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A jury in San Francisco has cleared Google of copyright infringement in a case brought by Oracle over Google’s use of Java in Android.

More banks have reportedly launched investigations into potential security breaches on their networks after hackers stole $81 million from the Bangladesh central bank earlier this year through rogue SWIFT transfers.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) today asked a federal judge to let it join Microsoft in suing the U.S. government over authorities' use of gag orders that prevent the technology firm from telling customers their data has been demanded, court filings showed.

Between recent controversies over Facebook's Trending Topics feature and the U.S. legal system's "risk assessment" scores in dealing with criminal defendants, there's probably never been broader interest in the mysterious algorithms that are making decisions about our lives.

Six technology companies, including Google, are working on trial projects in multiple U.S. cities to test out shared 3.5GHz spectrum wireless communications under an innovative model adopted recently by the Federal Communications Commission.

Google is doubling down on its commitment to the business analytics market with the launch of a new free data visualization tool. 

A new bill in Congress would require U.S. law enforcement agencies to obtain court-ordered warrants before demanding the emails of the country's residents when they are stored overseas.

The activity of Romanian hacker Guccifer, who has admitted to compromising almost 100 email and social media accounts belonging to U.S. government officials, politicians and other high-profile individuals, is the latest proof that humans are the weakest link in computer security.

Microsoft's announcement yesterday that it would eat nearly $1 billion and lay off another 1,850 workers, three-quarters of them from its phone division, prompted analysts to call the company's consumer smartphone business dead, deceased, departed.

If you're reading this column, odds are, you don't use your smartphone like most people.

Salesforce had an ill-timed outage recently (particularly painful is that it occurred on the eve of the company's Dreamforce user conference). While any outage is bad, and this is especially the case for cloud-based solutions which demand connectivity to be operational, it isn't a case of the sky falling in. So given that the next few weeks will no doubt see a host of vendors jump in and go on the attack suggesting that cloud is a flawed delivery methodology, here's some clarity around the issues. Читать дальше...

From brands to digital publishers, it seems as though everyone is creating content these days. For many organizations, content is a powerful driver of site visitors and even revenue. However, it is difficult to think of new, exciting content to post every day, week or month -- especially for brands, who may not have a dedicated content team to help.

Looking for a new job and a new city? See which metro areas made Glassdoor's ranking of the best locations in the U.S. for job seekers.

Soon, Google Nexus won't just be a nice idea, it'll be Android law. La GOOG is planning to punish partners that don't push updates quickly.

The thousands of endpoints in IoT systems may have to protect themselves against thousands of dangers. A decades-old IT lab wants to tell you if they’re up to the task.

Debugging code is a perennial headache for software developers, but scientists have announced a new technique that could make the process significantly easier.

With Google's I/O developers' conference behind us, it's time to start looking forward to what's next in the world of Android.

Salesforce named Amazon Web Services as its preferred public cloud provider for services like Sales Cloud, Service Cloud and App Cloud, expanding an existing partnership to provide the backend for the software-as-a-service provider.

Apple’s increasingly intelligent voice activated assistant, Siri, is expected to become available on Mac OS X and through third party apps on introduction of an SDK at WWDC in a few weeks. So, how can Siri help you get things done on iOS, and now might it help you on your Ma?

This paper mill has just installed a new mainframe -- but a pilot fish on the scene observes that something seems to be missing.

Just back from this year's RAPID 3D printing conference in Florida, Senior Writer Lucas Mearian returns with tales of -- yes it's a new one to us, too -- 4D printing. Not only is it a still evolving direction for 3D printing , but it could also one day save your life. (Bet you're more interested now....)

I am a huge fan of Process Explorer, a free Windows program from Mark Russinovich of Microsoft. It exposes a ton of technical information about what a Windows computer is doing behind the scenes, and it runs on every Windows computer I touch. I blogged about Process Explorer back in 2010 and not much has changed since then. It is invaluable.

Microsoft's attempts to catch up with Google in the online collaboration space took a step forward Wednesday, when the company announced that it's giving business users live chat in Office Online. 

Anyone who's spent any time in IT has heard the call to partner with the business. Here's some advice on what that means, why it's crucial for IT going forward and how to do it.

Arduino, the Italian company that has powered the "maker" movement with a series of small computing boards that can be programmed and configured for different tasks, is introducing a board targeted at the Internet of Things.