Новости за 21.06.2016

As the head of Amazon Web Services, Andy Jassy has seen a lot of big organizations start using the public cloud. The biggest indicator of success for a cloud transition is simple, he says: Has the business' senior staff bought into it?

Salesforce has already rolled out several tools that aim to let business users create their own mobile apps. On Tuesday it unified them into a suite and added some new services on the back end.

The IT employees at Unum Group, a Chattanooga, Tenn.-based insurer, are alert to the possibility that their employer may shift work to an offshore outsourcing firm. The employees don't know much yet, but they know enough to be alarmed -- and a letter sent out last week by the CIO did little to change that.

You might have a few extra dollars to spend on Amazon this week, all courtesy of Apple.

High-tech entrepreneur Elon Musk has his sights set on building robots that can do housework, have conversations and play games.

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This all-in-one printer from Canon allows you to print with many powerful options including AirPrint, Google Cloud Print, Morphia and the Canon PRINT app. You can even print photos from Instagram or Facebook directly from your smartphone or tablet. The printing quality is remarkable with deeper black and vivid reds.

Slack is making it easier for people to interact with third-party services that integrate with its chat app with the launch of a new developer tool that lets bots add clickable buttons to their messages. 

Considering Docker is a business and initiative that leverages pretty standard technology, its rise has been meteoric, to say the least. Given that Docker's founder, Solomon Hykes, pretty much stumbled upon the project out of his (eventually to fail) PaaS company dotCloud, it is all the more surprising. But serendipity is alive and well in the tech space, and Docker's success -- both as a project and as a business -- is a testimony to that.

In the future, everything will be connected -- even your grandparents.

Intel's chip arsenal appears to have some glaring weaknesses. One of them is the lack of a high-end graphics processor, which is important for gaming, virtual reality and machine learning.

The market for hacked servers might be much larger than previously thought, with new evidence suggesting that hackers sold access to over 170,000 compromised servers since 2014, a third of them located in the U.S.

Say hello to Fedora 24, a Linux OS for a containerized world

Image by The Fedora Project

Well, gang, it's actually happening: The full Google Play Store of Android apps is starting to show up on Chromebooks.

The Federal Aviation Administration has published long-awaited rules that loosen restrictions on commercial use of drones but don't go as far as allowing drone delivery services like those proposed by Amazon.

Congress should block proposed rules changes that could give law enforcement agencies new authority to hack thousands of computers, several tech and advocacy groups said.

Adobe Systems retouches its software. Photoshop CC 2015.5 and other Creative Cloud parts get some exciting new stuff, for your media-fiddling enjoyment.

Microsoft announced earlier this year that its popular SharePoint collaboration software was getting a full-featured mobile app. Starting Tuesday, iPhone users can take a crack at it. 

It was one sentence buried near the end of a long announcement from Apple about iOS 10, but it was perhaps one of the most interesting. “Apple Pay can now be used to make easy, secure, and private purchases on participating websites using Safari, in addition to paying in-stores and within apps.”

Apple has released firmware updates for its AirPort wireless base stations in order to fix a vulnerability that could put the devices at risk of hacking.

Apple announced watchOS 3 at WWDC 2016. It’s a significant software upgrade that improves performance and usability while introducing new features any Apple Watch user will enjoy.

There are two new players at the top of our pay tally, and they both work at the same company. Oracle's co-chief executives Mark Hurd and Safra Catz each netted compensation valued at $53.2 million last year.

The U.S. plans to have a supercomputer by early 2018 with roughly double the performance of China's newest and most powerful system. The Chinese system, Sunway TaihuLight, was announced Monday in the latest release of the Top500, the biannual ranking of publicly known supercomputers.

It's a few decades back, and this vendor tech pilot fish is doing a disk installation for a minicomputer at a trucking company.

U.S. warnings and public scrutiny of hacks by groups believed to be China-based may have led to an overall decrease in intrusions by these groups against targets in the U.S. and 25 other countries, a security firm said.