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Apple today shipped the first update for iOS 9 to fix several bugs, including one that prevented some from installing the new OS.

The top executives of five of the biggest tech companies in the U.S. will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Seattle on Wednesday.

Instagram hit a milestone this week, logging more than 400 million monthly users, solidly surpassing rival Twitter.

The number of people whose fingerprints have been stolen as a result of the high-profile hack into the computer systems of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management earlier this year is now 5.6 million.

Getting insights out of big data is typically neither quick nor easy, but Google is aiming to change all that with a new, managed service for Hadoop and Spark.

Although Microsoft crafted Office 2016 for Mac to be much more like its bigger sibling on Windows, one thing has not changed: Mac Office 2016 users continue to get the short end of the support stick.

An attacker, or attackers, could have pulled off massive pwnage – such as secretly installing keyloggers on PCs belonging to thousands of unsuspecting visitors of the popular image-sharing site Imgur; instead, the attacker targeted users of 4chan and 8chan via images shared on the r/4chan sub-reddit.

The impact of iOS app developers unknowingly using a rogue version of the Xcode development tool is turning out to be greater than initially thought: early reports listed just 39 apps that had been trojanized with the tool, but security researchers have since identified thousands more.

Verizon today introduced an LTE wireless traffic management service to give business and government customers the ability to prioritize critical network-based applications.

Following in the footsteps of other U.S. companies like Hewlett-Packard and Intel, Cisco Systems is planning to tie up with a Chinese partner for joint development and better access to the local market, according to a report.

Blue Jeans Network, perhaps the worst-named technology vendor of the current bunch, is focused on video communications. Blue Jeans offers a cloud-based video platform that aims to deliver a bridging technology that is agnostic to the end solution being used. It works with the existing enterprise endpoint incumbents, like Cisco and Polycom, as well as the more consumer-focused videoconferencing solutions from the likes of Google and Skype.

Microsoft surprised the tech world two weeks ago when one of its executives appeared on Apple's stage to demonstrate new features for the company's Office apps on the new iPad Pro. While that moment in the spotlight showed Microsoft's commitment to Apple's platform, there's an important catch that wasn't mentioned on stage.

One of the challenges Microsoft faces is that some people haven't upgraded their Office suite for several years, despite the company's releasing new versions.

Making analytics simpler has been an ongoing trend in the world of enterprise software, and on Tuesday data platform provider Looker unveiled a new, modular approach that could go a long way toward that goal.

If there's one thing that can strike terror into a CIO's heart, it's the security implications of the cloud. If there's another, it's the "bring your own" technology trend. Combine the two, and you've got the motivation behind IBM's new Cloud Security Enforcer.

Next week is new-Nexus time. At release date, we expect two new Google Android devices to be available.

Congress is set to drop a $2,000 H-1B visa fee mostly paid by India-based IT services providers. It's a move being met with incredulity by H-1B critics, but relief by the Indian offshore industry.

After spending a week with a 2016 Ford Escape with the new Blackberry QNX-based SYNC 3 in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) system, I can say two things: One, the system is definitely better than the previous Windows-based SYNC 2 system; two, it still has a long way to go.

Teacher at this large school tells an IT pilot fish that he's got a problem with his laptop: All the files he had stored on the desktop are gone.

Upside down

Apple is turning the world upside down and seems on course to dominate the future technology industry.

After all, it took the company just two days to persuade over half of iOS device users to install iOS 9. These numbers will get an even bigger boost when millions of us get our hands on the new iPhone 6S editions starting Friday.

Apple marketing chief, Phil Schiller, pointed out: "iOS 9 is also off to an amazing start, on pace to be downloaded by more users than... Читать дальше...