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In midtown Manhattan Wednesday, around 25 EmblemHealth IT employees and their supporters held a protest over the firm's decision to shift work to IT services firm Cognizant.

Apple will offer Macs equipped with an ARM processor, the same silicon used in the iPhone and iPad, an analyst said, calling the move "inevitable" because of the company's emphasis on security and encryption.

The message from the cloud has always been simple: Surrender your cares, IT managers, and we’ll handle everything. Forget about skinning your knuckles installing servers, double-checking diesel backups or fretting about 1,000 or 10,000 things that could go wrong. Give us a credit card number and your data. We’ll do the rest.

The TP-LINK HS100 smart plug is quite simply a power outlet that you can control from anywhere. Using your smartphone, you can turn devices on & off, set programs to turn them on & off at set times while you're away, or engage a "countdown timer" which powers the switch off after a set amount of time. Installation is simple -- just plug a device into your smart plug and connect to your wifi network. The HS100 is also compatible with Echo, for voice control. Buy multiple plugs and get creative.

Intel's rise and fall in tablets are starting to resemble the company's misadventures in netbooks less than a decade ago.

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The San Francisco Board of Supervisors this week unanimously passed legislation to require all new commercial or residential buildings with 10 or fewer stories to have solar panels.

Security researchers have found a new memory-scraping malware program that steals payment card data from point-of-sale (PoS) terminals and sends it back to attackers using the Domain Name System (DNS).

There are two fascinating and completely contradictory trends going on in the infrastructure space. On the one hand, we have the rise of so called "server-less infrastructures," the event-driven approach, first introduced by Amazon Web Services with its Lambda offering and since emulated by a number of public cloud providers (Google, IBM and Amazon for a start) as well as a number of initiatives.

Apple has agreed to pay $24.9 million to a patent holding company to resolve a 5-year-old lawsuit accusing Siri of infringing one of its patents.

The federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently announced a bold move to accelerate the Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC) program, news that I have been waiting on for a long time.

Some clothes already hang out on the Internet. Pharrell Williams’s hat has its own Twitter account, as does Mark Zuckerberg’s hoodie. Your clothes could be next to get online identities, though it won't make them famous.

This article could involve spoilers, if you believe an algorithm can accurately predict who will be killed off in the Game of Thrones. Of course if you were to believe the Game of Thrones season 6 poster and trailers, then it looks like all the big players are dead and in the Hall of Faces.

Oracle has released another monster quarterly security update containing 136 fixes for flaws in a wide range of products including Oracle Database Server, E-Business Suite, Fusion Middleware, Oracle Sun Products, Java and MySQL.

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EmblemHealth CEO Karen Ignagni told employees Tuesday that "several hundred" IT and operations workers will be laid off as a result of a decision to hire services firm Cognizant.

Amazon Web Services is going retro to help companies deal with big data workloads. The cloud provider announced Tuesday it's launching two new volume types for its Elastic Block Store service that are powered by traditional, spinning disk hard drives. 

The European Commission on Wednesday made new antitrust charges against Google, alleging that the company foisted its search application and the Chrome browser on Android smartphones makers as a condition to license its other apps and services.

Legislation passed by the U.S. Senate could pave the way for the commercial deployment of drones in the national airspace. It also addresses safety issues by, for example, providing for a pilot program that would find ways to lock down errant drones if they are close to airports.

If you're a tech executive tired of being instructed to "align IT with the business," you're not alone.

A new Amazon cloud service announced Tuesday could help companies with legacy applications have an easier time taking the leap to the cloud. 

There are so many social media addicts these days and with the addiction being so real it’s no big surprise to discover numerous apps designed to ensure you remain unable to let go.

A Google 'Safe Browsing' report says Google.com is 'partially dangerous.' Yes, yes, hilarious fail, but there is a serious side to the story.

A recent study by an international certification body found that how well solar panels stand up to wear and tear varies greatly, but where they're manufactured has little to do with quality.

The company this pilot fish works for is located in a big industrial park, and when it's time to add a redundant data center, management knows just where it should go.