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It's easy for someone with potentially malicious intentions to record your voice, as you leave traces of your voice when simply talking somewhere out in public, during mobile phone calls, in videos posted on social networking sites, or even when sending a recorded voice greeting card. Your voice is considered to be unique enough to serve as an authentication of your identity.

After a month of stern accusations, including one from yours truly, the chief of Microsoft's Windows group addressed user concerns over privacy and information gathering in a blog post.

One snag with cloud applications is that they often run over that pesky thing called the public Internet, a Wild West of uncertain speed and reliability. That's fine for a lot of consumers but not always great for businesses.

He said it

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The world of computers and programming isn’t just a world of algorithms, bits, and coding; it’s also a world of dark, sarcastic and or sardonic humor about the world of computers and programming, by which I mean it’s also recursive (see recursive). Here are arguably (and I’m sure you will argue) 21 of the greatest computer quotes ever. Let the wit begin!

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Apple might be spiting itself by giving the iFixit app the boot from its App Store this week.

Competition between Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services for supremacy in the IaaS public cloud is as high as it’s been, as evidenced by yesterday’s announcements by Microsoft of various new features.

Old-line industries haven't seen much of a payoff from the Internet yet, but once they get moving they could become bigger users than either tech companies or consumers.

SAP placed a big bet on S/4Hana when it launched the new enterprise suite earlier this year, but users aren't so sure it's the technology they're looking for.

Apple has long benefitted from a perception that its devices and the software that powers them are more safe and secure than the competition, but last year's high-profile iCloud hack and a recent large-scale malware attack bring Apple security into question. 

Apple CEO Tim Cook says no organization, including his own, "deserves a really high grade" for their efforts in enterprise mobility. "The tactical way people are using mobile in enterprise is too much around doing email, browsing, doing basic things, not reinventing and transforming their business," Cook said during a keynote at BoxWorks, enterprise storage company Box's annual conference in San Francisco yesterday. 

Here's a look at how three CIOs helped their companies succeed with innovative mobile strategies.

There’s nothing like a good ol’ fashioned tech showdown between two similar devices that offer vastly different experiences. Thanks to Google challenging Microsoft’s Surface 3 tablet with the Pixel C, it's time for just such a brawl!

Microsoft's board of directors earlier this month downsized the stock award portion of CEO Satya Nadella's 2016 compensation package compared to the year before, according to documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Rotary Club members who donate $1,000 or more to the Rotary Foundation get a lot of special attention. They are named Paul Harris Fellows in honor of the organization's founder. They receive a certificate and an elegant lapel pin. It's an important award in the Rotary world, and one that has been around since 1957. But recently it had become the source of a lot of unhappiness.

September has been the month for companies to announce updates to their cloud storage products in order to draw business away from the competition. It's a crowded, rough-and-tumble market, with offerings from Google, Box, Dropbox and other companies

Progression of OS X

More than 14 years ago, Apple unveiled its Mac OS X operating system, which became noteworthy for its UNIX architecture.

DJ Armin van Buuren

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Electronic Dance Music (EDM) DJ Armin van Buuren replaces comedian and talk show host Jimmy Kimmel as Intel Security’s most dangerous celebrity to search for online. For the ninth year in a row, Intel Security researched popular culture’s most famous people to reveal which of them generates the most dangerous search results.

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In the shadow of the recent Office of Personnel Management break-in it likely comes as little surprise to many that the federal government needs to pick up its security game in a big way.

Twitter is reportedly working on technology that would end its trademark limit of 140 characters per tweet. I think this is a good move beca

Wireline and wireless carriers are in the midst of a transition that is at least as profound as effects combining the retirement of cord-board operators, the adoption of SS7, and the telecom transition from analog to digital.

The Wall Street Journal reports the obvious:

Co-founder Sergey Brin said Tuesday that Google is open to self-driving cars that can also be driven manually, or switch between the two modes.

“I don’t think we’re going to see [a world with] no human drivers anytime soon,” Mr. Brin told reporters at Google headquarters. “And I think there’s always going to be pleasure in being able to hit the open road and enjoy that.”

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When it comes to domain name systems (DNS), there are a lot of choices available. Yesterday, Verisign introduced a free, public Domain Name System (DNS) service that respects users' privacy.

Two years ago, in response to questions about his ambitions as vice chairman at Salesforce, former Oracle exec Keith Block emphatically stated that he wants to help the company get to $10 billion worth of revenue. In a follow-up session at DreamForce this year (disclosure, Salesforce covered my travel and expenses to attend the event and is, at the time of writing, a client of Diversity Analysis), Block gave some more detail about how he intends to achieve that aim. Much of the growth is going... Читать дальше...

Cisco, Juniper Networks and Brocade are intent on granting customer AT&T’s wishes.

Cyber-criminals using the Dyreza computer trojan appear to be shifting gears from online banking and moving into the industrial supply chain.