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For McClatchy Company IT employees who will lose their jobs once their work is moved to India, there are fury and questions.

The OfficeJet Pro 8620 copies, scans, prints and faxes. It averages 4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon from over 1,100 people (read reviews).  With a regular list price of $299.99, the 8620 has been reduced by 41% to just $177.87.

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission and Federal Trade Commission have opened parallel inquiries into the way smartphone security updates are issued and handled by major mobile carriers and device makers.

Last year, San Diego's city council voted to commit the city to using 100% renewable energy by 2035.

Cloud ERP vendor Intacct last week announced that it has secured debt funding by way of a $40 million facility from Silicon Valley Bank. This comes at the same time as Intacct announced year-on-year new bookings increasing by some 34 percent.

At the recent Bio-IT World Conference in Boston, I had the privilege of speaking to an audience made up primarily of life sciences and medical researchers. My main message concerned the cloud, specifically the trend of cloudbursting. This audience is extremely important to me personally, as my daughter was diagnosed with autism at the age of two.

On the Internet, "nobody knows you're a dog," as the old meme goes, and today, the same can increasingly be said of robots.

Some people will go to great lengths to get into medical school as was recently proven when students were caught using a seriously high-tech method to cheat.

The founder of now defunct virtual currency Liberty Reserve has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for using his company to run a huge money-laundering scheme catering to cybercriminals.

Wireless networking device manufacturer Aruba Networks has fixed multiple vulnerabilities in its software that could, under certain circumstances, allow attackers to compromise devices.

Apple’s Siri has a fantastic yet little-understood feature that brings a little artificial intelligence into every iOS user’s life. Here is how to use it.

I am a dinosaur.

The reports of the impending death of the PC are not greatly exaggerated. The PC is yesterday’s technology, its demise hastened by smartphones, tablets and the cloud-computing services that make large-capacity computing devices unnecessary.

But I am part of a shrinking minority, still doing most of my work on PCs. In my case, they are Linux-powered PCs, but that is not the point. I would still be a dinosaur if I used Mac OS X or Windows.

You’ve probably seen the numbers that show what an oddity I am. Читать дальше...

iPhone 7 rumors say Apple has dropped plans to include a Smart Connector on the new iPhone 7. Sources say those three little dots are missing in the latest designs.

I was intrigued by a story last week about the founders of Apple's Siri and the follow-on A.I. virtual assistant they are finalizing, called Viv. It depicted the team ordering a pizza in San Jose — a very complicated pizza order, with multiple toppings, multiples pizzas, size changes and sides — solely by voice commands.

We’ve reviewed Wi-Fi stumbler and surveying apps that run on Android, Windows, and Mac OS X devices. These apps allow you to analyze the wireless access points and channels on the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands in your network. Now we’re reviewing apps, published as Universal Windows Platform apps on the Microsoft Store, which can run on Windows 10 PCs, tablets and phones.

Twitter has blocked a data-mining company from providing analytics of real-time tweets to U.S. intelligence agencies, according to a newspaper report.

Smart contact lenses sound like science fiction. But there's already a race to develop technology for the contact lenses of the future — ones that will give you super-human vision and will offer heads-up displays, video cameras, medical sensors and much more. In fact, these products are already being developed.

This IT contractor is working at a big company that uses lots of consultants from the same contract broker -- and he's tired of the consulting grind, says a pilot fish in the know.

One of the latest device types to hit the market is the 2-in-1 -- a tablet that, with the addition of a keyboard, becomes a full-fledged computer. This isn't a new idea -- there have been Bluetooth keyboards available for tablets practically ever since "tablet" became a tech term. And there have been tablets that came with attachable keyboards as well. But now it looks like the category has matured to the point that the 2-in-1 is seen as a possible computer substitute, especially for people who... Читать дальше...

The McClatchy Company, which operates a major chain of newspapers in the U.S., is moving IT work overseas.

Windows Update has been around a long time. Its mission on Windows 7 hasn't changed much from Vista and XP. Yet, despite this, it has a lot of problems, as we shall see.