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This week Hewlett Packard Enterprise (remember: don’t call it HP Enterprise) is unveiling its first major infrastructure product announcements as an independent company since it’s break-off from HP Inc., the printer and PC division.

Smart cards could get smarter and fitness bands more fit with a new chip from Freescale Semiconductor that's as thin as a blade of grass.

Lawyers advise enterprises to establish preemptive legal protection before suffering a cyberattack. While one might expect lawyers to say that, there are some reasons to take this advice.

Verizon on Tuesday announced U.S. availability of chipsets for Internet of Things (IoT) devices that can connect to its LTE network at speeds up to 10Mbps.

AT&T plans to hike the cost of its unlimited wireless data plans by $5 in February 2016. This will be the first price change for AT&T’s unlimited plans in about seven years, rising from $30 to $35 per month. AT&T gave up on unlimited plans in 2012 back when 3G was king but many users are still holding on to their juicy contracts and refuse to let them go.

AMD plans to roll out a hotfix on Monday, November 30 for its new Radeon Software Crimson after some users reported their graphics cards were too hot to handle—and not in a good way.

Windows 10 usage has moved into third place among desktop operating systems according to StatCounter, overtaking both Windows XP and Mac OS X in November.

GCHQ, the British signals intelligence service, is in the dock accused of hacking computers without individual warrants in order to tap communications.

Electronic monitoring technologies are not the panacea for tracking criminals many believe they are.

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The Raspberry Pi Foundation outdid itself over the Thanksgiving holiday by unveiling a $5 model of its already tiny programmable computer that sold out some 20,000 units almost immediately.

A federal judge lifted an 11-year gag order the FBI had imposed on Nicholas Merrill and removed redactions of a National Security Letter (NSL) so Americans can see the overly broad "types of electronic communications transaction records" that the FBI has sought and continues to seek through NSLs.

When I first started my adventures with Linux – back in the late 1990s with SuSE (the "u" was lowercase back then) version 6.SomethingOrOther – my computer was a large, heavy, loud, metal rectangle.

One of the services at the heart of Windows 10's user information gathering (otherwise known as spying) that many thought was removed in the latest update to the operating system is, in fact, still there, doing what it always did.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise outlined new details about its hybrid cloud partnership with Microsoft in an announcement Tuesday, saying it will provide a new hardware product that integrates with the Azure cloud platform and build its software to take advantage of Microsoft's offerings.

Now, nearly everything can be managed as if it were a mobile device, using APIs at the operating system for assured reach and consistent implementation of company policies across all devices.

A deal announced two months ago between China and the U.S. was pitched as bringing an end to economic espionage.

Of all the burning questions that keep tech execs awake at night, perhaps none is more urgent than, "Are we keeping up?" The breakneck pace of change in IT and in business at large means that CIOs and other senior technologists can't afford to lose focus as they head into 2016.

Thinking back, I can dimly recall that in the era of Windows 3.0, 3.1 and Windows for Workgroups, printer drivers could be particularly vexing. Since then and until the release of Windows 10, printer problems didn't register much on my radar. But I've noticed that in the wake of upgrading my network to Windows 10, printer problems have occasionally manifested in this brave new desktop era.

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Nearly 370 million Internet Explorer users have just six weeks to upgrade their browsers or switch to one from a Microsoft rival, new data showed today.

Data breaches are serious and very real threats in today's digital world, and no industry sectors are immune. In the medical sector alone, the cost of client data breach liability, expense, and settlements surpassed the same costs from medical malpractice. Securing data and minimizing the probability and impact of data breaches is at its core a risk-based endeavor.

A report released today by Cambridge, Mass.-based researcher IHS named Huawei, Cisco, Brocade and HP as the four leading companies in the enterprise networking sector.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has developed a new type of "composable' hardware that it claims will cut data center costs and slash the time it takes to spin up new applications.

Samsung Electronics has appointed D.J. Koh, head of mobile research and development, as the new chief of the company's mobile communications business.

To better focus on Firefox and its other products, the Mozilla Foundation decided in 2012 to address the on-going stability of the open-source Thunderbird email client rather than new development, which was passed on to volunteer developers.