Apple acquires sleep-tracking hardware company Beddit

IBM freezes contractor hires to keep full-time workers fully occupied

Big Blue Oz isn't renewing contractors or hiring new ones, even on projects with deadlines More evidence that IBM is cutting costs in multiple ways: the company's Australian tentacle is making it very, very hard to hire contractors.…

Nvidia's profits so far this year are GPU-ge

The anti-AMD racks up 48 per cent revenue jump Graphics chip and ARM systems-on-chips hardware slinger Nvidia says its gaming, datacenter, and automotive groups were to thank for a quarter that saw its profits more than double.…

Nvidia's profits so far this year are GPU-ge

The anti-AMD racks up 48 per cent revenue jump Graphics chip and ARM systems-on-chips hardware slinger Nvidia says its gaming, datacenter, and automotive groups were to thank for a quarter that saw its profits more than double.…

FBI boss James Comey was probing Trump's team for Russia links. So Donald just fired him

President treats America like an episode of The Apprentice In a surprise move, the director of the FBI has been given his marching papers by President Trump, on the recommendation of senior staff.…

Apple acquires sleep tracking company Beddit, but its site will stay live

 Apple has acquired a sleep tracking hardware and software company, TechCrunch has confirmed. News of the acquisition was first reported by CNBC. In a post on Beddit‘s privacy policy page, the company also confirmed that it has been acquired and fur…

Infosec, e-health, Vets' Affairs scoop up cash in Oz federal budget

Australia's needy IT sector gets its annual dose of validation The IT sector always loves it when the Australian government acknowledges its existence in the federal budget, and 2017-2018 is no exception.…

ServiceNow's new CEO thinks IT can spare us from corporate re-orgs

He also feels cloud is yet to make a dent in the enterprise – but AI might fix that ServiceNow's new CEO John Donahoe has introduced himself to the company's community at its Knowledge17 conference in Orlando, Florida. Along the way he introduced so…

It's 2017 and Windows PCs are being owned by EPS files, webpages

Get patching ASAP as exploits are being used in the wild – and fix Adobe stuff, too Microsoft has today published patches for more than 50 security flaws in its products – including three serious holes being exploited right now in the wild. These up…

ServiceNow's new CEO thinks IT can spare us from corporate re-orgs

He also feels cloud is yet to make a dent in the enterprise – but AI might fix that ServiceNow's new CEO John Donahoe has introduced himself to the company's community at its Knowledge17 conference in Orlando, Florida. Along the way he introduced so…

On today's a-gender: Axing net neutrality will harm America's women, say women senators

Dems demand U-turn on FCC decision to kill rules Almost all female Democrats in the US Senate have come out against the push by FCC chairman Ajit Pai to tear up America's net neutrality regulations, arguing the rules are important for women nationwi…

Just so we're all clear on this: Russia hacked the French elections, US Republicans and Dems

And only released Macron, Clinton campaign's files – hmm It's been a busy week already on Capitol Hill. We've heard yet again revelations of Russian hackers breaking into US Republican and Democrat campaign computers – and interfering with France's …

AOC brengt draagbare 15,6"-monitor met usb-aansluiting uit

AOC heeft een draagbare 15,6"-monitor uitgebracht met een ingebouwde standaard en een usb 3.0-aansluiting. Het scherm, dat voorzien is van een ips-paneel met een resolutie van 1920x1080 pixels, wordt ook gevoed via de usb-aansluiting.

HTC maakt minder verlies

HTC heeft acht kwartalen achter elkaar verlies gemaakt. Het verlies was in het afgelopen kwartaal echter flink lager dan in hetzelfde kwartaal een jaar geleden. In zijn kwartaalcijfers noemt de fabrikant de komst van een nieuw vlaggenschip halverweg…

Microsoft's .NET-mare: ASP.NET 2.0 won't work on Windows-only .NET

Developers stunned by unexpected breakage, left with not-as-good .NET Core Build  Microsoft has made a change to its forthcoming ASP.NET 2.0 web framework so that it is now incompatible with the Windows-only .NET Framework, causing confusion and ann…

Cisco patches switch hijacking hole – the one exploited by the CIA

Telnet security flaw fix finally lands – or just use SSH, yeah? Cisco has patched a critical security flaw in its switches that can be potentially exploited by miscreants to hijack networks – a flaw disclosed in the Vault 7 leak of CIA files.…

Eerste build van Windows 10 krijgt geen beveiligingsupdates meer

Microsoft is gestopt met de ondersteuning van Windows 10 build 1507. Dat is de eerste versie van het besturingssysteem dat in juli 2015 uitkwam. De oude build krijgt geen beveiligingsupdates of andere verbeteringen meer.

Microsoft distie Entatech goes TITSUP

KPMG appointed to pick over bones of Midlands-based biz The loss of contracts with strategic vendors and the subsequent decline in sales forced components distributor Entatech to call in administrative receivers, The Reg can confirm.…

Troi releases Troi File Plug-in 9.0 for FileMaker Pro 16

Troi has released Troi File Plug-in 9.0 for FileMaker Pro 16. It's a tool for getting access to information outside the FileMaker Pro database. Any files or folders stored on the computer can be accessed through the functions of the plug-in. Versio…

President Trump fires FBI Director James Comey

Nederlandse politie doet doorzoekingen bij leverancier versleutelde BlackBerry's

Het Team High Tech Crime van de Nederlandse politie doet dinsdagmiddag doorzoekingen op elf locaties in verband met het leveren van beveiligde smartphones aan criminelen. Het Openbaar Ministerie vervolgt leveranciers voor witwassen als zij leveren a…