Новости за 06.11.2015

The U.S. is making preparations to protect communications and transportation systems from potentially dangerous space weather events.

Enterprises that use Verizon might find their service provider under new ownership if reports that the carrier wants to get out of the corporate game are true.

Google is looking for a couple of people with the right stuff: test pilots for its Project Wing drone delivery project and Project Titan airborne Internet service.

Here's an idea for retailers: Stop losing sales because your associates don't speak the language of some of your potential customers. When a customer shows up who only speaks Spanish — or Russian, or Mandarin, or Portuguese, or Hmong — you could accommodate them without hiring sales associates in every store who speak Spanish, Russian, Mandarin, Portuguese and Hmong.

AT&T started selling BlackBerry's first Android-powered smartphone, a slider called the Priv, on Friday for $250 with a two-year contract, a price that could entice buyers who are reluctant to pay BlackBerry's own $699 off-contract price.

One of the amazing realizations when it comes to high-end computational testing is that you can simulate products so thoroughly that there are few surprises when the real thing is sitting in front of you. At a recent event, I stood in front of the result of 50 million hours of engineering testing: The 2016 Cadillac CT6. It’s about to go into full production and hits dealers next year.

If you're trying to bar the door to malware infections, automated application whitelisting is a tactic that the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology thinks you should try -- and the agency wants to help you implement it in an effective way.

Back in January, Apple CEO Tim Cook declared 2015 “the year of Apple Pay.” While I like his enthusiasm, I think we are a long way away from declaring any one technology -- or tech company -- the leader. The mobile payment industry has changed dramatically and permanently (largely as a result of Apple Pay), resulting in a wealth of new opportunities for mobile payments, and along with it, a whole bunch of confusion.

I recently doubled the drive capacity of my MacBook Air, thanks to an innovative new solution called TarDisk, a tiny drive that slots into the SD card port on the side of your Apple laptop.

The European Union put the onus firmly on the U.S. to make the next move in negotiating a replacement for the now-defunct Safe Harbor Agreement on privacy protection for transatlantic personal data transfers.

The BlackBerry Priv reviews are in. Some are qualified raves, but many are harsh rants. Can’t BlackBerry catch a break?

Chromebooks provide a dead-simple way to get online and get stuff done -- but the process of picking out a Chromebook has gotten increasingly complicated over the years.

Microsoft has made it clear that it will take on a greater role in managing the Windows update process with Windows 10. The company has also made it clear that it will aggressively push users -- both consumers and businesses -- to upgrade from Windows 7 and Windows 8 to its latest OS. With that in mind, it's hard to image either predecessor hanging around anywhere near as long as Windows XP.

This manufacturing company is acquired by a much bigger corporation -- which, as usual, means it's time for somebody to fiddle with IT, reports a pilot fish on the scene.

The BlackBerry Priv reviews are in. Some are qualified raves, but many are harsh rants. Can’t BlackBerry catch a break?

Toyota plans a major push into artificial intelligence and robotics technology research and will invest US$1 billion over the next five years to establish a Silicon Valley research and development center to pursue those goals.

Nick Arnott couldn't figure out recently why Apple kept rejecting an update to a mobile app his company developed.

A key task force convened to work out registration rules for consumer drones ended a three-day meeting on Thursday with apparently no final conclusion.

I’ve been warming up to the Microsoft Surface line of tablets lately. The latest version, the Surface Pro 4, is a step in the right direction and has a few bells and whistles that might make you think twice before pre-ordering that fancy new Apple iPad Pro that comes out this month.

Volume discounts are nothing unusual in the world of enterprise software, but over the last year or so Salesforce reportedly has been approaching customers early about upcoming renewals and wooing them with considerable extra discounts if they sign on ahead of time for the CRM vendor's full software suite.

Predictions about future job growth are getting harder to make. Innovation is happening so quickly in so many areas that it's making Moore's Law look sluggish.

In light of Android's mediaserver issues, Google’s latest Android security update focused on flaws related to the operating system's treatment of media files. Android’s current flaws are similar to problems that cropped up with Windows more than a decade ago.

A battery that can hold five times or more energy capacity than existing lithium-ion batteries could be in users' hands as early as next year.

Microsoft today shipped a new Windows 10 build to its Insider testers, a refresh focused on bug fixes and improvements that contains a clue that signaled the first update for most users since July is imminent.

Although tales of tablets replacing personal computers have essentially evaporated, computer makers should pin what hope they can muster for growth on the tablet's close cousins, 2-in-1 devices and convertible notebooks, a Gartner analyst said today.