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This security camera from Wansview currently averages 4 out of 5 stars from 180 reviewers on Amazon (read reviews). It lists for $199.99, but with the current 55% discount you save $110 and can buy it for just $89.99.

For decades, the U.S. took for granted the doubling of supercomputing power every 10 years, roughly in line with Moore's Law. But once a petascale system was reached in 2008, it gradually became clear that the next leap -- a system 1,000 times more powerful -- would be difficult.

Microsoft today kicked off a two-for-one deal for its Windows-based smartphones, tossing in a free Lumia 950 when customers buy a $649 unlocked top-tier Lumia 950 XL.

As Tesla begins ramping up production of its seven kilowatt wall-mountable in-home battery this year, it expects to exceed the sales of the entire energy storage system market last year.

It’s no big news that big data initiatives have huge potential business value. What’s concerning is that so many projects fail. In fact, a mere 8% of executives describe their big data projects as “very successful” according to a recent Capgemini report.

Data science may have dominated recent discussions about IT skills in chronically short supply, but it's not the only area facing a shortage. Cloud computing is another big one, and on Monday the OpenStack Foundation launched a new program it hopes will help.

Sure, a lot of people love music, movies, e-books and new apps, but the person behind the ransomware “Dogspectus” has taken it to the extreme of locking Android devices and demanding $200 in iTunes gifts cards to unlock each phone or tablet. Victims don’t even have to do something that might be considered security-stupid, such as accept new app install permissions, to wind up with an infected device; the “ransomware” is delivered via malicious ads and installs “silently in the background.”

Attackers are using two known exploits to install ransomware on older Android devices when their owners browse to websites that load malicious advertisements.

The biggest claim to fame for startup Helium, an Internet of Things company that started in 2013, has been perhaps co-founder Shawn Fanning.

While many of us spend our days with our fingers on the keyboard and our eyes on the display, some people still prefer a more old-fashioned means of idea generating and communicating: paper and pen. This is why companies such as Moleskine, which sells what can be described as high-end notebooks, have hit a successful niche.

In March 2000, Avanade was created as a joint venture of Microsoft and Accenture to help companies build the client-server architectures that have powered IT for years. While the Seattle-based company still handles bread-and-butter infrastructure integration, today it is squarely focused on helping clients move to the cloud and engineer their digital transformation initiatives.

Microsoft has given users of its OneDrive cloud storage service a 90-day notice that their free allowance will be scaled back from 15GB to 5GB in late July, according to emails and reports from customers.

Fitbit's Aria WiFi smart scale is a great add-on for anyone using a Fitbit to track progress towards their fitness goals. The current 17% discount shaves $22.64 off its regular $129.95 list price, so you can buy it now on Amazon for $107.31 (see this item on Amazon). 

Apple Watch apps must not need an iPhone, dictates Apple. Developers of watchOS apps have until June 1 to give up on those sluggish, trashy, tethered toys -- they give the pomaceous wearable a bad name.

As a security professional who travels a great deal for work, I can tell you a lot about the best practices to follow when you’re on the road with electronic devices in tow. Right now, though, I’m on vacation — I’m in paradise, as a matter of fact, in the form of the Garden Island of Kauai — so maybe I should be able to let down my guard.

This week marks the annual North American OpenStack Summit, this year being held back where it all began, in Austin, Texas. When OpenStack began, half a dozen or so years ago, it was focused on giving service providers and large enterprises the ability to compete with Amazon Web Services (AWS). Using the open source OpenStack operating system, organizations could build themselves an "Amazon-like" cloud of their own.

Wi-Fi hardware vendors are coming out with new cloud-based solutions, primarily to ease the remote management of wireless networks. However, they typically only support their own hardware. Here we take a look at three cloud-based solutions that support wireless routers and access points from multiple vendors.

When the PCI Security Council issues its new payments security requirements on Thursday (April 28), it is going to impose new rules about authentication and service providers. What is intriguing about the new edicts in 3.2 is the council's new acknowledgment that to protect payment, protections have to happen in the larger corporate universe.

The U.S. government believes the Internet of Things (IoT) has enormous economic potential across all industries. Its machine-to-machine technologies can reduce automobile-related injuries, usher in an era of precise weather forecasting and automate all types of processes.

A popular gadget blogger proclaimed last week that "phone design has plateaued," that we have "reached peak smartphone" and that smartphones are pretty much as good as they're going to get. She has a point.

Flashback to the 1980s, when the big data center where this pilot fish works is set up to keep security simple for both users and IT operations staff.

Solar Impulse 2, a solar-powered aircraft that's circumnavigating the globe without using a single drop of fuel, arrived in Silicon Valley on Saturday evening.

Thanks to today's data management platforms (DMPs), brands are becoming more sophisticated in how they collect, store and analyze data in order to improve their customer experience. From Adobe AudienceManager and Core Audience to Oracle-acquired BlueKai and X+1, a growing number of DMP software options with a range of specializations are now available.