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Every now and then I come across a product that just amazes me. This happens fairly often with software where the current rate of innovation is off the charts but when it comes to hardware being amazed happens a lot less often and products require a serious “wow” factor to get me excited. But “wow” was exactly what happened when I set up the Amazon Echo.

Arista reportedly suffered a setback in its litigation with Cisco that caused its stock to drop almost 6% this week. According to Investor’s Business Daily, International Trade Commission attorneys determined Arista infringed on three Cisco patents, causing the company’s stock to drop 5.6% Thursday.

Microsoft yesterday said it will launch Office 2016 for Windows on Sept. 22, and detailed how it will deliver updates and upgrades with a cadence and rules set similar to Windows 10's.

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Dave Newman

Amidst all the excitement about the possible benefits of the Internet of Things, a slew of warnings have been sounded by IT pros, vendors and analysts about looming security threats. Now you can add the FBI to that list of those cautioning enthusiasts.

OK, so we’re still evaluating SQL Server 2014, but are you ready now to explore Microsoft SQL Server 2016? No rest for the weary! Community Technology Preview (CTP) 2.2 is now available as a public preview of next year’s release. But don’t panic! In this blog entry I will examine three key new features that I found most interesting when exploring the CTP. Specifically, I will be looking at: Always Encrypted, Temporal Data, and the Stretch Database.

Hackers who compromise websites are also increasingly verifying themselves as the owners of those properties in Google's Search Console. Under certain circumstances this could allow them to remain undetected longer than they otherwise would be, researchers warn.

Whether you want Windows 10 or not, Microsoft says it may download the files to your PC regardless.

Spoiler alert: We’re pretty sure we know what this is pictured above – entirely thanks to Reddit – and you will, too, if you don’t stop reading this.

The flurry of activity around Windows 10 post-launch is astounding. I can't recall this much work being done immediately after release for any previous operating systems in the Internet era.

Dreamforce is not just a tradeshow. It’s practically a cultural phenomenon (bring on the ukuleles!), and it certainly has a significant impact on the economy of San Francisco. 

When it comes to threat intelligence, there seem to be two primary focus areas in play:  The threat intelligence data itself and the legislative rhetoric around threat intelligence sharing (i.e. CISA, CISPA, etc.).  What’s missing?  The answer to a basic question:  How do organizations get actual value out of threat intelligence data and threat intelligence sharing in a meaningful way?

There’s been a lot of attention focused lately on the benefits of moving to a software defined networking (SDN) environment. Of course, as with any evolution, making the shift rarely happens overnight, and there are a few real challenges. Probably the biggest challenge is cultural. Simply put, SDN is a completely different way of doing things including sometimes monumental changes in the roles and responsibilities for key staff.

During Wednesday’s “Hey Siri” event, Apple CEO Tim Cook and friends talked a lot about the way we interact with the screens on our iOS devices. The freshly-unveiled Apple Pencil, Apple’s first foray into the stylus game, includes built-in precision pressure sensitivity made specifically for the iPad Pro. Apple Watch brings greater degrees of navigation and customization depending on how hard we press the screen, thanks to Force Touch. And the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus have added a whole other dimension to multi-touch with 3D Touch... Читать дальше...

"The only thing that's changed is everything."

That's Apple's tagline for its shiny new iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus smartphones. It has a nice ring to it, right? But there's one hitch: It's not true.

The company's CEO, Tim Cook, acknowledged as much yesterday, during the big iPhone 6s unveil in San Francisco. "While they may look the same, we have changed everything about these new iPhones." 

The new iPhones don't just look similar; they look exactly the same, with the exception of a new pink, nay Rose Gold, color option. Читать дальше...

LAS VEGAS -- Apple gave Sprint a little gift this week with the new iPhone 6S in the form of faster wireless speeds via a technology called carrier aggregation.

A California bill that would have forced drones to fly at a minimum height of 350 feet (107 meters) over private property has been vetoed by Governor Jerry Brown in the wake of criticism that it could have damaged the state's drone industry and the economy at large.

In a cybersecurity survey of 485 large colleges and universities, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology came in at the bottom of the list.

After three and a half years of legal wrangling, Ellen Pao will no longer be appealing the discrimination case she filed against venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

iPad alternatives for the enterprise

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Apple's iPad -- no matter the generation -- is usually at the top of most "best tablets" lists. That remains true with the latest iPad Air 2 - and will probably be true when the just-announced iPad Pro becomes available. However, while the iPad offers a lot in the way of performance and design, when it comes to productivity, you might find it lacking in some areas. Without the option to use a mouse, split-screen apps and a lack of expandable storage... Читать дальше...

LAS VEGAS -- In the expanding universe called the Internet of Things, even garbage bins will be networked together wirelessly. That way, a central console -- perhaps one that's monitored automatically -- can know whether a bin has been overturned or is full.

New launches of captive centers offshore continued to increase in the first half of 2015, according to research from outsourcing consultancy Everest Group. Companies in the manufacturing, telecommunications and technology industries, in particular, expanded their in-house presence offshore in the first and second quarters compared to last year. Manufacturers, for example, set up 18 new in-house centers in the first half of this year, compared to just six during the same period in 2014, according to Everest Group. Читать дальше...

If free speech for humans is worth fighting for, is free speech for computers worth fighting against?

Sue Schade worked as a nurse's aide in high school and college, and some members of her family were nurses. But while Schade says she "never thought seriously about being a clinician," she did end up in healthcare -- as an IT professional. Since 2012, Schade has been the CIO at the University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers, where she oversees a 600-member IT team that supports 25,000 people.

In just 10 years, we may live in a world where there are sensors in the walls of our houses, in our clothes and even in our brains.