Новости за 21.08.2015

In what's become something of a head-scratching tradition, Apple's iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus launch last year was accompanied by a completely overblown scandal known as 'bendgate.'

I’ve been a happy user of Google’s Chrome browser pretty much since it was launched but not everyone would agree with my browser choice; there are many who prefer Firefox because it’s arguably more open for developers  and, many would contend, because of that, more flexible. So, with Mozilla having just announced a major set of changes to Firefox’s add-on architecture, it’s not surprising that users, and notably add-on developers, are not happy. Here’s a summary of what’s going to be different:

An ex-Google engineer is developing a new file system for Linux, with the hopes that it can offer a speedier and more advanced way of storing data on servers.

Starting in however many more minutes it takes me to post this and continuing until Tuesday, Sept. 8, I will be on vacation and therefore failing to blog. Unless I feel like it.

The upcoming movie about a NASA astronaut left for dead on Mars in the 2030s features a number of technologies NASA says are currently under development.

The term "cryptopocalypse" was probably first coined at the Black Hat USA information security convention in 2013.

Recent visitors to Plenty of Fish (pof.com), an online dating website with over 3 million daily active users, had their browsers redirected to exploits that installed malware.

Google has shut down its website that predicted how influenza and dengue fever were spreading based on queries that people ran in the company's search engine.

Hewlett-Packard has reported another quarter of declining profits and revenue, with its massive corporate split now less than three months away.

Hewlett-Packard doesn't officially become two companies until Nov. 1, but the company has already separated its internal systems and is effectively operating as two businesses.

Four successive lightning strikes on a local utility grid in Europe caused a data loss at Google's Belgium data center. For Google, a company with a self-described "appetite for accuracy" in its data center operations, admitting an unrecoverable data loss as small as 0.000001% -- as it did -- likely came with a little bit of pain.

It's 20 years since Microsoft first launched Internet Explorer, on Aug. 16, 1995, as part of the Microsoft Plus Internet Jumpstart Kit for Windows 95. But rather than a celebration, Microsoft sends out a different message via the new Edge browser in Windows 10: "Thanks for all the great work you've done, but I got it from here."

When you buy a new Windows PC, you expect it to be clean and lean, starting up fast and speeding through your work as quickly as you need it to.

The best browsers go beyond benchmarks, racing through real-world webpages as well as canned routines. They’re easy to set up, flexible and extensible, and connect other devices and services into an ecosystem. 

Service-level agreements (SLAs)—those contractual agreements defining the expected performance of a service provider— alone will not guarantee success when outsourcing application development and maintenance work. They’re one of many tools to help manage an IT outsourcing deal.

When the Agile Manifesto hit the street in 2001, it combined several methods, sometimes called "lightweight methods," under a single banner. Scrum, DSDM, ExtremeProgramming (XP) and Crystal were all "agile" in that they matched the spirit of the manifesto. These methods enable small teams to do their best work, getting the paperwork out of the way and bringing the customer into the conversation.

Pamela Dyson is shepherding a determined, if incremental, effort to move her agency's applications to the cloud.

Android OS developer Cyanogen is bringing its operating system to another Chinese smartphone, this time from a company founded by Lenovo.

Corporate security executives should have a professional interest in the Ashley Madison breach because publicly posted data about its customers represents a fertile field for spear phishers trying to attack business networks.

Samsung Electronics is hosting its second major product launch of the year in New York Thursday, with a lot riding on the expected debut of the large format Galaxy Note 5 and Galaxy S6 edge+. Carrying forward designs reminiscent of the existing S6 smartphones, the company is hoping make up for ground it has lost to the iPhone 6 Plus.

A pair of rumors earlier this week both point to Apple releasing its next-gen iPhone on Friday, September 18.

A hacking group suspected of operating from China has had success stealing information from mostly Indian targets, often pertaining to border disputes and trade issues, according to FireEye.

The woes of AshleyMadison.com’s owners continued Thursday, with a second large release of internal data that security experts suspect is authentic.

Today, organizations need to analyze data from multiple sources and, to stay competitive, they need to do it when the data is fresh off the wire. But installing the software to take on this task can be onerous.