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Ford today announced a software upgrade to its SYNC infotainment system that lets iPhone users wirelessly access Siri Eyes-Free capabilities over Bluetooth.

Google today announced it will purchase 842 megawatts (MW) of clean energy, nearly a doubling of the power it's purchased to date and taking the company to 2 gigawatts (GW) of clean energy.

The U.S. worker protections in a federal rule allowing STEM grads to work on a student visa for up to three years is stirring controversy. Broadly, businesses want fewer restrictions as labor advocates seek more.

IBM's Watson has been pushing further into the business world in recent months, and now it's helping online merchants analyze performance and make better merchandising decisions.

Toshiba, Fujitsu and Vaio are considering a merger of their laptop PC businesses, according to a Japanese media report.

I recently caught a glimpse of the future of healthcare at an open house at CIC in St. Louis. CIC provides office space, lab facilities and other resources tailored for startups. The 20 participants included three types of businesses: companies developing tools to help healthcare providers diagnose and treat illnesses, companies developing products to help healthcare providers interact more efficiently and effectively with patients, and companies developing healthcare products for consumers.

Videos games are all about an adrenaline rush, but there’s an amazing amount of work that goes into making the gameplay more innovative and awe-inspiring. These programming techniques and tech advances also make the games more realistic, visually stunning, or just more enjoyable to play. Here are my top picks.

The OpenSSL Software Foundation has released new patches for the popular open-source cryptographic library, but for two of its older branches they will likely be the last security updates.

In my opinion, banking is one of those industries which is soon to undergo a revolution as new technologies, consumer demand, a drive for efficiency and relaxing regulations all conspire to make banks' traditional models uneconomic and eventually untenable. Banking 2.0 is a general term used to describe a new way of looking at an old business -- one which leverages connectivity, cloud computing, the role of social networks and a more customer-centric view of the world to deliver better products and services. Читать дальше...

A group of sophisticated attackers are repurposing penetration testing tools to break into the networks of small and medium-size businesses worldwide with the goal of infecting point-of-sale systems with malware.

Responses from Computerworld's survey of 182 CIOs and senior technologists.

What Google giveth, Google taketh away. At least, some of the time.

If you have an Android device and use Hangouts, you probably know the feeling. A recent update to the app quietly removed its long-standing widget, which allowed you to see and manage your messages right from your home screen. It was the worst way to end a relationship -- no goodbye, no explanation (not even a half-hearted "it's not you, it's me!"), and sure as hell no "one last time, I mean, we might as well, right?" weepy breakup sex. Читать дальше...

Facebook has outlined its plans to follow a court ruling in Belgium requiring it not to track people who do not have accounts on the social networking website.

A bill introduced in the Senate would allow the U.S. National Security Agency to hold phone records collected by the agency for five years, while also making permanent some anti-terrorist provisions that have been criticized by civil rights groups.

At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday, lawmakers heard arguments over a bill that has garnered passionate support from Microsoft but been compared by others to the controversial SOPA copyright act.

Ex-CEO Steve Ballmer has a huge holding of Microsoft stock. At yesterday’s shareholder meeting, he tore into the company and its current CEO, Satya Nadella, cursing about the financial reporting and saying a key part of its strategy “won’t work.”

Developers can now easily build powerful applications that understand the content of images thanks to new machine vision tools released by Google.

The U.S. and China have reached an agreement on how to begin cooperating on cybersecurity, an issue that has caused high tension between the two nations over the last few years.

After weeks of rumors of an impending deal, IBM has agreed to buy Weather.com and other digital assets from The Weather Company for its Watson IoT unit and its IoT Cloud platform.

With the release of the Lumia 950, the mobile version of Windows 10 is ready for its close-up -- the device is the first handset that sports the new operating system. Microsoft is betting big on it, hoping that the new OS, which shares a code base and features with the PC version, will resuscitate its tiny mobile market share.

Job search tips for developers

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With the advent of mobile and Web apps, developers are in high demand across almost every industry. But the way companies look for candidates has changed over the years, especially with so many specific skills and disciplines that now fall under the umbrella of "developer." You'll want to be prepared for a number of different variables when it comes to landing the perfect developer job.

Here are six tips to prepare yourself to find a job as a developer. Читать дальше...

The life of an independent IT contractor sounds attractive enough: the freedom to choose clients, the freedom to set your schedule, and the freedom to set your pay rate while banging out code on the beach.

Flashback to the late 1980s, when a major mainframe update has been scheduled over the long Thanksgiving weekend at the data center where this pilot fish works.

Developers seem frustrated in recent weeks, with developers from Bohemian Coding joining Panic, BBEdit and others in choosing to withdraw their products from sale at the Mac App Store.

The much-lauded encryption app Signal has launched a beta program for a desktop version of the app, which will run through Google's Chrome browser.