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Next week is CES, and I am so looking forward to coming home from that show. It used to be a lot of fun, but it covers such a massive amount of space that just getting around takes up much of the time. Given that most folks do prebriefings if they are smart, and that most of the really cool stuff is behind closed doors and not on the show floor,...

Amazon has been negotiating a lease for 20 Boeing 767 jets as it executes on plans to start its own air cargo business, according to recent reports It launched a pilot of the service in Wilmington, Ohio, where Air Transport Services Group, or ATSG, has been managing airfreight on Amazon's behalf, according to The Seattle Times....

People like to see gifts from their wish lists under the Christmas tree, and security pros are no exception. Here are things some cyberwarriors would like old St. Nick to deliver to them The wish at the top of Ryan Kalember's Christmas list would be a tough one for Santa to fulfill, said the senior vice president for cybersecurity strategy at Proof...

Target, Walmart and other large U.S. retailers have extended their hours on Christmas Eve in an effort to snag last-minute holiday shoppers It's a wider net for consumers during a season in which about 17 percent of shoppers last week said they hadn't starting buying gifts, in a Reuters/Ipsos poll....

Apple and Samsung last week announced separate mobile payment partnerships withChina UnionPay, the only domestic bank card network in the People's Republic of China China UnionPay cardholders will be able to utilize Apple Pay and Samsung Pay via a mobile device. Both services will begin early next year, pending approval and certification from regul...

At this time of the year, there's a great clamoring among the business publishing class for predictions. That is partly because prediction stories are considered easy to write, and once they're done the staff can go celebrate the holidays while their publication continues to deliver content. However, having written a lot of prediction stories in t...

When your favorite consumer tech company is also the best consumer tech company in the world, and said tech company is generally a magnet for hyperbole and blind customer loyalty -- while also producing more products at higher levels of quality than ever before -- what's left to really wish for? Plenty, it turns out....

Apple CEO Tim Cook brought the encryption battle between the high-tech industry and the nation's law enforcement authorities to prime time TV Sunday in an interview on the CBS news program 60 Minutes During the interview, Charlie Rose asked Cook about the need for law enforcement agencies to access data that has been encrypted on Apple phones....

Part 4: Going Big: Preparing to Grow Your E-Commerce Startup Success is a good thing. Sometimes, however, surges in orders and sales cause headaches for e-commerce companies....

The Linux Foundation last week announced it was teaming up with a group of high-tech and financial giants on a project to advance the blockchain technology made famous by bitcoin virtual currency IBM, Cisco and Intel have agreed to collaborate with financial institutions including startup R3 CEV, the London Stock Exchange Group, J.P. Morgan, Wells ...

Sales of video games via downloads may surpass physical copies for the first time this holiday season, The New York Times reported Sunday However, games in physical formats continue to dominate sales overall....

Juniper Networks on Sunday informed customers that recent security threats to its ScreenOS were not as widespread as initially believed. The company last week issued an alert following its discovery in ScreenOS of unauthorized code that could allow an attacker to gain administrative control of devices using Netscreen (Administrative Access) or to ...

This year has offered some brilliant lessons from a variety of vendors. Among them were a lot of lasting lessons like we had with 3D TVs, which pretty much bit the dust, and 4K TVs, which are doing reasonably well in light of what people actually learned. After reflecting on the lessons of 2015, I'll end with my product of the week: an offering...

Welcome to Gadget Dreams and Nightmares, the column that makes a list of the latest gadget announcements and checks it twice to find those that deserve coal In our stocking this week are a smartphone with an extremely long-lasting battery, a drone that can follow around suspicious people, and a dedicated activity tracker for skiers....

Slack this week announced its participation in an US$80 million investment campaign to fund startups that build software that integrates with its own apps The company also announced the availability of an app directory and a new development framework. The goal is to position Slack as a hub for connecting users to other cloud business software....

TheCalifornia Department of Motor Vehicles on Thursday proposed rules for autonomous vehicles, and Google isn't happy about one of the provisions The new rules for autonomous autos were presented for public commentary. The DMV has invited the public to weigh in on the proposal in two workshops, one in Sacramento and the other in Los Angeles, early ...

Apple on Thursday announced some personnel moves that suggest CEO Tim Cook's future vision for the company He named Jeff Williams (pictured above) chief operating officer, elevated Johny Srouji to Apple's executive team by making him a senior vice president, broadened the powers of Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing Phil Schiller to inclu...

Congress on Friday passed an omnibus budget bill that included the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, or CISA TheSenate earlier this year passed CISA, which many conservative and liberal politicians, high-tech firms, and privacy and civil liberty advocates oppose....

Germany on Tuesday announced that Google's YouTube, Facebook and Twitter have agreed to its demands to remove hate speech appearing on their networks within 24 hours after a removal request has been made That follows a sharp increase in anti-foreigner statements on the Internet in Germany as refugees from the Middle East stream into the country.Mor...

TheLinux Mint upgrade to version 17.3 Rosa is one upgrade regular users do not want to skip....