SharePoint is evolving as a versatile collaboration tool, but you can stretch it only so far. It's not designed for every content management or business process management challenge.
Gizmodo has revealed that the person who lost the purported next generation iPhone, images of which have been circulating on the Web over the past few days, is a 27-year-old Apple software engineer named Gray Powell who probably will never again be as famous, or notorious, as he is right now.
U.S. television broadcasters are willing to talk about sharing their unused spectrum with broadband providers, but they should not be forced to give up spectrum or be taxed for the spectrum they have, said the head of a broadcasting trade group.
A neurology patient at a Texas hospital may soon find doctors handing him an iPad with game-like apps on it to test his motor skills. Nurses will be able to roam bedsides while remotely checking electrocardiograms, or EKGs, on their iPads. Doctors are already sharing medical records on iPads with their peers, in order to discuss patient care.
Most mobile device users worldwide feel safe using their mobile devices for applications that involve highly-sensitive information, including accessing airline boarding passes; making payments in stores for low-cost items; or to access online banking, according to research conducted by Unisys Corporation. But acceptance levels vary by age, with younger users more comfortable conducting sensitive mobile transactions compared to older users.
A judge on Tuesday ordered Microsoft to stop selling Microsoft Word products in their current form in the U.S., but legal appeals or technical work-arounds make an actual halt of sales unlikely.
Heartland Payment Systems CEO Robert Carr disclosed that the company has already spent or set aside more than $12.6 million to cover costs related to a massive intrusion into its systems that was discovered in January.
Mass compromise of payment-card systems or retailers holding credit- and debit-card information is said to the primary cause of payment fraud-- not online attacks such as phishing -- according to a survey of 131 financial institutions that was published Tuesday.
Microsoft Research and Carnegie Mellon University publicly unveiled work at the Computer Human Interaction conference in Atlanta Monday that makes an entire body a touch interface. Called Skinput, the system listens to the sounds made by tapping on parts of a body and pairs those sounds with actions that drive tasks on a computer or cell phone.
Much has happened in security circles this past month, from all the hoopla over Conficker to the ongoing economic bloodshed in the industry. Here are a few that stood out -- for better or worse.
Researchers from Germany's Hasso Plattner Institute previewed a new touch interface called Multitoe that uses feet, instead of fingers or hands, at the Computer Human Interaction conference in Atlanta Sunday.
VoIP applications will be forbidden from Microsoft's Windows MarketPlace for Mobile store, along with programs that are larger than 10MB or that change the default browser on a device.
Organizations with top executives who aren't involved in cybersecurity decisions face a serious problem -- a major hit to their bottom lines, according to a report released Wednesday.
Whether you're out on the road for weeks at a time meeting with clients, just popping into the city for a weekend conference or taking the family on a hard-earned vacation, a few well-chosen applications can turn your BlackBerry from a communications tool into a road warrior's productivity powerhouse.
At its annual TechEd conference this week, Microsoft has the chance to sustain the momentum of Windows Phone 7 or fumble away the excitement the redesigned mobile OS has created.
In the data center, the Cisco vs. Juniper argument will hinge on which company has the more compelling unified data center fabric architecture: Cisco's Unified Computing System or Juniper's single-layer Stratus.
The Internet is running out of IPv4 addresses; there's no argument about that. But what is up for debate is whether ISPs will migrate directly to IPv6 to solve this problem, or whether they will embrace alternatives such as carrier-grade network address translation to share the few remaining IPv4 addresses among their new users.
There is a venture investment bubble in the mobile industry as countless startups draw interest for what might be the next big application or tool, the chief operating officer of payments vendor Square said Tuesday.
TeleNav, a leading GPS-based navigation provider with more than 13 million subscribers globally, today announced an updated version of its mobile GPS nav-software for select AT&T BlackBerry devices. In addition, TeleNav also released a free, location-based BlackBerry app, called "OnMyWay," that helps travelers keep colleagues and/or friends at specific destinations updated on their travel-status.
The European Commission has started legal action against 20 European Union member states which have failed to take measures to implement new rules protecting consumers’ data online.
Wondering whether you'll get a raise or bonus if you earn another IT industry certification? Odds are you won't, according to the latest IT salary data from Foote Partners.
Remember a few years ago when the banking community was on edge that Walmart was going to get a bank charter and the pundits declared that Walmart would soon dominate the banking world? Now, some wonder if Facebook could represent a formidable challenger to the established banking community. After all, we have all seen the stats about how many people are on Facebook (it would be the 4th largest country in the world, 50% of Facebook users login at least once a day, etc.) But what about Apple? Or Google? Or