Новости за 07.09.2016

The University of California is laying off a group of IT workers at its San Francisco campus as part of a plan to move work offshore.

Apple executives, including CEO Tim Cook, today rolled out the company's latest smartphones, the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus, as well as the company's next-generation smartwatch.

The biggest surprise for anyone following the most popular phone ever made is that it is not that surprising.

For the second year in a row, Costa Rica has proven it can attain 100% of its energy needs from renewable sources for more than two months at a time. This time, the country has been running on 100% clean energy for the past 76 days (starting on June 17).

As web and mobile development have become increasingly important, .NET has faced an increasing amount of competition from open source platforms, as well as some confusion over its direction.

The U.S. Department of Defense must pump up its cyber capabilities, including its offense, as part of a huge planned expansion of the military, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Wednesday.

One security firm’s controversial approach to pointing out flaws in products is facing legal action. On Wednesday, the firm MedSec was hit with a lawsuit after trying to tank a company’s stock.

For a very long time, Google has focused on building its own productivity software to serve everyone from consumers to massive enterprises, and then locking people into its core experience. That all changed on Wednesday.

Oracle will acquire LogFire, a provider of cloud-based warehouse management applications, with the aim of boosting the features of its supply chain management cloud offering.

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Bare-metal buyers beware: PC makers have no obligation to offer you a machine without an OS, the European Union's highest court has ruled.

Dell and EMC have completed their $67 billion merger to create Dell Technologies, the world's largest privately held technology company. It's a historic day, far from the PC company that sponsored the "Dude, I've bought a Dell" campaign.

Readers would be amazed at how much effort large technology vendors go to in order to woo young startups to their platforms. Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft, Rackspace -- they all have significant initiatives aimed at getting startups on board early. The theory goes that if you get one of these companies at the start, you're more likely to have it for life.

I am often asked, “What can I do to retain my most valuable IT employees?” And when I respond with, “What are you doing now?” I’m told about training, pay and bonuses, flextime, teamwork, flat organizations, independence, casual dress codes, health benefits, 401(k) matching, profit sharing and free food.

No, I'm not referring to your coworkers fighting over which version of Linux is the best or even what command is most helpful on the command line. Instead, I'm referring to the arguments that you use on the command line or within scripts to get Unix to do specific work for you.

The ScanSnap S1300i from Fujitsu is the smallest multi-page double-sided ScanSnap scanner for one-button ease of use at the desk or on the road. Just stack up to 10 pages into the feeder and press the blue button. The S1300i features a powerful set of automated image processing functions including auto skew correction, auto orientation, and auto color detection -- all working behind the scenes so your scanned content looks great without effort. Scan directly to Evernote, Google Docs, Salesforce CRM and SharePoint Online. Читать дальше...

Google is now providing more information to website owners whose online properties are temporarily blocked as unsafe by its Safe Browsing technology as a way to help them fix the identified problems faster.

OpenStack is an interesting initiative -- it has, perhaps more than any other open source initiative, polarized commentators. On one end are those who say that OpenStack is a “dead duck,” that it will see no success and that it is hampered by too many conflicting commercial and governance drivers.

I’ve been an outspoken critic of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). What VDI does is package up a enterprise IT desktop (along with all its attendant applications) and enable that to be delivered, over the internet, to any device, anywhere.

In an era when various features are being subtracted from high-end phones in order to make them sleeker and sexier -- like removable batteries, SD cards or even headphone jacks -- LG has managed to produce an attractive, lightweight phone that includes all three.

Earlier this year I switched to Android from iPhone and from Verizon to Google's Project Fi. My blog post about the experience generated a vigorous discussion comparing Google's privacy guarantees to Apple's.

If you're involved in managing innovation for your organization, you're likely working with some form of enterprise innovation management software, or you're in the process of selecting a solution that can best support your needs.

Apple is about to launch the next generation iPhone, and while some pundits call it "boring," the rumors claim this will be the fastest and best featured smartphone yet with millions of people destined to get hold of it.

This pilot fish is the only IT support guy for a 200-employee company, but that's not as unreasonable as it sounds -- the systems are all pretty mature, and include accounting and payroll software that generates all the company's tax forms.

Another day, another tech leak.

Today, it's drones. Foldable drones. From DJI. The company is reportedly releasing a new quadcopter that can be collapsed up to make it easily transportable. People are excited. And why shouldn't they be?

In IT Blogwatch we take to the skies.

So what is the deal with these foldable drones? Chris Davies has the background: