Новости за 25.10.2016

Apple on Thursday is expected to unveil new Mac notebooks at the first event dedicated to its personal computer line since March 2015.

LAS VEGAS -- In the past five years, IBM's artificial-intelligence-fueled Watson has gone from being a game show champion to operating in such industries as finance, retail, health care and pure research.

The software used to program and deploy code to various Schneider Electric industrial controllers has a weakness that could allow hackers to remotely take over engineering workstations.

The Joomla developers are warning website administrators to apply an update to the popular content management system that fixes two critical vulnerabilities.

With the internet of things, devices are getting smaller, smarter and – we hope – safer. It’s not easy to make all those things happen at once, but chips that can help are starting to emerge.

Later today Apple will once again announce a sales decline for its biggest product lines, including the iPhone, the company's financial powerhouse, according to more than two dozen analysts.

A self-driving semi-tractor trailer has made its virgin journey across Colorado to deliver, what else, a load of beer.

What's big, red and supposed to be the next big thing in workplace collaboration? Google's new Jamboard, a massive touch display and accompanying cloud service that's supposed to help business users brainstorm together. 

Google has acquired a 3-year-old eye-tracking company for virtual and augmented reality headsets, signaling the tech giant's interest in the immersive technologies.

OpenStack users running their workloads on IBM's SoftLayer public cloud infrastructure took it calmly when the company's object storage development lead, Brian Cline, announced that SoftLayer is going away.

Privacy is a critical area for IT, and as social media and mobile extend potential privacy invasions into areas once considered safe, reasonable safeguards must be taken. But it has to be acknowledged that many restrictions — you’re not allowed to save this or to track that — are simply not going to work. If data can be accessed, it will be used and retained, and no rules or laws to the contrary will make any difference.

SQL Server Analysis Services, one of the key features of Microsoft's relational database enterprise offering, is going to the cloud. The company announced Tuesday that it's launching the public beta of Azure Analysis Services, which gives users cloud-based access to semantic data modeling tools.

I’ve been bullish about app vendor Capriza for quite some time now.

Capriza’s raisan d’etre is very simple -- they’re all about wrapping traditional (read: legacy) enterprise applications in such a way that it makes it easy to create small-point solutions that read and write back to those big old monolithic applications. For any enterprise that is wedded to its Oracle or SAP solutions, Capriza helps them reconcile the seemingly counter aims of keeping the legacy platforms, while still enabling... Читать дальше...

Apple has been working furiously to introduce Apple Pay in new territories, and this morning’s Japanese launch appears to be attracting huge interest.

Ransomware is one of the most worrisome types of malware.

It doesn't steal your data; it threatens to cripple your business -- to tie up the resources that you need to service your customers, produce your products, send invoices, pay your bills. And even paying the ransom does not guarantee that you'll regain control of your systems. In fact, it encourages the perpetrators to continue using their tools to attack other organizations and maybe even come back your way.

The cautions... Читать дальше...

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The new APC Back-UPS BE600M1 provides instant battery power to your critical electronics when the power goes out, keeping you connected and available both personally and professionally. Designed specifically to enhance the features that matter most to you, including more runtime, more battery backup outlets, and a USB port for charging convenience, the BE600M1 is also smaller and lighter than the previous model. APC's BE600M1 offers guaranteed surge and lightning protection for attached devices. Читать дальше...

A new service is offering to store permanent copies of photos and videos posted to social media sites on archive-grade optical discs that they claim will last 1,000 years.

Guidance from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for improving motor vehicle cybersecurity has attracted criticism from lawmakers who said that mandatory security standards are required.

For six years, Watchfinder, a U.K.-based global buyer and seller of pre-owned luxury watches, split the role of DevOps between application development and management of a virtual infrastructure environment. But the company's ambitious growth plans, which included expansion to the U.S. earlier this year and an expected doubling of monthly watch sales, required IT director Jonathan Gill to think differently.

London is next in line to receive the Link high-speed Wi-Fi service that briefly brought high-speed porn to the streets of New York.

Giving up an old cell phone number for a new one may seem harmless. But for Lyft customers, it can potentially expose their accounts to complete strangers.

Bezels are so 2015. 

Which is why Xiaomi, which held a launch event in Beijing Tuesday to introduced its flagship phone, the Xiaomi Mi Note 2, also announced the Mi Mix, a near bezel-less concept phone. Except it is not only a concept. So what are the details of the Mi Mix?

In IT Blogwatch, we go bezel-free. 

So what is the big deal with this device? Abhimanyu Ghoshal gives us the background:

Apple has been selling Macintosh branded computers for 31 years, but with its emphasis shifting to smartphones, watches, music and who knows what else, the company has neglected its Mac line, leaving the Apple faithful wondering if the company is still committed to it.

The stars are finally aligned for WiGig, an ultra-fast, short-range wireless network that took a long time to become a reality.