Новости за 05.05.2016

Microsoft today said it would, as it indicated last year, end the free Windows 10 upgrade offer on July 29.

Open standards used to deploy Internet of Things (IoT) technology could cut costs by 30% and accelerate the growth of smart cities, according to a new research report.

A lot of people like the idea of a smart watch but don't like having to use a tiny touch screen.

Intel had some wild product ideas that were duds, like the OnCue TV streaming service, WiMax and smartphone chips. Now, more products are likely to be axed as the company looks to a post-PC world.

Microsoft today said that 300 million "active devices" are running Windows 10, a boost of 30 million, for an increase of 11%, in the last five weeks.

Hyperconvergence is a relatively new buzzword but Westborough, Mass.,-based Simplivity is already boasting of creating version 3.0 of this emerging IT model. In this installment of the IDG CEO Interview Series, Simplivity CEO Doron Kempel talked with IDG US Media Chief Content Officer John Gallant about how Simplivity’s OmniStack outperforms competitors like Nutanix and claims customers deploying workloads on Simplivity can save 22% to nearly 50% compared to running them on Amazon Web Services. Читать дальше...

Few things make as big of a difference in your smartphone experience as your on-screen keyboard. For most of us, typing is a significant part of what we do on our devices -- and having an exceptional keyboard can go a long way in making the act easy and efficient.

Cisco Systems has fixed a critical vulnerability that could allow attackers to take over TelePresence videoconferencing systems, and patched other high-severity flaws in Cisco FirePOWER and Adaptive Security Appliance devices.

U.S. presidential candidates should embrace encryption and narrow government access to Internet users' data as part of a comprehensive technology agenda, IT trade groups say.

Box is launching a new offering aimed squarely at government customers in an attempt to get more public agencies to use its file storage and collaboration service.

Apple has released a new version of its Xcode development tool to patch two critical vulnerabilities in the Git source code management client.

The Marketing department’s new digital advertising program doubled traffic to the company website. Great news — except that there was no corresponding bump in sales revenue. Once that fact became clear, the CEO asked the CIO to get involved.

The powerful 20000mAh PowerCore 20100 from Anker weighs just 12.5 oz, but fully charges most phones and tablets to 100% several times over without needing to be recharged. It charges the iPhone 6s seven times, the Galaxy S6 five times or the iPad mini 4 twice. Industry leading output of 4.8 amps provides enough power to simultaneously charge any combination of devices at full speed. Surge protection, short circuit protection and more advanced safety features keep your devices safe. For additional peace of mind... Читать дальше...

Tens of millions of stolen credentials for Gmail, Microsoft and Yahoo email accounts are being shared online by a young Russian hacker known as "the Collector" as part of a supposed larger trove of 1.17 billion records.

“Not enough available storage” is not what you want your Apple iPhone to tell you when you’re trying to use it to grab that once in a lifetime picture of someone you love dong something unrepeatable, or any other time for that matter. Here’s how to make sure you don’t see that message ever again.

The Internet of Things is growing so fast that it’s an obvious place to look for career growth.

Google Slides -- can it displace PowerPoint? La GOOG hopes so, especially in education.

Politicians are never without numbers to support their argument. Sometimes the statistics are manipulated to make a particular point. Other times there are bare-faced lies in their tweets. Correct and accurate numbers do get used, but even then, their opponents dismiss the numbers rather than engage and debate them.

Last week, a guest editorial by Jerome Rota of Greenwave Systems titled, “How to Bring the ‘Internet of Things’ to Life” appeared in The Wall Street Journal. Mr. Rota suggested that wireless operators should manage smart home networks using spectrum acquired in the FCC’s 600 MHz auction. This is a bad idea for several reasons.

Only 11 percent of IT executives said they have a “robust” talent acquisition pipeline, according to a recent survey of 133 IT executives conducted by the CIO Executive Council (CEC). That’s a big problem in an increasingly competitive talent market, where corporate IT shops compete not only with each other for talent but also with cloud vendors and Silicon Valley.

The Federal Aviation Administration is setting up an advisory committee, led by Intel CEO Brian Krzanich, to guide it on the integration of unmanned aircraft systems in the national airspace.

In this next installment of my ongoing PowerShell series, I want to focus on putting PowerShell objects to work for you. Let me warn you in advance, however: Put on your advanced thinking caps for this piece, especially if you are a non-programmer or non-developer and are used to pointing at things and clicking them once or twice to accomplish some tasks. I'm going to get abstract with you here but, as far as I know, there is no way around it.

Many smart city proponents speak in vast generalities. They talk about the ways that Internet of Things sensors and big data will improve life for citizens while conserving water and energy resources and reducing traffic congestion.

On-call pilot fish working for this casino's IT department is awakened early one morning and drives in for what turns out to be a minor problem -- one that fish quickly clears up.

News this morning that Wayin, a digital marketing software company, is acquiring U.K.-based interactive marketing platform EngageSciences. This would be a humdrum sort of an event, but for one thing -- Wayin was co-founded and is currently run by Scott McNealy, the famed founder of Sun Microsystems.