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IBM's Watson Smartens Up iOS Enterprise Apps

IBM on Tuesday announced that it will incorporate its IBM Watson cognitive capabilities into the MobileFirst for iOS ecosystem to help boost the productivity of the global workforce. It was a little more than two years ago that the company entered a groundbreaking partnership with Apple to enhance the mobile enterprise space....

Microsoft's New Tech Targets Human Creativity

Microsoft made a slew of announcements at its New York City event Wednesday, focusing on the idea of user as creator Among its new offerings:...

Tech on TV: A Little Realism Goes a Long Way

Watching TV shows often requires the suspension of disbelief -- that is, a willingness to press pause on one's critical faculties in order to believe the unbelievable. Realism often must besecondary to story, in other words. This very often is necessary when computers are used to advance plot lines, when programmers and hackers alike can bang away on their keyboards and produce tremendous results in seconds...

GADGET DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES

Gadget Ogling: Magnificent Mics, Intriguing E-Ink, and Compact Computers

Welcome to Gadget Dreams and Nightmares, the column that's emerging from the shadows of this mind-crushingly terrible election season to pore over the latest gadget announcements On our ballot this time around are a microphone that can plug into an iPhone or iPad, a smartphone case with an E-ink display, and a flexible keyboard that houses an entir...

Google's Jamboard Aids Enterprise Brainstorming Sessions

Google on Tuesday announced Jamboard, a digital whiteboard for collaboration in the cloud.It's compatible with G Suite and Google Search, as well as Google Drive. Users can collaborate and broadcast their work globally through Google Hangouts Jamboard has a 55-inch 4K display with touchscreen functionality, a built-in HD camera, speakers, and WiFi...

Social Media Analytics, Meet Big Brother

The American Civil Liberties Union recently uncovered evidence that led Twitter, Facebook and its Instagram subsidiary to stop sharing data with Geofeedia, a firm accused of improperly collecting social media data on protest groups, and sharing that information with numerous law enforcement agencies Geofeedia, a developer of location-based analytic...

Angry Customers Likely to Ditch Wells Fargo's Wagon

Wells Fargo Bank will lose customers in droves because of the scandal over fraudulently opened accounts and other issues, based on the results of an online survey cg42 conducted last week More than 85 percent of the respondents -- 1,500 primary customers of the top 10 U.S. retail banks, including 1,000 Wells Fargo customers -- were aware of the sc...

Antique Kernel Flaw Opens Door to New Dirty Cow Exploit

A Linux security vulnerability first discovered more than a decade ago once again poses a threat, Red Hat warned last week, as an exploit that could allow attackers to gain enhanced privileges on affected computers has turned up in the wild Users need to take steps to patch their systems to prevent the exploit, known as "Dirty Cow," from granting a...

Twitter May Kick 300 Employees Out of Its Nest

Twitter appears close to slashing another 300 jobs, or about 8 percent of its workforce, as it works to recover from a failed round of acquisition talks with several suitors The job cuts likely would be in sales, Bloomberg reported Monday, citing unnamed sources. Twitter might be taking steps to make itself look more attractive to investors in prep...

Microsoft Event: Come for Windows, Stay for Surface

Microsoft's Windows 10 event, scheduled for Wednesday, actually could focus more on hardware than on the operating system, given that the next Windows 10 refresh is expected in March A new Surface device -- possibly an all-in-one computer with a 21-inch or larger screen -- could be in the offing....

ANALYST CORNER

Batterygate Will Kill Samsung's Holiday Shopping Season

When news of Samsung's Batterygate first surfaced, I think that mine may have been the only voice saying the Samsung brand would suffer significant damage, but the company didn't realize it yet. It was lonely, but lately others have come to agree. Samsung now is going through one of the most painful times any company ever has endured. Its brand is...

Battlefield 1: Big, Bombastic and Very Loosely Based

If filmmaker Michael Bay -- known for over-the-top films such as the Transformers series -- were to decide to make a film about World War I, and if he chose to rely on comic books as his research materials, the result would be very much like Electronic Arts' newly released video game Battlefield 1.

New MacBook Will Headline Apple's Thursday Show

A refresh of Apple's flagship laptop, the MacBook Pro, likely will be the highlight of an event scheduled for this Thursday at the company's headquarters in Cupertino, California The update to its flagship MacBook line couldn't come at a more critical time. ...

AT&T, Time Warner Brace for Regulatory Firestorm

AT&T and Time Warner on Saturday announced they had reached a merger deal, setting off alarm bells across the industry. AT&T has agreed to buy Time Warner for US$85.4 billion. At least a year's worth of regulatory scrutiny, public hearings and political maneuvering is expected. The deal, which followed days of speculation and tightly held negotiat...

AT&T, Time Warner Brace for Regulatory Firestorm

AT&T and Time Warner on Saturday announced they had reached a merger deal, setting off alarm bells across the industry. AT&T has agreed to buy Time Warner for US$85.4 billion. At least a year's worth of regulatory scrutiny, public hearings and political maneuvering is expected. The deal, which followed days of speculation and tightly held negotiat...

AT&T, Time Warner Brace for Regulatory Firestorm

AT&T and Time Warner on Saturday announced they had reached a merger deal, setting off alarm bells across the industry. AT&T has agreed to buy Time Warner for US$85.4 billion. At least a year's worth of regulatory scrutiny, public hearings and political maneuvering is expected. The deal, which followed days of speculation and tightly held negotiat...

OPINION

Why Large Companies Can't Innovate

One of the things that has made Dell World very different is that at the end, one or more controversial speakers take the stage and provide an incredible amount of insight for the folks who haven't left early All three of the last three speakers were fascinating, but it wasn't until I wove all three speeches together that it became clear to me why ...

DDoS Attack Causes Waves of Internet Outages

Hundreds of websites -- including those of biggies such as Netflix, Twitter and Spotify -- on Friday fell prey to massive DDoS attacks that cut off access to Internet users on the East Coast and elsewhere across the United States Three attacks were launched over a period of hours against Internet performance management company Dyn, which provides s...

Linux Foundation Spurs JavaScript Development

The Linux Foundation earlier this week announced the addition of the JS Foundation as a Linux Foundation project. The move is an effort to inject new energy into the JavaScript developer community By rebranding the former JQuery foundation as the JS Foundation and bringing it under the Linux umbrella, officials hope to create some stability and bui...

T-Mobile Fined $48M for Pulling Wool Over Customers' Eyes

The United States Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday announced that T-Mobile has agreed to a penalty of US$48 million for misleading customers about restrictions on its so-called unlimited data plans The company failed to inform subscribers to unlimited plans on its wireless networks and those of MetroPCS, which it owns, that their data...

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