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Quantum computing sounds like something out of Star Trek, even when explained at the simplest of levels, but it's a field the tech sector is anxious to crack because of the enormous leap in computation power it offers. Google and IBM have spent a lot of money on their projects, and now Microsoft is bringing its considerable research facilities to bear.

LifeLock, the identity protection vendor that Symantec today said it would acquire for $2.3 billion, has been the frequent target of lawsuits filed by customers, state attorneys general and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

The internet of things is so complex that some enterprises would rather turn to one vendor to determine the business case for an IoT deployment, design the system, roll it out, and operate it as a service.

We don't usually think of drones as operating over open water, but Aerovel's Flexrotor drone was designed to do just that.

Make sure it is a holly jolly time of the year

As IT Ops teams prepare for the holiday season, which in retail is the busiest time of the year for web traffic, the team at BigPanda, along with other vendors, have prepared a checklist of the key factors IT Ops teams need to consider to ensure their IT infrastructure is ready.

This tire pressure guage from Fovsal features a lighted nozzle and display screen for ultimate visibility in low light, and doubles as a vehicle emergency tool with LED flashlight, car window breaker, seat belt cutter, and red safety light.  It averages 4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon, where its typical list price of $20 has been reduced 46% to just $10.87. See it now on Amazon.

Next week sees tens of thousands of individuals descend upon Las Vegas for Amazon Web Service (AWS) reInvent conference, an annual event at which the company that literally invented cloud computing will be showcasing its latest product innovations, customer wins and associated goodness.

If you’ve been waiting for a replacement 802.11ac AirPort Express or hoped for some improvements in Time Machine, then stop hoping on strength of claims Apple has ceased development of its AirPort range of products.

Oracle plans to acquire internet performance and DNS provider Dyn in an effort to pump up its cloud-based offerings and challenge infrastructure and platform service leaders like Amazon and Microsoft.

Regrets? These former CIOs have a few. In exit interviews, six ex-CIOs say they wish they’d spent more time engaged with business strategy, studied human psychology or gotten an MBA.

A peek inside a typical small business today will likely reveal lots of wireless devices, with little, if any, wired hardware in evidence. Problems could occur, however, if the small business deploys consumer-centric access points targeted at home users.

Expect to hear more, not less, about ransomware next year.

A recent survey of 500 businesses revealed that nearly half were slammed by a ransomware attack within the last 12 months; 85 percent suffered from three or more attacks, with six being the average for how many times an organization was a victim of ransomware.

If you narrow the SentinelOne survey (pdf) down from cybersecurity decision makers in US, UK, France and Germany, to look at only US respondents, then 50 percent admitted... Читать дальше...

Aiming to boost its consumer security business, Symantec is acquiring LifeLock, a vendor of identity protection services, for US$2.3 billion in enterprise value.

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service has asked a court in California to order Coinbase, a Bitcoin exchange, to hand over the identities of active U.S. users of its service from the beginning of 2013 to the end of 2015.

Returning to the controversy over fake news on the social networking site, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said over the weekend that the company was working with fact-checking organizations to put in place third-party verification of the authenticity of news on its site.

First Samsung, now Apple. Battery problems in smartphones are all the rage these days.

Apple has said that a few iPhone 6S smartphones are unexpectedly shutting down, confirming a problem reported last week by a Chinese consumer protection group.

Digital transformation is a popular buzzphrase with various definitions. But while there may be confusion about what the term means, the bottom line for the initiatives it’s used to describe is always the same: Did the project deliver results? At these 25 organizations, the answer is yes.

Macy's this month made its debut appearance within Alibaba's Singles' Day in China. Well, sort of. It participated via a virtual reality shopping tour app featuring Macy's New York City flagship, which bills itself as the world's largest department store.

This government agency requires its employees to change their passwords every month, according to a computer security officer pilot fish working there -- so eventually users should get the hang of the process, right?