By: ERIC AUCHARD Industry experts believe innovation in smartphones is giving way to phone functions popping up as software or services in all manner of new devices from cars to fridges to watches and jewellery rather than remaining with handheld devices.… Continue Reading
By: Patricia Titus, Visual Privacy Advisory Council An organization’s IT department or chief information security officer (CISO) is typically responsible for providing security-awareness training, but the HR department may be more effective in influencing the necessary behavior changes to help stop… Continue Reading
Hackers demanded a ransom from two more Southern California hospitals last week and federal authorities are investigating the case. Prime Healthcare Services Inc., a fast-growing national hospital chain, said the attackers infiltrated computer servers on Friday at two of its… Continue Reading
By: Jared Newman Intel’s Nvidia deal is set to expire on March 17, 2017, and a recent report by Bloomberg claimed that Intel is now looking to cut a deal with AMD instead. (Strangely, the report does not appear on Bloomberg’s… Continue Reading
By: Lev Grossman The spectacle of Apple, the most admired company in the world, refusing to aid the FBI in a domestic-terrorism investigation has inflamed public passions in a way that, it’s safe to say, nothing involving encryption algorithms and the… Continue Reading
By: Andrew Cunningham The good news is that the iPhone SE has the same 2GB of RAM as the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus despite its smaller size and lower price. The not as good news is that the 9.7-inch iPad… Continue Reading
By: Jennifer Elias The Internet of Things has officially advanced past the “hype” stage, according to conference panelists including a Google developer. At the Bluetooth World conference in Santa Clara, California on Tuesday, Wayne Piekarski, a senior developer advocate for Google,… Continue Reading
By: Grant Gross Makers of wearable computing devices will ship 110 million products in 2016, a big increase from 2015, with Android Wear smartwatches starting to catch up to Apple watchOS devices, IDC predicted. The number of wearable devices shipped during… Continue Reading
By: Mary Jo Foley Instead of cutting off full, extended support for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 on Skylake on July 17, 2017, Microsoft will now guarantee full extended support to July 17, 2018 on the set list of devices… Continue Reading