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Two studies, one from HP, and one from DNS and security vendor OpenDNS, took a look at the dangers IoT devices pose, and both concluded the same thing: The risks are real, they’re here and they’re more widespread than you might imagine. Following are summaries of each study.

Frequencies once considered useless for most mobile services could start showing up on phones and other devices in a few years under a plan by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. 

Tesla CEO Elon Musk today tweeted out a response to Consumer Reports' negative reliability rating of his company's flagship all-electric sedan, the Model S P85D.

Technical support scammers have begun targeting Mac owners, a security researcher said today, adding them to much larger pool of potential victims running Windows because Apple's operating system has been relatively untouched by malware.

JP Morgan Chase Bank tweeted in error that its chip credit cards would be getting PIN security, a bank spokesman confirmed Thursday.

Before Western Digital (WD) drops $19 billion to buy SanDisk, it's going to make sure certain conditions must be met.

When will Microsoft release the first major update to Windows 10?

No one really knows except the people at the company's headquarters in Redmond, Wash. Fortunately for outsiders, even the short stretch of Windows 10's life so far offers clues about Microsoft's process.

First, a bit of backstory.

Microsoft has purposefully been vague in describing the intervals between releases to the "Current Branch" (CB), one of four update-and-release tracks and the one all consumers and many small businesses will live on. Читать дальше...

Google's Nexus phones have had plenty of good things going for 'em over the years, but camera quality has never exactly been a top focus. At least, until now.

All right, you're looking at the headline and asking yourself, "What is the difference between consumer, industrial and commercial IoT?" Good question. Here's the broad answer: Commercial IoT (resisting the temptation to acronymize it into "CIoT") is a term being applied only to those aspects of the Internet of Things that pertain specifically to enacting business. It’s this aspect of the IoT that is most meaningful for organizations, and it’s important to recognize that the three terms do not all describe this same business impact. Читать дальше...

Take your minds back a few short years to when Google first introduces its Apps product. Google Apps was a revolution. Cloud-based office productivity applications that delivered on all of the promises that we've heard for so long about the cloud: collaboration, real-time authoring, anywhere access, etc. Not surprisingly, Google got some early adoption since its was the only product that really fulfilled this use case.

We've reached a point that security researchers have long warned is coming: Insecure embedded devices connected to the Internet are routinely being hacked and used in attacks.

Apple yesterday updated OS X, iOS 9 and watchOS with a slew of point upgrades. While these patches mostly deliver performance and stability improvements and support for new Emojis, a few other items stand out. Here they are:

Microsoft has started a three-month bug bounty program for two tools that are part of Visual Studio 2015.

In 2012, two servers run by the U.S. Navy rolled back their clocks 12 years, deciding it was the year 2000.

Hard-drive giant Western Digital's planned acquisition of SanDisk is just the latest of several deals that could reduce the number of companies making storage gear. Will this trend eliminate choices and let manufacturers raise prices?

Smart TVs in conference rooms. Brainy heating and air-conditioning systems. Internet-connected light bulbs. Intelligent devices controlling manufacturing processes. Smart watches and fitness devices everywhere.

Earlier this year Hewlett-Packard let slip that the public cloud may not be a place it wants to compete, and on Wednesday it followed through on that suggestion with an announcement that it will shutter its Helion Public Cloud for good.

Like many businesses today, IT service provider Avaap has a distributed workforce: With offices in New Jersey, Minnesota and India, it also employs hundreds of remote consultants.

Apple releases iOS 9.1. The update includes the now-obligatory new emoji—150 of the little blighters.

Frantic user calls this help desk pilot fish: I got a spam email, asking me to supply my user and passwords to reset my email account. What should I do?

Xiaomi has been knocked from the top of China's smartphone market by Huawei, according to new research, a setback for a company that was often feted as “the Apple of China.”