Новости за 12.12.2016

After Disney IT workers were told in October 2014 of the plan to use offshore outsourcing firms, employees said the workplace changed. The number of South Asian workers in Disney technology buildings increased, and some workers had to train H-1B-visa-holding replacements. Approximately 250 IT workers were laid off in January 2015.

Microsoft today boasted that more customers than ever before had traded in an Apple laptop for one of its own Surface-branded devices.

Digital transformation initiatives are helping to make organizations more efficient, collaborative, and innovative. But the presence of some legacy technologies—as well as legacy mindsets—continues to inhibit transformation efforts at many enterprises.

One of Apple's major suppliers of iPhone displays is poised to make a major investment in OLED screens. Japan Display plans to acquire Joled, an OLED screen maker jointly owned by Sony and Panasonic, according to Japan's Nikkei newspaper.

It is remarkable how many leaders seem to overlook the undeniable correlation between mastering communication and successfully occupying a position of leadership.

Machine learning is fast becoming the go-to predictive paradigm for data scientists and developers alike. Of the many tools available for tapping neural networks, Microsoft’s Azure ML Studio offers a quick learning curve that won’t take deep data or coding chops to get up and running.

It’s that time of year again -- for several years in a row, I’ve picked the most innovative games of the year on any platform. This year was much, much easier than past years, mostly thanks to a wide selection of games and the debut of virtual reality headsets. Even the major releases from studios like Electronic Arts had brilliant innovations we’ve never seen before.

Virtual reality is emerging as a computing category just like PCs and mobile devices, and VR headset shipments are booming.

Microsoft Ventures has launched an artificial intelligence investment fund, signaling its parent company's growing focus on the emerging technology.

Digital health means figuring out how connected devices can help quantify what you already do in order to enable you to do better. In many cases, you’ll achieve big results through smaller, incremental changes, and that’s what iOS 10’s little-used ‘Bedtime’ feature tries to provide.

Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos, and SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son are investors in a new clean energy technology venture firm launched Monday.

Several models of Netgear routers are affected by a publicly disclosed vulnerability that could allow hackers to take them over.

Microsoft's Surface Hub large-screen PC isn't your regular computer, and it takes a bit of practice to fully exploit it. With that in mind, Microsoft is starting a program to let users try the Surface Hub for 30 days before buying it.

In the world of ever-evolving ransomware, one recently spotted variant is like doxware and another has a “nasty” option of infecting two other people – be it friends, enemies or strangers – and your files will be decrypted for free.

Fiberlink MaaS360 won our Clear Choice test of mobile device management tools in 2011. IBM bought Fiberlink in 2013, so we wanted to see how the product has evolved over the years.

Diamonds. Bitcoin. Pork. If you think you've spotted the odd one out, think again: All three are things you can track using blockchain technologies today.

U.S. president-elect Donald Trump is meeting this week in New York with top tech executives, including Oracle CEO Safra Catz, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Alphabet CEO Larry Page and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, according to news reports.

Seems like everyone is getting in the self-driving car tech game these days.

You've read about cities installing smart parking meters and noise- and air-quality sensors, but are you ready to embrace the idea of a city brain?

Amazon last week introduced a new approach to in-store technology and strategy, with its Amazon Go experiment. On the plus side, it offers a vision of the possible, with shoppers taking a few seconds to check in to a store on their phone and then they grab what they want off the shelves and exit the store.

As he arrives at work, IT pilot fish is flagged down by his manager -- who tells fish that the office's internet connection is down.

You may have heard that it's not worth your time to look for a new job during the hectic holiday season. But according to Ford R. Myers, author of Get the Job You Want, Even When No One's Hiring, and president of the career consulting firm Career Potential, there are a number of ways to make the holiday season work for your job search.