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"Stick in the mud.”

That is how I am often referred to when I take part in the design phases of the projects in my day job.  And that’s when they’re being kind. I am called this because I often ask the questions I want to ask when my “security hat” is on: where is the data; what are you doing with it; and what steps are you taking to protect it?

Talking about data during the initial design phase is a relatively new concept. Until now UX-led teams have focused on building user interactions with personas... Читать дальше...

Interest in wearable tech remains strong, according to analyst firm IDC, despite slower than expected smartwatch sales last year.

If the FBI wins its court battle to force Apple to unlock an iPhone used by one of the assailants in the San Bernardino terrorist attacks, the result could be a massive security hole that would affect many federal agencies.

Primaries and the danger of focusing on wrong data

Whatever your politics, this year's presidential primaries are a great lesson in how to focus on the wrong metrics. Because I'm hearing way too much chatter about how many states a candidate has won -- a data point that's all but meaningless.

If your business strategy involves competing on analytics, then now is the time to re-think your data management architecture. While overall IT spending is set to grow by 0.6 percent this year, analytics spending is expected to be much higher. The reason is simple: almost every company sees analytics as a key way to deliver strategic advantage. Computerworld estimated that Business Analytics spending grew at 38 percent last year. And a recent CIO survey by a leading IT research firm lists “BI/Analytics”... Читать дальше...

Microsoft is keeping up its push to provide businesses with hybrid cloud tools by offering a new feature that lets companies stretch their database tables from on-premises infrastructure to its Azure storage service. 

SAN FRANCISCO -- It starts out innocently enough. You’re in HR and there’s a job opening that you’re hoping to fill as quickly as possible.

Microsoft made two key acquisitions last year with the explicit purpose of integrating them into Dynamics CRM, and on Wednesday it announced a spring wave of the customer relationship management software that brings those additions to light.

Now's your chance to get a worthy CIO or other top technology executive considered for the 2017 Premier 100 Technology Leaders awards.

Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google holding company Alphabet, will head a new Department of Defense advisory board aimed at forging closer links between the U.S. military and Silicon Valley.

Just in case its motion to vacate wasn't enough, Apple late Tuesday filed an appeal of a California judge's order requiring it to help the FBI defeat the password protection on the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino mass shooters.

Many analysts have been tracking a global slowdown in the rate of smartphone sales growth, partly because many regions have become heavily saturated with high-end models like Apple's iPhone and Samsung's Galaxy S phones.

They're not the kind of thing you might expect to see on a battlefield, but a four-wheeled robot recently tested by the U.S. Marines could help make better soldiers.

Everyone should be careful about what images they post on social media. Using a “hot” government-monitored keyword in combination of – say an image of pot – has gotten more than one person busted. But this time metadata had nothing to do with the hot water a celebrity dove into when he tweeted a picture; hey, when you have 19.8 million Twitter followers like Kanye West and you step in a steaming dung pile, some of those followers are going to notice.

As enterprises rely ever more deeply on mobile devices for email, CIOs beware. A bug in iOS is periodically hiding email messages, in a way that makes the messages appear to have been deleted.

The number of jobs requesting Swift in the last full year versus the previous full year climbed by 600 percent, says tech recruitment firm, Toptal. Interest is likely to increase all over again following WWDC 2016.

Facebook may be abusing a dominant position in the market for social networks to impose unfair privacy policies on its users, Germany's antitrust authority suspects.

I recently connected with the CEO of a fascinating company based in Cork, Ireland, called Treemetrics. Its mission is to eliminate waste in the logging industry by moving beyond antiquated forest survey methods and other problems caused by a lack of good information. By applying data analytics technology to this sector, the company claims to be able to reduce wastage by up to 20%.

I have a good hunch about what caused the recent Google autonomous car crash.

A Turkish citizen who led an operation that hacked into the systems of credit and debit card processing companies between 2011 and 2013 has pleaded guilty in a court in New York, according to officials.

IT pilot fish starts work as a federal government contractor -- and it's not quite as smooth as he was expecting.

Getting IT to work smoothly is a challenge even when all the parts are in-house, but that's nothing compared with the widely dispersed Internet of Things. Enter Red Hat and Eurotech, which on Tuesday announced a new partnership aimed at simplifying the integration of all those IoT pieces.

Qualcomm has settled charges with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it hired relatives of Chinese officials who could influence the selection of its mobile technology products in a competitive market.

Dr. Umamaheswar Duvvuri has used a snake-like robot to perform more than a half dozen throat surgeries over the past month. Simply put, the robot is more accurate than Duvvuri could hope to be.

The FBI might be able to copy the hard drive of an iPhone used by a mass shooter without triggering the device's auto-erase functions, thus eliminating the agency's need to take Apple to court, a company executive said Tuesday.