Новости за 14.06.2016

Apple kicked off its Worldwide Developers Conference Monday and announced a metric ton of new features for its products. Most of them target consumers, but there were several announcements that improve productivity and will benefit business users as well. Here are the top five:

Apple and Cisco Systems have fleshed out their plans to make iOS devices work better in enterprises and said the new capabilities will arrive in the fall.

The offshore outsourcing of IT grew because of the cost of offshore labor. A software engineer in India is paid but a fraction of what a U.S. worker earns. Payscale puts the median salary for a senior software engineer in India at $10,000.

If I had to choose two words to sum up Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) keynote today, those words would be evolution and integration. Apple has clearly moved to evolve its four platforms -- watchOS, tvOS, macOS and iOS 10 -- in ways that will help users in a variety of ways big and small. The company also notably built on its existing Continuity approach to bolster integration across Apple devices.

Another year, another office move, and this pilot fish has to deal with getting broadband for a site where it's not exactly well supported by the local telco.

There have been many reports of people whose computers were updated to Windows 10 without their permission. Even here in Computerworld, Preston Gralla wrote that it happened to his wife. Same thing for Brad Chacos of our sister site PCWorld.

I was one of LinkedIn’s first members, joining on June 27, 2003, when it was still in beta. Over the years, it has gotten me a lot of work and helped me write countless stories. But now that Microsoft is buying the company, I’m really wondering whether I should leave.