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These headphones from Sound Intone fit comfortably over your ears and isolate your music while reducing outside noise. They connect via Bluetooth, and feature a generous 6 hour play time per charge. They fold up nicely when not in use and feature a scratch-resistant coating, making them ideal to take with you when travelling. Control your music right from the headset with play/pause/next/previous buttons. And a built-in microphone comes in handy for taking calls. That's a pretty full set of features... Читать дальше...

Microsoft's big Ignite conference for IT pros wrapped up at the end of September, and that means the company offered a variety of new cloud capabilities to attract people to Azure. Here's what you need to know.

Almost 6,000 online shops have been compromised by hackers who added specially crafted code that intercepts and steals payment card details.

Some of the early reports on faulty Samsung Galaxy Note7 smartphones that caused burns and property damage have been invalidated, significantly reducing the number of incidents.

iOS 10 adoption continued to climb a month after its release, with some sources pegging the upgrade on more than two-thirds of iPhones.

The U.S. government will invest tens of millions of dollars in smart-city technologies and in small-satellite broadband as part of a $300 million package focused on innovation.

Using Google's new Assistant feature feels like the future. And in many ways, it is.

Cisco Systems patched a critical vulnerability that could allow hackers to gain access to Cisco Meeting and Acano servers that are used in enterprise environments for video and audio conferencing.

Step your Halloween game up with this powerful but lightweight 1200W fog machine that pumps out 3,500 cubic feet of creepy fog per minute. That's enough thick fog to easily fill a garage, a pathway, or a porch, but the output density is adjustable with multiple settings. It averages 4 out of 5 stars on Amazon from over 600 people (read reviews). Its typical list price of $92.99 has been reduced 11% to $82.99 (see it on Amazon). If you just don't need that much fog, 1byone has a 400W model that... Читать дальше...

Apple watchers may remember when the company had to recall a product following incidents in which the battery caught fire. That was the ill-fated PowerBook 5300 series, though, in Apple’s defense, the recall was fast, voluntary and only a few hundred units had been sold.

Are you part of a team that seems plodding, downtrodden or dejected? Do you manage a group prone to infighting among individuals or conflict between factions? Do you go to work every day filled with dread that you’ll be surrounded by people exuding negative emotions? If so, you’re not alone. Unfortunately, this describes far too many IT groups and project teams.

It's not everyday that you hear about Google and Facebook teaming up.

But that is exactly what they are doing. The two companies announced they have invested in a trans-Pacific submarine fiber optic cable that will be among the fastest ever built. So what are the details?

In IT Blogwatch, we have a need for speed. 

So what is going on? Chris Preimesberger has the background:

In a bid to retain customers, Samsung Electronics is giving larger financial incentives to people who choose to exchange the ill-fated Galaxy Note7 for another smartphone from the company, rather than seek a refund.

If dispersing data among storage nodes can make it more secure and less prone to loss, wouldn’t spreading it across far-flung cloud data centers make it even more so?

The age of shadow IT

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In 2015, 35 percent of IT spend was managed outside of IT departments, and by 2017, Gartner predicts that CMOs alone will spend more on IT services than CIOs. This includes both insecure and secure cloud apps and services that employees and business units are increasingly adopting without ITs knowledge or oversight – a movement known as Shadow IT. Today, every department from accounting to engineering is stealthily adopting these cloud services, causing... Читать дальше...

In September, Dell and EMC finalized the largest ever merger of tech companies, creating privately held Dell Technologies - a "family" of companies that provides everything from PCs to hyperconverged infrastructure with annual revenue of some $75 billion. Ahead of next week's Dell EMC World conference, CEO Michael Dell spoke with IDG Chief Content Officer John Gallant about what Dell and EMC customers can expect -- in sales, service, product integration -- from this landscape-altering combination. Читать дальше...

Property management company is a client of this consultant pilot fish's firm, and he's the one who takes the call from an older employee who's having big problems with her wireless mouse.

At a time when the configuration management market was dominated by Puppet and Chef, an open source project called Ansible emerged with a simpler approach to automating IT environments. An agentless system that was easy to learn, Ansible quickly earned a name for itself. Before long, the developers behind the project formed a company to offer commercial support. That company -- first known as AnsibleWorks, then Ansible -- was acquired by open source leader Red Hat in October 2015.