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General Electric’s US$915 million acquisition of field service management company ServiceMax on Monday should help enterprises combine what GE does for industrial products and assets with more tools for those who work on them.

A U.K. official has ordered the extradition of a British man to the U.S. on charges of hacking government computers belonging to NASA and the Department of Defense.

Cybersecurity expert Eugene Kaspersky, founder of the antivirus company that bears his name, called out Microsoft for disabling third-party antivirus programs during the Windows 10 upgrade process.

Cisco, which has promoted its smart city technologies for more than two years, today announced that 10 cities, including Paris and Copenhagen, are using its cloud-based service to connect to traffic, parking and environmental sensors in real time.

Where did wearables go wrong?

Futurists promised a "wearable computing" world in which you could buy gadgets that could perform a thousand functions and live anywhere on your body.

Instead, the vast majority of wearables are biometric wristwatches, measuring mostly heart rate and bodily movement. The top-selling wearables come from Fitbit, Apple, Xiaomi, Garmin and Samsung -- all watches that measure movement and heart rate.

The overwhelming predominance of fitness watches is... Читать дальше...

The fastest computer in the world today can deliver about 125 petaflops of performance, but that could quadruple in the coming years.

In the wake of a very hectic political season, the United States is now prepared to enter into a new era, one that could have a significant impact on not just the U.S., but on the world as a whole. 

Protecting data in the past was comparatively easy. The key data that needed protection resided on large databases in a data center. Most of the mechanisms used to protect it took the form of perimeter security devices, such as firewalls and intrusion protection systems.

Motorola Talkabout MR350 is the ultimate communication tool for the outdoor enthusiast. It boasts a range of up to 35 miles (actual mileage will vary based on a variety of conditions) and is loaded with every possible radio feature. It's also both lightweight and rugged, with extra large buttons to help you operate even with gloves on. The MR350 features 11 weather channels (7 NOAA) with alert features, 22 channels each with 121 privacy codes for superior interference protection, iVOX hands-free communication, and a built-in flashlight. Читать дальше...

Small businesses that need a tool to track their relationships with customers now have a new weapon from Microsoft in their arsenal.

Every part of the corporate world has its share of unusual and even strange jargon. IT is no different, offering us clouds, ecosystems, waterfalls, sprints and scrums, and even cookies and breadcrumbs. Does anyone outside of IT really know what these expressions mean? Here are the top 12 annoying, overused IT terms that we should replace with normal language. (No need to limit ourselves to 10 just because David Letterman did.)

At a time when the size of distributed denial-of-service attacks has reached unprecedented levels, researchers have found a new attack technique in the wild that allows a single laptop to take down high-bandwidth enterprise firewalls.

If your IT department isn’t already worried about staff retention, some new stats might change that. A new poll finds 37% of IT pros plan to begin searching for a new employer in 2017, and 26% plan to accept a new job.

China’s Sunway TaihuLight and Tianhe-2 topped the list of supercomputers, maintaining the lead the systems had six months ago, according to the Top500 supercomputer rankings.

More than 412 million user accounts have been exposed thanks FriendFinder Networks being hacked. The breach included 20 years of historical customer data from six compromised databases: Adultfriendfinder.com, Cams.com, Penthouse.com, Stripshow.com. iCams.com, and an unknown domain. This, the 412,214,295 exposed records, is the biggest data breach in 2016, according to LeakedSource.

Samsung Electronics wants to buy its way into the connected car market, with a plan to acquire Harman for $8 billion.

When you show someone Apple's new 13-in MacBook Pro -- the one with the virtual Touch Bar -- the first thing they'll want to do is play with the darn thing. They'll adjust the screen brightness or turn up the volume. Launch some apps to see the virtual buttons change. And slide their fingers along it to see how it feels.

Samsung may be down, but it’s not out – it seems deeply committed to the mobile industry and this morning announced a new deal to take on Cupertino: an $8 billion purchase of Harman International.

Recently, while going through my bookmarks in Chrome to determine which ones I wanted to keep, I accidentally deleted all of them. Rather than panic, I felt an odd sense of . . . relief. I realized that I had collected several hundred bookmarks over the years, and that managing them was difficult.

At the end of an ugly presidential campaign the likes of which the U.S. has never seen, Facebook has acknowledged it has a lot more work to do in combating fake news on its platform.

Just over five years ago, IBM's Watson supercomputer crushed opponents in the televised quiz show Jeopardy. It was hard to foresee then, but artificial intelligence is now permeating our daily lives.

Did you just get your iPhone 7? Well, be prepared to get excited for the iPhone 8.

Over 412 million accounts on dating and entertainment network FriendFinder Networks have reportedly been exposed, the second time that the network has been breached in two years, according to a popular breach notification website.

Satellite service provider Globalstar has dropped its controversial plan to launch a wireless network in the U.S. in part of an unlicensed band that Wi-Fi and Bluetooth use.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg described as “crazy” the criticism that fake news on its news feed to users had tilted the vote in the U.S. presidential election in favor of Donald Trump.