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  • 4 security tips for Apple Pay users

    A payments industry expert shares four tips to help you get safely and security started with Apple’s new contactless payment system, Apple Pay. Many security experts agree that Apple Pay and contactless payment systems like it are an improvement over traditional credit-card based systems. However, Apple Pay is still new […]

  • First Look: The iPad Mini 3, iPad Air 2 and more

    And hey, Stephen Colbert was there! Apple, uncharacteristically, lost a little PR steam from a leak of some information on its new iPad Air 2 and iPad Mini 3 models a day before the launch event, which took place on Thursday at the company’s Cupertino headquarters. But that doesn’t mean […]

  • YouTube served malicious ads

    The ads redirected victims to the Sweet Orange exploit kit, which tries to install malware, Trend Micro says Malicious advertisements, some of which were displayed on YouTube, redirected more than 113,000 people in the U.S. to harmful websites in just a month, Trend Micro said Tuesday. Although online advertising companies […]

  • Cloud failures will happen. Are you ready

    This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. Despite all the hype about the cloud, one thing is for sure: It’s not foolproof. Even if you only use the most reputable cloud services […]

  • 9 cool Java 9 proposals developers will love

    Modularity, JSON, smart compilation — Java’s future offers compelling features to look forward to Cool Java 9 proposals developers will love Java 8 arrived earlier this year to much fanfare, including high marks for lambda expressions and JavaScript on the JVM via Nashorn. But not everything about Java 8 was […]

  • ‘Critical point’ for Windows starts Tuesday

    Whatever Microsoft calls Windows 8’s successor better wow the enterprise. When Microsoft unveils its next edition of Windows Tuesday, it will face its greatest challenge ever in operating systems, an analyst argued today. “There’s never been a more critical point for Microsoft related to operating systems than now,” asserted Patrick […]

  • CIOs rack up millions in incentives

    A six-figure salary is just the beginning for CIOs. Cash bonuses, stock awards and executive perks can propel pay packages into the millions. CIO salaries in the U.S. average between $153,000 and $246,750, according to Robert Half Technology. But salary is just the beginning. Cash bonuses and equity awards can […]

  • IBM looks to replace the spreadsheet with Watson Analytics

    Watson Analytics can answer questions business managers might have about their data On Tuesday, IBM launched a beta of Watson Analytics, an interactive Q&A service designed to answer questions and highlight trends within sets of enterprise data. The service “is about putting powerful analytics in the hands of every business […]

  • Microsoft rolls out Delve information and people discovery tool for Office 365

    Microsoft has begun a months-long rollout of Delve, the first Office 365 application that taps into the suite’s Office Graph machine learning capabilities and maps connections between co-workers, documents and information. Delve, announced in March with the code-name Oslo, is designed to automatically surface colleagues, files and data that are […]

  • Four smartphone OSs fighting for survival

    BlackBerry, Tizen, Ubuntu Touch and Firefox OS take different approaches to staying alive. The smartphone operating system market is dominated by Android and iOS, but you can never count out Microsoft, so let’s say that Windows Phone, despite lagging in market share, rounds out the Big Three. That leaves four […]