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Let me start by saying that I've been a happy and consistent user of Evernote for as long as it's been around. In fact, the first entry that I made in Evernote dates from late May, 2008, and contains notes for a review of the application, which was just about to go into open beta.

If you work with Windows systems, especially on the client side, you’ll occasionally need to bring an inoperable system back to life. The causes of this lamentable system state are as varied as the symptoms, which can range from an inability to boot Windows to a non-functional keyboard or display (hard to do anything in Windows without input or output). Despite all the many potential causes and symptoms, the situation remains the same: For whatever reason, a Windows system won’t start up and run as it should. Читать дальше...

The company behind Ashley Madison, the adultery-enabling website, has agreed to pay a $1.6 million settlement related to a major data breach last year that exposed account details of 36 million users.

IBM's pledges to hire 25,000 professionals in the U.S. and invest US$1 billion in employee training and development over four years don't represent new plans, the company confirmed late Tuesday.

It’s a debate for the ages.

Actually, we had this one when HD video emerged quite a few years ago, and it will continue for some time. Yet, I wanted to find out if 4K optical discus are noticeably better than streaming 4K, even if the specs “on paper” suggest there is a world of difference.

I tested the same movies on multiple services, including all three recent Star Trek movies, all of the newer Spider-Man films, and a couple of recent animated movies.

My main projector, the Epson Home Cinema 5040UB... Читать дальше...

Carriers are increasingly looking to supplement the connectivity subscriptions that they sell in order to increase per user revenues and return to the impressive growth days of the past.

Docker is releasing Containerd (pronounced container-dee), a set of basic components designed to run containers, as part of an open source project.

I first came across Inkling a few months ago and wrote about an impressive win they had with McDonald’s using the Inkling platform to rethink the way employee training delivery occurs.

Adobe Systems has released security updates for several products, including one for Flash Player that fixes a critical vulnerability that's already known and exploited by attackers.

Nearly everyone thinks his or her performance is above average. You don’t have to be a statistician to know that nearly half of them must be wrong.

Well this is just peachy – cybercriminals are actively using a malvertising campaign that infects routers and even Android devices. If the router is pwned, then every device connected to that router is pwned.

Traveling these days is a hassle, no matter why you're going, or where -- and the necessity to track your expenses along the way just adds to the irritation. A good app, though, can make things a lot easier -- not only during the trip but afterwards, when you have to report it all to your (or your company's) accountant.

You can choose to ignore it, but the move to put iOS inside healthcare is gathering so much momentum it’s a triumph of ignorance over good sense to do so.

There's been a lot of doom and gloom talk lately about how badly PCs -- both desktops and laptops -- are selling. According to a recent report from IDC, "Worldwide PC shipments are forecast to decline by 6.4% year over year in 2016." 

Be wary around random, but legitimate-looking emails popping up in your inbox. A foreign government may be using them to try to hack you.

What does the world need more of? Amazon knows -- Amazon Prime Video. 

Intel’s plan to spin off its security business under the McAfee name could run into rough weather with security entrepreneur John McAfee asking a court in New York to stop the deal until a dispute over the use of his name for another company is resolved.

With digital transformation dominating the business agenda, IT pros are under pressure to create a modern-day tech foundation sturdy enough to drive that change as they head into 2017. What milestones are they aiming for in the year ahead? Where should they direct their limited resources?

Tech toys that teach

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Buying a great holiday gift for the kids in your life can, at first, seem easy ("Of course they would love another LEGO set!"). But the problem with so many of the toys out there is that they lack an educational component, especially one that teaches about a subject that's increasingly important in our lives: tech.  

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Pilot fish is hired to take over the programming duties of a departing manager who also wrote code -- and that's not quite as simple as it sounds.

This USB 2.0 cable connects your iPhone, iPad, or iPod with Lightning connector to your computer's USB port for syncing and charging, or to the Apple USB Power Adapter for convenient charging from a wall outlet. It's currently discounted 53% on Amazon from Apple, taking its typical list price down to just $9. See the discounted adapter on Amazon.

IBM will hire 25,000 workers in the U.S. over the next four years, the company's CEO said Tuesday on the eve of a meeting between technology industry leaders and President-Elect Donald Trump. The pledge comes just over a month after Trump criticized IBM for moving some jobs out of the country, an allegation IBM denied.

Google is providing for the first time a look into the world of national security letters -- demands from the Federal Bureau of Investigation to hand over details about account holders and keep quiet about it.

President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for energy secretary, former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, will also have charge of the nation’s largest supercomputers. These systems are used to investigate “national challenges,” which includes climate change. But Perry is a climate change skeptic, as is Trump, and believes the science is unsettled.

Microsoft’s Cortana virtual assistant is getting a lot smarter. On Tuesday, the company announced a set of developer tools aimed at bringing it into the internet of things, and adding support for developers to build new functionality for it.