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Europe's largest semiconductor chip maker, ST Microelectronics (ST), has partnered with Massachusetts-based WiTricity to develop integrated circuits for wireless power transfer.

The next release of OpenStack made its debut on Thursday with a raft of new features for better scalability and resiliency.

There's something new coming in the PC market: Growth. Sales volumes have hit bottom and will start to pick up from next year, say analysts at Gartner.

OpenStack, the oft-discussed open source cloud computing platform first developed by Rackspace and NASA a few years ago has just announced the 14th version of its software.

Google this week took the wraps off Google Home, its smart speaker and home entertainment hub, but questions remain about the impact the device will have on users' privacy.

Comcast and the biggest U.S. carriers are taking their long-running rivalry to the internet of things.

Weather disasters like Hurricane Matthew are pushing wireless carriers to test drones and other unmanned aircraft that can act as wireless hot spots for 4G LTE connections to help emergency responders.

The cost of rooftop solar installations continues to decline but not as quickly as it did in previous years, according to a report from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

The relationship between Google and Verizon is best summed up with the age-old adage: "It's complicated."

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission will push forward with controversial privacy regulations that would require broadband providers to get customer permission before using and sharing geolocation, browsing histories and other personal information.

More than a month ago, Microsoft quietly added a new support policy that dropped the company's decade of technical support for an open-ended product lifetime that could be terminated at Microsoft's discretion.

The data scientist role was thrust into the limelight early this year when it was named 2016's "hottest job," and there's been considerable interest in the position ever since. Just recently, the White House singled data scientists out with a special appeal for help.

When Dell acquired the integration vendor Boomi a few years ago, no one knew exactly what its intentions were. That lack of clarity only increased with news of the Dell-EMC merger and increasing divesting of non-core assets. So it's a safe bet that there are some happy people within Boomi (now more correctly called Dell Boomi) with news that their product was critical to a very thorny problem for Dell.

Smoke billowing from what appears to be a replacement Samsung Galaxy Note7 caused the evacuation on Wednesday of a Southwest jet on the ground in Louisville. No one was injured.

European Union privacy watchdogs are concerned by reports that Yahoo has been secretly scanning its users' email at the request of U.S. intelligence services.

Samsung Electronics has agreed to buy Viv Labs, an artificial-intelligence startup created by the team behind Siri.

The acquisition of digital assistant, Viv, has raised Samsung’s status to that of peer player in the smart devices wars, and while Apple is a traditional target, Google, Amazon, HTC and other Android maker also have much to fear.

7 ways you’re leaking leverage

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Leaking leverage in negotiations is a lot like leaking oil in a car — you won’t really notice it has happened until it’s too late. Vendors nearly always have an information advantage when it comes to negotiations. They are experts at gathering data, compiling research, asking questions and using other techniques to ferret out useful information to gain leverage. Here are seven ways you may be leaking leverage (without even knowing it) and how to stem the flow. Читать дальше...

No one likes it when everyone else has something they don't have.

It appears Samsung is no different. All its counterparts have an A.I.-powered virtual assistant, so why shouldn't it? Well, now it does. Samsung is buying Viv, the company started by the people behind Apple's Siri.  They built another virtual assistant, also named Viv. So when will we start seeing Viv show up on Samsung devices? And why is Samsung buying the it?

In IT Blogwatch, our virtual assistant has the answers. Читать дальше...

Lenovo may be about to increase its share of the shrinking PC business again: Japanese IT conglomerate Fujitsu is considering selling its PC manufacturing business, and Lenovo may be the buyer, Fujitsu said Thursday.

What Yahoo was looking for with its alleged email scanning program may have been signs of code used by a foreign terrorist group. 

Software is beginning to simplify one of the hardest kinds of networking: wide-area networks that link up an enterprise’s remote sites, branch offices, and data centers. Now AT&T is getting in on the game.

Five minutes. That's all it took for Christian Lang to uproot from the workspace he'd occupied for the past 18 months and move to a new spot.

IT pilot fish is assigned to support a software development project, so it's no surprise when he gets an email from one of the developers, who can no longer get remote access to his resources.

An age discrimination lawsuit against Google was approved Wednesday as a '"collective action" by a federal court judge in San Jose. The decision means that certain types of software engineers, age 40 or over, who were rejected for jobs at Google since August 2014, and after an in-person interview, will be able to join the lawsuit.