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Seagate Launches Its First 10TB Helium-Filled Hard Drive
Seagate on Jan. 13 unveiled its highest-ever capacity enterprise hard drive, a 10TB helium-filled model that competes directly with similar drives manufactured by HGST...
Volkswagen May Need to Fix Software ‘Cheat Device’ With Hardware
To borrow an idea from the late legendary cartoonist Walt Kelly and his beloved possum Pogo, Friday the 13th came on a Wednesday for...
EMC CTO: Merger with Dell Will Drive Innovation
An EMC executive is pushing back at the idea that the company's acquisition by Dell will reduce innovation or distract the company from R&D...
Security Pros See Compromised Credentials as Top Concern
Malicious actors that resemble approved users pose serious threats because they do not set off security alerts, according to the findings of Rapid7's 2015...
Google Gives Safety Report for Self-Driving Cars to Calif. DMV
Data that Google submitted recently to the California Department of Motor Vehicles shows that during road tests over a 14-month period, the company's autonomous...
T-Mobile’s Legere Took On EFF and Got Hammered by Critics
T-Mobile's CEO and president John Legere certainly has a reputation for being brash, for effusive cursing during public appearances and for speaking his mind....
Mozilla Discontinues Persona Password Security Service
Mozilla is finally and officially closing its Persona Web authentication system after coming to the conclusion that the technology was not being adopted.Using and...
Citrix Offers Look at Two Releases of XenApp, XenDesktop
Citrix Systems officials at the company's user conference this week unveiled details about two updates to the vendor's XenApp and XenDesktop products.The unveiling of...
IBM and Ford Team Up on a New Cloud-Based Analytics Platform
Today's topics include IBM and Ford teaming up on a new cloud-based analytics platform, Qualcomm is at odds with seven tech vendors, SGI will...
Skype Brings Group Video Calling to Its Mobile Apps
Skype is bringing group video chat capabilities to its free consumer mobile apps for Android, iOS and Windows 10 Mobile for the first time,...