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Comcast announced a pilot program on Thursday to bring low-cost Internet service to public housing residents in Miami-Dade County, Nashville, Philadelphia and Seattle.

The head of the FBI today denied that the agency's mysterious "outside party" had proposed digitally copying the contents of the processor in the San Bernardino terrorist's iPhone as the solution to gaining access to the device's data.

A company that helps users to create their own websites now knows what kind of sites their 80 million users are building without pestering them with repeated questions.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is revising the Energy Star specification for servers to take into account significant system design changes and help buyers make effective purchasing decisions.

Samsung's EP-PG920IBUGUS Wireless Charging Pad gets 4 out of 5 stars from nearly 4,000 people on Amazon (see reviews), and at a dramatic 73% off you can purchase this one right now for just $27.17 (list price: $99.99). 

The U.S. government says seven Iranians working for the country's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps are responsible for 187 denial of service attacks aimed at banks across the U.S. between 2011 and 2013.

As a physicist, I was originally trained to describe the world in terms of exact equations. Later, as an experimental high-energy particle physicist, I learned to deal with vast amounts of data with errors and with evaluating competing models to describe the data. Business data, taken in bulk, is often messier and harder to model than the physics data on which I cut my teeth. Simply put, human behavior is complicated, inconsistent, and not well understood, and it's affected by many variables.

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Oracle has released an emergency Java security update to fix a critical vulnerability that could allow attackers to compromise computers when they visit specially crafted websites.

At the CIO Perspectives event in Atlanta, Home Depot CIO Matt Carey sat down for a fireside chat with Maryfran Johnson, editor-in-chief of CIO Events.

Google's Project Ara modular smartphone project is showing signs of life after a long lull, though it's not certain when the customizable smartphones will be available.

A Trojan program is being distributed through USB drives and seems to be designed for stealing information from so-called air-gapped computers that are not connected to the Internet.

Three Apple executives each received $55.6 million worth of company stock, the second half of an award granted in 2011 after the death of co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs.

It's been a little while since a new player in the files sharing and synchronization space reached out to me. There are two possible explanations for that. The optimist in me would suggest it is down to people realizing that the space is crowded beyond measure and that there is little point of ponying up and doing essentially the same thing under a different logo. The skeptic in me would suggest that it's only because I've become increasingly curmudgeonly about the vendors in the space, and PR flacks have decided to stay well away. Читать дальше...

The times they really are “a-changin’” as Apple begins selling Microsoft Office 356 subscriptions as optional extras to customers ordering a new iPad Pro through the Apple Store.

Cloud computing startup Mesosphere made its mark early with large companies like Twitter and Netflix, and on Thursday the company got a fresh boost from two more tech giants: Microsoft and Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

A researcher with RSA says faulty firmware found in security cameras sold by at least 70 vendors may be a contributor to many of the credit card breaches that have proved costly to retailers.

Public clouds may promise a world of potential benefits, but for companies grappling with data sovereignty and other issues, the risks can loom large. Hoping to ease such concerns, Oracle launched a product on Thursday that effectively puts its public cloud behind the enterprise firewall.

HARTFORD, Conn. -- U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), flanked by laid off IT workers on Tuesday, spoke about the abuse of the H-1B visa system.

Pebble is laying off 25% of its employees -- that's 40 pink slips -- taking it down to just 80 people. It seems indicative of the smartwatch market's terrible state.

Consultant gets a new assignment from his company: He'll now be the operations manager at an outsourcing engagement, says a pilot fish in the know.

Thanks in part to the corporate BYOD movement, Apple's AppleCare service and support plan, and just plain old demand, enterprises are more steadily adopting Macs in their organizations. Those factors, coupled with Apple's partnership with IBM last year to develop a set of business apps for the iPhone and iPad, are leading Apple to make strides in the enterprise. That said, industry observers don't believe Macs will be overtaking PCs anytime soon.

Although OS X is now an integral part of the Mac experience, it represented a big gamble for Apple when the first general release version -- code-named Cheetah -- arrived on March 24, 2001. It was also a gamble that Apple had little choice in making -- and one that has paid off in the 15 years since, becoming, directly and indirectly, one of the critical factors in Apple's success.

Weeks before the FBI sought a court order forcing Apple to help it break into an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino gunmen, a sister agency was already using an Israeli security firm's technology to attempt to crack a similar device.

Google is making it easier for businesses to take advantage of the machine learning revolution with a new product for building models that predict the future.