Industry

Cloud industry needs to standardize, says Fed CIO

U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services' chief information officer wants way to compare cloud providers

Intel President James on wearable tech, Microsoft partnership

Intel president Renee James says new Quark chips will drive chip maker into wearable market

Firefox OS likely to face HTML5, Boot-to-Gecko process attacks

Trend Micro predicts where hackers will look for weak points in the mobile OS

Japan’s NTT DoCoMo is a new convert to the iPhone

The carrier had so far resisted offering the iPhone despite competition from Japanese carriers like SoftBank

Microsoft lures nonprofits with Office 365 freebie

A new program lets nonprofits and NGOs subscribe to Office 365 for free or at a discount

IPhone jailbreakers begin cracking their knuckles over iOS 7

With new iPhones comes a new challenge: jailbreaking iOS 7

Fingerprint sensor in iPhone 5S is no silver bullet, researchers say

The technology would be most efficient if used as part of a two-factor authentication system, not alone

IBM sells customer care outsourcing unit for $505 million

IBM sheds its customer care outsourcing unit for higher-profit business opportunities

Twitter lights up with Apple fans, critics and comedians

Apple announces two new iPhones and users head to Twitter to talk about them

Apple’s iOS 7 gives security pros a lot to like