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A tale of Ransomware that will make your blood run cold …

Ransomware that holds your data hostage unless you pay up is real and dangerous to your network's health

Microsoft’s Nadella finally apologizes

Last minute iPad Air, iPad Mini, and iMac rumors ahead of Apple’s special event

What not to expect from Apple’s upcoming iPad announcement

Apple might succeed in appeasing its most loyal customers and maybe even its investors, but it likely won’t hit a moon shot.

A Halloween warning for air travelers

How to take front-desk reception registration up a degree

Envoy provides a step into the future for the dog-eared, front-desk registration clipboard.

How do I know you’re lying? My “Star Wars” algorithm told me

Competition-winning “trustworthiness” algorithm can help determine who’s lying

City rejects Comcast, but resistance is futile

Worcester, Massachusetts, is fighting a losing battle against Comcast's plan to take over its cable and internet customers.

Moto X 2nd Gen review: Same same but different

How Motorola carried over what it did right with the first-generation Moto X while still improving on it.

BroadSoft Introduces BroadSoft Labs, New UC Features at User Conference

Edgewater also introduces two new SBCs at BroadSoft event.

Dorothy Gale on recent spate of data breaches

EMC to buy OpenStack cloud guru Cloudscaling

There's been a flurry of activity in the cloud recently

With 1 million users, Windows 10 is generating a lot of feedback

The beta is off to a good start, but there's one unusual twist to this beta test.

iPad Air 2 likely to feature Touch ID, A8X processor, and new Smart Covers

Flight attendants try to reinstate FAA’s ban on mobile devices during takeoff

Despite their best efforts, it looks like flight attendants will have to deal with the fact that we're going to use our phones during takeoff and landing.

Sonus Upgrades SBCs, Completes BroadSoft Interoperability

Other Sonus enhancements: virtualized PSX SWe and DSC SWe.

This 60-year-old photo says a lot about diversity in technology

This amazing portrait of my mother-in-law’s 1954 IBM computer training class couldn’t paint a clearer picture.

ChromeOS disses Linux users, drops ext2/3/4

Trying to figure out why exactly ChromeOS would make such a silly decision.

iPhone 6 off to a tremendous start in China

Unix: Expiring passwords with chage

Why are so many reporting that Nadella apologized when he did no such thing?

How HTC’s new RE camera and Eye smartphone will compete

Breaking with its tradition of announcing smartphone hardware, HTC launched the RE handheld camera and the HTC Eye smartphone, that compares to the HTC One M8 like the iPhone 5C compares to the 5S.

Who’s to blame for Snapchat’s massive nude photo leak?

It didn't take long for the finger-pointing to start after photos and images of more than 200,000 Snapchat users were leaked to the web this week.

HTC wants you to edit videos and take better selfies

The Zoe short automated video editor and cloud service is HTC’s chance at creating an ongoing ecosystem that engages all smartphone users.

First Nadella: Women shouldn’t ask for raises. Second Nadella: Yes they should

Apple sends out invites for Oct 16 special event

Cisco reorgs trimming SVP ranks

Annual pattern of revamps and staff reductions see senior leaders exit on their own, or with help

Amazon to open a store – but its cloud already has one

Earlier this month Amazon Web Services opened a “loft” in San Francisco

How satellite loops could store data – or not

If you placed a satellite a light-year from earth, could you use the data stream to store data? A brace of Reddit users have discussed the matter and come up with an answer.

iPhone 6 Plus: Just in time for some very cool Halloween costumes

DigitalDudz outdoes itself with these easy techie Halloween costumes