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Apple is taking a shot at Windows PCs with its new 9.7-inch iPad Pro tablet, calling it the "ultimate PC replacement."

This sounds like an ugly thing for a ham radio operator and director of a community radio station to say but: Clip your car’s antenna. Or stuff a wad of chewing gum into your car’s USB port, and perhaps its ODB2 port. Enough is enough.

A step backwards, or a return to smartphone sanity?

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The launch of the iPhone SE, the first new high-end phone in a while that retains the 4-inch form factor of old, will dominate most of the headlines about Apple’s announcement event today, but there was a lot more in there as well, including a new model iPad Pro, an iOS update, and even some wearable news. Here’s a first look.

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Linux network operating system vendor Cumulus Networks this week named a new CEO while its current CEO and co-founder takes over as CTO.

Apple and the FBI meet in court on Tuesday for the first hearing in the showdown over iPhone encryption, but this fight has been brewing since Apple introduced iOS 8 in June 2014.

Apple on Monday unveiled a new tablet in its lineup: the 9.7-inch iPad Pro. The new 9.7-inch iPad Pro is a follow-up to the 12.9-inch iPad Pro that was released last fall.

Many of us probably need a wi-fi extender, but have yet to pull the trigger. The deal currently on the table from TP-LINK may give you the nudge you needed. Their wi-fi range extender lists for $169.99, but at the moment you can purchase this for 43% below list price ($96.96 - See item on Amazon). 

As we all know, the public cloud has been growing incredibly fast. What may be less obvious is that growth is likely to continue even if the overall economy—and tech spending—slows.

As expected, Apple today introduced a new 4-inch iPhone for the first time in over two and a half years. Called the iPhone SE, Apple’s new 4-inch smartphone will give users who have been pining for an advanced device in a more compact form factor a whole a lot to get excited about. And with approximately 1/3 of iPhone users still using an iPhone 5s or previous model, it stands to reason that the iPhone SE will provide a strong impetus to upgrade.

There’s a new iPhone in town, and it looks pretty familiar. The iPhone SE, which is available to preorder on Thursday, is nearly identical to the iPhone 5s but has 6s guts, which makes it a compelling buy for people who love 4-inch phones but want the latest hardware features.

Apple has developed a new tool that deconstructs iPhones after they are returned. 

Apple and the U.S. Department of Justice will argue in court Tuesday about whether a judge should require the tech giant help the FBI unlock an iPhone used by the San Bernardino, California, mass shooter.

News this morning that Cumulus Networks' CEO and co-founder is stepping aside to give someone else a go at the role. JR Rivers, the incumbent CEO and one of the most respected people in the networking industry, has decided to step back to the CTO role and focus on technical direction.

Apple won't shrink from its responsibility to safeguard the privacy of its users, CEO Tim Cook said Monday, a day before Apple lawyers are due to face off with the Department of Justice in a California courtroom.

Enterprise adoption of Windows 10 is moving at a faster clip than previous operating-system updates as companies shrink the typical time frame allotted for planning, budgeting, testing and deployment of a new OS.

Engineers from some of the world's largest email service providers have banded together to improve the security of email traffic traversing the Internet.

Last week WikiLeaks launched the Hillary Clinton email archive; it’s described as “a searchable archive for 30,322 emails & email attachments sent to and from Hillary Clinton's private email server while she was Secretary of State. The 50,547 pages of documents span from 30 June 2010 to 12 August 2014. 7,570 of the documents were sent by Hillary Clinton.”

A Johns Hopkins team has decrypted iMessage photos by guessing character-by-character the key used to encrypt it, and Apple plans to release a new iOS version today that will fix the flaw.

Have you ever fantasized about giving a major carrier a taste of its own medicine? A group of professionals gathered on Reddit’s section devoted to networking did so over the weekend and their resulting handiwork is a hoot.

Is a teacher always necessary? It depends on the discipline. You'd be hard-pressed to teach yourself martial arts without a sensei, while three of the greatest guitarists who ever lived – Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Van Halen, and Stevie Ray Vaughn – were all self-taught.

Most large enterprises run remarkably secure WLANs. They minimize open-authentication access points – and those use captive portals – and implement WPA2-enterprise authentication and encryption protocols, which are very difficult to crack.

In a quirk of scheduling, South By Southwest, in Austin, Texas, and the Game Developers’ Conference, in San Francisco, went head to head last week. SXSW got most of the mainstream attention, but I’d argue that the GDC is where the real work of building the future of technology is being done.

Top 25 free apps for Windows 7 and 8.1

It’s been nearly two years since we surveyed the best free programs for Windows desktops. Much has happened since then -- most notably the advent of Windows 10 and the explosion of tremendously useful applications and services in the cloud.

Apple later today will take a step back in time and unveil a smaller iPhone in an effort to boost sales by expanding its portfolio, according to several analysts.

Sometimes, the best way to fix deep-seated Windows issues is to burn everything to the ground and start from scratch. Reinstalling Windows refreshes the operating system, which gets rid of most corruption, errors, and viruses. Microsoft has tried to make this process easier with the Refresh and Reset features starting with Windows 8, but power users still might consider a good ol’ format and clean install. A clean install using a stock Windows disc or flash drive also gets rid of programs and bloatware installed from the factory. Читать дальше...