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The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Google would fold the Chrome OS into Android, spawning widespread rumors and speculation. Then Chrome and Android VP of Engineering Hiroshi Lockheimer contradicted the Wall Street Journal in a tweet confirming Google's commitment to Chrome OS. And a Google spokesperson's response to my request for clarification unequivocally stated that Google wasn't sun-setting the Chrome OS. But then again, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, who once ran the Chrome group... Читать дальше...

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach.

What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas -- and, for enterprise software vendor Infor, what happens in Europe, stays in Europe.

It turns out that critics of the FCC's crackdown over the past year on organizations purposefully blocking consumers' Wi-Fi hotspots might actually have a couple of kindred spirits on the Commission itself.

Intel has released new processors and free cloud services as part of its latest push to capitalize on the nascent Internet of Things market.

Hewlett Packard split into two companies yesterday: One is Hewlett Packard Enterprise, or HPE, which will sell infrastructure to enterprises. The other is HP Inc., which is the company’s printers and PC business.

Two of the three wireless charging consortiums today announced they are putting a name to their previously announced merger, which brings 195 member vendors under one umbrella.

Firefox users who want to better hide their browsing habits have a new tool to use, thanks to Mozilla’s launch of Private Browsing with Tracking Protection in its latest browser release on Tuesday.

Juniper Networks this week unveiled a new access switch supporting 25/50G Ethernet as well as an open version of its Junos operating system for it.

Google's security researchers hunted for bugs in Samsung's Galaxy S6 Edge phone as part of an experiment to see how vulnerable the code that manufacturers add to Android can be. It's pretty bad.

The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced a merger with the UK's Code Club in an effort to better reach out to young people with a message of making things with computers rather than just using them.

The hybrid cloud is widely expected to be a key force in enterprise computing in the coming years, so it's no wonder vendors are scrambling to bolster their capabilities on that front. Case in point: IBM on Tuesday bought Gravitant, a maker of brokerage software designed ease the purchase and management of software and services across mixed cloud platforms.

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach.

This week, Juniper is holding its "NXTWORK 2015" customer summit in Silicon Valley. At the event, Juniper made a number of data center announcements. These announcements come about a month after Juniper rolled out its "Unite" architecture aimed at the enterprise campus (disclosure: Juniper Networks is a client of ZK Research). While the two announcements are aimed at different parts of the network, there is a common focal point, and that's helping businesses build networks that are cloud-ready. Читать дальше...

Appery.io is a company that has been banging the same drum for a number of years. Essentially, Appery sits in the middle of a huge argument. On the one hand are those people who are adamant that only native mobile applications (i.e. mobile applications built specifically for the device or operating system upon which they work) can deliver the sort of functionality and fidelity that consumers demand. On the other end of the spectrum are those who suggest that the agility that HTML5, with its ability... Читать дальше...

If you want to make free, worldwide encrypted calls, then you should consider using Signal; it supports encrypted texting too.

There's an app for...what? Asthma? Epilepsy? Autism?

After first telling folks nearly six years ago that "there's an app for that," Apple is now working with big name university medical schools and development partners on apps for eight different maladies. Many thousands of iPhone users have already downloaded these apps from Apple's App Store. Meanwhile, Apple and its prestigious partners are learning valuable lessons about the types of features iPhone owners will happily use in the interests of getting healthier. Читать дальше...

Microsoft made quite an impression with its sexy new Surface Book, but early adopters are getting a very different impression, and it isn't positive.

It was a decade ago, back in 2005, that Network World wrote that many enterprises were beginning to ban employees from using "wireless handsets" in the car. Remember the Palm Treo? There was one main reason for the ban—corporate liability in the event of an accident.

Not every email deserves a handcrafted response. Sometimes, all it takes is a sentence to answer the one burning question that someone has dropped in your inbox, which is why Google is using the power of machine learning to make email triage a little bit faster.

CHICAGO -- Cisco Systems, as part of its digital transformation efforts, is automating business processes and quantifying the cost of delivering services to ensure accountability for each unit. The effort, called business outcome assurance, is one of CIO Guillermo Diaz' strategic imperatives to drive more operational efficiency under new CEO Chuck Robbins and Senior Vice President of Operations Rebecca Jacoby, whom Diaz succeeded in June.

Microsoft has quietly ended a reprieve for Windows 7 Professional, telling computer makers that they must stop building new PCs with the operating system in 12 months.

Microsoft is ending its unlimited OneDrive cloud storage plan and will put a cap of 1TB on storage for Office 365 consumers.

Few CIOs provide services for the diversity of business operations that Rhonda Winter does. As CIO at Hulman & Co., owner of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Winter and her IT staff of 12 full-timers and two contractors must ensure that tech systems at the famous track are ready for the iconic Indianapolis 500, numerous other races and big-time nonracing events like this year's July 4 Rolling Stones concert. Winter's team also delivers IT services to Hulman's IMS Productions video production... Читать дальше...

To the rescue

Image by Flickr: Beverley Goodwin

According to a Gartner report, the Disaster Recovery as a Service market originally emerged to address IT organizations' need to support increasingly aggressive recovery-time targets and more frequent and lower-cost testing while understaffed, or without requiring a significant time commitment by existing IT staff.

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