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Enterprise interest in Windows 10, getting onto it and off Windows 7, is at an unprecedented level, research firm Gartner said today.

File-encrypting ransomware applications that target Android devices are becoming increasingly sophisticated. One new such program is using clickjacking techniques to trick users into granting it administrator privileges.

Business users who rely on cloud storage providers like Dropbox and Box now have some improved tools in their collaboration arsenal, thanks to a set of integrations that Microsoft announced Wednesday. 

AT&T and Verizon — the nation's two biggest carriers — are seeing their traditional U.S. wireless businesses shrink, having suffered from an ongoing price war and declining buyer interest in new smartphones.

You see a friend's Facebook post about the death of a pet, the loss of a job or an annoying encounter they had at work. You want to acknowledge the post but you don't want to click the Like button. Those aren't likeable posts.

Cathy Kehler, a 50-something church worker who'd never had a serious illness, was diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer last spring.

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Just how bad are conditions in the smartphone market? We'll get a better idea later Wednesday when Samsung announces its latest quarterly earnings.

While ARM processors don't lack for mobile software development support, it's a different story when it comes to servers.

I remember half a dozen years ago when I saw, for the first time, a document being authored by multiple people, in multiple locations, simultaneously. What Google Docs enabled was kind of like rocket science, admittedly in a rather geeky way. All of a sudden the traditional model of emailing files backwards and forwards was replaced by something more like a real world way of working. Of course, sometimes that ability gets a little skewed and we've all probably seen crazy examples of simultaneously created documents going wild. Читать дальше...

I dissed the Cortana app for iOS. Yet, I use Outlook for iOS as my main email app on both the iPhone and the iPad. Now, Microsoft has made a news app called News Pro that competes directly with Flipboard, the News app from Apple, and countless other readers.

PayPal has fixed a serious vulnerability in its back-end management system that could have allowed attackers to execute arbitrary commands on the server and potentially install a backdoor.

Big telcos including Verizon and AT&T have joined a Facebook-led project to build low-cost computing hardware, posing a fresh challenge for network vendors like Cisco and Juniper.

There was a time long ago when IBM ruled the cloud, although no one used that word back then. The company’s mainframe line in the 1960s and '70s was the original distant and unseen pile of metal and silicon meant to be shared among all users. Each program got a slice of the big machine’s time, and everyone understood they were “time sharing,” which sounds a bit more precise than the amorphous word “cloud.”

Apple yesterday said it sold 5.3 million Macs in the December quarter, a 3% decline from the same period the year before.

Someone in Israel's Electricity Authority, a government department charged with providing utility services, fell for a phishing attack, opened an email and thereby was infected with ransomware which reportedly spread to other computers in the network. Yet the department chose to take the computers offline. Details are somewhat sketchy, but it appears that the media heard “electric,” “paralyzed” and “severe cyber attack” before reporting the Israeli power grid was hacked and taken down.

Apple reported record Q1 revenue yesterday, warning that Q2 iPhone sales may shrink slightly because global economic and social instability is bad for business. Wall Street responded its usual way and abandoned ship.

Sony plans to shift its global headquarters for PlayStation from Tokyo to California this year, it said Tuesday.

Oracle has raised questions whether a version of Google's Android operating system running OpenJDK code will get an open-source license.

AppDirect today announced that it has acquired Radialpoint. So who is Radialpoint and why does this deal make sense?

Lenovo has patched several software flaws in a file-sharing utility, which could allow attackers to browse and make copies of files.

VMware is cutting about 800 jobs as it transitions from its traditional products to newer, emerging technologies.

If you run software for a business, take note: Vendors are watching you closely.

IT pilot fish working for this small California city gets a request passed along by the city clerk -- and it's not exactly something that will improve life for taxpayers.

iPhone sales are flat: The best Apple can say is that last quarter didn't see a drop, but next quarter will. Cupertino simply can no longer rely on the iPhone to move the graph up and to the right.