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WikiLeaks is promising to release secret documents relating to the U.S. election, at a time when there are already questions over whether Russian hackers are feeding the site information.

The venerable 105-year-old IBM may be a global company, but while it has operated important labs and offices overseas, its business units have always been headquartered in the U.S. Until December of last year, that is, when it opened the new global headquarters for the IBM Watson Internet of Things (IoT) unit in Munich, Germany. Now, faced with dramatically increasing global demand for Watson IoT solutions and services, Big Blue is doubling down on that investment.

Earlier this year, Earthlink CEO Joe Eazor realized he needed a CIO to upgrade the company’s clunky legacy software and make its sales process more appealing to business customers browsing the website. Enter Jay Ferro, who led a digital transformation at the American Cancer Society (ACS) before joining EarthLink in July.

Microsoft's Windows 10 beat a retreat last month, losing user share for the first time since its debut more than a year ago.

The International Trade Commission (ITC) has opened a patent infringement investigation on SK hynix, the world's second largest memory chip manufacturer, based on claims that it infringed on six U.S. patents.

If you want 5G, there’s a good chance you'll need a small cell nearby to deliver it. Putting up that cell may be hard because of a host of problems, but Nokia Bell Labs thinks it can solve some of them with drones and tiny solar panels.

Medical device manufacturer Animas, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, is warning diabetic patients who use its OneTouch Ping insulin pumps about security issues that could allow hackers to deliver unauthorized doses of insulin.

It seems like the chip war between Intel and ARM is slowly winding down, at least for the time being.

Achieving balance between work and home life is an ongoing challenge for professionals across industries, but it turns out the IT world is doing pretty well in helping to make it happen.

Pulling consumers in

Google made a big deal about the confluence of its new hardware designs and its software – particularly AI – on Tuesday at its launch event in San Francisco. And, indeed, many of the new products that Google introduced seem designed to pull consumers further into the Google ecosystem, but there’s no denying that there were some impressive capabilities on show. Have a look.

The Amazon Echo and newly announced Google Home may seem like toys today, but research firm Gartner believes these kinds of wireless speakers enabled with virtual personal assistant (VPA) technology are poised for significant growth.

Like many midsize companies, my organization realized at a certain point that its IT systems were becoming a major cost burden that needed controlling.  We had around 1,000 applications, mostly owned by business units, a few hundred of which were substantially hand-crafted open-source developments, and two to three dozen that were multi-million pound investments.

Yahoo has reportedly searched through all of its users' incoming emails with a secret software program that's designed to ferret out information for U.S. government agencies.

Digitization is knocking at the door of every organization, and as it transforms products, channels and operations, it is also driving change in the CIO role.

Picture this: Your company is ticking along nicely, making use of a reliable and well-engineered piece of software to support some important business process, when suddenly it becomes apparent that all is not well in the project's developer community. A fork is in the cards, and the very future of the project hangs in the balance.

It is hard to believe the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was enacted only six years ago. It represented a monumental shift for many Americans and has dramatically impacted the labor force. There is no question: By separating healthcare benefits from full-time work, the ACA has changed how freelancers and companies work. Companies are looking for ways to contain costs and rethink how they approach hiring, and freelancers are realizing they can work for themselves without giving up income or benefits.

Following a Mozilla-led investigation that found multiple problems in the SSL certificate issuance process of WoSign, a China-based certificate authority, Apple will make modifications to the iOS and macOS to block future certificates issued by the company.

Social networks exploded Tuesday morning with customer inquiries and complaints because of a Level 3 Communications network outage across the United States.

According to ISG’s inaugural Automation Index, the first data-driven research to quantify the impact of automation on IT outsourcing (ITO) and business processing outsourcing (BPO), automation may cause future-mode costs to decrease as much as 66 percent and cause productivity to increase 30 percent, depending on the IT tower in scope.

I spend a lot of time talking to organizations about disruption and the fact that no matter what industry they’re in, there is an equivalent to Uber breathing down their neck just waiting to destroy them. Normally these conversations end up with defensive legacy IT practitioners finding a million reasons why agile and innovative couldn’t happen in their setting—to much compliance, too many core systems, too much of a “slow and steady” business.

Stanford University is the top computer science school in the U.S., according to a new salary-centric report from compensation specialist PayScale.

A majority of the highest-paying college majors are in the engineering world. At the top of the heap is petroleum engineering, which yields a median mid-career pay of $172,000, according to a new ranking from research company PayScale.

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Since buying the New England Patriots, Robert Kraft has strived not only to have the team be consistently one of the best teams in the league, but also to provide the best fan experience. Based on their track record, it appears the organization has been a smashing success in both areas. 

It's time to bow to the inevitable: PC OEMs will cease selling machines pre-loaded with Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 at the end of this month. The only PCs for sale after that will be leftover inventory, and once they are gone, it's an all-Windows 10 world.