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Enterprise-focused cloud storage company Box is trying its hardest to be Microsoft's best buddy, and the company continued down that path Wednesday with the release of a new app for Windows 10.

Dell and HP are bringing a new form of DDR memory to low-end servers to let small and medium-size businesses run databases and other applications faster.

It didn't take long for the newly formed HP Inc. to release its first product, the ZBook Studio, a feature-packed, 15.6-in. laptop with a 4K screen.

People concerned about how much information is out there about them on Google have a new way to control what everyone can see.

How can T-Mobile afford to offer its Binge On streaming video service at no extra cost to its Simple Choice customers who pay for more than 3GB of LTE data a month?

Facebook today unveiled Notify, a standalone app designed to push news directly to users.

Augmented reality and virtual reality headsets are on the cutting edge of technology these days, with companies like Microsoft, Google and Facebook all vying to get to market with headsets that can augment reality or transport users into a virtual world. 

When Hewlett-Packard (back in the days when it was one company) acquired open source cloud infrastructure vendor Eucalyptus a year or two ago, many were left scratching their heads about what exactly HP planned to do with the company. Subsequent events have proved that confusion justified since Eucalyptus has gone nowhere and HP has had a lurching series of pivots around its cloud strategy. Indeed, the only logical thing about the deal was that HP would get the services of a very seasoned executive in Marten Mickos. Читать дальше...

Readers of my blog will certainly be aware of the importance I place on the collection and handling of system logs. These logs contain critical data related to what is happening to your systems and networks that is not readily obvious, not the least of which are indicators that your network is being probed by potential hackers. 

If you hadn't yet noticed, I'm what you might call a bit of a big phone holdout.

Rethinking conventional computer designs, which are decades old, the U.S. Department of Energy has set its sights on creating systems that could supplant today's PCs and servers.

Hundreds of thousands of Instagram accounts – perhaps a half million or more – have been compromised after users installed InstaAgent, an app that claimed it could track who viewed your Instagram account. “Who Viewed Your Profile – InstaAgent” malware/scamware had been downloaded a “half million times” from Apple’s App Store and downloaded between 100,000 and 500,000 times from Google’s Play Store before Apple and Google pulled the malicious app.

I’ve known Linus Torvalds, Linux’s inventor, for over 20 years. We’re not chums, but we like each other.

Microsoft is delivering its cloud services, including Azure, Office 365 and Dynamics CRM Online from two new data center regions in Germany, in a move that aims to deflect customer concerns about access to their data by U.S. surveillance.

Google on Tuesday said it will switch off Chrome security updates in under five months for about one-in-seven Windows users and around the same portion of those running Apple's OS X.

Qualcomm launches its Snapdragon 820 system on a chip. After months of whispers and hyperbole, we can finally expect to see it in top-end devices early next year.

Microsoft's Project Oxford, a suite of developer tools based on the company's machine learning and artificial intelligence research, is getting a new quintet of services, the company announced at its Future Decoded conference in London. 

Worker advocacy groups, companies offering services through apps, a variety of policy experts and venture capitalists  are proposing a new model for worker benefits that will be "portable" across the number of jobs they do in the new on-demand economy.

Are social networks becoming the primary platforms by which people discover digital content?

Apple computers haven't been affected by ransomware, a pervasive and insidious class of malware that encrypts files on a computer in exchange for a ransom.

Google unveiled major enhancements to its container-focused cloud offerings on Tuesday to take advantage of new open-source developments and boost the performance of its products in a competitive market. 

Nvidia hopes to equip drones and robots with high-performance computing capabilities with its new Jetson TX1 developer kit announced on Tuesday.

What would you do if you found out some of the software running your company was behind schedule on dozens of patches and updates — including critical security patches that were several years out of date? You might think that could never happen. You'd be wrong.

The fourth-generation Apple TV offers a range of new features including Siri, a more versatile Bluetooth remote and the ability to search for content across multiple streaming services. The biggest advance, however, is the arrival of an Apple TV App Store and the opening of the platform to developers. For now, the available apps are consumer focused; games and apps for streaming services dominate, though there are a fair number of fitness, cooking, shopping, travel, and education titles, too.

This company implements a concept called "One IT," and it sounds great to a pilot fish working there -- at least in principle.