Kansas City gets 'smart': New streetcar line opens amid free public Wi-Fi zone
Many smart city proponents speak in vast generalities. They talk about the ways that Internet of Things sensors and big…
More PowerShell: Hash tables
In this next installment of my ongoing PowerShell series, I want to focus on putting PowerShell objects to work for…
IDG Contributor Network: Scott McNealy's new company makes an acquisition
News this morning that Wayin, a digital marketing software company, is acquiring U.K.-based interactive marketing platform EngageSciences. This would be…
Former insider’s book explores morality of offshore outsourcing
In New York City, IT employees of EmblemHealth recently staged a protest over the decision to outsource their jobs. CEO…
New generator can halve cost of hydrogen used to power buildings, cars
California start-up H2 Energy Renaissance today announced it has built a hydrogen generator that ‘s inexpensive to manufacture and produces…
This startup uses machine learning to turn your old enterprise apps into mobile ones
There’s plenty of lip service paid to the need to mobile-enable the enterprise, but actually making that happen is more…
AMD gets into SSDs with value Radeon R3 drives
AMD is jumping into the solid-state drive (SSD) market with Radeon drives for laptops and desktops. The first SSD offerings…
How Intel knocked itself out of the smartphone chip market
Intel’s decision to pass on making chips for Apple’s iPhone back in 2007 now looks like a huge mistake. Former CEO…
Critical flaws in ImageMagick library expose websites to hacking
A tool used by millions of websites to process images has several critical vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to compromise…
Google turns on HTTPS for all blogspot blogs
All blogs hosted on Google’s blogspot.com domain can now be accessed over an encrypted HTTPS connection. This puts more control…