U.S. saw 6% overall drop in smartphone sales last quarter, research firm says
Many analysts have been tracking a global slowdown in the rate of smartphone sales growth, partly because many regions have…
The U.S. military is shooting robots to make better Marines
They’re not the kind of thing you might expect to see on a battlefield, but a four-wheeled robot recently tested…
Oops! Kanye West tweet reveals he might pirate software, steal music too
Everyone should be careful about what images they post on social media. Using a “hot” government-monitored keyword in combination of…
WWDC 2016: Apple’s Swift 3.0, star of the show
The number of jobs requesting Swift in the last full year versus the previous full year climbed by 600 percent,…
Beware of iOS hiding your email messages
As enterprises rely ever more deeply on mobile devices for email, CIOs beware. A bug in iOS is periodically hiding…
Facebook faces privacy-related antitrust investigation in Germany
Facebook may be abusing a dominant position in the market for social networks to impose unfair privacy policies on its…
IDG Contributor Network: The Internet of Trees
I recently connected with the CEO of a fascinating company based in Cork, Ireland, called Treemetrics. Its mission is to…
IDG Contributor Network: The first ever Google Car crash has a dirty little secret
I have a good hunch about what caused the recent Google autonomous car crash. From all reports, it looks like…
Turkish mastermind of $55M ATM fraud pleads guilty
A Turkish citizen who led an operation that hacked into the systems of credit and debit card processing companies between…
Your tax dollars at work…real soon now
IT pilot fish starts work as a federal government contractor — and it’s not quite as smooth as he was…