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At its Build dev conference last week, Microsoft released a preview of the next version of its .Net Core runtime distribution, fulfilling last fall's pledge to open source .Net and take it cross-platform for Mac and Linux The move is in line with Microsoft's ambitious plans to have Windows run across all platforms and devices, and have a billion ac...

Comcast on Monday reported a 10 percent earnings hike for its first quarter, driven by growth in its high-speed Internet business. Its total revenue increased by 2.6 percent to US$17.9 billion for the quarter Revenue increased 7.2 percent year-over-year, despite the $99 million in costs related to its failed attempt to acquire Time Warner Cable for...

Adobe's recently launched new version of Lightroom for its Creative Cloud Photography platform improves performance of the photo manager and adds new HDR, panorama and facial recognition features Lightroom's mobile support also is bolstered in the latest version of the program. Further, it has new capabilities for creating slideshows from stills an...

Text-based usernames and password pairs should be replaced with biometric credentialing, such as vein recognition and ingestible security tokens, suggests Johnathan LeBlanc, PayPal's global head of developer evangelism, in his Kill All Passwords presentation ...

Apple and IBM last week announced an initiative with Japan Post Group to provide seniors in Japan with iPads preloaded with apps and analytics designed to improve their quality of life Japan Post Group will launch a pilot service later this year and expand it incrementally over time, to cover between 4 million and 5 million customers by 2020....

One of the movies I'm really looking forward to this month is Disney's Tomorrowland. My first real job was at Disneyland, and I was so in love with the place I often would come back and work a second shift for free. Epcot, the city of tomorrow, was supposed to be Walt's final legacy but his untimely death ended that vision. That city of tomorrow never came to be, except finally -- at least in concept -- in the Tomorrowland movie. ...

Welcome to the latest edition of Gadget Dreams and Nightmares, where we hunt down the best in newly announced gadgets and allow the more feeble to scamper into the sunset, never to be heard from again On our hunting grounds this week are a smart wine rack, bicycle pedals with connectivity, and perhaps the strangest health-tracking wearable I've com...

A production snag in making the component that provides tactile feedback in the Apple Watch could impact its availability in coming weeks Apple was having problems obtaining sufficient vibration motors for the component, called the "taptic engine," AppleInsider reported two weeks ago....

Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk on Thursday announced the company's plan to develop residential and business battery systems, including the Powerwall Home Battery and business-oriented Powerpack These systems are being developed to work in conjunction with solar panels to store energy for use at a later time. They also can draw power from the grid when ...

The old clich about the difficulty of turning an aircraft carrier around applies to changing the way government deals with investing in information technology, according to two recent reports Federal agencies need to change course in handling IT spending quickly, particularly in reversing the inertia behind longstanding conflicts between chief info...

A flaw in iOS 8 allows hackers essentially to crash apps that perform SSL communications whenever they like. Skycure reported the bug at the RSA security conference held last week, advising owners of iOS devices to upgrade to iOS 8.3 Apple this week confirmed that iOS 8.3 addresses the vulnerability, according to Skycure....

I recently praised Salesforce for having the smarts to not get into enterprise resource planning several years ago. It was a good decision, I thought, because there was no upside for them to invade such a well-established market -- better for them to focus on a blue ocean strategy in which they went after new applications. I think the market's evo...

Microsoft on Wednesday made its new Edge browser, developed under the code name "Project Spartan," available to participants in the Windows Insider Program. Joe Belfiore, corporate vice president, operating systems group, made the announcement at the company's Build developers' conference, being held in San Francisco through Friday ...

Twitter's stock took a hit when investors got an early look at first quarter earnings, leaked just ahead of closing time on Tuesday, ahead of the company's Wednesday announcement. Shares plummeted about 18 percent from Tuesday's opening price of US$51.84. The slide continued on Wednesday, with the loss of a couple more percentage points, and the s...

With password tolerance levels at an all time low, alternatives to the pesky and insecure authenticators are beginning to abound. One of those alternatives could be the Apple Watch Even before Apple's latest gadget began shipping last week, MicroStrategy announced it was extending its Usher enterprise security solution to the Apple Watch....

Now that the Comcast, Time Warner Cable merger deal has failed, what's next? I think it's likely that if Time Warner Cable is still around, the deal might be tried once again in a few years after the industry has transformed itself. Comcast obviously is still interested in expanding with Time Warner Cable and will try this merger dance again in a ...

In what is becoming a recurring scenario for Ubuntu desktop releases, you will not see much new in Ubuntu 15.04, aka "Vivid Vervet" (as in East African monkey) unless you peer under the hood.Canonical last Thursday made its latest desktop release available for download. Canonical is Ubuntu's parent company and developer of the Ubuntu family of Lin...

Customers are changing the rules of business. They are well-informed and well-connected, and they have high expectations. Business success in the digital world depends on individuals who make decisions and recommendations based on their personal experience These customers expect a seamless and consistent experience, regardless of which device they ...

LG on Tuesday unveiled its latest flagship smartphone, the G4. The official launch followed weeks of leaks about the device's design and features The G4 has an f1.8 aperture lens; a new IPS Quantum display, which is generally seen in the latest TVs; a body curved in LG's "Slim Arc" design; and six genuine leather color options, the company confirme...

Apple on Monday reported another quarter of stellar earnings, detailing its drive to 27 percent revenue growth on the backs of its iPhone, Mac and App Store sales The company generated US$58 billion in revenue in the second quarter -- about a $12 billion increase year over year -- and posted a net profit of $13.6 billion, roughly $3 billion more th...