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Microsoft this week started selling a new premium-priced corporate Office 365 plan at $35 per user per month, a 59% increase from its previous top-of-the-line bundle.

Big data breaches made big news in 2015 as measured by a variety of criteria that range from the number of records compromised to the types of data stolen to the potential threat to specific groups such as children.

Cisco has fixed a vulnerability in its WebEx Meetings application for Android that allowed potentially rogue applications to hijack its permissions.

Adoption of Apple's OS X El Capitan slowed significantly in November, with the upgrade pace falling behind that of its predecessor at the same point in the 2014 edition's post-launch timeline.

Mozilla Foundation has kicked off its annual fund-raising drive by placing the pitch on the home page of Mozilla Corp.'s Firefox browser.

Following the birth of their first child, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan announced that they will give away 99 percent of their Facebook shares, currently worth about $45 billion, to a new charity the couple has founded.

HP has an, ahem, checkered history when it comes to the cloud. Its OpenStack-based public cloud was launched, re-launched, rebranded, bolstered with the acquisition of Eucalyptus, had leaders, new leaders, and even newer leaders and was finally nixed in the undeniable face of commercial failure. Following on from the shuttering of public Helion, HP is trying another tack and announcing a partnership with Microsoft to offer customers integrated hybrid cloud deployments which take HP hardware and Microsoft's Azure cloud operating system. Читать дальше...

Fundraising news is interesting, but it's even more interesting when it's about a company that powers a large number of massive retail brands. That is the case for Bluecore, which counts Staples, Cabelas and BCBG among its 160 or so blue-chip retail customers. The company is adding $1 million in annual recurring revenue every 45 days, an incredibly impressive feat and one part of the reason for the eagerness with which people (both customers and investors) are giving Bluecore cash.

Have you ever taken a wrong turn or been given a strange route via a map app while driving? What if a license plate reader were to scan your plate, get your home address, and generate a “Dear John” letter which is snail-mailed to your house where your significant other opens the letter to learn you had been soliciting prostitutes? Los Angeles City Council hopes the damning “Dear John” letters will be opened by wives, girlfriends or mothers in order to shame men who solicit prostitutes.

Want to keep track of how technology is advancing? Just get behind the wheel. These cars and trucks use technology to make driving easier and safer. They show how interfaces in cars are becoming more intuitive and sync to your smartphone, but also use artificial intelligence to maintain speed and steer automatically as you drive on the highway.

Enterprise innovation is more than just ideas. It needs to be combined with data, design and a culture willing to adopt it for companies to truly deliver exceptional customer experiences. There has never before been more opportunity for organizations to achieve measurable and dramatic results, and I predict several critical trends over the coming year that will determine leaders and laggards in the evolving enterprise IT space:

Survey says: The Apple Watch owners who’ve stopped using the device tell us why. Apparently, it doesn’t give them enough value, it’s limited, slow, or it gets poor battery life.

Can intelligent systems help data scientists? I recognize this is a massive, far-reaching question but it’s one that we need to consider and a question that inspired last week’s gathering of executives from around the world. O’Reilly’s Next: Economy conference, an event dedicated to addressing the transformation of work and business in the digital age, was an opportunity to closely examine the specific business models and industries being rapidly upended.

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Apple Watch seems set to be a big seller this season, so you may as well learn what to do with it.

The University of Oklahoma has begun rolling out beacon technology to help students find study rooms and class information in its central library and other buildings by using their smartphones as they move about the vast campus in Norman, Okla.

It's a couple years ago, and this pilot fish gets a complaint from the organization's business manager about the voice mail alert on her phone.

A few months ago I wrote an article detailing how one email vendor, Campaign Monitor, was branching out from its traditional email campaign management approach and offering a transactional email platform. Today it is the turn of SendGrid, a vendor offering an existing email developer platform to move the other way: The company is rolling out marketing email features to go with its core platform.

The Internet of Things could help some companies save money or even boost sales, and the big names of enterprise tech are lining up to help their customers make the leap.

Yahoo's board may be considering this week the sale of its core Internet business, after an activist investor demanded last month that the company explore the sale of its core search and display advertising businesses.

Educational toy maker VTech has said 11.6 million accounts were compromised in a cyberattack last month, including those of 6.4 million children.

Symantec has seen a curious fusing of two pernicious online threats, which would cause a big headache if encountered by users.

The U.S. military's research division has kicked off a project to accelerate its design of custom chips, so the latest semiconductor technologies can be used more quickly in defense applications.

Google has been collecting information about schoolchildren's browsing habits despite signing a pledge saying it was committed to their privacy, the Electronic Frontier Foundation said in a complaint filed Tuesday.