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SAN FRANCISCO — Apple extended an olive branch to enterprise customers yesterday at its splashy media event in San Francisco. The consumer giant is retooling its enterprise image with hardware and accessories tailored for professionals, along with an increasingly warm attitude toward business customers and corporate IT.

The head of the nation's primary consumer protection agency on Wednesday paid a visit to San Francisco, where she called on technology startups to do a better job of incorporating security protections as they race to bring new applications into the market.

The shortage of qualified IT workers has been an ongoing problem in the business world for many years already, and new research suggests there's no end in sight. Twenty-five percent of projects today are abandoned as a result, and even those that do get finished are delayed by an average of five months.

Attackers successfully infiltrated computer systems at the Department of Energy more than 150 times between 2010 and 2014, according to a review of federal documents by USA Today that  were obtained as a result of a Freedom of Information Act request. In all, DoE networks were targeted 1,131 times over the four-year span.

The Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) credential continues to hold so much value it is very impressive. For many, this is a critical first step to success in the networking field.

Glenn Lurie, CEO of AT&T Mobility, said in a keynote address at CTIA Super Mobility 2015 in Las Vegas on Thursday that his company will continue to branch out into areas far beyond traditional mobile services, including connected cars, telemedicine and numerous areas of Internet of Things.

As the hype about containers has mounted over the past year, it has raised questions about what this technology – which is for packaging applications - means for traditional management and virtualization vendors. Some have wondered: Will containers kill the virtual machine?

Hackers have penetrated the IT systems of U.S. health insurer Excellus BlueCross BlueShield and gained access to personal, financial and medical information of more than 10 million people, the company disclosed Thursday.

For those of you old enough to remember the TV comedy series "Get Smart" featuring a spy that used his shoe for a phone, the good guys belonged to an agency called "Control," and the bad guys were affiliated with "Chaos." This month "Get Smart" celebrates its 50th anniversary, yet CIOs continue to struggle in a seemingly never-ending battle to restore control in a chaotic, cloudy world in which data security is less than transparent.

Microsoft's updated NFL app has arrived on Xbox One and Windows 10, just in time for the start of football's regular season.

Engineers at Xerox PARC have developed a chip that will self-destruct upon command, providing a potentially revolutionary tool for high-security applications.

Until today, the creators of the hacked AshleyMadison.com infidelity website appeared to have done at least one thing well: protect user passwords with a strong hashing algorithm. That belief, however, was painfully disproved by a group of hobbyist password crackers.

Big wireless providers elbowing their way onto the same unlicensed spectrum as your Wi-Fi isn’t going to be the headache that many predict, according to Qualcomm senior vice president of business development Neville Meijers.

Apple announced the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus yesterday simply because Apple always announces an "S" model a year after a new, incrementally numbered iPhone is announced. The midlife "S" version rekindles and stokes revenues halfway through an iPhone model's two-year life. This might have been any September during "S" years, 2013 or 2011. So rote was the experience that even Apple's Marketing VP Phil Schiller's enthusiasm was a little distant. The iPhone 6s and 6s Plus with 3D Touch is Apple's response to Google Now on Tap with 3D Touch... Читать дальше...

If you're in the market for a new powerful-but-portable laptop for yourself or your company's users, Apple has just given you an intriguing but also perplexing choice. The release of the 12-inch MacBook earlier this year seemed to set a standard for ultra-portable laptops with high-resolution screens and long battery life. But the release of the new iPad Pro—and especially its Apple-made Smart Keyboard—promise to make it a viable laptop competitor.

If you were speculating about what the hottest areas in technology are, you'd maybe pick Apple's snowy-white gadgets, or possibly self-parking cars. Perhaps counter-culture drone racing, even.

With specs to rival even some Macs, the iPad Pro has the potential to become a serious productivity machine. Even though the iPad Pro won't be available until November, Apple has shared a lot of information about the design and the technology that went into building the device. Here’s what we know so far about the iPad Pro, the most powerful iOS device ever.

“The only thing that’s changed is everything,” Apple said about the new iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus at Wednesday’s Apple event. That’s both true and untrue. The case looks pretty much the same, the screen sizes didn’t change, and the entry-level model still has a paltry 16GB of storage. But inside it’s an all-new iPhone with some impressive new capabilities.

Diversity (or lack thereof) in the IT industry is big news, and companies like Intel, Facebook, Google and Twitter are announcing they'll make greater effort to attract, hire and retain candidates from underrepresented groups, as well as publicly monitoring and tracking their results. But it seems some companies' initiatives are more successful than others. So, what makes some firms so good at improving diversity?

Five years after its launch, the iPad is growing up. The new iPad Pro, introduced at Apple’s media event on Wednesday, blurs the line between iPad and MacBook just a little more, with a 12.9-inch screen capable of running two apps side by side without either of them feeling cramped in the slightest.

The story of Southern California Edison's use of foreign contract workers is not over. There's more to go, despite what Infosys is saying this week.

It’s time to face a cold, hard fact: Your IT department is too slow. It’s the result of good intentions gone bad, but in business, intentions don’t matter.

Hey Siri, give us a hint!

Suffice it to say, Apple’s big event on Wednesday was jam-packed full of exciting announcements. iPhone 6s and 6s Plus? Yep. Apple TV refresh with new content? You know it. Plus, the iPad Pro ended up crashing the party after all—even though we didn’t expect to hear about that until October. And you can always count on Apple to have a few more tricks hidden up its sleeve. 

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Every programming language has its own unique quirks, such as weird syntax, unusual functionality or non-standard implementations. These things can cause developers new to the language, or even seasoned pros, to scratch their heads in wonder. Sometimes these oddities are a real stumbling block for a programmer, while, other times, they may come to understand, appreciate, or even really like, the unique features of a particular language.

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This fall, the Senate is expected to take another look at the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, or CISA, but many security experts and privacy advocates are opposed.