predictive analytics. Depending on your perspective that is either a frothy bubble just waiting to burst or an indication of a massive market opportunity that people are jumping to get on board with. Regardless of how you view it, news today that one of the predictive analytics vendors, EverString, has raised $65 million is an indication of something. The round is probably the largest ever Series B investment in a marketing... Читать дальше...

Twitter will lay off up to one in 12, or a total of 336 employees as it streamlines its product roadmap, new CEO Jack Dorsey told his workforce on Tuesday morning.

The technology startup industry is full of companies declaring that they are the equivalent of [insert hyper-successful company] but for another segment. I must get a pitch a day from a company telling me that they're "the Uber of farming," "the AirBnB of pharmaceuticals" or the "Netflix of particle acceleration." Often these claims are little more than an attempt to position an average startup as being something heroic and massively important.

SAP has taken the wraps off Project Orca and given the service a new name: SAP Cloud for Analytics.

Non-technical health care employees are too complacent about the possibility of a data breach, and few are aware that it has happened to their organizations, according to a survey released today of employees at large and mid-sized health care organizations.

At its VMworld Europe conference, VMware unveiled new features and tools to make it easier to roll applications out to its unified hybrid cloud platform, expanding the range of management functions available on its public cloud, vCloud Air, which can be linked with private clouds using vSphere.

In the war between malvertisers and legitimate advertising networks, the bad guys seems to be winning. Attackers use real-time bidding platforms to place malicious ads on otherwise reputable sites, infect target users and disappear -- often before anyone has even noticed that there's a problem, according to a new report by Fairvax, Vir.-based security firm Invincea, Inc..

The 3D Touch system that Apple is delivering with its newest iOS devices is the quintessential solution in search of a problem. It doesn’t seem to do much that is useful (yet, anyway), but it delivers that uselessness in such an elegant and Apple-ish way.

Hackers are like other coders: They want to built better software, even if it's a program that merely aims to extract a ransom from a hapless Android user.

Adobe is making it easier to work with PDF files stored in the cloud, thanks to a new partnership with Dropbox that connects users of the Acrobat PDF editing and viewing products with documents stored in the cloud storage firm's online locker. Starting Tuesday, users will be able to link their Dropbox accounts with Adobe's Acrobat Reader and Acrobat DC desktop apps, and then edit any PDFs they have stored in Dropbox's cloud from Acrobat, without having to go digging for the right file. 

Dell dropped a bomb on the enterprise IT market Monday by announcing plans to buy storage giant EMC for a whopping $67 billion. The deal raises many questions; here are four of them.

Small businesses typically lack full-time IT staff. Taking a self-proclaimed techie who serves another role in the business and assigning that person to provide network and tech support can be a great idea. I call these people the business’s resident tech, someone who can help with first-level support. An outside IT service provider can be called in to help when more complex support is required. Here are nine key steps for building a successful small business network.

Take four heavy-hitting brands -- Allstate, Hilton, United Airlines and American Express, all of which place a premium on customer loyalty and retention. Mix in the customer-pleasing form of mobile devices and the ever-advancing function of mobile apps.

Mobile development skills that mean higher pay

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As more consumers turn to their smartphones to access the Internet, it's become increasingly important for businesses to execute a mobile strategy for online content. That means if you're well-versed in Web application development, you'll also want to build your mobile app development skills.

According to research from Foote Partners, a research group and publisher of the IT Skills Demand and Pay Trends Report, noncertified... Читать дальше...