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Tablets, laptops and a lot of the in-between

It’s been a big year for the laptop/tablet combo device at MWC 2016. Spurred by the iPad Pro and Microsoft’s Surface and Surfacebook, there were competitors aplenty at this year’s show. Here are some of the highlights.

Apple filed court papers on Thursday urging a judge to overturn her order requiring it to unlock an iPhone used by one of the shooters in last December's San Bernardino attacks.

Containers are revolutionizing enterprise IT in much the way smartphones have transformed the world of consumer technology, but there's still much more to come.

Microsoft is adding a range of new security management and reporting features to its Office 365 and Azure cloud services as part of the company's holistic approach to enterprise security announced last year.

THE NEXT GREAT IPHONE

Apple is expected to roll out its next flagship smartphones, the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, in the fall of 2016. But the creative minds of designers from around the world aren’t waiting to put forth their visions for what the new iPhones might look like and include for features. Here’s a look at the best we’ve seen so far…

We’re in the middle of discussing my health and well-being – as we have done for some 35 years now – when my primary care physician glances at his desktop computer screen, taps at the keyboard and mutters: “No, I do not want to upgrade to Internet Explorer 10.”

Tails – a Debian-based Linux distribution focused on privacy and online anonymity – recently released its “2.0” update. I reached out to the Tails press team to ask them a few questions, the full answers to which I am including below.

Apple reportedly wants to take itself out of the equation when it comes to decrypting data on a criminal suspect’s iOS device. Company engineers are working on a solution that would make it impossible for Apple to help law enforcement break into an iPhone and gain access to the encrypted data contained within, according to The New York Times.

If a U.S. court grants the FBI's request for Apple to help it unlock a terrorism suspect's iPhone, the case will likely open the door to many similar law enforcement requests, the agency's director said Thursday.

You don’t need to drive very far to appreciate that there’s a lot of non-driving activities taking place in our cars on our roadways.

There isn't much that's more frustrating than a really bad search - you know what information you're looking for, you may even know, generally, where to go to look for it. But when your search returns incorrect or irrelevant results -- or, even worse; zero results -- well, it's enough to make you want to scream.

When running down the list of top cloud vendors, the name Verizon doesn't come up immediately, but the firm is looking to expand its particular brand of cloud services that complement main players like Amazon and Microsoft. It's also fending off rumors it's getting out of the cloud business. 

Hewlett-Packard Chief Executive Dion Weisler told analysts Wednesday that he anticipated several difficult quarters ahead as HP tries to negotiate pricing its products low enough to compete with Asian suppliers, while pushing into more profitable product segments, such as 3D printing.

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During his keynote at last year’s RSA Security Conference (titled: Escaping Security’s Dark Ages), Amit Yoran, president of RSA, lambasted the industry as failing its customers.  In a related interview with Fortune Magazine, Yoran stated, “Let’s do things differently; let’s think differently; let’s act differently – because what the security industry has been doing has not worked.”

VMware’s Networking and Security Chief Martin Casado’s announced departure raises questions about the role the company’s network virtualization product NSX will play in VMware’s cloud strategy.

Martin Casado’s decision to leave VMware was simply a desire to move on and not an indication of turbulence with company strategy, direction or product traction, observers say.

Researchers in England have come up with a way to enable computers to tell if you are bored or interested in what you're seeing on the screen, a development that could help develop better digital learning experiences.

Google Cloud Platform is still stuck in third place, far behind Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, but by convincing streaming music heavyweight Spotify to switch much of its technology from AWS, Google is making a case that this is more than a two-horse race.

Information security audits are on the rise, as organizations look to not only bolster their security postures, but demonstrate their efforts to other parties such as regulators.

Microsoft last week said that the support rules for the Windows Server software would not change, even though the Redmond, Wash. company has said it will curtail support for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 after mid-2017.

HP Inc. suffered through its first quarter as a standalone company by reporting lower net earnings and revenues from the same period a year ago, as virtually all facets of the company reported a decline.

Sharp has approved an offer from Hon Hai Precision Industry and related companies to acquire over 66 percent of the company’s voting stock, making the Taiwanese contract manufacturer the new parent of the venerable Japanese firm.

Walk into a security operations center (SOC) and the first impression you get is of an immense war room, with large screens across the entire front wall displaying a world map and endless rows of tabular data.

When The Weather Company wanted to up its game in the forecasting world, executives knew the answer was to analyze even more data. However, the company's data warehouse was too constricting; it accepted only structured data and required as long as six months to develop appropriate schemas.