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Microsoft offers new way to laud your co-workers with Delve Web app

Updates include the ability to praise co-workers and write blogs

Microsoft stays in the on-premises email server game with launch of Exchange 2016

Updates include enhancement to search, eDiscovery, collaboration and more

Fiber map sheds light on infrastructure trends and weaknesses

A significant amount of 'infrastructure sharing' is among the discoveries made in a mash-up map of fiber conduits recently created by researchers.

Government cloud adoption efforts lag as security concerns persist

Half a decade into the cloud-first initiative, adoption in the federal government continues to be way behind schedule mostly due to security concerns. Vendors argue that those concerns are exaggerated.

Microsoft’s antivirus software sees massive improvement in tests

Recent tests show Security Essentials closing the gap with top performers.

Former Autonomy CEO Lynch sues HP for $150 million

HP was 'simply incompetent' in its operation of Autonomy, he says

NASA targets Venus, asteroids with potential missions

NASA will pick one or two missions from five potential candidates

Windows 10 growth slows, but breaks 100M device mark

Yet remains the fastest-growing OS in Microsoft history

For Cisco, it’s all in the family

Executive relatives -- 3 of SVP Jacoby's -- are employed in various capacities

Startup Teridion aims to be the Waze of internet performance

By calculating the fastest path possible for internet traffic, Teridion aims to boost internet speeds.

Reddit-inspired Narwhal Bacon Box is fizzling, not sizzling

FC Barcelona’s soccer stadium foregoes technology

A visit to the home of the world's top soccer team shows you don't need tech to create a great sporting experience.

Nest aims for central role in connected homes, enticing developers to integrate

Outside developers can now use Weave, an application layer that rides on top of the Thread network stack

Windows slips to third place on Gartner’s latest device forecast

By 2017, Apple's iOS plus OS X combo will edge past Windows on new devices shipped

What is a smart city?

There many examples, and some very nebulous definitions

IBM-Box enterprise deal yields new content tools

Their content search and assessment tools span Box and on-premise data

With iPad Pro, Apple pushes further into the enterprise

After forging alliances with IBM and Cisco and unveiling a business-ready 12.9-in. tablet, Apple appears to be poised to make serious inroads into the corporate market.

New Android vulnerabilities put over a billion devices at risk of remote hacking

The flaws are located in Android's media processing components and can be exploited through maliciously crafted websites

IBM brings Bluemix behind the firewall for sensitive workloads

Companies can take a hybrid approach to building and running cloud apps

Hillary Clinton aides worried about antiquated technology, use of personal email

Emails reveal concerns staffers could be at increased risk of attack

Let’s hope the new iPhones are waterproof, for Verizon Wireless’s sake

Startup NodePrime decloaks, wants to manage your whole data center

Microsoft’s Windows chief Myerson falls short of addressing Windows 10 spying concerns

Myerson says you are in control of what information Windows gathers on you.

Microsoft offers businesses a ‘premium’ network link to Office 365

Business can pay extra to use a private WAN instead of the public Internet

Apple gives iFixit app the boot

One area where Microsoft beats Amazon in the cloud

Microsoft’s got the whole cloud enchilada

Heavy industries may be the looming giants of the Internet

Industry is embracing the Internet and analytics for productivity and profit, GE says

Many SAP users are still skeptical about S/4Hana and cloud ERP

There's little enthusiasm for the cloud, a recent survey found

Is Apple’s walled garden showing signs of erosion?

A rudimentary malware attack that infected hundreds of iOS apps before Apple caught on puts a spotlight on security and brings into question the market perception that Apple's platform and devices are inherently safer than rivals' products.

Apple’s Cook looks to grow its $25 billion enterprise business

During a keynote address in San Francisco yesterday, Apple CEO Tim Cook discussed the company's recent focus on the enterprise, and suggested that modern businesses can do much more with mobility than simple messaging and browsing.

How CIOs are meeting the needs of customers in the ‘mobile moment’

Customer journey maps, responsive design and a mobile-first mindset are key elements to a mobile IT strategy

Microsoft board shrinks Nadella’s 2016 stock award

CEO gets $7.9M in shares as part of year's pay package, or 60% of target set when he was hired

OneDrive for Business gets new tools to compete in crowded cloud storage market

Updates add improved sync, greater control for IT managers and more

Network security weaknesses plague federal agencies

GAO: Billions of tax dollars spent in face of unrelenting attacks

Cisco, Juniper, Brocade to virtualize AT&T

Developing SDN routing for carrier CPE

Dyreza malware steals IT supply chain credentials

The Trojan targets websites of companies that provide order fulfillment, warehouse management, wholesale computer distribution and other services.

3 things that weren’t leaked before the Google Nexus announcement

Despite the leaks that preceded its Nexus event this week, Google managed to keep a few secrets.

Box powers ahead with new app and services for businesses

Cloud storage company aims to stay competitive in the enterprise market with new products

Tim Cook says businesses need to step up where governments don’t

Apple CEO thinks businesses should work for social good

Big changes are coming to payments this week

Chip cards and competition for Apple Pay are arriving

Consumers ‘feeling vulnerable’ about smart home security, report says

Only 37% of respondents in a survey think they're adequately protected from connected-home device threats, a survey has found.

Thousands of medical devices are vulnerable to hacking, security researchers say

The security flaws put patients' health at risk

Microsoft reshuffles into 3 businesses for financial reporting

Will make it easier to mask hardware's hard road to profit, says analyst

Google announces two Nexus phones, Android 6.0

Android refresh -- called "Marshmallow" -- seen as improvement on container software for business use

Cloud-based ‘digital twins’ could make power plants more efficient

GE software will take big data from sensors and simulate a power plant in real time

Microsoft pumps up Azure ahead of Amazon’s big cloud conference

The cloud battle is on

What will be hottest space research in next ten years?

The search for space life is priority: where’s the water?

Cisco enters yet another market en route to dominating the IT industry

Cisco's new Data Preparation tool could benefit both IT and the rest of the enterprise.

Apple CEO says the future of enterprise is mobility

The best businesses will use mobile devices to lift productivity

Developers find themselves in hackers’ crosshairs

Here’s what enterprises need to do in order to protect their development environments from attack.