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Looking to fuel enterprise adoption of the cloud, Intel is playing a lead role in a $100 million investment in an emerging player in the OpenStack arena.

Have you ever been working when the power goes poof and then you’ve lost all the data since you last saved? The day may be coming when you never have to worry about losing data again if a computer crashes thanks to a new “file system that could lead to computers guaranteed never to lose your data.” Big brains at MIT have come up with “the first file system that is mathematically guaranteed not to lose track of data during crashes.”

Android phone owners in the U.S. can now take Microsoft's virtual assistant Cortana for a spin thanks to a new public beta test that opened today. 

Programmers needing a break from marathon debugging sessions may want to peruse a blog post from two Facebook software engineers, who offer tips and war stories about rooting out elusive memory errors in the social network's iOS app.

Workers may eventually use a HoloLens headset instead of a traditional Windows computer to communicate with co-workers on Skype or write a report in Word.

Most would agree that we in the information security industry are fighting an uphill battle. Many have even taken the extreme position that we cannot keep intruders out of our networks, so we should give up and focus on containment, an argument I strongly objected to in an earlier post, "Are we surrendering the cyberwar?" Regardless of your position on how best to control the threat, I think you will agree that it is a difficult problem to address.

A British company thought to be working closely with Apple has created a hydrogen fuel cell for an iPhone 6 that allows the device to go a week without recharging.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has the authority to take action against companies that fail to protect customer data, an appeals court ruled Monday.

Bloomingdale's suffered a major glitch last week, with some customers receiving gift cards that were issued in amounts 200 times what they should have been. At least one customer received a $25,000 gift card. The situation illustrates two huge retail IT security issues. First, Bloomingdale's apparently has no human approval for gift cards, since it's hard to envision someone approving such amounts without question. But the second issue is that chains have almost no meaningful system for dealing with such glitches. Читать дальше...

Less than four weeks after its official release, Microsoft's Windows 10 has come close to -- but has yet to surpass -- the global usage share of Apple's OS X, the only significant rival to Microsoft's family of operating systems, new data shows.

Usually, when a shiny new gadget arrives via horseback at JR Raphael International Headquarters, I summon up my inner Lewis and Clark. There's a certain sense of discovery, after all, in powering up something unknown and diving in to see what it's like to use.

According to the latest statistics from The Cloud Market, Ubuntu now accounts for 59% of all images on the Amazon EC2 platform. Windows has 8% and the other distributions of Linux split the remaining 33%.

It's 20 years since Microsoft first launched Internet Explorer, on Aug. 16, 1995, as part of the Microsoft Plus Internet Jumpstart Kit for Windows 95. But rather than a celebration, Microsoft sends out a different message via the new Edge browser in Windows 10: "Thanks for all the great work you've done, but I got it from here."

The OpenStack ecosystem has been an interesting thing to watch over the last few years. When the open-source cloud operating system was first created (jointly, by Rackspace and NASA), it created a huge amount of excitement and venture funding. Indeed the number of companies that were started to build or deploy OpenStack distributions was legion — Nebula, PistonCloud, CloudScaling and others all scooped up venture funds to deliver on the massive promise that everyone assumed OpenStack would deliver. Читать дальше...

Dell entered the Android tablet market late last year by releasing the Venue 8 7000, a device with an understated though appealing form that contains good specs and an interesting camera technology.

Microsoft’s newly released Windows 10 offers developers what at first blush appears to be a can’t-miss pitch: Write your app once and run it anywhere Windows exists. With Microsoft’s push toward “one Windows” across multiple device types, ranging from the plain old desktops to augmented reality headsets, the appeal of that pitch could be massive, not to mention lucrative, for developers.

Even if the tablet market is in a malaise, vendors aren't giving up on the product category. LG Electronics will unveil the best model of its G Pad tablet series at the IFA trade show in Berlin next week.

Apple admits its iPhone 6 Plus may have a hardware boo-boo. Some were made with a faulty rear camera, which is causing blurred pictures.

Sony is gunning for a slice of the growing drone market, showing off newly developed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) from its just-launched drone venture, Aerosense. 

Like many organizations today, Nationwide must regularly churn out new software applications to stay competitive in a crowded industry.

Dell has formed a new business unit to go after the “second tier” of hyperscale customers -- those with similar needs to those of Google and Facebook but aren’t quite as massive.

An ex-Google engineer is developing a new file system for Linux, with the hopes that it can offer a speedier and more advanced way of storing data on servers.

Consumer drone technology is barely taking off, and already a harsh public backlash is growing.

A partnership between Google and Twitter that has placed tweets in Google search results on mobile devices since earlier this year has now been expanded to the desktop.

In the shadow of Google’s Project Ara, Finnish company Circular Devices is making progress on its own modular smartphone, the PuzzlePhone, and will soon reveal details.