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Reversing the trend in personal electronics where consumers have consolidated devices in recent years—such as turning a music player and cellphone into a smartphone—Gartner predicts we're going to be acquiring more kinds of devices again.

After two months of beta testing, European enterprise app and service store Cloud28+ is open for business, making it easier for companies wanting to host their applications or data in Europe to find a home for them.

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SAP needs to do a better job of convincing customers that adopting its Hana in-memory computing platform is worth the investment, according to the Americas’ SAP Users’ Group (ASUG).

10 hot IT job skills for 2016

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It's a great time to be in IT. Unemployment rates in the IT industry are hovering near historic lows and some roles - such as network and security engineers and software developers -- are showing unemployment rates at around 1 percent. Given those numbers, it's no surprise that 81 percent of IT leaders say they have difficulty finding IT talent, according to a recent TEKsystems survey.

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When it comes to successfully managing cloud use within the enterprise, some security organizations try to establish and enforce firm lines between what is permissible and what is banned, while others try to learn what their employees are trying to achieve and help them do so more securely.

Sometimes Microsoft creates a piece of software that doesn’t necessarily catch on with the general public but still wins over a dedicated core of users. Typically these programs die a long, slow death, but one such program will live on. Microsoft recently decided to open source Windows Live Writer, the blog writing software that the company ceased developing in 2012.

Enterprises that do not have an extremely large IT operating scale or unique compliance requirements don't have much of a reason to operate internal email systems. Yesterday, Google announced Data Loss Prevention (DLP) for its enterprise Gmail service, eliminating one more compliance reason justifying the operation of custom email services within the enterprise. DLP checks email messages and attachments for sensitive data to prevent disclosure to unauthorized personnel. Sensitive data includes... Читать дальше...

An international survey performed by an online community of engineers found that  only 35% of U.S. consumers want a driverless vehicle.

Once upon a time, IT professionals were the technology experts. They were the ones with access to the best equipment, the fastest connections, the latest information. They meted out technology goodies on their own schedule for their own needs. Along with running the backend infrastructure that supported those services, that was pretty much the extent of IT's responsibilities. 

Oh, the stories it might tell. But since even the tower’s days of facilitating talk are behind it, a writer for The Atlantic has taken up the task of telling its story … or at least piecing one together as best as possible. From that account, which has better pictures:

When it was announced in October, YouTube RED was mostly met with praise. For $9.99 a month, subscribers would get ad-free access to YouTube, access to Google Play, and other bennies.

The FBI still wants backdoors into encrypted communications, it just doesn’t want to call them backdoors and it doesn’t want to dictate what they should look like.

Cybersecurity professionals often complain about the number of disparate tools they’ve deployed on their networks. Ask any enterprise CISOs, and he or she will come up with a list of around 60 to 80 various security tools from a myriad of distinct vendors.

Millions of Web users could be left unable to access websites over the HTTPS protocol if those websites only use digital certificates signed with the SHA-2 hashing algorithm.

By deciding to shed its Internet business, Yahoo is moving to take on a different business focus amid a rapidly changing online landscape.

Potential suitors for Yahoo's Internet business could include Verizon, Comcast and AT&T, which would want to access the company's 20-year-old treasure trove of customer data.

Policymakers are predicting that 2016 will be a big year for health IT.

A shallow talent pool of skilled workers to analyze big data, combined with the challenge of weeding out bad information, continues to cause nightmares for CIOs.

How Yahoo ignited the Web -- and then got burned

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When Yahoo burst onto the scene in the mid nineties, it immediately became a favorite of early web users and soon became the Internet's hottest site. Over the years it's had ups and downs and been criticized for falling behind the times -- but it remains in business. One of the few web pioneers to successfully avoid bankruptcy or acquisition.

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Microsoft jumped deeper into the enterprise mobile app development space last week with PowerApps, a service that lets ordinary businesspeople build mobile applications that draw on company data.

For Google, 2015 was a year of transformation, as the company breathed new life into old products, got serious about some previously experimental efforts, and even announced a major restructuring. But it was also a year in which the past caught up to Google, with previously-minor nags turning into bigger headaches.

9 tools primed for agile development success

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As Google and Microsoft battle for enterprise cloud customers, each company's natural strengths (and weaknesses) become more apparent. Microsoft, for example, is winning over large enterprises that already have massive workforces on Office 365. Google for Work, meanwhile, continues to be popular among small-to-midsize businesses (SMBs), particularly organizations that don't have dedicated IT staffs and aren't burdened by legacy technologies that require ongoing support.

Several companies have moved quickly to add encryption to their mobile apps after it was discovered they failied to encrypt payment card information in transit, putting users at risk.