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Netflix, Tinder and other major websites were affected for a time Sunday by glitches in Amazon Web Services' Northern Virginia facility, offering a cautionary lesson to other companies that rely on the cloud service for mission-critical capabilities.

In the wee hours of Sunday morning something went very wrong in an Amazon Web Services data center.

SAN JOSE — No single programming language will be a panacea for developer teams, but picking the right open-source code for specific tasks, and for scale, is paramount to any project, according to Sam Shillace, senior vice president of engineering at Box, who spoke at Facebook's @Scale developer conference last week. 

Although it initially tempted Windows 8.1 users, Windows 10 has increasingly grown its usage share at the expense of the much more widely used Windows 7, an encouraging sign for Microsoft's efforts to convince the old guard to switch.

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The FTC has brought legal actions against organizations that have violated consumers’ privacy rights, or misled them by failing to maintain security for sensitive consumer information. The courts have upheld the FTC's right to do so. Here are companies that have gotten in the FTC's cross-hairs with regard to less than adequate security practices.

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Hewlett-Packard has faced no end of financial and legal woes in recent months, and on Friday it was hit with one more: A new lawsuit filed by the state of Michigan over a $49 million project the state says is still not completed after 10 years.

iOS 9 has been out for less than a week, and even though some reported problems installing the upgrade right out of the gate, Apple says more than 50 percent of devices have already adopted the latest version of iOS.

There's no doubt Facebook is a wonder of engineering, a site that brings on vast amounts of data for a user despite it being scattered throughout data centers and external sources. No question, Mark Zuckerberg and crew have engineered a marvel.

Adobe Systems released new updates for Flash Player to patch critical vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to install malware on computers.

Liid is a startup based in Helsinki, Finland. The location of the company itself is reason enough to take a look at what they do, but add to that fact the company's focus on activity tracking salespeople, and you have something interesting. The Liid team has just launched their product after two years in development. The team behind the product has a history at Rovio, Nokia, and Meltwater.

China's government must halt economic espionage in cyberspace, U.S. National Security Advisor Susan Rice warned on Monday, days before Chinese President Xi Jinping is due in Washington, D.C., on an official visit.

If you bought cyber insurance so you’d be covered if you were hacked, and then had $1.8 million stolen after being hacked, wouldn’t you expect your insurance claim to be paid? If so, then think again as the claim can be denied due to the wording of the risk insurance contract.

In part one of this history lesson, we noted that by “Y2K”, VoIP was alive and well in the long distance carrier market, beginning its journey into replacing legacy PBX voice systems with an IP-PBX. Supplemented by Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), the IP PBX brought new capabilities to enterprise voice services including features such as the ability to integrate directories, softphones, and presence management.

The networked smart environment, also known as the Internet of Things, with its connected fridges, thermostats, and so forth, will one day be ubiquitous.

Enterprise videoconferencing has been around in one form or another for decades. The space has been - and continues to be - owned by many diverse silos (facilities, AV, IT, UC) which is one of the key reasons it is still "seeking its potential" all these years later.

If you’ve read about this Volkswagen scandal, you know that VW needed “special” software written or a bunch of its diesel cars would never see the road. How did that workplace conversation go? Maybe something like …

Attackers have installed malicious firmware on nearly 200 Cisco routers used by businesses from over 30 countries, according to Internet scans performed by cybercrime fighters at the Shadowserver Foundation.

Only a few years ago, database work was among the most boring of tasks in IT -- in a good way. Data went into one of the major SQL databases and it came out later, all in one piece, exactly as it went in. The database creators had succeeded in delivering rock-solid performance, and everyone started taking it for granted.

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruling in late August that companies using workers employed by a business, such as staffing agency or service providers, may now, in certain circumstances, be mutually responsible for any labor violations of that external partner.

A robot won Jeopardy in 2011, so J.P. Gownder's Forrester report, The Future of Jobs, 2025: Working Side-by-Side With Robots, shouldn't come as a surprise. It was only a matter of time before robots rose up to steal our jobs and make an honest living. Except, there's not really a reason to fear robots.

On Tuesday, Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman announced the company plans to lay off go an additional 25,000 to 30,000 workers in an attempt to "enable a more competitive, sustainable cost structure" for the new company -- or, companies.

The Settings app is like the bedroom on every episode of Cribs: It’s where the magic happens. Whenever you update iOS on your iPhone or iPad, it pays to peruse the settings to find, enable, and configure any new features just to your liking.