IDG Contributor Network: This is the number one problem facing Microsoft today
Microsoft is a gargantuan company. They have 114,000 employees. They make a popular gaming console, the only viable operating system…
Court reinstates $120M patent award for Apple in Samsung case
A U.S. appeals court has reinstated a $119.6 million award for Apple in its long-running smartphone design patent dispute with…
Verizon on firm footing to push for discount in Yahoo deal, analysts say
Verizon should push for a big discount off its pending $4.8 billion deal to buy Yahoo, given Yahoo’s recent data…
HackerOne CEO: 'We’re building the world’s biggest security talent agency'
Marten Mickos, a veteran executive with companies from MySQL to Sun, Nokia and HP, was not particularly excited about his…
White House slates $80M for city tech innovations
The White House last week announced $80 million in new federal funds for its ongoing Smart Cities Initiative while doubling…
Roboden is cable you can stretch
A Japanese company has developed an electrical cable that can be stretched. Asahi Kasei says the cable, called Roboden, will…
Hacking the election: Myths and realities
Special report: What every citizen should know about the state of our voting systems and the security of our elections.…
Salesforce debuts chatbot building tools
Companies have another set of tools at their disposal to build chatbots. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has begun touting a…
iMessages a ‘powerful tool’, Velocity explains why
There’s much more to app support in iMessages than stickers and casual games, but to find out the significance of…
AWS September roundup: EC2 changes, new France region, and more
Amazon has updated its cloud platform with a handful of quality-of-life changes, plus some major tweaks to how it handles…