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Intel has missed out on the iPhone party until now, ceding big business to other chip makers in the process. But that could be about to change.

Sending packages by airplane is nothing new, but the task could soon be taken over by drones.

Facebook is trying to ride the wave of interest in videos by allowing users to upload videos into their comments and replies.

Many companies protect their brands by registering domain names that are slight variations on their own, but manufacturers of industrial control systems don't seem to have followed suit, potentially leaving customers open to attack.

The Series 9 electric shaver from Braun is packed with features and claims to be its most efficient and comfortable shaver for skin. Its Syncrosonic shaving head pivots and adapts fully to your facial contours. It contains four specialized cutting elements that promise to remove more hair than any other shaver, aligning and cutting hair growing in all directions. It's 100% waterproof up to five meters, so you can use this in and out of the shower without a second thought. An integrated trimmer... Читать дальше...

Microsoft has not gone for the nuclear option with Windows 10 -- forcing the new operating system on consumers and small businesses now running older editions -- but it has tiptoed close to that line.

Analyzing online activities can provide clues as to a person's chances of having cancer, Microsoft researchers showed in a paper published this week.

Now you see it; now you don't.

As any Android fan can tell you, Google's become a bit notorious for changing its mind about Android features over the years. The company has a history of launching new concepts or ideas, promoting them as the way of the future -- and then, a short time later, casually flip-flopping and going back to the way things were before.

I'm not even talking about the semi-frequent axing of standalone Google apps. I'm talking about broad ideas introduced to the platform and then reversed soon after. Читать дальше...

There is passion on both sides of the Android-versus-iPhone debate, but even as Google offers iPhone apps, Apple is developing apps for Android, which is why thousands of Android users will be waiting to see if Apple has any news for them at next week’s WWDC.

Users worried about being caught up in the recent leak of more than 32 million Twitter login credentials should already know if they’ve been hacked. Twitter confirmed on Friday that it was notifying users whose valid login credentials were recently being passed around on the so-called ‘dark web.’ The account credential leak became public after LeakedSource published the collection on Wednesday. LeakedSource maintains a database of nearly two billion online account credential leaks.

I'm often asked, “When will the Internet of Things materially impact me or my organization?” Given the enormous amount of hype associated with the IoT, the question is reasonable. Fortunately, history offers us a guide to how this is likely to play out. Let’s quickly look at the factors that have typically brought new technologies into common use:

Tom Perkins, co-founder of Kleiner-Perkins, has died. He was 84.

Since the early 1970s, he’d been responsible for much of the creation and growth of venture-capital in the San Francisco bay area. He essentially created Sand Hill Road and its VC industry.

Without seeking to minimize the work of Sherman Fairchild, Fred Terman, Bill Hewlett, nor Dave Packard, Silicon Valley wouldn’t be what it is without him. In IT Blogwatch, may he rest in peace.

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In a letter to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), lawyers for the National Retail Federation (NRF) tried to take down PCI, making an impassioned plea that the government not give any more clout to a standards body that is fully controlled by the card brands, including Visa and MasterCard.

Twitter said it had locked down and called for a password reset of some accounts after an unconfirmed claim of a leak of nearly 33 million usernames and passwords to the social network.

A new Mozilla fund, called Secure Open Source, aims to provide security audits of open-source code, following the discovery of critical security bugs like Heartbleed and Shellshock in key pieces of the software.

In a consumer market filled with entry-level 3D printers, startup New Matter was able to garner nearly twice its crowdfunding goals last year (and raise $6.5 million in a series A funding round) to begin production of its minimalist 3D desktop printer -- the MOD-t.

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New graduates aren’t just bringing their skills and experience to the workplace – they’re also bringing poor cybersecurity habits. Recent studies have shown Millennials are generally indifferent about data security. With many new grads choosing to use applications and devices that have not been approved by corporate IT, there is no easy way to monitor usage to ensure data remains secure.

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IT consultant pilot fish gets a message from a longtime client: An employee whose workplace is in the big downtown Amtrak-and-commuter-rail station has been having trouble with his email, and his manager wants fish to check it out.

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