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Microsoft is launching the next version of Windows Server next year, and IT departments plan to take their time adopting it, according to a survey released Wednesday.

Dropbox on Wednesday became the latest major cloud provider to announce new storage options in the European Union.

The University of Washington is placing itself at the forefront of a quest to find ways to power the micro-sensors that will be used for the Internet of Things (IoT).

Allen Bocian is the kind of guy who likes to let his experience speak for itself. The problem was there was so much to say that the pertinent message about his skills and knowledge was getting lost, and potential employers stopped listening.

Job search tips for developers

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With the advent of mobile and Web apps, developers are in high demand across almost every industry. But the way companies look for candidates has changed over the years, especially with so many specific skills and disciplines that now fall under the umbrella of "developer." You'll want to be prepared for a number of different variables when it comes to landing the perfect developer job.

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Whoa, Five Eyes, you're slipping again with your almighty surveillance machine, as Australia's Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) was the victim of a "massive" cyberattack.

How to stay ahead of the criminals

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Attackers make unverified claims of compromised PayPal accounts on Pastebin. Here are seven security habits and maneuvers enterprises and consumers can use to stay ahead of password exposures.

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An intriguing type of quantum computing is one step closer to practicality with the announcement today that experts at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Stanford University and the Technical University of Munich have managed to solve one of the technology’s major problems using common semiconductor materials.

In the run-up to its IPO, developer tool company Atlassian was expected to roll out some product announcements. And so it is, this company, which has long been known for having a different way of doing things, is today announcing an interesting integration between its Bitbucket service and a number of different cloud vendors.

Hosted bare metal is emerging as an intriguing alternative to some IaaS public cloud workloads. Companies like IBM, Rackspace, Internap and others offer customers non-virtualized compute servers for rent by the hour, at a premium price.

Big data breaches made big news in 2015 as measured by a variety of criteria that range from the number of records compromised to the types of data stolen to the potential threat to specific groups such as children.

Just weeks after throwing in the towel on its own public cloud project, HP Enterprise is going to resell a service it was prepared to compete with: Microsoft Azure. 

Digitization is currently a red-hot topic with IT and business leaders. One of the foundational components of digitization is finding ways to improve the mobile experience of customers, workers, students, clinicians, etc. In fact, almost everyone today considers the mobile device to be a critical part of life today. 

Cisco has fixed a vulnerability in its WebEx Meetings application for Android that allowed potentially rogue applications to hijack its permissions.

AT&T service technicians toting company-issued iPads instead of the laptops they once carried are ill-equipped to solve some customer problems, according to a parade of IT professionals criticizing what they say has been a wholesale switch to tablets.

The prices of mainstream consumer SSDs have fallen dramatically every year over the past three, and by 2017 they are expected to be within 11 cents of the per-gigabyte price of hard disk drives (HDDs).

Google has been collecting information about schoolchildren's browsing habits despite signing a pledge saying it was committed to their privacy, the Electronic Frontier Foundation said in a complaint filed Tuesday.

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service is drafting a policy to restrict the use without a warrant of cell-site simulator technology to snoop on the location and other information from mobile phones.

Thomas Friedman famously announced that the world is flat in his 2005 book of that name; he was writing about globalization. In Friedman's view, VoIP, file sharing, and wireless were the "steroids" that have accelerated the flattening of global commerce. Today I'd add video over Internet, which has become more and more prevalent as bandwidth has improved.

The University of Oklahoma has begun rolling out beacon technology to help students find study rooms and class information in its central library and other buildings by using their smartphones as they move about the vast campus in Norman, Okla.

The C-suite is getting a little more crowded these days. Pull up a chair for the chief data officer, and it might be next to the CISO.

You've honed your list of hot technologies to focus on in 2016, but you also need to make longer-term plans and prepare for changes that are fast approaching by keeping an eye on developments just now taking shape.

The Internet of Things could help some companies save money or even boost sales, and the big names of enterprise tech are lining up to help their customers make the leap.

Symantec has seen a curious fusing of two pernicious online threats, which would cause a big headache if encountered by users.