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Boeing is looking to clean up one of the smallest and dirtiest component of travel—the commercial airplane toilet.

Microsoft's Edge browser made gains in user and usage share last month, but the default browser of Windows 10 remained the choice of a minority of users -- according to some sources, a very small minority.

The new Juniper Networks liaison between the company’s engineering team and its customers says it will take time, but Juniper’s software defined security networking (SDSN) will eventually support third-party devices to help build security into the network fabric itself.

Dropbox has long been an incredibly popular choice for cloud file storage and sync, and the company announced Monday it hit an important milestone: It has 500 million registered users. 

When IBM's Deep Blue beat chess champion Garry Kasparov back in 1997, the world was agog over AI's potential. This week, Google DeepMind's AlphaGo system will face an even tougher test in a series of matches against a top-ranked master in the ancient game of Go.

More and more enterprise organizations are planning and deploying into cloud platforms. This trend is occurring despite organizations' historical push-back on cloud services claiming that they are less secure than private on-premises data centers.  Even though there is evidence to suggest that cloud application attacks are on the rise, there are best practice methods to secure cloud services. 

The concept of “as-a-service” or pay-per-use has become pervasive across the IT industry. The value proposition of as a service is that businesses can pay for things as a monthly subscription over a long period of time instead of having to fork over huge sums of money now. Traditional procurement methods create incredibly lumpy spending patterns as a one-time purchase is made at year zero and then minimal spend is made over the next several years until the next upgrade when the cycle starts again. Читать дальше...

Apple will pay US$450 million as a settlement for e-book price fixing after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the company's appeal of a lower court's antitrust ruling.

Verizon Wireless, in a settlement over its use of so-called supercookies to track mobile customers, will notify them about its targeted advertising practices and will obtain their permission before sharing personal identifiers with third parties.

Over the last 15 years or so, Apple's Mac platform has traditionally been a much safer computing environment than Windows. Of course, this wasn't necessarily due to OS X having incredibly stronger security protections, but was rather a reflection of the fact that hackers were prone to targeting Windows given its stature as the most commonly used OS on the planet.

Longtime Network World reader John Obeto makes this observation on Twitter: “Madness is where a paperback costs less delivered via Amazon Prime than a Kindle version!”

The worlds of networking, computing, science and inventions in general have lost some pioneering figures in 2016, from those who brought us networked email to the earliest PCs to movie icons. Here we pay tribute to those innovators.

As Bank of America has undergone a massive transformation of its technical infrastructure during the past few years, there’s one emerging technology the financial firm is not using: IaaS public cloud.

RSA 2016 was a whirlwind of meetings, discussions, and cocktail parties.  Now that I’m back home and have had a weekend to reflect on the conference, here are a few words to describe my impressions of this year’s show.

Generic top-level domains (gTLDs) that have sprung up in recent years have become a magnet for cybercriminals, to the point where some of them host more malicious domains than legitimate ones.

With the passing this weekend of Ray Tomlinson, the man largely credited with inventing email, I couldn’t help reflecting on the enduring nature of his creation. Even as teenagers live on Instagram and Snapchat, for me and millions upon millions of other professionals, email remains the staple of our business lives—and often our personal lives as well.

In-flight Internet provider Gogo plans to boost access speeds after a legal spat with customer American Airlines over slow service.

Among the waves of noise, mutterings of threats, analysis, BYOD demands, the Great Fear of IoT, and the hyper-ptui of sales blather, I saw something at RSA. Call it a security crocus, that first brave flower of people paying attention.

Logitech spends a lot of time telling the market about its agnostic approach when it comes to videoconferencing. The company, which makes a host of videoconferencing hardware aimed across the spectrum from solo meetings through to large group events, is decidedly agnostic when it comes to software. Logitech proudly supports a plethora of different videoconferencing platforms, from Skype to Zoom, from Join.me to Google Hangouts

In case you hadn’t noticed, 2016 has started with big momentum for mainframes – including IBM introducing the new z13s. It is always gratifying when something you believe in, against herd mentality, comes to pass. It is far too soon to say that skepticism about mainframes has passed, but the media and analysts are certainly telling a different story than they did a year ago. A major reason is a development I have been excited about for some time: the hybrid cloud.

Welcome to the club, OS X users, since you are now vulnerable to ransomware infections and popular cybercriminal extortion schemes. The Transmission BitTorrent client has the dubious honor of being chosen as the first target to deliver Mac ransomware.

When CompTIA conducted an intensive examination of the IT employment market last year, it uncovered demand for jobs whose titles would have been meaningless only a year or two ago: augmented reality designer, Internet of things architect, container developers.

With the release candidate for the latest version of its Visual Studio IDE, Microsoft is offering better C/C++ operations and has fixed a number of performance issues.

Where's a good place to find a job in technology? Texas, New York, Florida, Massachusetts, and Washington are all strong players, but California continues to be tops for tech employment, often by a wide margin.

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The Verizon RISK Team performs cyber investigations for hundreds of commercial enterprises and government agencies annually across the globe. In 2015, they investigated more than 500 cybersecurity incidents. They shared some of the details in a recent report of how they solved the cyber crimes.

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