Новости за 22.03.2016

Apple’s high-profile media events have grown into massive occasions where the whole world gathers to watch the company make important announcements about new products that change the face of the industry and how consumers use technology.

Micro Focus hopes to boost its dev-ops chops with the acquisition of application lifecycle management specialist Serena Software.

Intel's former CEO Andrew S. Grove, who is credited with the transition of the company from making memory chips into microprocessors for the PC era, has passed away at the age of 79.

If the marketer's goal is to reach customers with the right message, in the right place, at the right time, it stands to reason that deeper insight into any of those dimensions could only be a good thing. Enter Adobe, which just rolled out a raft of new data-science tools designed to help make that happen.

The Tor Project is fortifying its software so that it can quickly detect if its network is tampered with for surveillance purposes, a top developer for the volunteer project wrote on Monday.

Cisco, which kicked off 2016 with news that the leader of its engineering troops would soon be leaving the company, has now undertaken a major reorganization of that same group and disclosed another high-profile departure.

When Apple introduced a smaller iPad Pro on Monday, vice president Phil Schiller didn’t mince words when he discussed which customers Apple is targeting with the product, along with its 12-inch sibling.

The FBI says it may have discovered a way to break into the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino mass shooters, and the agency has asked a judge to postpone a court hearing in the matter that was scheduled for Tuesday.

Apple's announcements

Apple on Monday hosted a special media event at the company’s town hall auditorium where Tim Cook and other Apple executives delivered a number of interesting announcements and product introductions. Though Apple’s new iPhone and iPad will understandably attract the most attention, Monday’s event was filled with a host of other developments that are worth highlighting.

Apple turned its attention on the success of its two biggest competitors with redesigns of existing products. Apple hopes that its idea of an entry level 4-inch iPhone, the SE priced at $399 will counter Android’s domination, especially in China and ignite new growth.