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While Wall Street waits for Apple's earnings report on Tuesday, industry analysts are already pondering the next iteration of the California company's iPhone line.

Forgot your password? Well, Facebook wants to help you recover your internet account.

Ask organizations today about the value of data and you’re likely to hear it measured in terms of competitive advantage, customer experience and revenue generation. As Dante Disparte and Daniel Wagner put it in a December 2016 HBR article, data is “becoming a centerpiece of corporate value creation.”

Dropbox kicked off its 2017 product launches with a pair of major announcements Monday aimed at improving users’ productivity at work. The cloud storage company announced the general availability of its Paper document collaboration service, along with the closed beta of a Smart Sync feature that gives users easy access to every file shared with them in Dropbox.

Police in Cockrell Hill, a community in southwest Dallas, admitted to losing digital evidence from as far back as 2009 after the department’s server was compromised with ransomware.

Intel may have cut ties with Android on smartphones and tablets, but the company's partnership with Google on Android for the internet of things is growing stronger.

Last week Quentin Hardy, deputy tech editor for The New York Times, announced that he was heading to Google to take up the role of head of editorial. Hardy, one of the more respected tech journalists working within a traditional publication, has long been a fixture at technology conferences and could always be relied upon to assert his view  -- be it in an exec Q&A or at a press/influencer dinner.

New Year’s resolutions are hard to keep. 

According to a study from the Journal of Clinical Psychology, 71 percent of resolution-makers are successful for two weeks. At this point in the year -- about one month in -- that number slips to 64 percent. Come June, just 46 percent keep their resolutions.

But why? According to Blake Angove, director of technology services and marketing at recruiting company LaSalle Network, it boils down to a lack of structure in goal setting.

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Already in its 4th edition, Invent Your Own Games with Python is pretty close to the ultimate how-to-learn python book. First, it combines an easy ramp up from expecting you to know virtually nothing to having you try out – and understand – Python. Second, it provides the code, the tools, and the explanations required for you build a number of increasingly sophisticated games and the know-how to branch out to creating games completely on your own.

Around 70 percent of the cameras hooked up to the police's closed-circuit TV (CCTV) system in Washington were reportedly unable to record footage for several days before President Donald Trump's inauguration due to a ransomware attack.

WhatsApp's privacy policy change allowing Facebook to target advertising at its users has landed the company in a German court.

Wireless long distance control of your PC, Android TV box, or Raspberry Pi 3. The iPazzPort features a 92 key wireless QWERTY keyboard with touchpad supporting multi-touch function, mouse left and right buttons, and easy copy/paste. Backlight can be turned on & off, and its Li-ion battery provides long play and stand-by times in between charges. Its typical list price of $30 has been reduced 40% to just $18. See it on Amazon.

Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of Fallout 3 and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, welcome you to the world of Fallout 4 – their most ambitious game ever, and the next generation of open-world gaming.  As the sole survivor of Vault 111, you enter a world destroyed by nuclear war. Every second is a fight for survival, and every choice is yours. Only you can rebuild and determine the fate of the Wasteland.  Currently Amazon has the PC and XBOX ONE versions discounted by 50% and the PS4 is 43% off. Читать дальше...

There’s a smart way you can let people use your iPhone that may help you control what they see – it’s really useful if you want to let a friend see your photos but not your emails.

Many organizations are beginning to convey their IoT data to third parties. Often this is motivated by a desire to monetize the data, sometimes for regulatory reporting reasons. These initiatives are bringing the issues of data ownership and licensing to the fore.

You ever think what your phone goes through on a typical day?

It probably gets pretty grimy and gross. But many phones can't handle getting wet, much less actually washed.

Well, now a company in Japan is doing something about that, creating a smartphone that users can actually scrub clean with soap and water. But is that one feature enough to make it appealing? 

In IT Blogwatch, we make sure all our devices are squeaky clean.

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Alternative facts and fake news, meet Alt-Twitter. In the last few days, a growing number of Twitter accounts have been started claiming to be the "alternative" or "rogue" voices of U.S. government workers and agencies.

About 150 flights of Delta Air Lines in the U.S. were canceled and some others were delayed on Sunday on account of an IT systems outage, the airline reported.

Of the many startups that materialize on the U.S. business landscape every year, most enter an existing space, with very few offering a product/service that no one has yet seen. When entering an established market, most have a differentiator, such as a way to price lower or a patent that allows them to ship much faster.

If you're like most people, you live part -- or most -- of your computing life in the cloud. And odds are that you use more than one cloud-based storage service, such as Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive and others. Do you find yourself tearing your hair out when you try to remember on which service you've stored what files? Do you wish you could easily move or copy those files between your cloud services, or between the services and your local storage?

It's the busiest time of the year, and suddenly the network has slowed to a crawl, reports this IT pilot fish.

The next major upgrade for Windows 10, dubbed the Creators Update, will be released in April. It will add new programs for creating content (like new music composing and painting apps), but there will be many additions addressing the ways you interact with the core OS itself. Here are the most noteworthy, based on what’s we’ve seen in the Insider Preview builds.