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Will arrive “shortly”. Apple will no longer release its new Apple Watch operating system watchOS 2 this week as planned after it discovered a bug in development. A company spokeswoman said the bug was taking longer to fix than expected. “We will not release watchOS 2 today but will shortly,” the spokeswoman said. The OS had been scheduled [...]
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But faces obstacles to making phones smarter. Apple has ramped up its hiring of artificial intelligence experts, posting dozens of job listings and greatly increasing the size of its AI staff, including by recruiting from PhD programs. The goal is to challenge Google in an area the internet search giant has long dominated: smartphone features that [...]
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If you’ve paid any attention to Intel’s developer event in San Francisco this week, you’ve probably gathered already that there’s almost no chip news at the show. Intel has moved up the food chain, so to speak, and is showing developers what they can build with its technologies rather than focusing on new components. It [...]
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Only Google Account needed from now on. Google appears to be throwing in the towel in its fight against rivals Facebook and Twitter, and will now decouple its Google+ social network from its main businesses. Bradley Horowitz, Google’s vice-president of streams, photos and sharing said in the coming months, users will no longer need a [...]
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While the United States unemployment rate has hit a post-recession low, the network and computing industry has not been without significant layoffs so far in 2015. Some companies’ workforce reductions are tricky to calculate, as layoff plans announced by the likes of HP in recent years have been spread across multiple years. But here’s a [...]
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Microsoft is scaling down its mobile phone activities, writing off the entire value of the former Nokia smartphone business it bought last year and laying off almost one-third of that business’ staff. The company will no longer try to build a standalone phone business, but instead plans to build a Windows ecosystem that includes its [...]
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Microsoft is handing off some its digital advertising business to AOL and selling its street-image mapping operation to Uber, as the giant software company tries to focus on activities more relevant to its core business. AOL, meanwhile, is adopting Microsoft’s Bing search engine, replacing Google as the default option for visitors who want to search [...]
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Despite all the challenges that the society of Ukrainian faces today, deregulation remains one of the fastest-moving reforms. The Ukrainian government has recently been working on a deregulation plan for 2015-2016, which contains 130 of the most painful issues that need to be dealt with along with naming a person who will be responsible for [...]
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Internet giant Google Inc. acquired MEMS sensor startup Lumedyne Technologies Inc. (San Diego, Calif.) for about $85 million back in November 2014, according to an Xconomy report. Google’s decision to buy came a few months after Lumedyne had demonstrated a working prototype of an accelerometer based on something called time-domain switching technology, the report said. [...]
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Google announces better app permission controls and other Android security changes at its Google I/O developer conference. Google has announced several new security features for its Android mobile operating system at its annual Google I/O developer conference in San Francisco. First, Google has introduced Smart Lock Passwords, a feature which enables Android devices to store [...]
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