Новости за 23.02.2016

In the week since Apple said it would do battle with the FBI over the agency's request for access to a smartphone belonging to one of the San Bernardino terrorists, tech industry leaders have been weighing in with their views.

A new release issued this week from Red Hat Ansible – an open source project and commercial product for creating a DevOps environment – is helping developers control network infrastructure.

As the battle between Apple and the FBI over providing access to an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino terrorists rages on, Apple has been trying to turn the situation to its advantage by garnering all the free publicity it can get. Even the Justice Department, in a filing in federal court, called Apple’s statements a “public brand marketing strategy.”

A dearth of storage available in smartphones will soon be an issue of the past.

The number of worldwide Internet users grew by 200 million in 2015 to 3.2 billion, according to a report from Facebook.

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HP and Samsung are taking very different approaches for business users with flagship  phones announced at Mobile World Congress, and it all has to do with the underlying Android and Windows 10 Mobile platforms the devices run on.

Oracle is acquiring cloud startup Ravello in a deal reportedly worth $500 million.

Man -- I've been "upgrading" an awful lot of old computers lately.

It all started last week, when I went to look at my mom's Windows XP system and figure out how to get her onto a more current operating system. My main concern was Google's pending end-of-support date for Chrome on XP. After much consideration, I decided the best path was to "upgrade" by buying a $140 Chromebox and moving my mom into the fluffy-light land o' Chrome OS.

After I wrote about that family tech support adventure... Читать дальше...

The worldwide market for wearable computing devices saw a huge expansion in the last quarter of 2015 and solid growth should continue, although not at the same blistering pace.

Adesto Technologies today introduced a new conductive bridging RAM (CBRAM) memory chip for battery-operated or energy-harvesting electronics used in the Internet of Things (IoT) market.

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In Apple’s encryption standoff with the U.S. government, the company portrays itself as standing up for the rights of privacy. It’s taking the high road, the company says, and is on the side of those who want to be free from an invasive government.

IT pros in charge of making sure employees have the tools they need don't often see the clouds part and the heavens open wide. Laptops and tablets, smartphones and desktops -- they don't slide down a rainbow and land in your office gleaming like the sun. In most cases, it's about examining the specifications and taking the time to evaluate employee requirements, compare pricing and figure out a deployment strategy.

In the hotly contested market for Internet of Things networks, Ingenu has its sights set on nothing less than world domination for its technology.

Four major independent vendors in the enterprise mobility management space are teaming up to make their products more appealing to customers by encouraging developers to use system-level mobile device management capabilities rather than proprietary tools. 

If a robot takes your job, don't say the government didn't warn you.

Federal economic advisers issued a stark assessment Monday about the nation's technology direction. Innovation in the U.S. is slowing, and federal spending on basic research -- the seed corn of innovation -- is declining.

But here's the kicker: If you earn roughly between $41,000 and $83,000 ($20 to $40 a hour), there is a median probability of 31% that your job will be automated.

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook honcho, talks virtual reality, Free Basics, drones, and zombies (I made up that last one). At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, he appeared on stage twice: Once to play a trick on Samsung fans, and again to keynote the Spanish handy conflab.

Android Wear devices could get more capabilities and longer battery life thanks to a new chip design from ARM called the Cortex-A32.

The Internet of Things was there even before it got that futuristic name. Part of the news at this Mobile World Congress this week is the steady growth of the industry that's been making connected devices work for years.

BARCELONA - IBM's exclusive global partnership with Apple to build mobile apps for enterprises running on iPads and iPhones was first announced in mid-2014. By last December, the companies reached a milestone when 100 apps had been created.

Apple and IBM have just made it possible for enterprise developers to create rock-solid apps for iOS using Swift.

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For the average U.S. worker, wages have remained stagnant for approximately the last 40 years, according to 2015 research from the Economic Policy Institute, even as productivity and the number of hours worked has increased -- except for those in STEM and IT careers, that is, where salaries saw the largest year-over-year increase ever from 2014 to 2015. The demand for knowledge workers in IT is increasing salary pressure on IT-dependent... Читать дальше...

Help desk pilot fish gets a call from a user who's having trouble with a USB jump drive -- no matter what she does, she can't get it working, she says.

At first, a lot of people were writing about the fact that big data is inevitable. Then, even more people wrote about the big promise that big data holds for the business. And now, a lot more is being written about the big failures of big data. However, the topic that is least discussed – and what I believe should be top of mind – is the big secret to delivering big value from big data.