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Marydawn Meeder's academic credentials were top-notch: In addition to holding bachelor's and master's degrees in mechanical engineering, a master's in software engineering and an MBA, Meeder earned a professional engineer (PE) license -- an elite credential analogous to a CPA or an MD. But aside from those, Meeder's original resume could have described almost any seasoned IT professional.

The FBI posted an online advisory about vulnerabilities with new chip-enabled credit cards, but then removed the message on Friday, less than a day later, following concerns from U.S. bankers that back chip cards.

The world is spinning out of control. The moon has turned blood red. The realm of time immortal has come unhinged from the Earth and all existence. Oh, and someone at Google is about to get fired.

Mozilla yesterday announced that it will follow in Google's footsteps and bar virtually all plug-ins built using a decades-old technology by the end of next year.

IPsoft's Amelia is more interesting than Apple's Siri. Amelia's language is expressive. Her facial expressions and gestures are generated on the fly. Siri can show wit to an oddball question, but Amelia aims for empathy.

As expected, Windows 10 provided little if any bounce to PC shipments in the just-concluded September quarter, researchers at IDC and Gartner said yesterday.

A Wi-Fi Alliance workshop next month could start to lay the groundwork for peace between Wi-Fi and LTE promoters who have been arguing over potential interference.

Aerial video and photography is growing ever more popular as UAVs -- Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, better known as "drones" -- become easier to control and fly. These days, drone come in all shapes, sizes, and configurations, with most designs falling under the quad-copter format.

Microsoft will charge $99 for an upcoming Display Dock device to connect next-generation Lumia 950 and Lumia 950XL smartphones with full-sized keyboards and large desktop displays, a company spokeswoman told Computerworld late Thursday.

What's it take to make a Chromebook "midrange"?

The answer appears to be on a path of evolution. For years, our Chrome OS options fell into one of two extremes: On one end, we had the affordable lower-end systems with disappointing displays and lackluster build quality -- and on the other, the singular high-end (and high-priced) top-o'-the-line Chromebook Pixel.

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Orlando, Fla. -- Internet of Things means different things to different people: Self-driving cars, smart cities, connected homes, health and fitness apps, among others. But for security professionals, IoT will become a safety issue.

Identity and access management specialist LogMeIn has agreed to buy Marvasol, the company behind online password store LastPass.

This week sees Amazon Web Services (AWS) hold its annual Re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. Yesterday saw a massive number of announcements which I covered in my wrap up post. (Disclosure: AWS is a Diversity Analysis client. I was not pre-briefed on any of the Re:Invent announcements.) 

The 20-year-old MySQL database is the world’s most widely used open source RDBMS, and it’s especially prevalent in Web applications built on the usual Linux stack. The common wisdom is that MySQL will give you good read performance in a multiuser, multithreaded scenario until your application becomes big enough to push the limits of the database.

One of the most neglected but powerful attributes of retail executives is that, unlike almost all of their counterparts in other industries, they have an innate understanding of their customers because, when off-duty, almost all of them are customers. They may not be customers of their own chains, but they are almost certainly retail customers in general.

Being a leader is a constant exercise in self-education. You never reach the pinnacle of perfect leadership ability or knowledge, mostly because the world keeps changing – and so do the projects, teams, and objectives of the company you’re leading. 

Some iPhone 6s units have much better battery life than others. That's the claim made by amateur benchmarkers who compared ones with A9 SoCs made by either Samsung or TSMC.

Salesforces annual conference Dreamforce is always a microcosm of the technology industry. On day one of the event, we had a fireside chat with Marc Benioff and Travis Kalanick, the CEOs of Salesforce and Uber, respectively. In the fireside, Benioff pitched mainly softball questions to Kalanick, with the odd contentious one thrown in for good measure. (Disclosure: Salesforce covered my travel and expenses to attend the event.)

Keep your hands on the keys!

For all the disruption caused by the rise of smartphones and tablets with their on-screen keyboards, the humble, physical keyboard has continued as a linchpin when it comes getting things done on the PC.

LAS VEGAS -- If a cloud migration is in your company's future, some IT cloud veterans are warning you to avoid the technology pitfalls that could be lurking in the dark.

First contact

When you search for a contact using Spotlight you’ll now see buttons enabling you to quickly call or text them without needing to launch the Phone or Contacts app. (In case you’ve forgotten, access Spotlight by swiping down from the middle of any home screen or a swipe right from your first home screen). Alternatively use Siri and ask it to call or “send a message to” a contact you name.

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When you’re watching a video on iOS 9 you can now zoom in and out of them while they play using pinch to zoom. Читать дальше...

It's crunch time for this software development team, and with major deadlines fast approaching, everyone is working mandatory overtime -- including this pilot fish on the scene.

With Microsoft saying that 110 million PCs run Windows 10, you’ve no doubt encountered a problem or two or three, either with your upgrades or with those of your colleagues, family, or friends. Of course, we’ll never see statistics on the number of folks who were coerced into installing Windows 10, which happens when Windows Update won’t work because it’s frozen on the Win10 payload. We’ll never know the number of systems that were upgraded and rolled back. But even if a tiny percentage of those 100 million machines hit hiccups... Читать дальше...

The Obama administration will not seek legislation at this point to counter the encryption of communications by many technology services and product vendors, but will work on a compromise with industry, a senior U.S. official said Thursday.

Apple on Thursday removed several apps from its store that it said could pose a security risk by exposing a person's Web traffic to untrusted sources.