Новости за 18.02.2016

After a long wait, Microsoft is giving Windows Insiders some major new features to play around with, after spending the past couple of months primarily making backend improvements to its new operating system.

Early reports from owners of Microsoft's Surface Book premium-priced notebook and the Surface Pro 4 tablet today said that a firmware update issued Wednesday has fixed their devices' sleep problems.

Twitter has notified 10,000 users that their email addresses and phone numbers may have been exposed due to a bug in the website's password recovery feature.

Google on Thursday launched the open beta for its Cloud Vision service, giving developers a new way to make intelligent apps that use images.  

Mobile use is a critical success factor for most companies, with corporate apps being deployed to a workforce employing a large number of mobile devices, particularly in those organizations that have adopted a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) approach. But increasingly the management and support of these devices is becoming an unwelcome burden. As a result, organizations are looking for ways to make mobile management a lower-investment priority.

IBM's Watson Health, the company's 10-month-old healthcare data crunching unit, plans to acquire Truven Health Analytics and its 215 million patient profiles, with the ultimate goal of helping health-care providers make better business and patient-care decisions.

Our house is frequently filled with the sound of music. Not The Sound of Music as in "the hills are alive," mind you, but the sound of music as in "we like to listen to a variety of tunes (that may or may not involve Julie Andrews)."

In Barcelona, you really can buy happiness. (It's called Iberico, a delicious Spanish ham.) But you can't buy unlicensed spectrum, and yet it's going to be the hottest thing at Mobile World Congress next week.

Although you likely have your own favorite antivirus solution, it’s a good idea to keep an eye on what products are considered best by AV-Test, a well-respected independent IT-security institute.

A great deal of hype and misinformation surrounds the court order requiring Apple to help law enforcement access the iPhone of the deceased San Bernardino terrorist Syed Farook. Some of the misinformation has come from Apple CEO Tim Cook. Some people are claiming that giving in to law enforcement’s demands would be a crippling blow to the privacy of U.S. citizens. Here are five facts to put those fears in perspective:

On a technical level, Apple can comply with the FBI's request for help in accessing an iPhone used by Syed Rizwan Farook, one of the people accused of killing 14 in California two months ago, security experts said Wednesday.

Skype announced Thursday that iOS and Android users in the U.S. and Western Europe can expect to start making group video calls from their smartphones and tablets in the coming week. 

Poor Chipotle! No company wants CNN, Forbes, MSNBC or other news services reporting on its latest corporate debacle. An E. coli outbreak in the food industry is a company’s worst nightmare, and can tank a company’s reputation (and stock price!). Businessweek’s barfing-burrito cover is an image that will live in advertising history and, unfortunately, customers’ memories. While I hope Chipotle will not back away from its commitment to small, local farmers supplying hormone- and antibiotic-free meat... Читать дальше...

There’s a war going on. You’re part of it and, like it or not, you’re going to have to take sides.

Have you ever stopped to think about the sheer amount of information that your brain collects and processes to make decisions? What you notice and why? How and when do you recognize risks rather than unknowingly filter out the mass of information that is safely ignored? Just as our intelligence provides us with a remarkable capability to make judgments by integrating and examining a wide variety of data, recent technology advances are enabling new insights and automated determination of risk for data security. Читать дальше...

A Hollywood hospital has had to pay a ransom to get its data back from hackers who encrypted everything on its computers. The medical center's CEO confessed to spending around $17,000 in Bitcoin—this after a week spent failing to restore important health data, email, and other critical stuff.

Last month, MakerBot began offering its Smart Extruder+, a new and improved print head for its flagship Replicator and Replicator Mini desktop 3D printers.

Despite claims by the four biggest U.S. wireless carriers that each one has the best nationwide network, the latest performance data gathered by testing firm RootMetrics shows that are all good and getting better.

It's late when the operations manager for this manufacturing plant comes looking for IT help -- and finds a solitary pilot fish still at work.

When the topic is 3D printers, the person to talk to is Computerworld Senior Writer Lucas Mearian, who's been reviewing printers -- and printing up Eiffel Towers, a drone body pieces and various other objects -- for the better part of two years.

Chip company Marvell Technology Group has settled with Carnegie Mellon University to end a long-standing patent dispute over chips used in hard disk drives.

The White House said  it is not the aim of the government to compromise the security of Apple's iPhone, as it only wants the company to help in the case of one phone that was used by a terrorist in the San Bernardino, California attack on Dec. 2.

A Los Angeles hospital has paid US$17,000 to cyberattackers who crippled its network by encrypting its files, a payment that will likely rekindle a fierce debate over how to deal with a problem known as ransomware.

I've been following cloud-based point-of-sale (POS) vendor Vend since its inception half a dozen years ago. Actually, I've been following the company since before its inception. Prior to starting Vend, founder Vaughan Rowsell rode his bicycle from one end of New Zealand to the other. En route he stayed a night at my place and we discussed the opportunity for putting POS in the cloud.

A European start-up has announced a hydrogen fuel cell car with just 18 moving parts and a range of 300 miles that is now being tested on public roadways.