Microsoft starts recommended update roll-out for Windows 10
Many users of Windows 7 and 8.1 will start seeing a more aggressive push to upgrade to Windows 10 in…
IDG Contributor Network: What service providers won't tell you about their information security
In the course of my business, I frequently ask IT service providers questions about their information security practices, either as…
Nokia's IoT security tool works with many vendors' gear
Nokia is taking the principle of “united we stand” to the Internet of Things with a platform that can harness…
Evernote's getting out of e-commerce
Two and a half years after Evernote announced that it would offer a suite of branded products through its own…
FireEye acquires Invotas for faster incident response
FireEye said Monday it has acquired Invotas, whose platform helps administrators respond faster to security incidents. The deal closed on…
U.S. must make 'additional effort' on Safe Harbor, EU official says
The European Commission has outlined the areas in which it wants further concessions from the U.S. before a new Safe…
WhatsApp now has a billion monthly active users (and so does Gmail)
It wasn’t all that long ago – March 2015 in fact – that WhatsApp crossed the one billion install threshold…
Long-term review: The Dell XPS 15 Touch is the laptop to beat
The recently introduced series of Dell XPS 15 9550 Touch and Non-Touch laptops has been getting a lot of attention.…
Unclear on the concept
This user’s 64-bit PC only has 4GB of RAM, and the user complains that it’s running slowly, according to a…
Hybrid Polymer breakthrough could lead to self-repairing materials
Today’s high-end smartphone customers may whine at the very thought of plastic cases, but in the future plastics may be…