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Department of Transportation nixes e-smoking devices
What are the major tech companies doing to win in the cloud, and how might the market shake out?
A court win for an individual complaining of electromagnetic hypersensitivity could have repercussions for the wireless communications industry.
The suite's natural language understanding service has entered public beta
These things aren't trivial, and Microsoft needs more time.
Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager is investigating Google on a number of fronts
Three new Linux distros are being released in an eight-day period. That calls for a celebration.
Android smartphones are meeting the massive demand for high-quality cameras. Google's new Nexus 6P is a good example.
New collaboration, help features are here to boost Microsoft's new productivity suite
The malware program was found on the laptop of a German federal official
The M7 is the first Sparc processor designed from the ground up by Oracle
ParStream makes a database for crunching big data at the edge
The $19B deal comes amid a recent wave of mergers, acquisitions and investment activity in the data storage market
Last week's buoyant Amazon and Microsoft quarterly earnings reports continue the cloud's big winning streak.
IT leaders are using their leverage to ink more flexible — and cheaper — contracts with service providers. But there is a catch.
In celebrating Java's 20 years, former Sun CEO McNealy laments James Gosling's departure from Oracle
A new partnership between the two companies will lead to Windows 10 apps and more
The cloud, big data and security dominated his keynote at Oracle OpenWorld
Store opens as Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book ship
Innovation Unconference attendees share ideas on solving the tech hiring puzzle
A new checklist guides buyers and sellers through a safe move-in day
Up 30% in solid quarter; company hints at upcoming products
Decades-long overcharging and billions of dollars in spending on code are among the staggering examples of 'IT systems gone wrong.'
Exec says telemetry data is key to improving the operating system
Support for extensions pushed into 2016 for Windows 10's default browser
IoT devices are too weak to defend themselves so something else needs to stick up for them, agency says
The agency wants to allow mobile services in largely unexplored bands above 6GHz
Split-tunnel AnyConnect VPNs again handle DNS resolution properly, restoring access to server resources
Health care has become a favorite target for criminals
The Pawn Storm cyberespionage group set up rogue VPN and SFTP servers to target Dutch Safety Board employees
Betting big on Internet services has paid off for Microsoft
Google's products will use that form of AI even more in the future
The number of claimants has surprised even experienced class-action attorneys
Cloud sales for the third quarter were up 78 percent from a year earlier
A Brazilian malware gang is at least partly to blame, according to nonprofit Spamhaus
Bank has no plans to back chip-and-PIN credit cards
Browsing to dodgy sites trigger fake warnings that urge users to call for support
How should the enterprise address the growing adoption of wearables?
Don't bite off more Application Centric Infrastructure than you can chew
Some Cloudpath customers express concern
What the move means for HP and other legacy IT vendors
Microsoft says there is a tech support scam victim nearly every 10 seconds
New figures from Tim Cook reveal that Apple Music is off to an impressive start.
Even with big buyouts like Western Digital and SanDisk, hard drives and flash remain cutthroat businesses
Tony Scott, U.S. federal government CIO, says big cloud providers are just as secure as today's largest financial institutions and advises his fellow IT leaders to embrace cloud sooner than later.
Default and weak credentials on embedded devices can lead to powerful botnets
HP is doubling down on private and managed cloud capabilities instead, it says
