Новости за 30.03.2017

Samsung has a portfolio of devices and appliances that would make Apple envious. But unlike Apple's, Samsung's devices don't work well together.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed his company will begin taking orders in April for its latest product: roof shingles that are tougher than standard roof coverings and can enable an energy-independent building.

More DDR memory is on the way, despite many predictions that its time would soon be up.

After Congress on Tuesday approved a resolution that would toss out significant online privacy protections, one Internet user decided to do something about it.

The Russian government used "thousands" of internet trolls and bots to spread fake news, in addition to hacking into political campaigns leading up to the 2016 U.S. election, according to one lawmaker.

Ford plans to double its mobile connectivity engineering team by hiring 400 software developers and hardware engineers.

Verizon on Friday will launch a nationwide wireless network designed to help developers, businesses, utilities and municipalities deploy secure internet-of-things devices at lower cost.

Google yesterday updated Chrome to patch several vulnerabilities, including a bug in the browser's JavaScript engine that a Chinese team tried to exploit at a recent hacking contest.

I’ve been watching Xero since it launched a decade ago.

Actually, I’ve been watching Xero even longer than that -- I’ve used the product since soon after it launched, but co-founder and CEO Rod Drury has been talking about the small business accounting space since long before that. I’ve been a long-time fan, albeit one with some questions. While I’ve been impressed by their execution, their product and their pace, I’ve sometimes questioned their seemingly (at least in the past) maniacal... Читать дальше...

Everyone knows that happy employees are better employees -- but what, exactly, is the key to employee happiness?

A new survey of IT professionals shows Microsoft Azure has overtaken Amazon Web Services (AWS) as the public cloud provider of choice, although there is considerable overlap.

Custom launchers are among Android's most useful and distinctive features. They let you take total control of your phone's home screen environment and make it work the way you want -- often with fresh and innovative twists on what a home screen can be.

Your company may not be a Google or a Facebook, but that doesn’t mean you can’t level the playing field by offering and managing significant workplace services. As workplace culture continues to be a key deciding factor for professionals choosing between job offers, such perks really do count toward hiring and retaining the best talent. Here’s how to make a difference.

Here’s a bit of a shocker: A survey by the noted job recruiting site Glassdoor found that 80% of employees prefer new or additional benefits or perks to a pay raise.1

The outcome of the annual H-1B visa lottery is immigration’s Groundhog Day. It’s the same result year after year as many industries, including tech, have come to depend on their H-1B visas. With further immigration policy changes likely to come, here are ways to lower the stress levels that always accompany this thorny issue. 

A proof-of-concept exploit has been published for an unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Information Services 6.0, a version of the web server that's no longer supported but still widely used.

It used to be that employee benefits were considered a “nice to have,” a little “something extra” that helped businesses stand out from the crowd.

One of the biggest challenges with building connected hardware is getting from proof-of-concept (PoC) prototypes to devices that are ready for large-scale production rollout. Microsoft is aiming to help through labs that allow companies to come in and work with experts on building internet-connected hardware.

People looking for an easier path to integrating with Amazon’s Alexa virtual assistant have good news on the horizon. NoHold, a company that builds services for making bots, unveiled a project that seeks to turn a document into an Alexa skill.

When it comes to the topic of diversity and inclusion (D&I) in the workforce, there is no lack of conversation.

Here are 12 reasons why we’ll all want to know what happens at this year’s Apple developer’s event. Caution: Apple-guessing is inexact. Not everything will happen -- there isn’t even time for it all in one keynote.

For the past few months, developers who publish their code on GitHub have been targeted in an attack campaign that uses a little-known but potent cyberespionage malware.

We travel in used cars and used airplanes, so why not used rockets?

Even though no people are going be in it, SpaceX, for the first time, is about to launch a rocket that has been used on a previous flight. But how did it accomplish this, and what is the company's eventually goal for reusing rockets?

In IT Blogwatch, we are ready for blast off.

So what is going on? William Harwood has the background:

VMware has released critical security patches for vulnerabilities demonstrated during the recent Pwn2Own hacking contest that could be exploited to escape from the isolation of virtual machines.

Uber is asking a federal court to use arbitration to settle most of the claims in a lawsuit brought by rival self-driving car developer Waymo.