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Samsung is attempting to take its years-old patent fight with Apple to the U.S. Supreme Court. On Monday, it filed an appeal asking the court to take a look at the rules regarding design patents -- rules that haven't been touched in 120 years.

The nation's two biggest wireless carriers, AT&T and Verizon Wireless, have entered another competitive arena, this time over so-called "sponsored data," which gives customers access to low-cost or toll-free data.

As a security manager, I naturally feel a great responsibility to protect my company’s assets and employees, but I also have a responsibility to protect our customers. This came home to me recently with renewed force when I read a news article about a few customers of an online service company whose credentials were compromised after they were victims of a phishing attack. The attackers were then able to create some financial havoc by making unauthorized payments and stealing personal identifying information. Читать дальше...

Have you started thinking about what you’re going to do with the coming new year? Most people in IT spend at least a little time reflecting on how they will best take advantage of the year ahead. Whether you have or not, I invite you to take a few seconds right now to think about what problems you’d like to solve and what opportunities you’d like to make the most of in the coming year.

Microsofts Edge browser, the replacement for Internet Explorer on Windows 10, continues to struggle to retain users, according to multiple metrics sources.

Samsung will add a pressure-sensitive display and high-speed charging port to the upcoming Galaxy S7, according to a report on Monday.

Very soon, the Android OS, Chrome browser and other Google products will stop trusting all digital certificates that are linked to a 20-year-old Verisign root certificate.

In 2016, as the race to digital transformation progresses, we’ll start to see the leaders separate themselves from the rest of the pack and set a firm pace that’s fueled by five essential ingredients: a deep understanding of digital disruption, the art and science of the customer experience, the next wave of enabling technologies, a mastery of digital services and continuous innovation from ideation to execution.

Electricity generated from renewable sources accounted for more than 50% of all new U.S. energy capacity installations in 2014, growing to 15.5% of total installed capacity and 13.5% of total electricity generation.

A special $2,000 H-1B fee imposed on large Indian offshore firms but allowed to lapse may return in the spending bill being negotiated by Congress.

Cloud and mobile computing have created an imperative for the tech world: Change or fail. This year, legacy vendors like Dell, EMC and Microsoft all took major steps to reinvent themselves, sparking some of the biggest tech stories of the year. And all around us we've seen portents of big change at the intersection of tech and culture: self-driving cars, wearable technology, the use of drones for fun and profit. That's prompting increased attention on safety, privacy and public policy concerns... Читать дальше...

The U.S. government will start requiring owners of consumer drones to register their aircraft. The move, which has been expected, comes shortly before thousands of drones are expected to be given as holiday gifts.

Twitter has warned some of its users that they may have been targeted in an attack by state-sponsored hackers.

Apple introduced a much-desired new feature for Apple TV owners using Apple Watch, iPad or iPhones last week – the capacity to use your iOS device as a remote control for your TV. Here's how to get it working.

A group of hackers operating under the Anonymous banner hacked the European Space Agency (ESA) and leaked the data for no reason other than for “lulz.” Over 8,000 people will not find anything amusing about the breach since their names, email addresses and passwords were posted in one of three data dumps on JustPaste.it.

With security, the more you know, the more comfortable you are — to a point. This is not to suggest that seasoned security pros trust that most security technology (as deployed) is secure. On the contrary, they typically do not. But they have a realistic sense of the overall security picture, knowing that nothing is ever impregnable and that as long as the security approach used is better than most alternatives, that's a pragmatic and comfortable way to go.

Four weeks: That's how long Swedish bitcoin mining company KnCMiner takes to build a new data center, from breaking ground to beginning operations.

Some Twitter users may have been hacked by the government. Or “a” government—we don’t know which and Twitter isn’t saying.

You're a motivated, passionate and highly creative IT professional. But guess what? So is everyone else.

Social networks are massively addictive. Most people I know check and interact on social sites constantly throughout the day. And they have no idea how much actual time they spend on social media.

It's the turn of the century, and this manufacturing plant has rolled out a production system that uses terminals for data entry, according to an IT support pilot fish working there.

Machine learning is all about getting computers to "understand" new concepts, but it's still a pretty inefficient process, often requiring hundreds of examples for training. That may soon change, however, thanks to new research published on Friday.