Новости за 13.06.2016

Amazon faces a $350,000 fine from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration after shipping a corrosive chemical by air, in violation of federal law. It's the 25th time the company has been found to violate hazardous chemical shipping regulations in two and a half years.

Apple CEO Tim Cook and a small battalion of his lieutenants took to a stage today in a fast-paced keynote that pushed back against talk that lagged behind rival in artificial intelligence (AI) and opened some of the company's crown jewels to third-party developers.

Shoppers will soon be able to buy merchandise with Apple Pay over the web from a Mac desktop or laptop, with the purchase authenticated via a buyer's fingerprint scan on their iPhone or a touch on their Apple Watch.

Apple today recast OS X as macOS, a name that harked back two decades.

With LinkedIn under its belt, Microsoft will own one of the largest social networks in the world. The move could help the company reconnect with both business and individual customers.

The U.S. government wants to intervene in an Irish court case that has already disrupted the transatlantic flow of European Union citizens' personal information on which many businesses rely.

Amazon is currently discounting its Tap speaker by 15% to $109.99. It averages 4 out of 5 stars from 1,300 customers (read reviews). The Tap is a more portable version of their popular Echo speaker. The tap lasts for up to 9 hours on a single charge and is Alexa-Enabled, so you just "tap" and ask it to play your favorite music from most streaming music services, check sports scores, request an Uber, order a pizza, and much more. Learn more about the discounted Tap and explore buying options now on Amazon. Читать дальше...

Intel has let slip its timeline for releasing what is arguably the most significant advancement in non-volatile data storage in years, its 3D XPoint (cross point) memory, which will be sold under the name Optane.

Cybersecurity would seem to be a top priority for enterprises, but there are still breaches and apparent gaps in their defenses and the way that companies respond to attacks.

A bill to give email and other documents stored in the cloud new protections from government searches may be dead in the U.S. Senate over a proposed amendment to expand the FBI's surveillance powers.

File-encrypting ransomware programs have become one of the biggest threats to corporate networks worldwide and are constantly evolving by adding increasingly sophisticated detection-evasion and propagation techniques.

The news resounded in an echo chamber this morning.

Microsoft is buying the most well-known and useful social network for business, and it’s quite an earth-shattering deal. They’ll pay $26.2B in cash or $196 per share. The LinkedIn deal was approved by both boards but still needs to go through as regulatory approval process.

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I have something of a checkered past with HPE, the enterprise business that was created when Hewlett-Packard split itself into two units a year or so ago. I first engaged with the business formerly known as HP half a dozen years ago. Back then the company was very much still in the business of selling hardware -- be it servers, printers or laptops -- and had not yet focused on its transformation into a business that could compete in the modern world.

VMware wants to help companies get a better handle on the security of the computers their employees use. The new TrustPoint product the company announced Monday uses software to make it possible to track and manage computers easily and quickly, without taking up a whole bunch of data. 

The NSA has new tricks up its sleeve, looking for ways to exploit the Internet of Things and connected biomedical devices like pacemakers in order to monitor targets and collect foreign intelligence.

Microsoft has made a big bet on LinkedIn, announcing Monday that it will spend nearly $26.2 billion in cash to purchase the enterprise-focused social networking and recruiting company.

A new OS often retires features that were in its predecessor. If you’re still holding onto Windows 7 because a feature you’re fond of doesn’t appear in Windows 10, chances are there are alternative programs you can install to replace it. Here are five of them, and they’re all free.

Apple announced that by this fall it will let nearly all iOS app makers switch to a subscription-based business model, a move that could make it easier for some small-scale developers to turn a profit but risks backlash from consumers burdened by subscription fatigue.

When Reuters last week reported that Target "is asking many suppliers to take on up to an extra 3-5 percent of the cost of promotions and price cuts after slow sales so far this year," it revealed some serious weaknesses within Target as well as a huge opportunity to prove the monumental ROI of better analytics and crowdsourcing.

It wasn’t that long ago that Oracle’s lord and master, Larry Ellison, snarled that cloud computing was just hype. He said in 2008, “The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women’s fashion. Maybe I’m an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about. What is it? It’s complete gibberish. It’s insane. When is this idiocy going to stop?”

Security company Symantec is to acquire Web security provider Blue Coat for $4.65 billion in cash in a deal that will broaden the portfolio of security technologies the combined company can offer customers as they move to the cloud.

Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference kicks off today at 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT with a keynote at San Francisco's Moscone Center from Apple CEO Tim Cook and other Apple executives.

Who knew Siri could be so gabby?

Rumor has it that Siri is coming to OS X, and the rumor was started by no other than Siri herself. Apple’s personal assistant leaked the news when she answered a very strangely worded question by referencing the “Finder” -- which iOS does not have, but OS X does. 

In IT Blogwatch, bloggers think this can mean only one thing -- that Apple will be announcing that Siri is coming to desktop Macs at today's Worldwide Developers Conference keynote. Here's the lowdown on what everyone is saying. Читать дальше...

Facebook activated its ‘Safety Check’ tool after the killings at an Orlando nightclub early Sunday, making it the first time the service was used in the U.S.

Recent college grad Lauren Delisle interviewed at Credit Acceptance two years ago at the suggestion of a friend, with little expectation of leaving her job in product support. But once the interviewer started talking about the company's PRIDE values and its "Big Hairy Audacious Goals" to hit a stock price of $1,000 per share, to sell 1 million auto loans and to be a top 10 place to work -- Delisle knew she had stumbled upon an organization with a serious plan for growth.