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Skydivers, mountain bikers and rappellers donned Google Glasses on Wednesday and captured video of their stunts at the Google I/O conference, giving the world a glimpse of the capabilities of this new wearable technology. Google is selling the glasses for $1,500 to U.S.-based developers who were in ...
Google worked toward pulling together its ecosystem Wednesday, announcing an array of new products and services at its I/O Developer Conference. In addition to its widely anticipated Nexus 7 tablet, the company unveiled its Nexus Q media streamer and its Google Cloud Messaging service for Android; m...
Twitter was unavailable to users for significant portions of the day on Thursday. Contrary to speculation, it wasn't due to a hack attack, despite attempts by some groups to claim responsibility. Rather, a "cascading bug" in one of its infrastructure components was the cause for the upheaval, Twitte...
Microsoft on Wednesday announced a plethora of new features for app developers in Windows Phone 8, its next mobile operating system. Windows Phone 8 will share a core with Windows 8, meaning app devs can write one app and have it run across mobile devices as well as desktops supporting Windows 8. Wi...
Netflix has announced changes to its public API that will prevent developers from accessing information about its customers. As of September 15, users' rental history and information about what they viewed will no longer be included in the API, putting that data out of reach for developers creating ...
If you're in IT and your job involves securing your organizations' infrastructure, you've probably spent a good deal of time thinking through control selection -- in other words, picking the controls that most directly help you accomplish the goal of securing your environment. And you've probably a...
Microsoft put its updated cloud offerings and business tools in the spotlight Monday for the start of its annual TechEd Conference. In the keynote address kicking off the confab, Satya Nadella, president of Microsoft server and tools business, discussed Microsoft's focus on helping consumers transit...
One in three high school students has texted or emailed someone while driving a vehicle over the past 30 days, a study by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found. The CDC said motor vehicle crashes account for more than one-third of U.S. teen fatalities each year. Thos...
Epic Games on Friday officially announced its upcoming Unreal Engine 4 technology, which could be the foundation for the next decade of graphics technology in video games. This comes the day after the close of E3, the video game industry's largest trade show, and it's notable in that the current vid...
On today's information technology landscape, one thing is glaringly obvious: Security concerns associated with employees bringing personal devices onto the corporate network -- both internal and external -- are keeping IT managers up at night. The "consumerization" of IT is having an enormous impact...
Google has begun informing certain individual users whom it believes may be the target of state-sponsored cyberattacks. Those users will see a pink ribbon at the top of their Google pages bearing a warning notice. However, the warning only means Google believes the account holder may be a target for...
There is no debating that integrations with small business platforms are a great way for app developers to gain increased exposure and, ultimately, additional sales for their tool or service. Many established software providers in the space are opening their doors through APIs to make it easier for...
Platform as a Service solutions for the cloud are continuing to pop up all over in the world of software due to their simplicity, efficiency and strong developer orientation. Several different PaaS platforms are being built for specific technology stacks. At the application level, most PaaS solution...
The growth of the bring-your-own-device trend, in which employees use their personal devices in the workplace, is proving to be a huge headache for IT. Often underfunded, understaffed and overworked, IT now has to cope with a plethora of different devices running different operating systems -- or di...
Information security has changed a lot over the years. Way back in the dinosaur days, life was simple. Companies set up a firewall at the border and life was good. Bad guys stayed on one side of the fancy flashing box, and our personnel lived in the pristine, attacker-free paradise on the inside. W...
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