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Apple shares were down half a percent about an hour before the company set the tone for the next 12 months with its keynote address at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday. That story continued through day two of WWDC 2015. Still, the lead that couldn't be buried was the fact that Apple was still moving at a pace that saw almost 75...

There is an ancient Chinese proverb about a farmer who loses his horse. For those who haven't heard it, the story goes like this: There's an old farmer who lives with his son close to the borderlands. One day, his horse runs away. His neighbors come to console him, but he only says, "how do you know it isn't fortunate?" A few months later, his ...

OpenStack, a free and open source (FOSS) cloud controller package that has been struggling to gain acceptance in the enterprise, took a giant stride forward when IBM and Cisco opened up their wallets last week IBM announced it would buy hosted OpenStack private cloud provider Blue Box Cloud....

Salutations, and welcome to another installment of Gadget Dreams and Nightmares, the column that leaps over buildings in a single bound in search of the best gadgets culled from all the latest announcements ...

Things could get worse before they get better as the FBI, US-CERT and Office of Personnel Management investigate a data breach that may have compromised the personal information of some 4 million current and past federal employees Additional exposures of personal identifying information could be discovered, officials have warned....

To cap off Monday's wide-ranging keynote at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, Apple CEO Tim Cook introduced a three-pronged music initiative "Music is such an important part of our lives and our culture," Cook said, showing off Apple's famous "one more thing" slide....

Amazon on Monday announced a casting call through a sponsored article on Gamasutra. The company is looking for talent to join Amazon Game Studios to help develop "an ambitious PC game project." Amazon founded Amazon Game Studios about a year ago. The in-house wing for game development initially was viewed as a way to fuel Amazon's Fire lines of mob...

Robots from Korea and the United States staggered off with the top three prizes at the DARPA Robotics Challenge, held in Pomona, California, over the weekend In all, robots from 23 teams participated in the challenge, which consisted of an obstacle course simulating conditions similar to those following the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster....

CBS-owned pay-TV service Showtime on Monday announced that it will make its standalone streaming service available on Roku players and Roku TV models, as well as via Sony's PlayStation Vue, for US$10.99 per month. The service will be accessible through those channels in July -- coinciding with the season premieres of Ray Donovan and Masters of Sex, which are slated to air on July 12...

Sometimes before new employees leave their jobs to join your company, they copy valuable company secret information onto portable thumb drives or they send that information to their personal webmail accounts As the new employer, you may be hiring those employees because they have valuable information -- yet if you don't want to be targeted by a law...

There are things about working with large companies that can be really frustrating. For instance, when both Windows Vista and Windows 8 were coming to market, a number of us pointed out that things needed to be fixed before the product was released, but we were ignored, with catastrophic results. This time, however, Windows 10 is looking better t...

ConnochaetOS is a nice entry into a pure, free Linux experience.Of course, Linux is open source. Most people mistakenly equate open source with "free," as in pay nothing. Experienced Linux users know, however, that the open source concept separates the price of the software from the cost of obtaining enterprise-level modifications and support....

Despite vendors' assertions to the contrary, customer relationship management is not all about technology. Technology helps it scale, but CRM is really a discipline. It's the discipline of creating relationships that benefit both the buyer and the seller. What we call "CRM" (the product) is really great at organizing the data that makes it possibl...

By the time you read this, I'll have finished swearing in the privacy of my office, and likely will have entered the acceptance stage of grief. Already, realization is dawning that I was right to withhold hope that Apple would reveal a new Apple TV at its WorldWide Developers Conference on Monday I hate it when pessimism wins....

BitTorrent's Bleep, a secure peer-to-peer messaging service, last month reached the end of its third trimester in alpha testing, and an official version became available for iOS, Android, OS X and PC. The official release is the first to reach iOS Bleep's Whisper feature enables ephemeral messaging, along with the service's cloudless, end-to-end e...

T-Mobile, which has tried unsuccessfully several times over the years to get acquired, is now in talks with Dish, according to press reports. The purchase price and possible cash-stock mix that could pay for the deal remain to be thrashed out The two companies reportedly are planning a merger with Dish CEO Charlie Ergen to chair the new company and...

Google appears to be heeding warnings of security experts who say Android users need better control over what apps do with information from their phones At I/O, its worldwide shindig for developers held last week, the company announced that the next version of its mobile operating system, Android M, would take a more granular approach to permission...

VoIP, or Voice over Internet Protocol, started out being a very low-quality and clunky way to make free calls using an Internet-connected computer. As it has evolved, most of its growth has been on the consumer side, but that is now slowing. Growth is starting to come from the business side. So, what will the VoIP industry look like going forward? ...

Zuora two weeks ago announced its first acquisition and a new product, Z-Insights. The acquired company, Frontleaf, will form the basis of Z-Insights. This marks an important moment for both Zuora and what it has called the "subscription economy." I've always been a fan of the subscription economy and feel that it has spawned a culture in which peo...

The last second has since ticked off the countdown timer on the teaser site, and Fallout 4's official website has gone live Fallout 4's confirmation on Wednesday may have invoked more feelings of relief than surprise. Even before the teaser site went up, gamers looking for another loot-and-shoot role playing game have been demanding a followup to 2...