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Internet of Thingbots: The New Security Worry
Phishing and spam attacks involving Internet of Things devices are coming -- and app developers and device makers must be ready, says a CA Technologies exec.
ServiceNow Pushes Beyond Automation
IT automation firm ServiceNow will offer services for HR, finance, legal, and other parts of the enterprise.
Firefox 29 Debuts, With Mozilla In Turmoil
Mozilla has delivered a solid, customizable Firefox update, but the company must now restore its relevance.
Massachusetts Invests In Big Data Innovation
State provides $3 million to launch Massachusetts Open Cloud Project, a university-industry partnership to build a new public cloud computing infrastructure for big data researchers, innovators.
TIBCO Shakes Up BI Market With Jaspersoft Buy
Pairing open source Jaspersoft with top-selling Spotfire, TIBCO hopes to disrupt the business intelligence and embedded analytics market.
Microsoft Boosts OneDrive: 1 TB Per User
Microsoft bumps OneDrive for Business capacity to 1 TB per user -- and draws the ire of Box CEO Aaron Levie.
Apprenda, Microsoft Team For Hybrid PaaS
Microsoft hedges its bets on containers with an alliance that brings Apprenda customers to Azure under an on-premises license.
IBM Cloud Market: One-Stop Cloud Shop
IBM's marketplace combines mobile and SaaS apps, platform and infrastructure services, and third-party services.
Epicor Overhauls ERP For Cloud, Mobility
Epicor says ERP upgrade based on Microsoft's stack is twice as fast and four times as scalable for cloud deployment.
Hybrid Cloud Can Break Datacenter Silos
But first we need an underlying cloud fabric that allows for flexibility of data and applications.
Microsoft's Mobile First, Cloud First Strategy, Explained
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's plan to juggle Windows, cross-platform services, and the Internet of Things is coming into focus.
Amazon Faces Profit Pressure: Honeymoon Over?
Amazon touts growth, but investor patience grows thin as shareholders search for a sign of profits.
Microsoft Earnings: 7 Essential Facts
Microsoft's Q3 beat expectations. Strong performers include cloud products and Xbox, but Surface and consumer PC sales still pose a problem.
Marines Break From Ranks With BYOD Test
US Marine Corps will begin testing whether wireless carriers can deliver secure, dual-persona phone environments for the military.
Adobe, Apple, Google, Intel Settle No-Poaching Lawsuit
More than 64,000 tech workers can look forward to token compensation for claims that major tech vendors conspired to suppress employee pay by agreeing not to recruit workers from one another.
Physicians Find Security In The Cloud
Healthcare practices are increasingly partnering with trusted cloud service providers to provide enhanced data security along with improved efficiency of IT operations.
Salesforce.com Plans SOS Service For Mobile Apps
Salesforce1 Service Cloud SOS will bring a prominent help button and pop-up video agent support to mobile service experience.
AOL Adds 'Native' Mobile Ads
AOL Platforms aims to give advertisers better results, but some critics object to the editorial-like appearance of native ads.
Microsoft Earnings: 6 Questions
Microsoft has been on fire lately, but new CEO Satya Nadella will face questions during Thursday's earnings announcement about Windows XP, Nokia, Surface, and other trouble spots.
Google Street View Offers Time Travel
Street View images from different periods can now be compared to see how places have changed over time.
IBM Unveils Power8 Chip As Open Hardware
Google and other OpenPower Foundation partners express interest in IBM's Power8 chip designs and server motherboard specs.
Supreme Court Debates Aereo's Fate
Justices seemed to be looking for a way ban Aereo without causing collateral damage to cloud computing.
IT Control Is An Illusion
With all due respect to GM's Randy Mott, doing most IT work in-house and outside the cloud isn't a winning strategy.
Windows 8 Start Menu Coming This Fall?
Microsoft may restore the Start menu to Windows 8 and launch a cloud-based version of the OS by this fall.
Red Hat Containers OS-Centric: No Accident
Red Hat's critics say containers are the wrong idea, and too focused on the operating system. I say maybe Red Hat knows a thing or two about pleasing developers.
ADP Touts New Talent War Weapon
ADP adds compensation management to its cloud-based Workforce Now app for midsized firms. Are pay-for-performance cultures crucial as Baby Boomers retire?
Mainframe Eulogy: Why We Put Gertrude Down
Intrepid CIO Stu Laura mourns the death of Big Iron as he embraces the cloud religion.
Microsoft Deal With Nokia Closes Friday
The acquisition gives Microsoft the power to create its own mobile hardware.
Watson Not Only Smart Machine In Town
Up-and-coming vendors in the genre include AlchemyAPI, Digital Reasoning, Highspot, Lumiata, and Narrative Science, Gartner says.
8 Gadgets For The High-Tech Home
Meet George Jetson: From wireless door locks to scales that measure more than weight, these connected devices take your domicile digital.
Microsoft Office: 4 Changes, Explained
Microsoft maneuvers to keep Office on top, touting data analysis power, tweaking office 365, and more. What do the moves mean to you?
Wearables, Drones Scare Americans
Google has some public relations to do. People remain wary of tech breakthroughs including care-giving robots and drones, Pew research finds.
Google Trends Adds Email Notifications
Keeping tabs on what people are searching for just got a bit more convenient. But Google Trends is still not a serious research tool.
OpenStack's French Connection: eNovance
Little-known firm in France emerges as one of the top customizers of OpenStack clouds.
Nuance Adds Radiology Image Sharing To Healthcare Cloud
Medical image-sharing service aims to tap Nuance's customer base for voice-powered medical documentation technology.
Twitter Reveals Mobile App Install Ads
With a new ad format, Twitter follows in Facebook's footsteps. App developers will love it, but will users?
License Plate Recognition Technology Branches Out
Law enforcement officials see new security and surveillance uses for license plate recognition technology.
Cloud Holdouts Face Tipping Point
If your technology strategy doesn't emphasize a phased approach to cloud architectures during the next 18 months, it might be time to look for a new job.
Microsoft Azure Intelligent Systems: 4 Facts
Microsoft tries to become a power player in the brave new world of Internet-connected sensors, using a cloud-based Internet of Things management service, Azure Intelligent Systems.
Red Hat Touts Linux Containers For Cloud
Red Hat teams with Docker, urges developers to consider Linux-based containers as a lightweight alternative to virtual machine files for moving workloads to the cloud.
IBM Launches Disaster Recovery Via SoftLayer
Virtual Server Recovery is now available through IBM's SoftLayer unit; resiliency services to come.
Microsoft Reveals Big Data Strategy
Microsoft's new tools aim to serve all users -- not just data scientists -- extracting insight from big data sets and the Internet of Things.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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