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Quantum computing may still sound like the stuff of science fiction, but in another five or 10 years, it could be part of our reality.

LinkedIn will soon add more details and insights to its job postings, in an effort to find more fitting career opportunities for users. The move is designed to enhance job listings with details about a user's connections within a hiring company; a list of LinkedIn applicants the organization went on to hire; and details on the people the job seeker would work with if they got the gig. 

Mozilla today shipped Firefox 43, the first edition that lets users download a production-grade 64-bit version for Windows.

Microsoft has pulled an update to Windows 10 after users reported a wide variety of issues with the upgrade process, according to a post on the company's Answers technical support forum. 

Microsoft has deployed a new tactic in pushing users of older versions of Internet Explorer (IE) to upgrade, telling Office 365 customers that some IE versions would see a "significantly diminished experience."

If there's one indisputable truth in the tech world, it's that switching standards is always a major pain in the keister.

Over the past two weeks security researchers have seen a surge in attacks using a file-encrypting ransomware program called TeslaCrypt, known for targeting gamers in the past.

Breaking Qualcomm up is not the best way to turn its performance around, the company's board has decided.

Software as a service (SaaS) is a subscription-driven software licensing mechanism. The software vendor owns and hosts the software in a cloud environment.

While the Internet of Things is gaining in popularity, makers of smart devices like robots, intelligent appliances and online-connected thermostats still need to straighten out their user interfaces. Right now, companies build physical interfaces into their products like dials and buttons, but those aren't great for executing complex commands like "go sweep the living room."

Things may be about to get tough for some Apple partners as the company invests in top secret display technology development labs and increases its control over the primary technologies used in its products.

For the past several weeks, the ongoing series of lawsuits between Apple and Samsung over smartphone patents has been back in the news. Last week Samsung announced that it plans on paying up, but expects to be reimbursed should other patents in the dispute be invalidated, which is likely based on U.S. Patent and Trade Office (USPTO) proceedings thus far.  

Police investigating the hacking of Chinese toy company Vtech have made an arrest in the U.K.

A few months ago I attended VMware's annual global conference (Disclosure: VMware covered my travel and expenses to attend the event). At the conference, VMware's head of mobile, Sanjay Poonen, was excited to announce a new partnership between VMware and Microsoft. Poonen was quick to point out that the fact that these two traditional foes were partnering at all was akin to an end of the Cold War.

A new Apple facility in Longtan, North Taiwan, is shrouded in secrecy. But it seems to be developing a new iPhone display technology that’s brighter and uses less power.

A new Apple facility in Longtan, North Taiwan, is shrouded in secrecy. But it seems to be developing a new iPhone display technology that’s brighter and uses less power.

Windows 10 is the best operating system that's come along from Microsoft in a long time. It's a shape-shifter that changes its interface depending upon whether you're using a traditional computer or a touch-based one. It undoes the damage wrought by Windows 8, including eliminating the awkward Charms bar and bringing back the long-mourned Start menu. A lot more has changed as well, with a new default browser called Edge, the integration of the Cortana digital assistant and plenty more.

Anonymous’ global cyberwar on ISIS — which we recently noted has the potential for undercutting the terror group’s recruitment and fundraising efforts by making social media useless for it — has been running into some structural problems. Mostly, it involves volunteer supporters going off in different directions and thereby diluting the overall mission.

This company has a small call center in the building where an IT support group works, which means they handle any problems there, reports a pilot fish on the scene.

Strengthening its push into the Internet of Things, IBM is making a range of application programming interfaces (APIs) available through its Watson IoT unit and opening up new facilities for the group.

It looks like the Dell-EMC wedding is on: EMC says it hasn't gotten any better proposals, and Dell reportedly is trying to shed Perot Systems to trim down for those photos.

The open-source project behind the widely used Joomla content management system has issued a patch for a vulnerability that is now being widely used by hackers.

It's no secret that marketing is a big consumer of big data, so it's perhaps not all that surprising that Salesforce has acquired MinHash. Founded just last year, the tiny, four-person startup has been applying data science to making sense of audience trends.

With CES only a few weeks away, gadget makers are sending the usual flood of invites and meeting requests to try to drum up interest in their products. It's clear the big themes this year will be smart appliances for the home, drones, robotics, and all kinds of car tech, along with the usual monster TVs and gaming rigs.