Новости за 16.03.2017

Oracle’s third quarter financial results continue to show that the company’s future is in the cloud. On Wednesday, the company reported massive growth in its software- and platform-as-a-service businesses, promising further gains as its customers do away with their data centers.

An unpatched command injection vulnerability could allow hackers to take over enterprise networking products from Ubiquiti Networks.

New research is turning on its head the idea that legacy systems -- such as Cobol and Fortran -- are more secure because hackers are unfamiliar with the technology.

Some users have reported that one of this week's Windows 10 updates crippled their PCs, according to a thread on Reddit.

Bluntly put, IT managers move to flash array storage for speedy performance and reliability. But the systems vary widely in many respects and the selection must be matched to the organization's needs. So how do you decide?

SAP Hybris recently ran a unique summit which saw, over a 24 hour period, a series of global events, a digital conference and some product news. The company invited me to the New York event to meet with customers and executives and discuss what the news was. Before I go into my thoughts, it is worth summarizing what Hybris announced.

Five Veterans Affairs hospitals have been given 3D desktop printers, materials and training by Stratasys to enable the development of custom orthotics, prostheses and anatomical models.

Microsoft this week began a low-key promotion for the next Microsoft Windows 10 feature upgrade after issuing the month's Patch Tuesday updates.

Regardless of your home’s size or shape, these 3 powerful Luma devices work together to create an extremely fast, ultra-secure surround WiFi network that’s customized for your home. No more fiddling with extra WiFi extenders to manage dead spots and weak zones. Luma puts you in control. With a few simple taps, you can pause the internet, filter what your kids are looking at online, or set house rules for your network. Luma also secures your devices and neutralizes threats, keeping you in control of your network. Читать дальше...

President Donald Trump's federal budget outline released Thursday represents a major shift in U.S. priorities. It would increase defense spending, boost immigration enforcement and include in seed money for a wall along the southern border.

Bug hunters have gathered again to test their skills against some of the most popular and mature software programs during the Pwn2Own hacking contest. During the first day, they successfully demonstrated exploits against Microsoft Edge, Apple's Safari, Adobe Reader and Ubuntu Desktop.

AMD's Radeon memory business has slowed down, with fewer products available in the U.S. and no new product releases since the introduction of the Polaris GPUs last year.

For years, we’ve seen artificial intelligence (A.I.) slowly infiltrate industry after industry.

With all the talk about streaming music this week, I thought it'd be a fine time to dive deeper into Google's own Play Music service and seek out some of its not-so-obvious advanced features.

Google will start shipping development kits for its Project Soli wireless gesture recognition technology later this year.

The fairly recent appearance of bash on Windows, more properly known as “bash on Ubuntu on Windows” gives Windows some special appeal to those of us who love living on the command line. And it's not just bash, but bash along with all the tools you're likely to be looking for to get your work done.

I’ve been monitoring the evolution of digital health for years.

Over time it has become increasingly certain that the next wave of digital health devices will provide much deeper analysis of what shape you are in than telling you when to stand up. Apple’s next adventure on this journey puts…

Health in your ears

Three newly-published Apple patents (filed September 2015) tell us a little about how Apple hopes to put health solutions inside its connected products. While the mere existence of patents doesn’t mean anything... Читать дальше...

Kids are naturally responsible, so no parent ever has had to limit the amount of time their child is spending on a mobile device.

For months now, we’ve been hearing about Microsoft Teams, Microsoft’s much-heralded Slack killer for corporate chat. It’s now in official release (what Microsoft calls “general availability”) as part of Microsoft’s Office 365 enterprise plans. Sadly, Teams is underwhelming in its formal debut and definitely not a match for the hype Microsoft has been providing since October 2016. For a product so late to market, Microsoft should have delivered much more.

In a rare move, the U.S. has indicted two Russian government agents for their suspected involvement in a massive Yahoo data breach. But what now?

Sometime this spring, probably in April, Microsoft will release the Creators Update, one of the two major updates to Windows 10 that will roll out this year.

IT consultant pilot fish gets an urgent phone call from the consulting firm he works for: Some higher-ups want to meet with him immediately.

One mistaken click. That's all it took for hackers aligned with the Russian state security service to gain access to Yahoo's network and potentially the email messages and private information of as many as 500 million people.

U.S. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has pledged his agency will respond more quickly to new technology proposals, a move that might influence the direction of 5G development around the world.

Every year, Intel is present at Fashion Week in New York, showing off how technology will change fashion. It's an odd match, but the depth of technologies shown by Intel has changed every year.