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How you set up and prioritize which alerts to look at and act on is the basis for an effective threat management strategy.
FastText update brings text understanding to lower-powered devices
Gmail, Yahoo Mail and others provide alternatives to soon-to-be-discontinued Verizon.net email service
The new Malware Hunter service could help companies and security vendors quickly block traffic to malware servers.
Chromebook shipments are expected to increase by 15 percent this year
Microsoft's Surface Laptop will ship in mid-June starting at $999
Report asserts Edge will receive feature updates via the Windows Store starting this fall, another move in company's campaign to rescue browser from shrinking share
Red Hat is adding a hosted IDE, microservices foundations, and support for Amazon Web Services in hybrid clouds
Cisco says its developing “platform-independent” technology “to free customers from being locked into the VMWare-only virtual switching option”
Cisco already has two SD-WAN solutions—Intelligent WAN and Meraki SD-WAN—so why does it need another? One word: options.
Intel's SSDs for data centers are among the company's fastest
The Android security bulletin for May covered fixes for over 100 vulnerabilities
The iPhone maker’s $250 billion nest egg fuels speculation. Will it do more R&D? Invest in the cloud? Make a big acquisition?
Microsoft's Windows 10 S is targeted at classrooms, and top PC makers will ship low-cost laptops with the OS in summer
Updates for the browser will now come from the Windows Store, if the rumors are true
The bill tries to give permanence to moves already initiated by the Federal Communications Commission
The company is setting up four ‘technology and innovation hubs’ in the US
Java Executive Committee participants worry modularization will have adverse effects on compatibility and could lead to two worlds of Java development
A Boston police detective told the Boston Fed’s 2017 Cybersecurity Conference that one reason cybercrime is rampant is because victims make it too easy
The Ryzen 3 chips for desktops will come early in the second half, while Ryzen mobile chips will come late in the year
Viptela leaders are ex-Cisco execs, engineers; move bolsters Cisco SD-WAN play
The court upheld the FCC's 2015 rules just days after the agency moved to repeal them on its own
Best move was to stop throwing more money into enterprise phones, says analyst
MIT CSAIL researchers create wireless technology for continuously — and unobtrusively — measuring walking speed in an effort to detect signs of cognitive and other health deteriorations
Vuforia Smart Terrain and Google's Tango platform development tools bring virtual content that interacts with objects and the environment
Reportedly, about 20 technology chief executives will discuss upgrading the government’s IT services during a June meeting
That seems to be the justification for Turkey’s ban of the crowd-sourced online encyclopedia
It's now feasible to secure smartphones using virtualization, a technology the NSA currently requires only on tablets and laptops
Microsoft reported Windows Phone revenue declined $730 million in its third fiscal quarter of 2016. It’s time to pull the plug on it.
Companies hire a third party to scour public databases to make sure employees are not getting into legal trouble that would impact their jobs. But is it ethical?
A global survey found one-third of data-center and IT professionals plan to put workloads in the cloud over the next year
Server consolidation, new data center buildouts also cited
The iPhone 8 could feature a more powerful battery, plus improved charging technology
Researchers found a new malware program for macOS that is digitally signed and installs a fake root certificate to perform man-in-the-middle attacks
Chrome's Incognito mode will label all HTTP pages as 'not secure' starting in October
TSA finds live anti-tank round in carry-on bag
Qualcomm's reduced its third quarter revenue projections as it expects not to receive a large chunk of licensing revenue from Apple's partners
Kavraki currently planning motions of Robonaut 2, NASA’s robotic assistant at the International Space Station
SNMP authentication bypass flaw could be used to hijack hundreds of thousands of cable modems from around the world.
Big cloud earnings—and profits—from Amazon, Google, and Microsoft extend cloud momentum, make billions for Jeff Bezos
Samsung and Apple find smartphone growth elusive as the center of gravity shifts west to east and budget phones improve
Enterprise network leaders say preparing for change doesn't have to mean starting over as a programmer
As much as 85% of businesses will have migrated to Windows 10 before the year ends. Security improvements drive the move.
Debate simmers over the need for C-suite oversight of artificial intelligence in the enterprise
