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When Motorola introduced last year's Moto X last September, it also announced a new Bluetooth headset called the Moto Hint. "Hint," presumably, because this is a headset that is so inconspicuous that if you have any hair covering your ears, nobody is going to see it.

Best Buy will sell the Apple Watch in all of its 1,050 stores by the end of September, responding to strong consumer demand for the wearable.

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RSelenium may be one of the least known of R's most helpful packages. Why is it useful? Just a few lines of code will drive a Web browser for tasks that might otherwise need tedious manual pointing and clicking. That's handy both for testing Web applications and for collecting data from multiple Web pages.

By 2025, people may be able to soar more than 12 miles above the Earth by simply riding an elevator.

U.S. electric utilities should pay close attention to their authentication systems and access controls to reduce data breaches, a government agency says in a new cybersecurity guide.

In-flight broadband provider Gogo's 2Ku technology has been approved by the Federal Aviation Administration, opening the door for data speeds up to 70Mbps. The company plans to launch commercial services this year.

MIT researchers, using off-the-shelf components, have built a 3D printer capable of building with 10 photopolymer materials at once.

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are working on a new generation of disaster drones that can be deployed in swarms into buildings to give first responders a look inside, mapping out the interior as they go.

Mobility, cloud and big data all promise to help enterprises increase efficiency and productivity, improve decision-making and lower costs. The laudable goal is to make your business more competitive, but for your IT, legal and compliance teams, these new technologies often lead to increased complexity, loss of control and even increased costs as massive amounts of data now move to an ever-increasing number of endpoints, including mobile devices and third-party hosting services. These challenges... Читать дальше...

Oracle’s chief security officer, Mary Ann Davidson, recently ticked off almost everyone in the security business. She proclaimed that you had to do security “expertise in-house because security is a core element of software development and you cannot outsource it.” She continued, “Whom do you think is more trustworthy? Who has a greater incentive to do the job right — someone who builds something, or someone who builds FUD around what others build?”

Big companies don’t usually listen to the little guys.

For the past few years, customers and tech pundits (those not on the Microsoft payroll or in a “consulting” role) have complained about Microsoft Windows 8 features that seem almost intentionally obscure. New users couldn’t figure out how to change simple settings like the direction of the mouse scroll wheel or even how to turn the computer off. While every new Windows 8 laptop explains a few of the screen basics like swiping from the side of the screen... Читать дальше...

Anyone who thinks modular smartphones are a cool concept was dispirited last week when Google postponed tests of its Project Ara until next year. But developing such devices is particularly challenging, because of issues with size, performance and price.

An application available in the Google Play store until yesterday took advantage for months of a flaw in the TeamViewer remote support tool for Android to enable screen recording on older devices.

The proximity engagement market just became more competitive. The Wi-Fi Alliance recently unveiled Wi-Fi Aware as an alternative to Bluetooth Smart, the technology behind the Apple iBeacon and Google Eddystone specifications.

Look out Salesforce.com users, the look and feel of your online apps is about to change.

VMware has released new versions of its desktop virtualization products for the Mac and PC that bring support for Windows 10 and an enhanced graphics engine.

Vint Cerf is known as a "father of the Internet," and like any good parent, he worries about his offspring -- most recently, the IoT.

In another sign that more warehouse workers could be displaced by machines, Hitachi has created a mobile logistics robot that can use two arms to handle inventory. 

Cortana

Am I the only person who doesn’t’ understand why Microsoft’s Cortana has (sort of) beaten Siri to arrive on the Mac platform? It just seems such a lost opportunity.

Cortana doesn’t even need to run natively on the Mac – you must install Parallels Desktop for Mac 11,(c.$79.95) to run Windows 10 natively on a Mac. Once you install Windows in this then Microsoft’s Cortana assistant is available across both Mac and Windows.

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The Ashley Madison hack continues to make headlines. Naturally, that's because the news keeps getting worse and worse. And worse.

Retail beacons have huge potential, but it can only be met when chains move beyond seeing beacons solely as tiny ad broadcasters. Coca-Cola is starting to get creative about beacons, with a trial in Norway movie theaters to not merely communicate with moviegoers but to remember them for re-targeting later.

As costs continue to rise in traditional offshore outsourcing locations like India and China, Vietnam may be an attractive alternative for some IT buyers. In the 40 years since the end of the Vietnam War, the country has taken advantage of foreign investment to transform rice fields into tech centers.

HP this week unveiled networking products aligned with its strategy to disaggregate hardware and software, opening up choices for its customers.

Not long after Windows 10 was released late last month, it received a different kind of publicity than Microsoft wanted -- concerns about everything from its privacy practices to fears about a new feature called Wi-Fi Sense to unhappiness with the way updates are delivered, and more.