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Scheduling meetings with multiple people can be a pain. Finding time between a maze of competing schedules is frustrating at best, and Microsoft is trying to make that a little bit easier with a new tool the company released Thursday. 

This is an exciting moment for data virtualization. The options available for virtualization are expanding, and are providing advances in processing speed around big data and data integration. This is just one of many areas around virtualization getting attention…and usually with the words "new" and "future" close by. But if the technology that pioneered virtualization – mainframes – is mentioned at all, it is usually dismissed. Why? Usually, the motivation is to serve the interests of the people who are trying to sell their product. Читать дальше...

The fact that circuits are not designed to flex hinders product design, causes maintenance issues in the field, and is slowing the move towards bendable, rollable gadgets.

Toshiba, Fujitsu and Vaio are considering a merger of their laptop PC businesses, according to a Japanese media report.

The idea is this: Your worst fears realized, you've got sites down, maybe all of your locations and data centers, and the clock has stopped ticking.

Microsoft has posted an end-of-life date for Windows 10 Mobile, though it raises more questions than it answers.

When it comes to big data, one thing seemingly everyone can agree on is that organizations face a shortfall of data science talent. After all, the ideal data scientists aren't just wunderkinds in advanced mathematics and statistics, they're creative, non-linear thinkers with excellent communication skills. In popular parlance they're unicorns — magical creatures that don't exist.

As promised back in June, Apple just open-sourced the Swift programming language that developers use to build apps for Macs and iOS devices. While this might not mean much for regular folks who use those apps, for developers, it’s a huge step forward.

Some members of Congress apparently think that by passing a law, they can beat ticket bots.

The OpenSSL Software Foundation has released new patches for the popular open-source cryptographic library, but for two of its older branches they will likely be the last security updates.

Aiming to kill the thousands of germs that live on your smartphone and make some money from germophobes, Japan's Kyocera has developed a phone that can be washed with regular hand soap.

Unlike some of its competitors, like Comcast and T-Mobile, which have released products that some believe violate the FCC's net neutrality regulations, AT&T was apparently forced to shelve several new products as a result of the new regulations.

OpsClarity, an operation and analytics company, is launching a new platform today in an effort to "bring intelligence to operations for modern web-scale applications." There's a whole bunch of context missing in there, so first thing's first - some explanations. Applications today are fundamentally different to those of only a few years ago. A bunch of technology and organizational changes have result in a different style of application becoming the norm today. The rise of cloud computing and... Читать дальше...

A group of sophisticated attackers are repurposing penetration testing tools to break into the networks of small and medium-size businesses worldwide with the goal of infecting point-of-sale systems with malware.

I had the pleasure of attending a presentation given by Dr. Ron Ross, a fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).  Ron’s areas of specialization include information security, risk management, and systems security engineering.

Big tech vendors such as Apple and Microsoft are tossing their heft behind non-profit Code.org's 3rd annual Hour of Code campaign, which runs Dec. 7-13.

Verizon for a limited time is giving away Star Wars: The Force Awakens-themed virtual reality viewers to its customers at its stores across the United States. Reportedly 200,000 of them were being doled out starting Wednesday this week, so if interested in grabbing one of these collectible Google Cardboard viewers, you'd best get yourself over to a store sooner than later.

The author has written 29 technical books and is Managing Partner of Ascent Solutions, which provides marketing services to tech sector companies 

At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday, lawmakers heard arguments over a bill that has garnered passionate support from Microsoft but been compared by others to the controversial SOPA copyright act.

A new bill introduced in the Senate aims to let the U.S. National Security Agency hold on for five years to phone records collected by the agency, while also making permanent some anti-terrorist provisions that have been criticized by civil rights groups.

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A configuration error in Microsoft's Azure Active Directory service is preventing customers from accessing a wide range of Microsoft services hosted in Europe, including Office 365 and Visual Studio Team Services.

The question is not "Do I host my source code?" If you're a one-person shop, the answer should be yes. If you're a midsized consulting firm, the answer should be yes. If you're a huge distributed product company, the answer should be yes. You get the picture.

If current pricing trends continue, the conventional notebook hard drive could die by 2018, replaced with fast, slim, and increasingly cheaper SSDs.

Distributed denial-of-service attacks have increased in complexity so that they are no longer just an annoyance causing a disruption in service. Criminals are using these attacks as a distraction while targeting sensitive data, leaving enterprises to pay for lost business and breach recovery.