Apple CEO: 'Best ever' numbers would be better if we'd not fscked up our iPhone supply

Holiday phablet shortage was our fault, says Tim Cook Apple recorded its best quarterly numbers ever despite an admitted shortage of iPhone 7 Plus phablets.…

Revealed: Soros Group behind mystery unit that gobbled Violin Memory

Going for a song: Hedge fund pulled the strings to snap up busted biz for $14.5m A Soros hedge fund vehicle made the winning bid at Violin Memory's January 23 auction.…

Revealed: Soros Group behind mystery unit that gobbled Violin Memory

Going for a song: Hedge fund pulled the strings to snap up busted biz for $14.5m A Soros hedge fund vehicle made the winning bid at Violin Memory's January 23 auction.…

The nuts and bolts of high-impact webinars

Simple rules for organisers, courtesy of Citrix Promo  Marketers rely on webinars as one of the most important elements in helping savvy technology decision-makers to evaluate their next purchase.…

LG's $1,300 5K monitor foiled by Wi-Fi: Screens go blank near hotspots

Splashed big bucks for a fancy display? Let's hope you have a big office too LG's space-age monitors are suffering from an engineering flaw that causes the screen to become unusable when placed too close to a Wi-Fi hotspot.…

Trump hits control-Z on cybersecurity order: No reason given for delay

Follows briefings heavy on blame, light on Russia US President Donald Trump unexpectedly cancelled the signing of a new executive order on cybersecurity Tuesday, following a day of briefings by the White House on its contents.…

Apple sets revenue and iPhone sales records in Q1 of 2017

The iPad is still sliding, but most other things are off to a good start.

LG’s 5K MacBook Pro monitor is reportely having issues with WiFi routers

 When you shell out around $1,000 for a monitor, it ought to ship with a minimal set of expectations. Like, say, being able to use the thing within arm’s reach of a router. LG’s UltraFine 5K Display, which was designed in tandem with Apple for the r…

Apple Services have a huge quarter as App Store sees ‘record activity’

 Apple just released its first quarterly earnings report of the new year, and the company was quick to share that it was a banner quarter for the company’s Services segment which topped $7.17 billion, growing 18 percent year-over-year from $6.05 bil…

Digital Transformation Agency deletes GovShare repo, but says project still lives

Turnbull's Transformers' left hand no longer speaking to right hand The Digital Transformation Agency says one of its signal projects, GovShare, is just fine – but nobody's told the developers that are quietly shovelling dirt onto its coffin.…

Imagine a ChromeOS-style Windows 10 ... oh wait, there it is and it's called Windows Cloud

Microsoft exploring 'less is more' for its operating system Microsoft's latest Windows Insider build, released on Friday for participants in the software preview program, contains a reference to a new Windows SKU called Cloud.…

Axe net neutrality? Keep the set-top box lock-in? Easy as Pai: New FCC boss backs Big Cable

Phew! US ISPs finally free to roll out broadband, right? The new head of the US Federal Communications Commission has promised to cut back on red tape and free up Big Cable – which has been suffering under record profits for too long.…

iPhone, Services, Mac, Apple Watch set all-time records

Apple has announced the financial results for its fiscal 2017 first quarter that ended Dec. 31, 2016. The company posted all-time record quarterly revenue of $78.4 billion and all-time record…

Apple breaks iPhone sales record with 78.3 million units sold in the holiday quarter

 With another big holiday quarter behind it, Apple saw revenues from its flagship iPhone product rise to $54.4 billion, up from $51.6 billion a year earlier. That revenue growth came as Apple reported units sold rose 5 percent to 78.3 million in its…

Apple shares up 3% after company beats earnings expectations

 Apple’s latest quarter surpassed earnings expectations, sending the stock up about 3% in initial after-hours trading. Its fiscal first quarter of 2017 saw record earnings of $3.36 per share, well above the $3.21 forecast by Wall Street. Revenue als…

Apple’s services are buoying its return to growth as its iPhone engine stalls

 Wall Street and Apple had expected to return to growth this quarter following the holiday season, though it was supposed to be largely incremental. And while it wasn’t exactly a blowout, Apple still pleasantly surprised Wall Street with better resu…

Samsung teases tablet for Mobile World Congress reveal

Backblaze: 8-terabyteschijven gaan bovengemiddeld lang mee

Onlineopslagdienst Backblaze heeft de uitvalcijfers van zijn harde schijven in 2016 gepubliceerd. De cijfers tonen aan dat de 8TB-modellen gemiddeld minder vaak uitvallen dan kleinere schijven. Het aantal defecte schijven over het algemeen is afgeno…

Future iOS release will soon end support for unmaintained 32-bit apps

Apple is on track to complete its 32-to-64-bit transition in just four years.

Kunstmatige intelligentie verslaat menselijke Texas Hold'em-pokerspelers

Een systeem dat kunstmatige-intelligentiesoftware draaide met de naam Libratus heeft vier professionele Texas Hold'em-pokerspelers verslagen bij een toernooi dat twintig dagen duurde. In 2015 wisten menselijke spelers een ai-systeem nog te verslaan.

Human memory, or the lack of it, is the biggest security bug on the 'net

For pity’s sake, stop reusing passwords Usenix Enigma 2017  The life of the security IT professional would be a lot easier if people were capable of remembering enough passwords so that they didn't need to reuse them.…