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Windows 10's usage share gains have jumped since last week's release of the operating system's first upgrade, part of another "wave" of increases that started at the beginning of the month, new statistics released today indicate.

Encrypted messaging app maker Telegram blocked 78 ISIS-related propaganda channels in reaction to abuse reports sent by users, Telegram tweeted late Wednesday.

ISIS use of Telegram is the latest bogeyman in the security services' breathless demonization of encryption. But it turns out the self-styled Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant -- some prefer to call it Daesh -- used barely-encrypted SMS to communicate in Paris and Belgium.

Tim Walsh, senior IT Architect at the Donald C. Cook Nuclear Plant in Michigan, is a happy Citrix Systems customer. But he wasn’t surprised to learn this week that the company that makes most of its revenue from virtual client computing technologies is embarking on a major restructuring that will include spinning off of its GoTo Meeting family of collaboration products.

If there's one app practically every Android user knows, it's Gmail. Gmail for Android has been the platform's de facto email client from the get-go -- and while some of us have shifted our habits to Inbox in recent months, the traditional Gmail app is showing no signs of slowing down.

Apple has apologized to developers for the snafu last week that sent Mac users scrambling to reboot and re-enter Mac App Store credentials when their apps refused to launch.

Why do we visualize data? Do data visualizations aim to inform audiences effectively? Or do they simply aim to catch people’s eye, providing the just gist of the data? This is a question which has been hotly debated by some of the leading authors in the field of data visualization recently.

Despite the persistence of security concerns, companies are moving a variety of IT and business operations to the cloud at a steady pace. Indeed, on average, IT leaders expect slightly more than half of their IT environment to be cloud-based by the end of 2016.

Enterprise software has long been associated with clunky interfaces and a long learning curve, but Microsoft is aiming to change all that with Dynamics AX, the next generation of its flagship ERP system.

When one of the terrorists involved in the Paris shootings dropped his smartphone in a trashcan outside the Bataclan concert venue on Friday night, he wasn't worried about encrypting his text messages or stored documents. Why would he be? With a bomb strapped to his waist, he knew he was about to die.

We all want the world to be a safer place. We want to be protected from cyberattacks, security breaches and terrorism aided by the Internet. And so, in theory, a piece of legislation wending its way through Congress, called the Cyber Intelligence Sharing Act (CISA) should have plenty of support from the tech industry, academics, citizens and others.

Scientists in Silicon Valley and Germany have kicked off a five-year project to create a particle accelerator that's the size of a shoebox -- a project that, if successful, could revolutionize scientific and medical research.

A hacking group that crippled South Korean banks, government websites and news agencies in early 2013 may be active again, Palo Alto Networks said Wednesday.

Payments startup Square priced its initial public offering at a level lower than earlier indicated, even as analysts are looking at the company's debut on the stock exchange today as a test of how public markets will evaluate high-profile private startups some of which have seen valuations of more than $1 billion.

For as long as there has been security, there have been difficulties, and differences of opinion, between the CISO and CEO.

Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft is credited with making the observation that in the tech industry we overestimate what we can achieve in one year, but underestimate what we can achieve in 10 years. I was reminded of that quote when talking with Jeffrey Snover, Microsoft technical fellow and lead Windows Server/System Center architect, in the run up to a big product release out of Redmond. Snover was nothing if not confident, suggesting that this release will set the stage for the next 20 years of application development. Читать дальше...

When Microsoft's data chief thinks about the future, he sees a world where developers create applications that leverage machine learning and predictive analytics without the help of a data scientist.

It's a phrase almost guaranteed to send chills down the spine of an IT leader: "Rip and replace."

Google may lag behind its two biggest rivals in the public cloud, but Urs Hölzle, the technology titan's senior vice president for technical infrastructure, sees Google's cloud revenue eclipsing its ad business in five years.

This company's corporate email is managed by a third-party provider -- but something isn't quite right, reports an IT pilot fish there.

Despite our undeserved reputation of complacency, every Mac user knows that sometimes things go wrong. When they do we can usually boot up Disk Recovery mode to try to deal with it. In this short guide I’ll tell you how to do that and share three other ways to save your Mac life.

Intel will ship its first Xeon server chip with a programmable FPGA from Altera in the first quarter next year, some 18 months after announcing work on the product.

While he thinks Dell buying EMC makes sense financially, Sun Microsystems co-founder Vinod Khosla has little faith in the merged company's ability to innovate.

Volvo today released photos and details of a self-driving concept sedan that is a precursor to a "fleet" of vehicles the company said will be on the roads of Gothenburg, Sweden in 2017.

Windows phone shipments took a nose-dive in the third quarter, plummeting 35% from the same period in 2014, researcher Gartner said today.