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Samsung Galaxy S5 Build Cost Examined
Samsung calls early sales brisk for new smartphone, which costs $256 to build. By comparison, 32-GB iPhone 5s costs Apple $207 to manufacture.
Smartphone Kill Switches Coming, But Critics Cry Foul
Smartphone makers and carriers agree to add optional kill switches to smartphones, but law enforcement officials say the anti-theft effort doesn't go far enough.
Federal IT Security Policies Must Be User Friendly
Federal agencies should choose security tools and policies that suit the productivity needs of their employees.
ICD-10 Delay: Politics Trump Health Data Quality
With a fresh delay for ICD-10 compliance, US healthcare providers and patients remain trapped in debate. Is higher quality clinical data worth the cost of more detailed data collection?
Top 10 Upsides To Healthcare.gov Debacle
You didn't know there was a bright side to the botched rollout of the Obamacare website? Get your snark on.
Google Maps Shows Crimea As Russian To Russians
Google makes Crimea part of Russia on the Russian version of Google Maps and draws protests and scrutiny.
Facebook Mobile Payment Service A Tough Sell
Facebook's own e-money service could make the company millions, but would you trust it with your cash?
Army ERP System Enables Financial Transparency
Antiquated systems have made it impossible for the Army to audit its finances. A new ERP coming online will help solve that problem.
AllJoyn: A Common Language For Internet Of Things
Open-source lingua franca aims to let IoT devices and services communicate across manufacturers and operating systems.
Google Glass: 5 Reasons I Won't Buy
Google Glass is available for one day only to anyone willing to plunk down $1,500. Here's why I'm saying no.
When IT Managers Insult
Sometimes CIOs and IT teams get saddled with an aggressive manager who pushes all the wrong buttons. Do you know how to deal with loudmouths?
Spintronics: Not Your Typical Memory
Researchers propose new designs that rely on an electron's spin, rather than a circuit's electrical charge, to process information. One goal: let computers run at normal speed with little or no electricity.
Georgia Solves Campaign Finance Data Challenge Via OCR
In a project to make financial disclosure and campaign contribution data public, Georgia turns to Captricity's hybrid system, which combines machine learning and human intelligence to digitize handwritten forms.
Hubble Turns 24: 5 Biggest Discoveries
The Hubble Space Telescope has helped solve huge questions about space. Coming next: Its successor will look back even further into time.
VMware Offers Disaster Recovery As A Service
VMware disaster recovery service lets customers automatically replicate business systems and data in one of VMware's five vCloud Hybrid Service datacenters.
Square Raids Amazon For Lead Engineer
Square hires Alyssa Henry, VP of storage services for Amazon Web Services, in latest move to build staff with executives from prominent web and Silicon Valley firms.
Inside Kayak's Search For Seasoned IT Talent
A few wrinkles won’t hurt job candidates at travel company Kayak, which says it's struggling to fill senior technology jobs in its US office. And H-1B visas don't entirely solve the problem.
Could Insurance Cover Your Next Fitness Band?
Consumers will sport almost 112 million wearables by 2018 -- most of them gadgets that track health-related metrics. Insurers have incentives to help the trend along.
Google Has Plans For Titan Drones
Titan Aerospace's drones are expected to help deliver Internet connectivity to remote regions.
Twitter Posts Betray Illness
Tweets reveal whether you have influenza, according to Penn State researchers.
Google Glass Tested For Air Force Jumps
Air Force pilot tests Google's wearable technology for pararescue jumpers and other battlefield operations.
Dropbox For Business Targets Enterprise IT
Dropbox makes a play for the enterprise with new admin controls and plans for collaboration tools.
Data Protection In Internet Of Things Era
The Internet of Things brings an explosion of data, along with security and privacy concerns. We need IoT rules of the road.
Microsoft Cortana: My First Week
Microsoft released a developer preview of Windows Phone 8.1, which includes the personal assistant Cortana, a Siri rival.
DevOps: A Culture Shift, Not A Technology
Andi Mann, author and VP at CA Technologies, says DevOps is a horrible term but a necessary IT culture change.
Doctors Learn To Give Up Faxes
Here's how one accountable care organization improved patient follow-up rates by saying goodbye to faxing and hello to a smartphone app for doctors.
Luring The Elusive Cyber Security Pro
Struggling to find scarce IT security talent? Make sure your hiring managers understand the certifications and match candidates for skills fit -- not just credentials.
Data Scientists Want Respect & Results
Analytics managers from Macy's, Ford, and Google offer tips on how to integrate and inspire data scientists.
So You Want To Be A CTO?
The role requires you to constantly balance technical and people skills, and to look ahead while fulfilling the here and now.
Tibco Brings Reusability To Web, Mobile Apps
Tibco BusinessWorks 6.0 upgrade gives Web and mobile developers an old-school-meets-new-school backbone for reusing integration logic and components.
Twitter Revamp: 10 Things To Know
Twitter's latest round of changes takes design cues from Facebook and provides new ways to tout your profile and Tweets. Get up to speed.
Microsoft's 5 Next Tests
Microsoft made progress during the past few weeks but still has important things to prove. For starters, think Start screen and wearables.
Facebook Changes: What To Expect
Facebook cracks down on spammy posts, tweaks privacy options, and revamps messaging. Here's what it means to you.
Amazon Plans 3D Phone: Report
Amazon phone capable of displaying images in three dimensions could ship this fall.
Google Glass Goes Public
Google Glass Explorer Program will be open to US-based adults on tax day.
Hacker Weev Free After Appeal
Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer, who embarrassed AT&T by exposing a security flaw, had his conviction overturned by federal appeals court.
Kathleen Sebelius: Failed IT Project Manager?
Sebelius didn't write the code for HealthCare.gov, but she is paying the price for failing to oversee those who did.
Feds Address Antitrust Concerns On Cyberthreat Sharing
Justice Dept. and FTC confirm that sharing cybersecurity threat information is not an antitrust law violation.
MapR Brings Spark In-Memory Analysis To Hadoop
MapR adds Apache Spark to its Hadoop distribution to power machine learning plus ad hoc, graph, and streaming analysis. Databricks partners on support.
Samsung Galaxy S5, Gear Smartwatches Hit Stores
Samsung refines Galaxy smartphone, launches three wearable Gear devices. Will consumers bite?
Senate Unanimously Passes DATA Act
Bipartisan legislation directs government agencies to improve spending transparency by publishing financial data in standardized, machine-readable formats.
ARM TechCon 2014 Calls For Speaker Proposals
Want to speak at the 10th ARM innovation meeting? Proposals are due May 15.
Quest Opens Direct Access To Lab Results
Quest Diagnostics capitalizes on regulatory change and gives patients access to their own lab results on the web and mobile devices, boosting its own EHR software in the process.
Google Releases Project Ara Module Developer Kit
Early version gives developers a glimpse of how to create Project Ara hardware modules. Does it give Apple and Microsoft more to worry about from Android?
5 Ways Android Won Me Over
From security to "Lego" programming, Android has more going for it than you might think.
Rogue IT Driven By Need For Speed
We’ve lost control to business users before. But this time, the thing that initiated our pain (the cloud) may also be the cure.
Senior Living Community Goes Wireless
Brookdale Senior Living makes mobile technologies central to how it delivers medical and assisted living services to its residents.
'Escape From Windows XP' With Microsoft Game
Microsoft releases arcade-style game in lighthearted attempt to discourage use of outdated operating system. Can you beat the blue screen of death?
Facebook Unfriends In-App Mobile Messaging
Facebook is phasing out the in-app chat feature in its iOS and Android apps and wants users to download a separate app to chat with friends.
Inside A Bank's Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery Plan
Seattle Bank uses HotLink technology to spin up applications in AWS in case of disaster in the bank’s own data center.
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