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The U.S. federal government is trying to move more into the cloud, but service providers' lack of transparency is harming adoption, according to Arlette Hart, the FBI's chief information security officer. 

“Yes, the iPad Pro is a replacement for a notebook or a desktop for many, many people,” Apple CEO Tim Cook said recently. “They will start using it and conclude they no longer need to use anything else, other than their phones.”

Search queries on Bing in the U.S. last month increased by the largest margin since Windows 10's launch, hinting that Microsoft's strategy to embed the search engine in the OS may be working.

When Weather Company CEO David Kenny met with Bryson Koehler in 2012 he said he needed someone to turn the company into a big data technology business.

The U.S. government's financial support for the development of smartphone encryption apps doesn't surprise security experts.

Emerging markets like China drove global smartphone sales growth in the third quarter of 2015, according to the latest figures from Gartner Research. A total of 353 million smartphones were sold over those three months, which represents a 15.5% uptick over the same period one year ago.

Like many people, I long believed that Steve Jobs deserved most of the credit for founding Apple, and then rescuing it, and then making it into perhaps the most important tech company in the world. Sure, Jobs's Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak was important to the narrative, but didn't seem like the star player. But after listening to The Woz share warm, generous, and insightful opinions last week, I'm starting to reconsider my biases.

Cancer-screening laboratory LabMD won its case against the FTC. LabMD was accused of two data breaches, one in 2012 and one in 2008, when a company spreadsheet that contained sensitive personal information of 9,000 consumers was found on a peer-to-peer network. Seven years of litigation later, FTC Chief Administrative Law Judge Chappell’s issued an initial ruling (pdf) dismissing the FTC’s complaint against LabMD since the FTC had failed to prove that LabMD’s “alleged failure to employ ‘reasonable and appropriate’ data security ‘caused... Читать дальше...

UK fiber broadband service provider Gigaclear announced this week it will offer 5 Gbps internet service beginning next year. These are speeds that have only been available to large enterprises and research institutes. With this service, the time to download a 1,500MB standard definition video would drop from about 8 minutes to 4 to 6 seconds.

VirusTotal, the most widely used online file-scanning service, is now executing suspicious Mac apps submitted by users inside a sandbox to generate information that could improve the analysis and detection of Mac malware.

There could be supersonic private passenger flights buy 2023 if Airbus and Aerion have their way.

Gartner is predicting a grim future for Microsoft's Windows mobile OS, saying it won't make its mark in consumer smartphones, remaining relegated to enterprise users.

CIOs will need to run IT departments more like Hollywood film studios to achieve the best results in the future.

Google made a big move to woo developers Wednesday, announcing that they can create compute instances with custom configurations of virtual CPUs and memory on the company's cloud platform.

Microsoft has teamed up with mobile video ad network Vungle to give developers a new way to monetize new apps they're building for Windows 10. 

The rise of virtualization has had a profound impact on the technology industry. In the networking industry, perhaps no vendor has ridden the wave of cloud more than Arista Networks. The company was founded a little over a decade ago, and today it is a publicly traded company with a market capitalization of over $4.6 billion. 

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.

Windows 10 has seen a serious amount of patching, but this newly released November Update is more than a patch, it's a significant upgrade almost on par with a Service Pack. That's rather unusual, as Microsoft tends to wait several months before issuing hefty updates.