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The AMD Effect might be back—and that’s a good thing

AMD is going to make Intel fight for every sale it gets, and that only benefits the consumer

Linux, PCs and Trump’s ‘Buy American’ problem

The administration may have more say over who works on federal IT contracts than on where products are made.

Apple’s Mac Pro gets crushed on features by new HP Zbook laptops

The Zbook mobile workstations outclass the aging Mac Pro on many features

Fake heads and robot probes: testing smartphones prior to launch

Inside the Silicon Valley lab of UL, where smartphones undergo testing before they go on sale

Apple will return heat generated by data center to warm up homes

A new Apple data center being built in Denmark is focused on returning to the community

Hackers use old Stuxnet-related bug to carry out attacks

Protection from these exploits means installing security patches or upgrading your OS

Microsoft commits to twice yearly updates to Windows 10, Office 365

The added consistency is supposed to help IT departments plan deployments

Qualcomm: First Windows 10 ARM PC coming in the fourth quarter

But don't expect a flood of Windows 10 PCs based on ARM chips

Trump’s H-1B reform resolves few questions

It’s unclear if the U.S. president’s latest order will, in fact, help American IT workers or lead to increased offshoring and automation.

FCC ends price caps on many business data lines

The move to deregulate business data services could mean price hikes for small businesses, critics say

Ethernet evolution: Broadcom switches offer Time Sensitive Ethernet

Broadcom Time Sensitive Networks switch brings standard deterministic real-time communications over Ethernet support

By Djingo, there’s a new virtual assistant

Move over Cortana, Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant and Bixby: There's a new kid on the block

Flaws let attackers hijack multiple Linksys router models

Attackers could exploit the vulnerabilities to crash routers, extract sensitive information from them or take them over

Facebook diversifies VR development with JavaScript framework React VR

Facebook extends the React family of development tools to VR, diversifying and expanding VR development to the large JavaScript community

Toward a bigger, faster, denser Wi-Fi world

802.11ah, ad, ax and ay paving the way for Wi-Fi's future, Wi-Fi Now attendees told

Raspberry Pi Roundup: Pi-se of the Machines, keeping the ball up, and GOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLL

Face-off: ServiceNow vs. Zendesk for IT service management

Considering an IT service management (ITSM) suite? Download this free report for side-by-side comparisons of rival products from ServiceNow and Zendesk, based on reviews written by enterprise users of the products.

Cisco certifications target business professionals eyeing software roles

A vigilante hacker may have built a computer worm to protect the IoT

Symantec has noticed the Hajime IoT malware leaving a message on the devices it infects

Here’s everything announced at Wednesday’s AWS Summit

The company details new services related to databases, AI, continuous integration, and more

Docker wants to help put old enterprise apps into containers

Flat-rate program will move one old app to a container in five days

DHS warns on immigration spoofing scam

The DHS Office of Inspector General said perpetrators of the scam represent themselves as employees with “U.S. Immigration”

Riverbed absorbs WIFi vendor Xirrus, reaches for the edge of the network

Twitter’s porn problem is ‘trending’

Surveys show high hopes, deep concerns about IoT

Many companies expect IoT to affect their industries but don't have a clear plan yet

Facebook beats Apple to the punch with AR announcement

Facebook’s Camera Effects Platform is more than an ante in the Snapchat competition. SLAM promises to bring 3D AR to every smartphone.

New FCC web portal opens for 5G experimenters

Cybersecurity companies to watch

CBInsights names the up and coming start-ups, called ‘Cyber Defenders'

Oracle fixes Struts and Shadow Brokers exploits in huge patch release

The quarterly Oracle patch update fixes almost 300 vulnerabilities

Sapho makes bad enterprise software better

I’m a perennial commentator on the horrendous state of enterprise software. Sapho is one of the hero companies trying to resolve the myriad issues.

iPhone 8 release date may be delayed until November

Trump’s cybersecurity mystery: 90 days in, where’s the plan?

An executive order was shelved without explanation, and a promised cybersecurity report hasn't materialized

Experts contend Microsoft canceled Feb. updates to patch NSA exploits

'Not realistic' that patching work ground to a halt because six bugs had to be quashed, counters patch expert

Facebook’s Caffe2 AI tools come to iPhone, Android, and Raspberry Pi

Your smartphone may soon be able to recognize objects in images without accessing the cloud

At $175, this ransomware service is a boon to cybercriminals

A Russian-speaking user has been advertising the ransomware-as-a-service, according to Recorded Future

Facebook wants you to hang out with your friends in VR

The company’s new Spaces app for Oculus Rift launches Tuesday

It’s ‘It,’ as in the movie, not IT, as in ‘eye-tee’

Microsoft buys former employee Charles Simonyi’s Intentional Software

Simonyi and the Intentional Software Team will help Microsoft expand Office 365's team productivity capabilities

Drone software gives offline farmers real-time images

Drones can send images to iOS devices in the field using edge computing

Microsoft’s cool quantum computing plan embraces cryogenic memory

Microsoft and Rambus say standard DRAM won't cut it for the superfast quantum computers of the future

Mobile, security tools among education tech favorites

IT pros in education rave about MDM, security, network monitoring wares

IT execs tout benefits of SD-WAN

The Bay Club Company and Autodesk are improving service quality and availability while reducing WAN costs

What’s behind VMware’s Wavefront acquisition?

Wavefront's software is designed to help CIOs monitor cloud systems at a time when most IT departments are speeding up application deployment with DevOps.

Uber offers new dispatch service for businesses

Uber Central lets companies call rides for their customers

Star Trek medical tricorder closer to becoming reality

Qualcomm awards its Tricorder XPrize for a non-invasive medical device that diagnoses 13 medical conditions, while Apple works on a device to monitor glucose levels

H-1B visa demand slips; analysts see Trump effect

Petitions fall well short of last year’s record level

The strange new world of hiring and employee tracking

Cloud-based HR systems improving data collection, analytics

Five pitfalls to avoid when migrating to the cloud

Not analyzing your apps, your business and your costs can be major mistakes

Trump to order wholesale H-1B reform

A Disney-type displacement will ‘be impossible’ with these visa reforms, administration officials believe.

5 Open Source companies to watch in 2017

Akeneo, Heptio, SnapRoute among open source-oriented startups that have attracted venture funds over the past year or so.