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’Tis a gift to be simple, as the old song has it, and it’s one that would be most welcome in many modern data centers. Simplicity is the essence of speed, and speed is what organizations need to survive and thrive in today’s hectic and disruption-prone business environments.

Yahoo is asking the U.S. government to set the record straight on requests for user data, following reports that said the internet company secretly scanned customer emails for terrorism-related information.  

Windows 10's cumulative updates have ballooned in size, and a similar bloat will also affect the Windows 7 updates that Microsoft revamped this month.

A feature in Intel's Haswell CPUs can be abused to reliably defeat an anti-exploitation technology that exists in all major operating systems, researchers have found.

Although Britain’s GCHQ and the NSA seem to be in bed together on most things, invading the privacy of innocent users supposedly in the name of national security, every once in a while the UK does something that makes the US online surveillance machine seem like it is tamer in comparison; its online age check is one of those times.

Google is trying to do away with the tiring process of figuring out who's supposed to do what after a meeting wraps up.

ORLANDO, Fla. -- A person who had access to the nation's deepest secrets, Robert Gates, the former CIA chief and U.S. Secretary of Defense from 2006 to 2011, is lot more open in retirement.

Police in the Czech Republic have arrested a Russian hacker suspected of targeting the U.S. for cybercrime.

A vulnerability was disclosed this past week affecting insulin pumps made by Johnson & Johnson. These devices, controlled via a wireless remote, lack any means of ensuring that only the intended remote could control the pump. A motivated individual in close proximity to the user could, in theory, cause their injury or death by significantly increasing the amount of insulin being administered.

Evaluating a smartphone isn't easy.

Trust me: As someone who spent several years reviewing what seemed like several billion Android devices, I know how hard it can be to cut through the surface-level stuff and get to the root of what really matters about any particular rectangular slab.

What I've learned over the years is that we've reached a point where a device's more obvious elements -- the materials, the specs, and so forth -- aren't nearly as important as they might seem. Sure, you want to like the way a phone looks. Читать дальше...

News today from two vendors that they're getting together and announcing a partnership. That in itself is no huge deal, but it does raise some questions, given the current climate of every tech vendor seemingly partnering with every other tech vendor, about what should be regarded as core to a product offering.

Service centers have a wide spectrum of goals. At one end are those that emphasize the lowest possible cost per call. They rely on IVR or newer chatbots while making it virtually impossible to talk to a real person. At the other end are those that emphasize customer service. They hire knowledgeable and enthusiastic product evangelists, who then try to persuade internal users to use recently deployed IT services or external customers to purchase additional products.

With Apple set to announce new Macs next week, enterprise users may want to open their wallets to get hold of the new kit, as there’s a big business case that says they should, according to IBM.

Worldwide IT spending should rebound in 2017 with a 2.9 percent increase over 2016, after a slight decrease this year, according to Gartner projections.

Oracle has released another large batch of patches, fixing many critical vulnerabilities in enterprise products that are used to store and work with critical business data.

Today’s workforce is defined by a familiar mantra: business users expect to be able to work from anywhere, at any time, while using any device, all without limitations. As such, mobile devices are rapidly becoming the conduit into the enterprise. However, these expectations for seamless access to information puts a strain on IT to create and support an environment where expectations meet reality.

The SURFboard SB6190 is the first Gigabit+ cable modem available in retail, and is compatible with major US Cable Internet Providers like Xfinity by Comcast, Time Warner, Cox, Brighthouse and many others, so you can ditch their cable modem (along with their rental fee) and regain control. It harnesses the power of DOCSIS 3.0 technology to bond up to thirty two downstream channels and eight upstream channels--providing you advanced multimedia services with data rates up to 1.4 Gbps download and... Читать дальше...

Data is piling up, and storage keeps getting faster thanks to flash, so the networks that link it all together need to keep up, too.

It’s tough being a sports fan and a tech follower at the same time. There are instances when you have to pick your true allegiance, and this is one of those instances.

We know the specs. We know what the expect from Google's Pixel and Pixel XL smartphones.

Apple CEO Tim Cook and Microsoft founder Bill Gates were both on a list of potential vice presidential candidates for Democrat Hillary Clinton, according to a leaked email published on Tuesday by WikiLeaks.

When Salesforce acquired quote-to-cash vendor Steelbrick last year, many in the technology community were a little aghast.

Facebook’s 100-gigabit switch design has been accepted by the Open Compute Project, a step that should help to foster an open ecosystem of hardware and software on high-speed networking gear.

Samsung’s problems with lawsuits from alleged victims of overheating batteries in the Galaxy Note7 smartphone could get compounded by consumers suing for compensation of carrier charges.

German firearms manufacturer Armatix LLC is planning to release its second smart gun in the U.S. next year after sales of its first model -- the .22 caliber iP1 -- were quashed by pressure from some gun owners and gun rights advocates who saw it as a threat to Second Amendment freedoms.