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The Ubiquiti AmpliFi router is one of the recent wave of consumer friendly mesh router systems. You can think of these mesh systems as routers that come with pre-matched, easy to use, Wi-Fi extenders.

Location, location, location: As the old joke goes, those are the three keys to business success. Now, with big data analysis, corporations can be smarter than ever before about where to open up new offices or businesses.

Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) last week asked the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate claims that retailer Office Depot has used some of the same tactics as PC tech scammers to convince consumers to pay for expensive support plans or pricy repairs.

On the back of every iPhone, tiny print reminds you it was “Designed by Apple in California. Assembled in China.” One of president-elect Trump’s campaign promises was getting Apple to move production here—and he says he told Tim Cook that very thing directly.

Wicked Cool Shell Scripts: 101 Scripts for Linux, OS X, and Unix Systems by Dave Taylor and Brandon Perry, 2nd edition, no starch press (2017) is a book that can lift you up a notch in the super Unix techno-dweeb rankings. It's that good.

The U.S. House minority leader, Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), is urging the University of California to drop its plans to send some IT jobs offshore.

I’ve said it before and I’m sure I’ll say it again: I love electronic signing.

Hillary Clinton, the apparent loser in the recent U.S. presidential race, should ask for voting recounts in three states, a group of voting security experts and election lawyers have said, and new results could swing the outcome of the election.

Multi-Level Security Information Systems, better known as MLS systems, have proven merit in the DoD arena in terms of providing a security net and thwarting threats to data and infrastructure within a unified system. Certainly this type of implementation would make sense commercially, but in the fast moving, ever-changing enterprise space, CTOs have historically been hesitant to adopt some of the advancements in these trusted operating systems on top of optimized hardware.

Profiteers are trying to cash in on shortages of Apple's new MacBook Pro notebook with prices on the eBay auction website as high as 62% over list.

The iFit-1 from Satechi is a sliding stand for your phone that also contains a high-fidelity speaker, so you can browse the internet, play games, or watch movies with louder, richer sound. It also features a generous 6 hour rechargeable battery. It averages 4 out of 5 stars on Amazon from 670 people (read reviews). A few reviewers have pointed out that this makes a good gift for the technically un-savvy, since there's no fumbling with a Bluetooth connection. Just connect it to the phone's headphone/audio jack. Читать дальше...

With the X Rocker Pro H3 4.1 Wireless Audio Gaming Chair you can not only hear your music but actually feel it. It features four speakers, sub-woofers with Audio Force Modulation Technology, vibration motors that sync to the bass and intensify the full-body sensation, and a wireless audio transmitter/receiver combo. It currently averages 4 out of 5 stars from nearly 550 reviewers (see reviews). Its list price of $250 has been reduced 38% to $155. See it now on Amazon.

Happy Thanksgiving tomorrow USA, blessings from my house to yours – however, once your turkey’s digested it may be time to focus on personal fitness, BodBot’s fitness focused Apple Watch apps may help.

Fake news, online banking thefts and data breaches: It's no wonder that trust in the internet is at an all-time low. But don't worry: The Internet Society has a five-step plan for restoring faith in the network of networks.

Visual Studio for Mac is something that many Microsoft developers have sought for more than a decade. As Mac OS X became interesting in the early 2000s, coders who spent most of their days working in Visual Studio on Windows wondered why they couldn’t use the same languages, frameworks, and tools for the Mac, rather than needing to learn Objective-C, Cocoa, and Xcode, all of which were substantially different from the languages and tools for Windows development.

Who needs the laws of physics, anyway?

Not NASA. At least, that is what a new peer-reviewed paper indicates. The paper discusses what was a fuel-free rocket engine, which tests now show works. But how does it work? And what does this mean for the future of space travel?

In IT Blogwatch, we are ready for liftoff.

Want to know what exactly this new type of rocket engine is? Sarah Kaplan has the background:

Facebook has reportedly developed a software tool that will help keep certain content away from users’ news feeds in certain geographies, reflecting the company’s apparent willingness to meet Chinese government censorship demands part of the way.

Amazon Web Services made a series of price cuts on Tuesday and simplified what customers pay for its storage products. The company's popular Simple Storage Service (S3) has had its six pricing tiers cut down to three, along with a corresponding price cut of roughly 16 percent to 25 percent.

The U.S. government has released what it claims is myth-busting data about the shortage of cybersecurity professionals. The data points to its own hiring experience.

Cool gifts for reasonable prices

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It's sometimes hard to find holiday gifts that hit the really sweet spot: With enough quality to show how much you care, but not so high-end that you'll find yourself starting off the new year with an unpayable credit card bill.  Don't sweat it -- part 2 of our holiday gift guide features an array of excellent devices, each of which costs less than $150.

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This pilot fish's job at a large government agency includes an important but occasional task: logging into a system at another large government agency every few months.

Sometimes the truth hurts but you just have to face it. The internet advisory group BITAG lays it on the line for the IoT industry in a new report: No, consumers aren’t going to update the software on their devices.

Hackers are writing apps, setting up phony Wi-Fi networks and unleashing malware in attempts to turn legitimate Black Friday 2016 and Cyber Monday retailing into profits for themselves, according to security experts.

Less than half of the world's population still isn't using the Internet, although the numbers are improving, according to a United Nations report.