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China hints at retaliation against Apple and iPhones if trade war goes hot

State-backed newspaper promises 'tit-for-tat' if President-elect Donald Trump follows through with promised tariffs

Google, Facebook will not place ads on sites distributing fake news

There is concern that the moves could increase the power of the internet companies

HP’s power-packed Z2 Mini desktop takes on Apple’s aging Mac Mini

HP's Z2 Mini mini-desktop can pack an Intel server CPU and Nvidia Quadro GPU into a box that can be held in a hand

This malware attack starts with a fake customer-service call

The hackers call hotels, then send email attachments that look like customer information

GE buys ServiceMax for $915M to boost its IoT power

GE will tie together ServiceMax's field service management software with its Predix platform

Cloud traffic set to quadruple: Looks like those pipes are going to run hot

I always love a bit of empirical data that enumerates just how big this cloud thing is set to get. A case in point is Cisco’s global cloud index.

Startup Forward Networks helps search, protect and predict network behavior

Founding team helped develop Software Defined Networking at Stanford

Small businesses now get CRM tool with their Office subscription

Microsoft launched a tool for Outlook that helps manage customer relationships

Visual Studio for Mac: Microsoft publishes details a little early

The news was supposed to come later this week, but someone jumped the gun

Vonage partners with IBM Watson to enable cognitive communications

Vonage and Nexmo can bring context to communications, and when paired with Watson, they can make it cognitive by bringing in elements of conversation and language

37% of IT pros to look for new jobs in 2017

IT pros aim to boost cybersecurity, networking, virtualization skills in coming year

Facebook just had a very, very bad week

The social media giant catches flak spreading false news that may have swayed the election. And it gets worse.

DoS technique lets a single laptop take down an enterprise firewall

ICMP Type 3 Code 3 packets can overload firewalls, researchers warn

Trump’s election sets stage for H-1B reform

Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, a harsh critic of the visa program, to play leading administration role

Samsung boosts audio, connected car businesses with $8B Harman buy

Samsung plans to retain Harman's management team and workers, as well as audio brands including JBL, AKG and Harman Kardon.

As Watson matures, IBM plans more AI hardware and software

IBM releases faster hardware and software that make it easier to train deep-learning systems

Best Xbox Black Friday 2016 bundles $50 cheaper than last year

Kohl's, Target, GameStop have among grabbiest Black Friday 2016 Microsoft Xbox offers

Amazon, Newegg go all out on Black Friday 2016 tech deals

Online retailers hawking everything from Amazon Echo voice assistant to HP ProLiant servers for Black Friday 2016

Black Friday deals on the iPhone 7 offer up incredible savings

GameStop touts cool blue Xbox One for Black Friday 2016, Toys R Us geeks out too

Xbox and PS4 bundles, Alienware hardware, cheap tablets among GameStop, Toys R Us Black Friday 2016 deals

That private network on the Wi-Fi band? Won’t happen

Globalstar has dropped the plan to run its own network in unlicensed spectrum

Ethernet consortia trio want to unlock a more time-sensitive network

UNH-IOL sets up three new industry specific Ethernet Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) consortiums

HubSpot Inbound 2016: A tech conference disguised as a sales & marketing one

Chatbots, messaging apps kicking cold calls and (some) email to the curb

Suspected Russian hackers target US think tanks after election

The attacks involved spear phishing emails sent to dozens of targets

What will Trump do with the H-1B visa?

Many unknowns and uncertainties ahead

Google punishes web backsliders in Chrome

Browser will warn users of bad sites for at least 30 days

Visibility, security top concerns for cloud computing adoption

Enterprises are concerned about where their data is located and how it's protected

After Donald Trump’s victory, Tim Cook sent this letter to Apple employees

Hacker shows how easy it is to take over a city’s public Wi-Fi network

A buffer overflow in a single router model could have endangered thousands of Wi-Fi users

Tech groups push policy priorities for the Trump administration

Some of the policy proposals may be wishful thinking, however

Best Buy Black Friday 2016 Blowout features MacBook Airs, Wi-Fi routers & a ton of tablets

Best Buy also packaging $250 gift cards with smartphones, knocking $50 off of Xbox & PS$ console packages

European Parliament clears drone regulations for takeoff

Owners of drones weighing over 250 grams will have to register them under proposed EU rules

Cisco/Ericsson: Assessing the mega-deal a year later

Layoffs, executive change hasn’t prevented partnership from hitting some significant milestones, but Ericsson's finanacial challenges might change that

Need for ‘smart’ regulation of IoT security is as obvious as is it unlikely

InfiniBand will reach 200-gigabit speed next year

Mellanox will ship a set of products for end-to-end 200Gbps links for HPC and more

The new Oracle? Maybe not, but Neo’s raise shows promise

Neo Technology may not have Oracle's Larry Ellison quivering in his boots just yet, but the company is likely to make a dent in the database world

Walmart Black Friday 2016 deals on TV, drones, Xbox, iPads & more

Walmart Black Friday deals will include zero down on Apple and Samsung phones, plus $250 gift cards, on AT&T and Verizon plans

Target, Kmart & Sears Black Friday 2016 tech deals revealed

Apple iPhone7, Apple Watch, Amazon Echo among Black Friday deals from these big retailers

Yahoo investigating if insiders knew of hack

Yahoo said in a filing it was possible that its acquisition by Verizon could be terminated or renegotiated

Worries and uncertainty cloud outlook for digital privacy under President Trump

Some legal experts are worried Trump could abuse the NSA's surveillance powers, but we just don't know

President Trump: An uncertain future for tech industry, digital rights

The new president's tech policy agenda is thin, and what little there is makes IT nervous

Is Trump’s unexpected victory a failure for big data? Not really

Polls go by the old IT maxim: 'Garbage in, garbage out'

IBM package brings Watson smarts to everything IoT

IBM Intu package can work with everything from Raspberry PI to MacOS and Windows or Linux devices

Microsoft launches ‘Feature Pack’ for SharePoint 2016

Instead of a pack of bug fixes, this adds a bunch of new features and functions

Los Angeles: Warm weather, movie stars — and 100 million monthly cyber attacks

New operations center improves responses to cyber threats

Trump tapped the viral anger over H-1B use

A President Trump will be in a powerful position to restrict temporary visa use, raising alarms in Silicon Valley and India

Facebook and AT&T herald a new day of open networking

Both companies are looking to open source and modularity

Microsoft patches 68 vulnerabilities, two actively exploited ones

Two of the patched flaws are already being exploited and three have been publicly disclosed

Microsoft fixes Windows flaw that Google divulged

Bug in Windows Vista, 7, 8.1 and 10 is just one of many patched Tuesday

Competing hackers dampen the power of Mirai botnets

The Mirai malware has been blamed for a string of massive DDoS attacks