Новости за 05.11.2015

Researchers in Singapore this week began a two-year trial of a smartphone app that attempts to use artificial intelligence to influence the real-world decisions of users.

It's hard enough for companies to tame the masses of structured data now coming their way at top speed each day, but unstructured data -- the kind that doesn't fit tidily into traditional spreadsheets or databases -- is an even bigger challenge. That's typically the domain of expert users in large enterprises equipped with high-end software, and it's also where Taste Analytics has set its sights.

Facebook reportedly is getting ready to launch Notify, a new app designed to bring users the latest news.

1. It's the spectrum that's unlicensed, not the LTE.

The acronyms are flying: LTE-U, LAA, MuLTEfire. They're all forms of LTE tweaked to send signals over unlicensed frequencies, which are open to Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and any other technology that plays fair. Carriers could use it as soon as 2016 to add frequencies without spending billions to license them. At first, unlicensed LTE will only be used to supplement a carrier's own bands to make downloads faster. Later, it might send traffic both... Читать дальше...

1. It's the spectrum that's unlicensed, not the LTE.

The acronyms are flying: LTE-U, LAA, MuLTEfire. They're all forms of LTE tweaked to send signals over unlicensed frequencies, which are open to Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and any other technology that plays fair. Carriers could use it as soon as 2016 to add frequencies without spending billions to license them. At first, unlicensed LTE will only be used to supplement a carrier's own bands to make downloads faster. Later, it might send traffic both... Читать дальше...

Premium mobile devices with brighter screens, better cameras and faster wireless connectivity powered by Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 820 chip could ship as early as April next year.

The Screen Actors Guild is being sued by an IT worker who says she is not only fighting national origin discrimination, but breast cancer. Both are linked.

USB-C is super-cool. But some cables and adaptors can be “downright dangerous.”

Hey -- didja hear? Verizon's got a couple new Droid phones for the holiday season.

One month after signing the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, the U.S. and New Zealand governments have published the full trade treaty, including details of what ISPs must do to defend others' copyrights.

Only 17% of 19,000 consumers surveyed in the U.S. and five other countries plan to buy a tablet computer in the next year, Gartner said Thursday.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is funding creation of a heat map visualization tool that will show where cybersecurity jobs are open across the country. The first rendition should be out late next year.

Ransomware creators have taken their extortion one step further: In addition to encrypting people's private files and demanding money before releasing a key, they now threaten to publish those files on the Internet if they're not paid.

Microsoft's Dynamics CRM 2016 software is just around the corner, and on Thursday the company revealed new detail about what it will include from a customer-service perspective.

Take note: IT can create, or it can destroy, an organization’s ability to be entrepreneurial.

Apple recently reached another deal to extend its enterprise reach, this time with Telogis, a provider of software solutions for fleet management. This is clearly a very big step for telematics, iOS and the digital transformation of the enterprise, so I caught up with Telogis vice president of product marketing, Kelly Frey, to find out a little more.

Microsoft will soon kick off a faster update and upgrade cadence for System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM), the cornerstone of the company's enterprise-grade System Center device management suite.

Over time on Windows systems, it's inevitable that old device drivers are supplanted by new ones. Even on systems where drivers aren't rigorously maintained, Windows Update will typically update or replace, on average, a dozen drivers annually.

In a study released this morning, nine out of 10 corporate board members said that regulators should hold businesses liable for breaches if they haven't taken reasonable steps to secure customer data.

It’s extraordinary difficult for humans to comprehend really long periods of time. For example, think about the Roman Empire in relation to the ancient Egyptians: In 2015, we are closer in time to the Romans than the Romans were to the Egyptians when they started building the pyramids. To the Romans, the Egyptians were ancient history.

Companies interested in deploying the increasingly popular MariaDB open source database on Microsoft's Azure cloud platform now have an easy way to do so, thanks to a new offering provided through the Azure Marketplace. 

Apple is facing growing challenges in keeping suspicious mobile applications out of its App Store marketplace.

Microsoft is considering whether to push up the blocking of the SHA-1 hashing algorithm on Windows to as early as June, taking a cue from a similar decision by the Mozilla Foundation.

Intuit is, without doubt, the 800-pound gorilla in the small and mid-sized business accounting space. The company owns the lion's share of the market in the U.S. and internationally it is also a strong player. While it has competitors (legacy vendors Sage in the UK, MYOB in Australasia and new entrant Xero in some markets), the fact of the matter is if you were to ask any accountant or bookkeeper in the U.S. what is their software of choice, the odds are that Intuit will be the answer.

Facebook is rapidly swallowing up the news business. Will political debate be next?