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Time's running out to buy a Windows 7 Professional PC with an upgrade to Windows 10
Minnesota Vikings aim to deliver content and services to fans, from their driveways to their stadium seats
If it seems too good to be true, it probably is. Free Wi-Fi is no exception to this adage. Security company Avast tested this theory by setting up a number of free fake Wi-Fi hotspots to see how many people would take the bait. They caught a lot of f
Its free availability makes it likely that it will be used in attacks soon, researchers say
Google hosting first CORD summit in support of open networking backed by Cisco, Ciena, AT&T, Verizon and others
A focus on industry-specific needs will set it apart, Jim Comfort says
Federal filing says 500 will lose jobs in shift to India, but CSC says layoffs unrelated to HPE merger
Bloomberg is a leading advocate for high-skilled immigration
The company's games revenue grew in its fiscal first quarter even as smartphone revenue declined
The former NSA contractor wants WikiLeaks to curate information it releases
Trump suggested that Russia should steal Hillary Clinton’s emails
A brief history of Oracle’s biggest cloud acquisitions
Edible insects, Pornhub bug bounty & Zica prevention at the Rio Olympics all come up on Bugs & Bugs Facebook Live event
Digital ads are growing for both
RealSense developers are now cut from testing Google's Project Tango 3D apps on devices
Microsoft is also working with Node.js to expand functionality
Complaint cites The Terminator, alleges damage to PCs by force-fed upgrade
New security changes in Android Nougat protect the kernel's memory and reduce its attack surface
The Dependencies feature is aimed at making its software more useful for complex processes
'What took Oracle so long?' one analyst wonders
Amazon and Microsoft are the only leaders in Gartner’s public cloud storage Magic Quadrant
Analyst firm Redmonk lists the top 20 programming languages—and they’re surprisingly consistent
The addition of Aternity allows Riverbed to gather data from many sources, including end-user devices, to help customers quickly find performance problems and fix them before they impact the business
The smartphone market grew by nearly 1 percent, according to Strategy Analytics
Starting on July 28, Microsoft is making TPM 2.0 hardware-based security layer a requirement on Windows 10 smartphones, PCs and tablets
$1.8B transaction unites collaboration product lines, allows Citrix to focus on core business
The exploits require tricking a user to visiting a malicious website
Fund the project on Kickstarter and you could get full access to the AI behind it
Lots of new features added, especially to Word
Dropbox hopes more granular controls of who can access what data stored in the cloud will appeal to enterprise customers
Research team says it’s hard to find out who’s behind attack, and kiss privacy good-bye
Lenovo's ThinkPad X1 Yoga with an OLED screen and Intel Core i5 Skylake processor starts at $1,682
The updates include new sharing controls, admin panels and more
The Republican candidate says Russia should recover some of Clinton's personal emails
It’s no secret that the Russian’s breached the DNC network last summer and pwned it for a year, but the limited data reported isn’t enough for security analysts to say only the Russians were involved.
The authors of the Petya and Mischa ransomware programs leaked around 3,500 decryption keys for the Chimera ransomware
Exploit kits targeting JBoss, Adobe Flash vulnerabilities part of larger ransomware problem
Researchers find mood plays big role in whether IT systems staff self reports on errors
The company raises concerns about sensitive data leakage, but its tactic raises eyebrows
The female employees alleged, for example, that the company's promotion system was biased against them
President Obama has clarified how the government will respond to major attacks
People are buying fewer iPhones, iPads and Macs
Machine learning powers a new Smart Bidding feature for AdWords and DoubleClick Search
They expect a second straight quarter of decline in revenue, sales of phones, tablets and computers
