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Microsoft is bringing the Cortana virtual assistant deeper into the business world by combining its capabilities with those of Power BI, the company's business intelligence and analytics service.

The prices of mainstream consumer SSDs have fallen dramatically every year over the past three, and by 2017 they are expected to be within 11 cents of the per-gigabyte price of hard disk drives (HDDs).

Come on, admit it. How much work did you get done yesterday? Not much? Well, you’re not alone.

Smart cards could get smarter and fitness bands more fit with a new chip from Freescale Semiconductor that's as thin as a blade of grass.

The Internet of Things (IoT) is poised to generate the next economic big bang. But the expected boom will go bust if people worry about losing their privacy in the IoT ecosystem. The time is right for the stakeholders who stand to gain billions from the IoT to rally behind a common privacy standard that earns user trust.

One of the marquee features in Android 6.0 is Google Now on Tap, a new system-wide contextual assistant that's wildly impressive -- some of the time.

Four months in, Windows 10 powers approximately 148 million PCs, according to measurements released today by analytics vendor Net Applications.

Verizon on Tuesday announced U.S. availability of chipsets for Internet of Things (IoT) devices that can connect to its LTE network at speeds up to 10Mbps.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise outlined new details about its hybrid cloud partnership with Microsoft in an announcement Tuesday, saying it will provide a new hardware product that integrates with the Azure cloud platform and build its software to take advantage of Microsoft's offerings.

Nearly 370 million Internet Explorer users have just six weeks to upgrade their browsers or switch to one from a Microsoft rival, new data showed today.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has developed a new type of "composable" hardware that it claims will cut data center costs and slash the time it takes to spin up new applications.

Samsung Electronics has appointed D.J. Koh, head of mobile research and development, as the new chief of the company's mobile communications business.

Soundbrenner is a company founded in that hot bed of the music scene, Berlin. A company made up of musicians, Soundbrenner came together to explore what wearable technology would look like when applied to the music industry.

Nicholas Merrill, who runs a small ISP and hosting company, was instructed by the FBI to give up all kinds of personal information about one of his customers. He’s since been embroiled in an 11-year battle to fully reveal the so-called National Security Letter (NSL).

Two years ago, Evernote shocked the world when the company began selling a smorgasbord of physical products.

Packed with sensors Apple Watch is your go to tool to stay on top of your personal health – and health insurers want to limit liability by urging use of Cupertino’s wristpiece even as employers want to cut spiralling health insurance costs.

Of all the burning questions that keep tech execs awake at night, perhaps none is more urgent than, "Are we keeping up?" The breakneck pace of change in IT and in business at large means that CIOs and other senior technologists can't afford to lose focus as they head into 2016.

When Microsoft offered a peek at the next Dynamics CRM earlier this month, Bob Stutz, the software's longtime leader, was still at the helm. That changed soon afterward, so on Monday, it was a brand-new CRM boss who released the new software to the public.

Now, nearly everything can be managed as if it were a mobile device, using APIs at the operating system for assured reach and consistent implementation of company policies across all devices.

Enterprise security is a frustrating game, because IT winning 99.9% of the time isn’t enough. One lucky cyberthief or one careless employee — something completely beyond your control — can cause a data breach, a failure that will stay on your résumé forever. But a small dose of sanity emerged on Nov. 13 when a federal judge ruled that a data breach needs to have actual victims, not merely hypothetical ones.

This community college is in the process of upgrading to Microsoft Office 2013, and that's generating uncertainty all over the place, according to a support manager pilot fish on the scene.

To better focus on Firefox and its other products, the Mozilla Foundation decided in 2012 to address the on-going stability of the open-source Thunderbird email client rather than new development, which was passed on to volunteer developers. 

In today’s multimedia world, some job seekers are creating elaborate video game resumes, or adding infographics, video, audio or design-intensive documents to their traditional resumes. So, is your old-fashioned text-based document passé?

The data breach of Hong Kong toy manufacturer VTech appears to have also included photos of children and parents, adding to what could be one of the most surprising leaks of the year.

A languishing software upgrade project at Deutsche Post DHL Group has forced the German mail and courier company to take a write-off of €345 million, but software provider SAP is taking pains to make it clear that it's not to blame.