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Cisco Systems has released a new batch of security patches this week for flaws affecting a wide range of products, including for a critical vulnerability in its RV220W wireless network security firewalls.

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission said Thursday that broadband networks are growing too slowly to meet the country's needs. A startup called Starry launched this week promising to roll out broadband faster using wireless, but the track record for companies doing that isn't good.

Microsoft yesterday again reported a decline in revenue for the group responsible for Windows, the Surface line of 2-in-1s and notebooks, and smartphones, in 2015's fourth quarter. But the contraction was smaller than the period immediately prior.

Breaking encryption technology used by terrorists and criminals poses a frustrating dilemma for intelligence agencies and, most recently, congressional lawmakers.

As wireless charging adoption continues to show double-digit annual growth rates, industry pundits have openly wondered when Apple's iPhone would finally take the plunge.

If you're in the market for an iPad, chances are you're not considering a refurbished model. Why would you want to inherit someone else's problems when you could buy new and be guaranteed that it's clean and trouble-free? That's where Apple's "certified refurbished" program comes in.

Now that "data scientist" has been named this year's hottest job, it's only natural to wonder if you've got what it takes to fill it.

The email address on file for an Amazon.com account should never be used anywhere else for anything.

With banks of big-screens high along three walls and a huge TV on the fourth, it could be a great spot to watch The Super Bowl. But when the Denver Broncos take on the Carolina Panthers on Feb. 7, the people in this room won't be concerned with touchdowns, running yards and time outs. They'll be analyzing gigabits, latency and capacity to make sure Verizon's cellular network holds up for fans.

The IT employees at Northeast Utilities in Connecticut tried to save their jobs. The contacted local media, local politicians. They told anyone who would listen what was going on. 

Two days from their deadline, U.S. and European Union negotiators still have no replacement for the transatlantic data-transfer agreement overturned last year by the EU's top court.

The IT employees at Northeast Utilities in Connecticut tried to save their jobs. The contacted local media, local politicians. They told anyone who would listen what was going on. 

In the retail battle of the drones, who would have guessed that Google would be more practical than Amazon? Of course, in the universe of retail flying drones, it's depressing what passes for practical these days.

Is your business going in the right direction? Is your business dealing with internal conflict or chaos given the market conditions? Most industry sectors such as energy and healthcare have seen near double-digit percentage declines in recent months. With commodities falling back, 401(k) pensions losing value and businesses rethinking strategies to stay solvent, everyone, whether personally or in business, is impacted by the global strain.

Microsoft today announced a technical preview of Azure Stack. Azure Stack allows an organization to install its own private version of the publicly available Microsoft Azure cloud platform. As with the public cloud offering, Azure Stack offers both infrastructure- and platform-level functionality. As such, Azure Stack can be thought of as a combination or a competitor to both OpenStack and Cloud Foundry.

There has been some concern that Windows 10 gathers far too much private information from users. Whether you think Microsoft's operating system crosses the privacy line, or just want to make sure you protect as much of your personal life as possible, we're here to help. Here's how to protect your privacy in just a few minutes.

Tech giants leading the parental leave policies pack

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This pilot fish has a side business of helping home users set up their new PCs, so he often ends up with the unwanted older machines to dispose of.

The OpenSSL project has patched a problem in the cryptographic library but one that likely does not affect many popular applications.

Over 50 years ago, Xerox introduced photocopiers based on a dry process called xerography that largely did away with the requirement of carbon copies of documents. So popular was the concept and the technology that in many markets users didn't ask for a photocopy but a 'xerox' of a document.

LG has patched a security flaw in an application preinstalled on millions of its Android G3 smartphones that researchers found could be used to steal a variety of data.

Facebook has just given developers a year to stop relying on its hosted Parse services, announcing it will shut down the services it acquired when it purchased the company of the same name in 2013. 

Microsoft is betting on reinventing itself as a cloud company, and the financial results it released Thursday show that its push is paying off despite an overall decline in revenue. 

Profits from Amazon's cloud division jumped 69 percent last quarter, but the rest of its business fared less well.

IT workers are challenging the replacement of U.S. employees with foreign visa holders. Lawsuits are on the rise and workers are contacting lawmakers. Disney workers who lost their jobs on Jan. 30, 2015, are especially aggressive.