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Microsoft has scaled back its Windows 10 release schedule to two feature upgrades annually, not the three per year it once said was its plan.

Last week saw cloud ERP vendor NetSuite hold its annual user conference in San Jose. I've been attending SuiteWorld as long as SuiteWorld has actually existed, and hence it is interesting to reflect on the differences over the years. (Disclosure: NetSuite covered my travel and expenses to attend the event.)

The CineMate 15 from Bose is a highly rated soundbar system that is easy to set up and promises the kind of full, rich sound with deep bass that you have come to expect from Bose. The soundbar itself is no longer than a ruler and simply sits in front of your TV, connecting with a single cable. The accoustic mass module can be placed out of site. Together, the system works with Bose TrueSpace signal processing to spread sound far and wide, fully immersing you in the action. The CineMate 15 averages... Читать дальше...

Driverless taxis and shuttles are coming to big cities, without a doubt.

There's an update available for Microsoft's Dynamics CRM 2016, and it brings with it a brand-new tool to help companies tap the Internet of Things for their customer-service efforts.

From wardrobes to war machines, this year's show did not disappoint

Image by April Montgomery

Using live data in development means you can test real workloads and get realistic results in transactions and reports. It’s also a significant security risk, as U.K. baby retailer Kiddicare recently found out: The company used real customer names, delivery addresses, email addresses and telephone numbers on a test site, only to have the data extracted and used to send phishing text messages to customers.

It took hackers less than two weeks to integrate a recently patched Flash Player exploit into widely used Web-based attack tools that are being used to infect computers with malware.

In less than three hours, at least 100 people helped pull off a $12.7 million heist by using cloned credit cards at ATMs in Japan. While organized crime may not equally split the spoils, if 100 people participated in the heist, then each of those people potentially made $127,000 for less than three hours of work. That’s a pretty slick trick.

At its best, Apple Pencil and an iPad Pro can be best sketchbook for creative expression you’ve ever used, though some artists I’ve spoken with would like the Pencil to respond slightly differently to reflect the way different media behaved in the real world, eg. Oil paints act differently to charcoal. However, discussions like these are a moot point if your Pencil isn’t working, and unfortunately you do get problems keeping both devices in sync. Here is what to do:

Like many others, Bob Liodice is angry: He's had enough of being robbed by online advertising.

With a regular list price of $180, the current discount makes the Jaybird X2 Sport available for just $120. Features include:

Remember when you ditched Firefox for Chrome and pinkie-swore you’d never go back? Yeah, me too. But recently I needed to test a Web-based app in Firefox, so, with some hesitance, I took the plunge and installed it.

When shoppers at Walmart ran into a wide range of problems using their Green Dot/Walmart MoneyCard cards at Walmart—including checking balancing and accessing funds—last week, it was a grim reminder of how interconnected the payments world is these days and how retailers will be blamed no matter whose fault it is.

iPhone 7 rumors of 4-speaker design from Apple emerge. But will improved speakers make up for removing the headphone jack?

More personal computers powered by Google's Chrome OS shipped in the U.S. during the first quarter than those running Apple's OS X in the same period, IDC confirmed Friday.

For decades, encryption was an arcane art. Encryption was slow, clunky and highly complex, and as a result, the vast majority of data in the data center resides on storage systems in the clear. Sensitive data has historically been protected by IP segmentation and firewalls with IPS modules.

Google's Project Ara modular smartphone is coming to developers soon, but it's lost a key part of its customization vision along the way. 

Financial transaction network SWIFT called on its customers Friday to help it end a string of high-profile banking frauds perpetrated using its network.

About a year ago I started a new business offering interactive "escape room" challenges in the Detroit area. Although I'd hoped to keep it strictly an online affair, with an informative website and simple ticketing system, it quickly became clear I'd need a phone line. Customers needed a way to reach me with questions, booking issues and so on.

It's the early 1990s, and this team of four network analysts is moving to a new office that's been configured just for what they need, reports a pilot fish on the team.

Google Spaces is an innovative social service that can give you unprecedented control over your conversations, but only if you know how to use it.