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SunTrust Banks in Atlanta is laying off about 100 IT workers as it moves work offshore. But this layoff is unusual for what it is asking of the soon-to-be displaced workers: The bank's severance agreement requires terminated employees to remain available for two years to provide help if needed, including in-person assistance, and to do so without compensation.

When hurricane winds are bearing down and water is rising across streets and into houses, no one at the Weather Channel wants to be thinking about server capacity or if their website can handle a twentyfold increase in traffic.

Hobbyists and companies alike are trying out drones for fun and commercial purposes, and as the sky starts to get crowded there is a growing cry to regulate the remote-controlled aircraft. The U.S. Dept. of Transportation on Monday said it would form a task force that will come up with a registration process for drones by Nov. 20.

During the week of October 5th I had an opportunity to attend the AWS re:Invent 2015 conference in Las Vegas, of all places. As someone who has built an entire career on putting together custom application server software, I should be the last one to get excited about server-less applications. Just like Salesforce’s “no software,” Amazon’s “server-less software” mantra is about a world where application development is not limited by IT, software to install and servers to manage.

European data protection authorities have given the European Commission and national governments three months to come up with an alternative to the Safe Harbor agreement swept away two weeks ago by a ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union.

Four years after his death, Steve Jobs is passing from legend into myth. Some recountings of his life try to set the record straight, including last month's documentary, Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine. Others flirt with creative retellings of the facts, as did the 2013 film Jobs.

Simply stated, you can’t trust the employees of cloud service providers. Frankly, I don’t think we can really trust our own employees anymore either, but at least our capability to monitor them is far greater. Early on we had warnings of the problem of just anyone having access to secure data when Google Engineers got caught stalking Google customers through their access. Their getting caught and our finding out about it was pretty remote. I’ve seen, over the years, crimes ranging from theft... Читать дальше...

One of the challenges that business intelligence software users face is generating the right sort of visualizations for the data they have.

Like prizefighters in intense training, two groups trying to define the Internet of Things are headed for a big showdown in Las Vegas early next year. 

It's that time, Android fans -- yes, oh, yes: Time to get to know Google's newest Nexus devices.

A zero-day vulnerability in the popular FireEye security appliance was in the news several weeks ago, but it’s still worth discussing. That’s because some people in the security community were outraged that a security product could have an exploitable vulnerability. But why should products from security vendors be any different from other products? Because security vendors should know better? Please don’t tell me you’re going to trust your security career to that naive notion.

The CIA Director had an AOL account where he allegedly stored highly sensitive information of his own, of other top American intelligence officials and of the CIA’s. The personal account came to light after a hacker took it over and started leaking screenshots. The same hacker doxed Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson and leaked call logs of White House Deputy National Security Advisor Avril Haines.

You can’t blame them I suppose. They don’t really know any better, but the latest IBM report is attracting attention because, well, it pretty much tells any open-minded person that Macs are a better deal, even in the enterprise.

Google has been working hard to pitch its Apps productivity suite to the enterprise, but has come across a consistent snag: Companies are signed up for long-term volume licensing contracts with its competitors, especially Microsoft. Google has found that those companies came calling to look at switching to Apps when their contracts were up for renewal, but were otherwise locked up.

It's been more than two years since the general release of MySQL 5.6, and on Monday Oracle announced that its successor will soon arrive bearing a significant boost in performance along with improved security and scalability.

As if the retail industry needed another buzzword to describe merged channel shoppers, Jon Lewis Managing Director Andy Street is offering us one: the "master shopper." That's his term for shoppers who get very creative about how they are mixing e-commerce, mobile and physical retail interactions.

You’ve gotten your Windows 10 upgrade from Microsoft. It still has that new OS smell. Now what? Before you take your laptop out for a spin, you need to tune it into tip-top running condition.

The Internet of Things is a big part of what makes big data so big, and on Monday, analytics provider Teradata unleashed two new tools to help make sense of the vast troves of data it produces.

Adobe released a patch for a critical vulnerability in Flash Player faster than it originally anticipated in response to high-profile cyberespionage attacks against governmental targets.

Here come the Nexus 6P and Nexus 5X reviews. The embargo expired, so the usual suspects are keen to let us know what they think.

Mobile apps aren't just for retailers and banks anymore. A wide variety of businesses are using apps to attract and retain customers, create a powerful new marketing channel or give their employees or business partners tools that enable them to be more efficient and productive.

Have you noticed how great technology sounds these days? Smartphones are getting great speakers, and great speakers are getting wirelessly connected to smartphones.

People want a place where they can store all their digital stuff, share it with people, and have easy access to it from all their devices. For many, that’s a service such as Dropbox, iDrive, or iCloud. But what if you don’t want all your stuff stored on someone else’s equipment?

User calls this IT support pilot fish with a minor issue -- but it's enough to prompt fish to run a virus scan, just as a precaution.

Facebook will now warn people if it has a strong suspicion an account is being targeted by a nation-state.