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Verizon has been busy building a diverse Internet of Things (IoT) portfolio that includes sensors used on farms as well as on city streets.

Competition is good, and InFocus' huge MondoPad Ultra all-in-one PC highlights some shortcomings in Microsoft's Surface Hub touchscreen computers.

If you're camping, hunting, cycling, or even starting a generator in a power outage at night, a headlamp gives you a convenient hands-free light source, and this one from Black Diamond is capable of emitting a powerful 130 lumens of light, with several modes of operation -- low, high, strobe and a red LED mode for preservation of night vision. Power Tap technology allows you to quickly cycle through light modes with just a tap on the light housing vs. a switch or button press. The unit is also IPX4 splash resistant. Читать дальше...

A publicly disclosed vulnerability in the MySQL database could allow attackers to completely compromise some servers.

Facebook bots will now be able to conduct business and display their own custom user interfaces, after an update aimed at enhancing its platform capabilities.

Apple has refocused its smartwatch on the fitness market, a move analysts believe was prompted by the company's recognition that the broader definition it has used was simply not making the grade.

At its Engage conference last week, BMC unveiled a beta version of a new development suite that it hopes will take the company out of its existing IT service management sphere, and onto greater things. (Disclosure: BMC covered my travel and expenses to attend the event.)

In just five years, ever more sophisticated in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) systems that stream music and offer real-time navigation will generate up to 98% of mobile-to-mobile (M2M) data traffic, according to a new report.

Most businesses today are thinking about digital disruption. Either they are trying to unleash it, or they are seeking ways to avoid being victims of it, rendered irrelevant. Some are involved in both activities.

Tesla is about to adjust how their Autopilot self-driving tech works. According to Elon Musk, radar will be used more aggressively to scan for objects, sending out a signal that’s not all that different from how a weather radar works looking for darkening clouds.

The European Commission's proposal to make mobile-phone roaming across the European Union free for just 90 days a year lasted less than a week. It's been withdrawn while a new policy is drafted.

Thousands of publicly accessible FTP servers, including many from Seagate network-attached storage devices, are being used by criminals to host cryptocurrency mining malware.

Canadian enterprise information management vendor OpenText has agreed to buy Dell Technologies' EMC enterprise content division for $1.62 billion in a deal that, the companies say, will allow them to focus on their core missions.

Today’s educational institutions, from K-12 schools all the way up to high schools and universities, face a lot of the same challenges and goals as many companies: increasing staff productivity, improving office workflows, keeping costs under control, protecting data against security threats, and remaining as ecologically responsible as possible. 

The BRK 3120B smoke detector from First Alert contains technology that many experts are now recommending -- dual sensors. A photoelectric sensor detects slow and smoldering fires, while an ionization sensor can detect often fast moving open flames. Your current detectors may have only one or the other, so if you're due (or overdue) for new ones, it might be something to consider. This model is hardwired with a battery backup (see below for non-hardwired model), so all units interconnect. When an alarm is triggered... Читать дальше...

IT departments in virtually every industry are under pressure to keep costs down while at the same time delivering high-quality services to users. Healthcare companies are no exception, with hospitals, clinics, and other patient care providers constantly looking for ways to leverage technology to support their business without putting additional strain on already tight IT resources.

Since most folks walk around with their mobile phones, and many have done away with their landline phone service at home, a good portion of calls made to 911 come from smartphones. Researchers from Ben Gurion University were the first to study what would happen if a mobile phone botnet were to launch a DDoS attack on 911 services. What they found, basically, is that such a telephony denial of service (TDoS) attack would cripple the 911 emergency system.

The number of IoT connected “things” is expected to grow dramatically over the next few years, with estimates ranging as high as 50 billion connected devices by 2020. Indeed, this has caused somewhat of a stampede to try to offer broadband connectivity options to attach all of these devices to the cloud.

Aruba, a division of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, announced software today that's designed to help companies speed up secure integration of mobile devices and Internet of Things objects into their networks.

HP has a plan to offset its declining printer revenue: Buy the printing business of Samsung Electronics.

In trying to be the world's largest e-tailer by offering almost anything, Amazon has attracted a dedicated group of thieves and resellers trying to slip through the holes in Amazon's bureaucracy. Amazon is now making a good-faith effort to thwart those selling unauthorized goods, just as it tried to attack deceptive product reviews.

We had a scare the other day with a critical cross-site scripting (XSS) attack that seemed to be entirely contained — source and destination — on our own network. Tracking it down and resolving the issue were fairly routine procedures, but it’s worth noting how it’s possible to spot potential security problems when you don’t have a world-class security operations center (SOC) that’s staffed with skilled analysts and stuffed with large-screen monitors and all the bells and whistles.

Open-source software offers an economical and flexible option for deploying basic home, SMB or even enterprise networking. These open-source products deliver simple routing and networking features, like DHCP and DNS. Plus, they are combined with security functionality, starting with a basic firewall and possibly including antivirus, antispam and Web filtering.

Welcome to the stories of the 2016 Computerworld Data+ Editors’ Choice Award honorees.

Organizational growth can sometimes lead to IT slowdowns. That's what happened when two leading Brazilian food companies merged in 2012. The newly formed company, BRF (formerly Brasil Foods), was the seventh-largest food company in the world and Brazil's market leader, and partly because of its size it now faced a costly problem.