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After Apple released the new OS X El Capitan on Wednesday, users streamed to a Microsoft support discussion forum to report that Office 2016 for Mac regularly crashed, crippling their productivity.

Some U.S. IT workers who have been replaced with H-1B contractors are alleging discrimination and are going to court. They are doing so in increasing numbers.

Samsung Electronics has denied allegations that it designed its TVs to consume less energy during tests than they do in real-world situations.

In terms of digital transformation initiatives, there’s a lot of talk right now in terms of strategy and less emphasis on practical execution. Everyone wants to advise the CEO and the board, but these discussions often only take the conversation so far.

Researchers at IBM say they've made a major breakthrough in carbon nanotube technology that could speed the development of smaller, more powerful chips.

Linda Reed, the CIO at Atlantic Health, one of the largest nonprofit health care systems in New Jersey, is hoping today's changeover to the new ICD-10 medical coding system will be like Y2K -- all build up, no catastrophe.

Making good on the promise he made earlier this year, former Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch on Thursday filed a $150 million lawsuit against HP over what he called a public smear campaign against him and other Autonomy executives.

Two-factor authentication for GitHub repositories just got a little more universal.

Verizon consultants probed Target’s network for weaknesses in the immediate aftermath of the company’s 2013 breach and came back with results that point to one overriding – if not dramatic - lesson: be sure to implement basic security best practices.

Windows 10's user share growth slowed significantly in September, but by the month's end approximately 110 million customers were running the new OS, data released today signaled.

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Every now and then, Google comes out with a product that leaves people scratching their heads.

Monitoring web traffic data has been a central strategy component for businesses since it became apparent that shifting operations from print to digital was a necessity, not a luxury.

It always struck me, as I recoiled from the stink of diesel fumes on the interstate, that the notion of “clean” diesel had to be wrong. It turns out I was right — at least in the case of Volkswagen, which cheated on emissions tests for about 11 million vehicles. Now countries are banning sales of the makes that had been programmed to lie about pollution results.

IBM is an interesting beast. They have a massive existing customer base, but their enterprise credibility isn't winning them the hearts and minds of the "clouderati.” That's not to say that IBM isn't trying -- they've acquired some high-profile cloud businesses, have invested billions of dollars into cloud offerings and continuously talk a cloud story. But perhaps because of some baggage from its past, IBM hasn't had an easy time being seen as one of the "cool kids in the cloud."

Like most big Web sites, Internet pioneer Yahoo is betting big on mobile. It’s making its Web sites mobile-friendly, and also has nearly a dozen mobile apps, ranging from Mail to Weather, Finance, Sports, Flickr, and more.

IBM’s Bluemix development platform is already available in public and hosted private cloud versions. On Thursday, the company announced a third option for customers that need to build apps behind a firewall.

Newly discovered vulnerabilities in the way Android processes media files can allow attackers to compromise devices by tricking users into visiting maliciously crafted Web pages.

One of my favourite improvements in El Capitan, Photos now lets you apply third-party image editing extensions within the application. These improve the built-in editing functionalities of Photos, helping you achieve far more with your images. Developer MacPhun says extensions support in Photos means “Apple’s app will finally get close to Aperture or Lightroom with its editing capabilities.”Introducing the first few extensions to arrive at the Mac App Store.

Senior aides to Hillary Clinton when she was secretary of state expressed concerns about the poor level of computer technology at the State Department and the use of personal email by staffers, according to emails released Wednesday.

IBM and Box have started to deliver on a partnership they announced in June to help enterprises users share content and collaborate.

Microsoft has been pursuing a more collaborative approach under CEO Satya Nadella, working with longtime rivals like Salesforce, VMware and Apple. There hasn't been much love between Microsoft and Google, but an announcement Wednesday may signal an easing of those tensions.

One of the key problems with doing work in a group is managing who's doing what tasks when. In a traditional workplace, that's often handled with status meetings, email chains and layers of management to help wrangle what everyone is doing. That's the problem that Asana originally set out to solve with the product it launched first in 2012. 

When it unveiled the new iPad Pro, Apple effectively dropped into place the hardware piece of its burgeoning enterprise strategy, positioning the tablet as a potential go-to device for business.

As organizations embrace digital technologies to transform their businesses, one key metric sits clearly in their sights: Employee productivity.