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Enterprise IT decision makers have been exploring the potential of Internet of Things technologies, but they are not rushing IoT projects into development and are showing caution in their adoption commitments, according to survey results Red Hat released Wednesday Of the 215 participants in the company's survey, "Enterprise IoT in 2017: Steady as s...

Facebook on Monday rolled out a WhatsApp update that could threaten Snapchat's share of the mobile app messaging market The update allows WhatsApp users to share photos and videos through the app's status area. Moreover, like WhatsApp text messages, content shared through status updates is protected by end-to-end encryption....

A major federal acquisition opportunity with a potential contract value of US$50 billion for information technology vendors is back on track. The General Services Administration recently resumed processing vendor applications after a legal challenge to the contract was resolved in its favor As a result, the GSA this fall will reveal the names of a...

The United States Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has come under increasing fire from Republican lawmakers who now have the Trump administration to back their efforts Long-time critic Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, who chairs the U.S. House of Representatives Financial Services Committee, compared the bureau to a tyranny in a recent interview w...

Microsoft has introduced an open source virtual reality toolkit for the training of autonomous drones. Part of Microsoft's Aerial Informatics and Robotics Platform, the beta software became available on GitHub last week. The toolkit is designed to allow developers to "teach" drones how to navigate the real world by recreating conditions such as sh...

Facebook last week launched new features for advertising job openings on the network Although many companies already have been using Facebook to find workers, the new functionality formalizes its job search capabilities, the company said....

Verizon and Yahoo on Tuesday announced new terms for the acquisition deal they inked last summer. Verizon will pay US$350 million less than the original contract price, which places the new value of the deal at $4.48 billion Yahoo will be responsible for 50 percent of any breach-related cash liabilities incurred as a result of non-SEC government in...

President Trump offers a good emulation for a future artificial intelligence system, suggests a column I read earlier this month, and his presidency may be an early warning of what could happen if we should fail to think through its training and information sources. Cathy O'Neil, the author of the piece, is a data scientist, mathematician and pro...

Microsoft has called on governments around the world to create a "digital Geneva Convention" as a way to normalize international cybersecurity rules and protect civilian use of the Internet. President Brad Smith, who is also Microsoft's chief legal officer, addressed the issue at the annual RSA conference held earlier this week in San Francisco, s...

Facebook this week announced new features for News Feeds videos, along with an app for TV News Feed videos now have sound turned on by default in mobile devices. This can be disabled in the Settings menu....

Seeking Alpha is an online outfit that offers investors good research and analysis on tech vendors, and it is especially well versed in Oracle. Its writers' expertise involves matching technologies to investment attractiveness. I am sure you are familiar with the type. XYZ company's product does this, it should result in sales of this much, and t...

Is your Android phone secure? President Donald Trump's favorite smartphone reportedly is an older Android device. Security concerns flared recently, following indications that he sent some tweets from it. Of course, the president has been given a special secure device, but it's not clear whether he is using it. My question is, if the president is ...

Yoav Kutner is the CEO of Oro In this exclusive interview, Kutner shares his perspectives on the mysteries of multichannel CRM....

Amazon Web Services on Tuesday introduced Amazon Chime, a cloud-based unified communications offering that lets users engage in high-quality audio and HD video meetings across Windows and Mac desktops, and iOS and Android mobile devices. Companies just have to download the app; they don't need to make upfront investments in hardware or software....

IBM this week announced Watson for Cyber Security, a powerful new ally for organizations that want to protect their data from Net marauders The new offering bolsters the ability of information security pros to analyze the flood of information from the roughly 200,000 events that pour into their Security Operations Centers, or SOCs, every day....

Munich city officials turned lots of heads 10 years ago, when they voted to swap out Microsoft Windows with LiMux -- a custom desktop version of the Linux operating system, based on Ubuntu Linux. The current municipal government wants to dump LiMux and replace its 15,000 computers with Windows 10 The city's general council this week voted to inves...

Toshiba shares fell 8 percent on Tuesday as the company took a US$6.3 billion writedown related to its struggling nuclear power business and delayed the release of its fiscal third-quarter earnings Shigenori Shiga, Toshiba's chairman and representative executive officer, resigned effective Wednesday, the company said. His resignation in part reflec...

Apple CEO Tim Cook has called for a campaign against fake news Its purveyors -- largely interested only in getting the most clicks -- are defeating the people who are trying to tell the most truth, he told the UK's Daily Telegraph in an exclusive interview last week....

I got a wakeup call from reading "You Need to Manage Digital Projects for Outcomes, Not Outputs," a Harvard Business Review article by Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden. The headline says it all. How many times have we been lulled into complacency over getting a project or a product done but not necessarily well received, because it was someone else's ...

The Lumina Desktop Environment desktop is a standout in the crowded field of Linux graphical user interface choices....