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Business leaders of all ages in sync on tech

Millennial executives and Fortune 500 leaders share the same forward-looking views on disruptive technologies. They also agree that the capability to adapt to change quickly is a key to edging out competitors.

Apple’s remaining co-founders, Woz and Wayne, reminisce about early company relics

Ron Wayne, the little-known third co-founder, to auction off his collection of early-Apple documents

Microsoft releases emergency patch to stymie Windows Server attacks

Today's critical update was one of two delayed from last week

WhatsApp adding end-to-end encryption to message service

IBM’s new enterprise email aims to organize your day

AWS re:Invent(ing) IT, Business Models and Marketing

US Marshals auctioning $20M worth of Silk Road’s Bitcoins

Second multi-million dollar auction of Bitcoins from Silk Road closing

Swedish ISP to let users shield Internet activity from police

IBM taps Twitter’s data to drive business insights

IBM and Twitter say they will 'change the way business decisions are made' by pairing Twitter data with IBM's analytics tools and new apps for the enterprise. But CIOs won't buy in until the two companies can bring structure and context to the 500 mi

Cisco open sources security

OpenSOC framework intended to harness big data analytics for data protection

EFF, Mozilla back new certificate authority that will offer free SSL certificates

Extreme extends SDN products, partners

Extreme adds 72-port 10G switch, plus partners A10 Networks, NetOptics and Sanbolic

SkyKick promises simpler migration to Office 365

Mobile payments to tally just 1% of all U.S. consumer spending in 2019

Apple Pay limits its growth opportunities by not sharing spending data with merchants

No, Google Glass isn’t dead

Reports of its demise are premature -- but users and developers want Google to put up or shut up

Scammers move from Ebola phishing to fundraising

No topic is too taboo for criminals

Microsoft: ‘Nobody loves developers more than us’

Sharing? At Microsoft? It's more likely than you think.

Open source code contains fewer defects, but there’s a catch

Research suggests that software developed using open source code contains fewer defects than that built with proprietary code. On the other hand, open source code rarely benefits from security teams specifically tasked with looking for bugs.

Cloud computing’s not-so-secret mission

IT-as-a-Service is the real game changer in cloud computing.

Nokia makes a consumer comeback with N1 Android tablet

ZigBee 3.0 promises one standard for many uses

Obama backs passing of NSA reform legislation by Senate

Adobe can now send customized messages to beacon apps

China disrupts some websites linked to US content delivery network

Intel to combine PC and mobile divisions as market shifts

PCI Council looks for ways to stem data breaches after bad year

TRUSTe deceived consumers about recertification program, FTC says

Cisco crashes the enterprise mobile party with new collaboration app

Cisco rounds out collaboration portfolio with Squared

An entirely new app built from the ground up, Cisco's Squared is a much-needed attempt at simplifying collaboration.

Bandwidth-hungry researchers gain 100G trans-Atlantic network connection

Redundant 100Gbps ring connecting researchers in North America, Europe to be shown off at SuperComputing event in New Orleans

Telephone tax hike part of FCC chairman’s plan for Internet fund

Encrypt everything, urges Internet Architecture Board

Cloud security grows up

Comprehensive cloud security services are taking over the market.

4K TV programming coming to DirecTV

re:Cap of AWS re:Invent: 10 cool new Amazon cloud features

New VM instances, and code management tools, plus a cool new service named Lambda

Top500 Supercomputer race loses momentum

Mitel drops ShoreTel bid

ShoreTel board fails to respond, Mitel walks away.

10 enterprise Internet of Things deployments with actual results

A look at some real-world IoT deployments that have actually delivered on the technology’s massive promise.

Intel turns to light beams to speed up supercomputers

Intel says its supercomputing chips won’t suffer Larrabee’s fate

Apple app store taps large Chinese banking card provider UnionPay

Fujitsu embeds data in LED light for smartphones to detect

The SWAMP: How to avoid the coming software armageddon

A new service has been funded by the DHS that will make multi-tool software assurance testing faster, cheaper, and easier

Facebook: You post it, we can see it, and that’s that

U.S. sets sights on 300 petaflop supercomputer

Bipartisan support for funding, but challenges await

Net neutrality proposal could lead to broadband taxes, opponents say

Facebook’s new Iowa data center goes modular to grow forever

DARPA wants to toughen-up WAN edge networking, security

DARPA envisions super-intelligent WAN devices at smart WAN edge

Online video moguls team up to set standards, meet growing demand

How Apple, Samsung and BlackBerry are fighting to win the enterprise