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Fitbit on Monday announced the addition of PurePulse heart rate tracking and SmartTrack automatic exercise recognition to its Charge HR and Surge devices. The PurePulse monitoring will be activated whenever the devices are used in Exercise Mode, providing users with continuous, automatic tracking of heart rate trends over time without the need for...

Microsoft last week announced a collaboration withHewlett Packard Enterprise to push Windows 10 solutions to enterprises worldwide The collaboration will occur in three areas: cloud, productivity and mobility....

SentinelOne last week introduced an addition to its behavioral solution designed to address the problem of ransomware scrambling files on a computer Ransomware has been a scourge not only for consumers, but for the enterprise, too. The malicious software can be particularly nettlesome for enterprises because they have to protect so many endpoints -...

Although Black Friday is still days away, Amazon shoppers are already in the thick of it. The company last Friday launched an eight-day-long "Black Friday" sale. It's "Black Friday Deals Week" in Amazon-speak New deals are surfacing as often as every five minutes....

I started planning to escape the Valley a long time ago, due to very high taxes, a crumbling infrastructure, worsening crime, a massive increase in traffic, and a rather nasty water shortage problem. My wife and I originally planned to escape to Belize but found the unreliable infrastructure, lack of good medical care, and massive crime problem t...

Hello, and welcome to a fresh-out-the-oven edition of Gadget Dreams and Nightmares. the column that determines whether the latest gadget announcements are ready to serve or have to bake a little longer. Cooling on the window this week are an official Apple Watch dock, a mesh router system, a virtual reality smartphone case, and a wristband that ca...

New York Attorney GeneralEric T. Schneiderman this week sought an injunction to keepDraftKings andFanDuel from operating in the state, according to press reports He also subpoenaedYahoo as part of his effort to end the operation of daily fantasy sports platforms in New York, press reports said....

Microsoft this week announced at its Connect conference in New York City an expansion of its developer tools with a focus on Linux, Android, and open source The move is an effort to help close the gap between Microsoft's developer platforms and the open-source world....

Here's a bold proclamation: Internally-developed IT software is a decelerator to business. When the need is specialized and you have a fully staffed IT team, there's a natural temptation to put everyone to work on a custom development project. For today's companies, however, this is often the slowest and most expensive path to the market.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Thursday announced the appointment of Diane Greene, cofounder of VMWare and a current Google board member, to lead its cloud business operations. Google will acquire Bebop, another firm founded by Greene. Bebop is a new development platform that makes it easy to build and maintain enterprise applications.

Microsoft HoloLens on Thursday announced a partnership with Volvo Cars to develop a new holographic technology that could change the way consumers experience auto showrooms. The tech would let potential buyers stay put in the physical world while experiencing an automobile in an entirely new way, suggested Scott Erickson, senior director of Micros...

The team behind the Telegram secure messaging app on Wednesday reported that it had shut down 78 channels, across 12 languages, used by ISIS and its supporters. However, the app's privately used channels weren't affected by the sweep After the attacks on Paris last weekend, for which ISIS has claimed responsibility, the Telegram team learned via re...

Dojo-Labs on Thursday introduced Dojo, a device that plugs into the router of a home network and acts as a watchdog to ensure that everything connected to the network is operating on its best behavior The device brings some of the advanced technologies used to protect corporate networks to the home. It can prevent attacks and detect intrusions by o...

Nvidia on Tuesday revealed a refreshed Shield Tablet K1 and indicated that it isn't done updating the gaming slate One of the biggest parts of the refresh is a cut of US$100 off the price of the 16-GB tablet. The original Shield Tablet was available in a $299 16-GB version and a $399 32-GB variant....

Salesforce shares rose to an all-time high Thursday, after the company reported better-than-expected revenue during the quarter and raised earnings estimates for 2016 Salesforce on Wednesday reported earnings of 21 US cents a share and a revenue increase of 24 percent to $1.71 billion, compared with a year ago.

TheFBI has denied allegations that it paidCarnegie Mellon University security researchers $1 million to crack a network designed to protect the anonymity of its users TheTor Project, which operates the network, last weekaccused the FBI of cutting the CMU deal....

Docker this week announced new security enhancements at DockerCon EU in Barcelona, Spain, including hardware signing of container images -- an industry first -- through a partnership withYubico Docker Content Trust offers hardware signing through support for Yubico's YubiKey....

Huawei Technologies last week unveiled lithium-ion batteries that recharge in minutes rather than hours The batteries, developed by Huawei's Watt Lab, recharge 10 times faster than their competitors and can reach 50 percent capacity in two to five minutes, the company said....

Google on Wednesday began streaming content from certain mobile apps in its search results, with no download required The company is working initially with nine partners, including Weather, Chimani, My Horoscope, New York Subway and Hotel Tonight....

Google on Tuesday reintroduced its Google+ social network with major revisions to its look and feel, as part of a last ditch effort to make the struggling site a player in a much deeper and more crowded landscape The site has undergone a major redesign that takes away some of the bloat that slowed down the navigation process, the company said. Its ...