Новости за 26.01.2016

Verizon and Samsung on Tuesday announced 4G small-cell LTE technology to improve in-building wireless coverage for business customers.

Mozilla today released Firefox 44, following in rival Chrome's footsteps by adding push notifications to the browser.

Sprint today said it is looking at new ways to add cell towers while still saving money, and is considering not renewing costlier existing leases with third-party providers.

Consumers should have the right to inspect the source code for connected devices they own, to ensure it doesn't contain bugs or backdoors, one U.S. Federal Trade Commissioner said.

Okay, boys and girls -- time for a personal confession: You might not know it to look at me, but I have the memory skills of an 87-year-old sloth.

Twitter is all over the news lately.

Their servers were down for a while last week, putting me into a bit of a conundrum. (I always post on Twitter when a new articles comes out.) The stock price went south. Over the weekend, a few key execs took an exit. Those are all a pretty big fail whale.

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The names Johnson Controls and Tyco International don't generate the kind of excitement buzzing around some companies in the Internet of Things, but the merger they announced Monday might have a big impact on that market.

Health insurer Centene Corp. said six hard disk drives with personal health information on 95,000 of its customers have gone missing.

Congress plans to question about two dozen federal agencies on whether they were using backdoored Juniper network security appliances.

The startup formerly known as ScriptRock is all about helping enterprises gain the sort of agility that they see on a daily basis from consumer Internet brands but seem so unable to replicate. Australian by origin, but now in the U.S. by location, ScriptRock's co-founders escaped the country of their birth and are firmly ensconced in Silicon Valley, attempting to evangelize their message of enterprise IT agility through clear visibility across the IT systems in play.

As the world waits to see if Apple’s business really has stopped growing because the momentum of iPhone sales increases has slowed down a bit, it confounds me yet again how little Wall Street gets “it”.

Sony has reached an agreement to acquire chip company Altair Semiconductor for $212 million in a bid to strengthen its offering for the Internet of Things market.

Marvin Minsky, a professor emeritus at MIT who pioneered the exploration of the mind and its replication in a computer, died Sunday from a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 88, according to the MIT Media Lab.

The worldwide market for public cloud systems is projected to hit $204 billion this year, a 16.5% increase over the $175 billion market in 2015, according to analyst firm Gartner.

In the past five years, Darren Tedesco's IT staff has grown from about 100 employees to 250 today. And while that's a lot more people to manage, Tedesco, managing principal of innovation and strategy at Commonwealth Financial Network, isn't complaining. Those additional IT staffers are helping keep up with the firm's overall growth spurt, which includes a 15% bump in total headcount last year alone.

Security and privacy debates are highly nuanced, allowing for much interpretation, balancing acts and differences of opinion. For that reason, I try and be tolerant of a wide range of views on the subject. Every so often, though, some executive says something so divorced from logic and reality that silence is not an option. Enter AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson and his attack on Apple's encryption efforts.

This company gets virtually all of its desktop-computer equipment from a local office supply store, reports a pilot fish in the loop.

Cortana, Microsoft's assistant app in Windows 10, is getting even more nosey than before. We're told Redmond will scan your email, in order to remind you to keep your commitments.

Intel has just started shipping some of its fastest mobile chips to date, meaning new powerful laptops should soon be on the market.

Disney IT workers laid off a year ago this month are now accusing the company and the outsourcing firms it hired of engaging in a "conspiracy to displace U.S. workers." The allegations are part of two lawsuits filed in federal court in Florida on Monday.

Google is continuing its push to make the Apps collaboration suite useful for enterprises with a new feature that lets administrators manage how their users are able to share files. 

Big data may hold a world of untapped potential, but what happens when your data set is bigger than your processing power can handle? A new algorithm that taps quantum computing may be able to help.

Microsoft plans to show its latest smartphones at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in late February, but don't expect much news about the much-rumored, business-oriented Surface Phone.

Tech support scammers are known for their cheek -- making unfounded claims that PCs are infected to scare consumers into parting with their money -- but a Symantec partner took nerve to a new level, a security company claimed last week.