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There is a bit of a revolving door among the larger technology vendors and an increasing number of smaller cloud vendors ar being led by Salesforce alumni. This is a natural progression, as execs get bored with the larger, more bureaucratic and less nimble reality of a multi-thousand employee company, smaller organizations become attractive. For the smaller companies, there is the hope that said executive can move the needle on how they're performing in the marketplace.

Facebook wants its employees to understand the pain of a slow, really slow, connection.

Global smartphone shipments reached their second highest level ever for a single quarter in the third quarter of 2015, IDC announced Wednesday.

On Wednesday Verizon launched ThingSpace, a development platform for companies of all sizes to create Internet of Things applications more efficiently and then later manage those apps.

Twitter's earnings call on Tuesday didn't go quite as investors might have hoped.

Fujitsu says it has developed software that uses biometric data directly as the basis for encryption and decryption of data, simplifying and strengthening security systems that rely on biometrics such as fingerprints, retina scans and palm vein scans.

Windows 10 passed a pair of milestones over the last two weekends, breaking the 10% usage share bar 10 days ago, then the 11% mark on Sunday, according to measurements by Irish analytics firm StatCounter.

Back in January, Microsoft launched Outlook for iOS and Android, designed to help users of the two most popular mobile platforms manage their email and calendars. The new apps, which came about after the acquisition of Accompli, is part of the company's push to provide productivity tools across platforms -- even those it doesn't own. In the case of Outlook, that seems to be paying off. 

The U.S. Copyright Office has given security researchers reason to hope that they'll be able to search for flaws in car systems and medical devices without the threat of legal action.

Microsoft unwrapped a smorgasbord of data-related offerings at the Professional Association for SQL Server Summit in Seattle on Wednesday, including the next beta for its flagship database server software and the public beta of its Azure Data Lake Store and Analytics services. 

German data protection authorities' decision to break ranks with their counterparts in other European Union countries and block alternatives to Safe Harbor has business lobbyists worried.

IBM will acquire Weather.com and other digital assets from The Weather Company for its new Watson IoT Unit and Watson IoT Cloud platform, it announced Wednesday.

Nexus 5X or Nexus 6P? It's the conundrum of conundrums for countless Android fans this fall. Google's given us two great choices, each with its own unique sort of appeal -- and that means we've got some seriously difficult decisions to face.

Motorola has unveiled the latest versions of its Droid smartphones yesterday -- the premium Droid Turbo 2 and the "value" Droid Maxx 2 -- and they don't look bad at all. But in today's developing smartphone marketplace, where more and more phones are becoming available unlocked and unlimited, will any one-carrier phone attract high-end buyers?

If Diebold has its way, you can forget using a PIN at an ATM – meaning there would be no card reader and therefore nothing thieves could use to install skimmers – as you would present your iris for scanning before the ATM spits out your cash.

Apple yesterday said it sold a record number of Macs in the September quarter, dealing out 5.7 million machines to customers worldwide.

Serial entrepreneur Adarsh Arora is currently founder and CEO of Lisle Technology Partners which develops deep technological innovation for mid-size and early-stage companies. He also serves as CEO of the most recently launched client company, Reputada, a B2B platform for collecting customer experience and sharing it online.

At a recent industry show, I passed comment about the fact that a good half of the first keynote was taken up by a manufacturer of silicon chips going into extensive detail about what their chips can do. To clarify, the show was Oracle's OpenWorld extravaganza, and the company in question was Intel, whose CEO spent the better part of an hour talking about just how much technology Intel can cram onto its silicon. Oracle is a company offering IT value to the biggest organizations in the world, while... Читать дальше...

The U.S. Library of Congress has issued another list of legal things to do with your own property. As prescribed in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), it's the Librarian's job to weigh up the evidence and graciously permit us to do certain things with stuff we already own. How kind.

Citizen developer tools that allow business staff to build applications are becoming increasingly powerful and can lead to important productivity gains.

The U.S. Senate approved a controversial cybersecurity bill on Tuesday, despite opposition from major tech companies and privacy advocates who fear it will lead to more of citizens' private information going to the U.S. government.

Amazon.com has been sued by delivery drivers in a proposed class-action suit that alleges the company misclassifies its workers as contractors rather than as employees with full benefits.

LTE-U is a wireless network technology that’s promising a lot, as well as ruffling a few feathers (especially in the Wi-Fi world). Here’s a brief rundown for the perplexed.

Big data engineers work to understand business objectives and translate those objectives into data processing workflows. These professionals are typically responsible for gathering and processing raw data, evaluating new data sources for acquisition and integration, and designing and implementing relational databases for storage and processing.

Believe the hype. The dangers posed by IoT devices are real, they’re here, and they’re more widespread than you might imagine. That’s the conclusion of a pair of studies, one from HP and one from DNS and security vendor OpenDNS. And what’s more, the threats to enterprises come not only from the consumer devices you might expect, like smart watches and other wearable devices, but also from industrial-grade IoT devices.