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Fresh off the news that Microsoft is purchasing LinkedIn for $26.2B, the famed Redmond monolith has announced they are also snapping up the so-called Facebook of Things company Wand Labs. It’s a move that makes perfect sense if you have ever used a smartphone and installed more than a handful of apps.

Microsoft yesterday released a free tool for Windows 10 that claims to scrub PCs of the "bloatware" -- also called "crapware" -- that computer makers pack on new machines.

New data breaches are coming to light almost weekly and they reveal a simple but troubling fact: many people still choose weak passwords and reuse them across multiple sites. The reality is, remembering dozens of complex passwords is almost impossible and carrying them around on a scrap of paper that you have to keep updating is a huge hassle. That’s why there are password managers.

While vintage can be pretty awesome in the context of music, fashion and other arts, vintage in security is not a term you want to embrace. 

Olli, a self-driving shuttle for 12 passengers running IBM Watson Internet of Things technology, made its debut in a shopping area of the Washington suburbs on Thursday.

Apple this week announced that macOS Sierra, its newest operating system for the Mac and the successor to OS X El Capitan, will include the next-generation Apple File System (APFS) and a bounty of data storage features for SSDs.

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Microsoft is just six weeks away from releasing the next major upgrade of Windows 10, but according to past practice, will likely lock down the code in less than half that time.

Apple's iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus face a potential sales ban in China due to a patent dispute with a little-known local company.

WWDC 2016: Apple’s improved iMessages system is a tent pole feature within iOS with implications across Apple Watch and the Mac, and while the company insists it has no plans to extend the service elsewhere, I still think doing so is a logical step.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is turning to lights and lasers in thin fiber optics as a way to move data at blazing speeds between computers, replacing thicker and slower copper wires.

If you read much tech news, it's hard not to think Android users are a bunch of cheap bastards.

The last time Gartner published their IaaS/PaaS provider rankings Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure occupied the coveted upper right quadrant. To make it into Gartner’s magic quadrant both Amazon and Microsoft needed to demonstrate the quality of their services as well as completeness of their vision.

Many enterprise IT buyers are using RFP templates that are too old and unwieldy for today’s fast-paced digital transformations, according to an IDC report.

Robots have already invaded the operating room in some hospitals, but in Belgium they will soon be taking on the potentially more difficult task -- for robots, at least -- of greeting patients and giving them directions.

Sometimes, a bold strategic move can be both surprising and long overdue. Walmart's decision this week to ban Visa from its Canadian stores is one of those instances.

Microsoft surprised everyone Monday when it announced plans to acquire LinkedIn for more than $26 billion. But it wasn't the only suitor: Salesforce wanted in, too. 

The U.S. House of Representatives voted down an anti-surveillance amendment after some of its members expressed concern about its impact on the fight against terrorism, in the wake of Sunday’s massacre at a nightclub in Orlando.

Oracle Corp is catching up in cloud. Although it was late to the party, it says it’s now doing very well, as its fiscal Q4 numbers demonstrate.

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IT pilot fish has worked as a contractor pretty frequently, but he's a regular employee at this company when a friendly co-worker comes over and says, "Hey, did you know that your resume is sitting on the fax?"

The Internet of Things is as much about computing as it is about the "things" themselves, and that's why Samsung Electronics is buying Joyent.

A 20-year-old Estonia man has pleaded guilty to stealing data on more than 1,300 U.S. military and government personnel and providing it to the Islamic State.

China has set 2020 as the date for delivering an exascale system, the next major milestone in supercomputing performance. This is three years ahead of the U.S. roadmap.