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The Pop-Tech magnetic dashboard mount is a very simple, minimalistically designed mount that uses a strong magnet instead of clips or cradles to hold your phone securely in place, even on bumpy roads. The unit works with most major cell phones, and thanks to a steel ball allows you to rotate your device 360 degrees to adapt to most surfaces and angles. It averages 5 out of 5 stars from over 90 reviewers (read reviews). With a list price of $39.99, the current 70% discount on Amazon put this unit... Читать дальше...

Increasingly, the ability to effectively secure corporate and customer information and assets is a conversation that has moved from technologists up to C-level executives and the board. At the same time, approaches to corporate security are quickly evolving beyond the traditional infrastructure-based approach.

Intel is cutting 12,000 jobs worldwide as the company restructures operations to diversify from PCs into growth areas of IoT and servers.

A key issue raised by labor unions in their weeklong strike against Verizon is the offshoring of work. The unions say Verizon has plans to send more jobs overseas. Verizon isn't saying what it is doing in this respect, but there is a paper trail of documents filed by its employees that point to offshoring.

Virtual reality and live-stream videos are hot right now and YouTube doesn't want to be left out of the game.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is suing the U.S. Department of Justice over its failure to disclose if Internet companies have been compelled to decrypt user data and communications.

Business documents written in foreign languages are no longer the problem they once were thanks to technologies like Google Translate, but what about contracts written in legalese? That's where LawGeex hopes to help with an artificial inteigence-based online tool.

Apple yesterday set June 13-16 as the dates for this year's annual developers conference, and for the third straight year will draw tickets using a lottery.

OS X command line developer tools include an old version of the Git source code management system that exposes Mac users to remote code execution attacks.

"All too often, the vendors have the upper hand," says research and advisory firm IDC in a recent report. High switching costs or other "vendor control points," such as proprietary technology integrations or overly customized applications, can make it too much trouble for enterprise customers to discontinue using one vendor and switch to another.

Technology vendors and law enforcement agencies need to look for a compromise that allows police to gain access to encrypted devices during criminal investigations, lawmakers say.

Fixstars' Olive is like the Raspberry Pi of servers, but with a twist -- it packs 13TB of solid-state drive storage in a system that can be held in one hand.

Hello, Internet. I'm listening.

No -- I'm not doing my best Frasier Crane impression. (Well...okay. Maybe a little.) I'm actually just getting really into podcasts as of late. And I promise I'm not only saying that because I've started one of my own. (Though it is pretty awesome. And you should totally listen to it.)

For a while now, I've been in the midst of rediscovering the joy of talk radio -- or this modern equivalent of it, with its near-infinite array of on-demand chat for any mood or interest. Читать дальше...

Viber, a popular instant messaging and Voice-over-IP service provider with more than 700 million users, has implemented end-to-end encryption to protect its customers' communications against snooping.

Apple today refreshed the MacBook, switching to Intel's six-generation "Skylake" processor architecture for slightly longer battery life.

A friend of mine called me for advice yesterday. He had just gotten hit hard by ransomware.

Sennheiser, one of the world's leading manufacturers of headphones, microphones and wireless transmission systems, is currently offering their RS120 Wireless Heaphones at a 39% discount. With a regular price of $129, this unit can be purchased on Amazon now for just $78. The RS120 receives an average of 4 out of 5 stars from nearly 10,500 reviewers (read reviews).

iOS users heard it first yesterday when Siri announced Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference will take place June 13-June 17. The company followed this up with an interesting, Swift-inspired WWDC home page. What can we expect?

When you think of project managers, what skills come to mind? 

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Cloud computing startup Mesosphere has decided to open source its platform for managing data center resources, with the backing of over 60 tech companies, including Microsoft, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Cisco Systems.

Microsoft has cited new European data protection rules in support of its claim that the U.S. government should use inter-governmental agreements rather than a warrant to force the technology company to provide emails stored in Ireland that are required for an investigation.

BlackBerry gave away its global encryption key to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. That's the general analysis from dissecting CEO John Chen's vapid statement yesterday.

Google won approval last week to begin testing innovative 3.5 GHz wireless capabilities by using antennas on light poles and other structures in eight areas of Kansas City, Mo.

In a story I wrote for Computerworld in January, which was a review of Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 4, I mentioned Windows Server's new support for Hyper-V containers that had been added to its support for Docker-style containers (present within the beta product since the previous beta milestone release).

This private university is big -- which means there are just that many more approval processes for everything, says an IT pilot fish there.