Новости за 01.04.2016

With its latest SSDs, Intel is paving the way for fast, standard NVMe connections in storage systems for both more and less adventurous users.

Microsoft's Windows, which in 2015 fell to third place among the world's operating systems, will continue to lose share this year to both Android and Apple's combined OS X and iOS, Gartner said today.

It's been nearly 50 years since astronauts first landed on the moon. Now the head of the European Space Agency wants to build a permanent international village on the lunar surface.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk last night unveiled the long-anticipated Model 3, a four-door mid-size sedan that takes aim at the mass market in ways unlike the all-electric vehicles (EVs) Tesla has released to date.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is pushing developers to create virtual assistants and intelligent chatbots to help users do everything from managing their calendars to booking hotel reservations.

Are you too lazy to open the door or switch on a light? Let Windows 10 and its Cortana voice-activated digital assistant do the job for you.

Late last year there was surprise among commentators and vendors alike as Salesforce announced its acquisition of SteelBrick. SteelBrick is a vendor that offers contract life cycle services. Eessentially what that means is that all of the tasks that sales and procurement organizations need to do their work -- pricing, contract negotiation and workflow -- is offloaded to the SteelBrick platform. It sounds like a boring function, but it's increasingly important as organizations need to move ever-faster on their contract-based operations. Читать дальше...

Now that "data scientist" has been declared this year's hottest job, it seems a safe bet that there are plenty of people out there calling themselves by that name but without the requisite skills. Enter Correlation One, a new, data science-specific job site focused on helping employers and qualified professionals connect.

So here we are. April Fool’s Day! One of those non-official, yet fun, “holidays” that we all enjoyed growing up. Perhaps you were the child that rigged the faucet to spray the next person who used it. Maybe you filled your best friend’s locker with shredded paper. Or possibly, you took the April Fool’s Day theme to the next level and have a funny anecdote to share with people. But now, times have changed.

The Federal Communications Commission voted 3-to-2 along party lines Thursday to expand the Lifeline telephone subsidy for low-income Americans to include Internet access.

Critics of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act have flooded the U.S. Copyright Office with tens of thousands of comments complaining about a process that often forces websites to kill user-generated content when faced with a copyright complaint.

After a slow February, Windows 10 boosted its growth in users during March, data published today showed.

If you scour the Internet looking for information about SharePoint 2016, there is plenty out there for IT pros regarding the deployment and management of SharePoint 2016, and also lots of information for developers on how to customize SharePoint. However, there isn't much information on why your business users should be excited about SharePoint 2016.

I propose the following law:

"The longer an innovative visualization exists, the probability someone says it should have been a line/bar chart approaches 1"

I’ve seen the "shoulda been a line chart" suggestion many times, most recently in Randy Olson's excellent discussion of an award-winning visualization from the The Wall Street Journal. However, discussions like this forget a fundamental challenge when we communicate with data: Getting people to engage is sometimes as important... Читать дальше...

April 1 marks 40 years of Apple history, so at first it may have seemed strange the company marked the moment with the release of the iPhone SE, except, like the pirate flag outside its HQ this morning, the new iPhone (and iPad Pro) shine the light on the company’s future plans. (Here's a picture of the pirate flag outside Apple HQ this morning).

Apple is touting its newly redesigned Apple Stores, and they are indeed quite impressive. Conceding that the very nature of Apple's stores (very limited inventory, complete control of key products, customers who walk in already willing to buy, etc.) makes them hard to compare with a Walmart, Target or Macy's, they are demonstrating what an in-store experience can be like. Retailers would be well served to take note.

Reddit has removed a notice, known as a warrant canary, from its transparency report for 2015, suggesting that it may have received a secret national security order for user data.

CloudFlare is tweaking its systems to make it easier for legitimate Tor users to access websites that use its network to deliver content.

Happy April Fools' Day

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It wouldn't be April 1 without April Fools' Day pranks making their way around the Internet. And hijinx abound this year. 

The usual suspects (Google, Google and more Google) are getting in on the fun, but we also found pranks from a few new companies we haven't featured before. Of course, there are too many to find them all, but we'll do our best and keep updating this slideshow throughout the day. If you come across a good one we missed, let us know in the comments. Читать дальше...

When the U.S. begins accepting applications for new H-1B skilled-worker visas today, we can be certain that tech workers from India will make up a large portion of the requests.

Would you like to analyze Census data about IT workers yourself? Download this zipped file of data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS) 2010-2014 PUMS (Public Use Microdata Samples) data.

When Apple Music was released as part of an upgrade to iOS in June 2015, it marked Apple's first foray into the streaming music business. Armed with a library of more than 30 million songs, a 24-hour radio station and a potential built-in audience of hundreds of millions of iPhone owners and Beats customers, Apple's music initiative seemed like a sure thing for music fans in the Apple ecosystem.

Flashback a couple decades to the days when PCs are pricey, technology is changing fast, and this young tech hotshot named Barney has some innovative ideas for enterprise IT, says a pilot fish on the scene.

Many Windows 7 and 8.1 users have no interest in Windows 10. But, Microsoft is determined to spread their latest OS far and wide. Resistance, however, is not futile. There are a number of ways to inoculate Windows 7 and 8.1 from being infected with Windows 10.