Data from Barclays shows online shopping in the U.K. is rising by more than 1 percent per year, suggesting that half of all credit and debit card transactions will be done online by 2050 Read More
Why are there so many different types of communication platforms? Why haven't we invented a ‘Babel Fish' communications platform that can unify our digital world together? Read More
Apple has made changes to revised app store guidelines that threatened to block a wide range of small business apps created with templates, DIY tools, and SMB app platforms Read More
Japanese web hosting company GMO Internet is offering to pay part of its employees' salaries in bitcoin, in part to improve understanding of the cryptocurrency within company ranks, the Guar… Read More
Just like the initial passage of the regulations bringing broadband internet access under Title II jurisdiction, however, the decision is not necessarily permanent. What it means, and when i… Read More
The future of 5G, as the next-generation wireless network is known, is already beginning, as a handful of carriers including Verizon Communications Inc. move from trials to deployments Read More
In a world where protecting against cyber crime is high on most big business agendas, a U.K. provider of IT security to clients as small as dentists and neighborhood stores is outpacing the… Read More
The Republican-led commission voted 3-to-2 on Thursday to remove Obama-era prohibitions on blocking web traffic, slowing it or demanding payment for faster passage via their networks Read More
With the FCC poised to vote Thursday to eliminate the 2015 restrictions on ISPs, the seemingly academic question of how reliable the studies are could quickly become critical when opponents… Read More
Iron Mountain Inc. agreed to acquire the U.S. operations of Io Data Centers LLC for $1.3 billion, adding to a string of deals this year by the data storage and management real estate investm… Read More
roadband provider Comcast Corp. spent years fighting regulations that bar it from charging high-volume internet companies more to speed their content along Read More
New Apple App Store guidelines state that apps created from "commercialized template or app generation services" will be rejected from inclusion in the App Store as of Jan. 1, 2018 Read More
U.K. banks still aren't telling regulators about all the cyber attacks on the financial services industry despite a ten-fold increase in reports to the Financial Conduct Authority over the… Read More
Only half of cloud infrastructure professionals at global enterprises believe they are being charged the right amount for what they get from their cloud providers Read More
Big technology companies have added the digital signatures of 40,000 terrorist videos and images to a shared database as they seek to keep extremist content off their platforms Read More
U.S. Supreme Court justices expressed concern about privacy intrusions in the digital age, hinting they may curb the power of law enforcement officials to track people using mobile-phone dat… Read More
The oddities in the FCC's inbox have attracted scrutiny from New York's attorney general and from the U.S. Government Accountability Office, which has opened a probe Read More
Trend Micro has announced an expansion of its Hybrid Cloud Security solution leveraging the capabilities it has gained through the acquisition of Montreal, Canada-based Immunio Read More
Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence sent letters to DreamHost and Shopify over the weekend, asking the hosting service providers to disable the GhostGunner.net and GhostGuns.com webs… Read More
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai's plan to gut Obama-era net neutrality rules calls for handing off the job of policing broadband service to an agency with different power… Read More
From a lack of budget to having limited time to create real IT innovation, the potential of an organization is being limited because of a lack of an IT transformation strategy Read More
E-commerce spending will jump almost 17 percent from a year ago to $6.6 billion on Cyber Monday, according to estimates from Adobe Systems Inc Read More
EU data protection officials from the 28-nation bloc will discuss the incident and its privacy implications at a regular meeting in Brussels next week Read More
Executives at the telecom giant are negotiating a bill they will likely owe Mozilla Corp., owner of the Firefox browser, after an expensive web search deal fell apart Read More
Critics have promised to mount an aggressive campaign against FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's decision to seek the elimination of the net neutrality rules Read More
The company now known as HPE will be run by an engineer for the first time in almost two decades, now that Antonio Neri is succeeding Meg Whitman as chief executive officer Read More
The case could have a far-reaching impact. Prosecutors seek phone-location information from telecommunications companies in tens of thousands of cases a year Read More
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai will take a big step toward his goal of voiding Obama-era net neutrality regulations Tuesday Read More
As U.S. consumers prepare for the Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping bonanzas, threat management firm RiskIQ is warning that one in 25 Black Friday-themed mobile apps is fake Read More
The WHIR is heading to Texas tomorrow for the last networking event of 2017! Join us on Thursday evening in Dallas from 6 - 9 p.m. at the House of Blues Read More
With demand for cybersecurity expertise exploding, but qualified people in short supply, war-gaming competitions have become key recruiting grounds for companies and government security agen… Read More
International Business Machines Corp. is increasing the pressure on Alphabet Inc.'s Google in the battle to commercialize quantum computing technology Read More
Qualcomm Inc., trying to break Intel Corp.'s lucrative stranglehold on server chips, said it began selling a new processor that will outperform its rivals and has support from some of the in… Read More
The company added 188,000 net premium subscriptions, a 33 percent year-over-year increase to 3.1 million customers, according to the Wednesday announcement Read More
Several internet service providers suffered an outage for longer than an hour on Monday due to a configuration error by Tier 1 network provider Level 3 Read More
At least 195 websites belonging to U.S. President Donald Trump, his family, or businesses he is involved with were victims of DNS hijacking in 2013 Read More
Started in 1999, OVH Groupe SAS now has a valuation over $1 billion and is expanding to the U.S., with KKR & Co. and TowerBrook Capital Partners as backers Read More
Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp. and IBM — looking to stoke demand for cloud computing services — are said to be shifting incentives for their sales representatives Read More
Code-signing certificates are selling on the dark web for up to $1,200, making them more expensive than many counterfeit U.S. passports, stolen credit cards and handguns, according to resear… Read More
US Congressional Rep. Ro Khanna (D-California) is pointing to data packages on mobile plans in Portugal as a potential outcome for U.S. consumers if net neutrality laws are repealed Read More
Prepare for lots of stories about how quantum computing will soon do everything from inventing wonderful new pharmaceuticals and almost-magical new materials (good) to rendering obsolete all… Read More
Russian cybersecurity giant Kaspersky Lab said it uploaded secret data linked to the National Security Agency from a personal computer in the U.S Read More
Whoever is behind the code has been changing it, making it more dangerous, the researchers say, even though it is in an early expansion stage, and its purpose is unknown Read More
HostDime has purchased a land parcel in Bogotá, Colombia where it intends to build a Tier IV data center to meet the booming demand of the local market Read More
A Florida software engineer was sentenced to 16 months in prison for helping run an illegal Bitcoin exchange suspected of laundering money for a group of hackers Read More
If China's supreme leader succeeds in shoring up his already extensive influence with another five-year term, web access won't get any easier for internet players both local and foreign, not… Read More
Only 12 percent of European organizations are taking a "cloud-first" approach to IT infrastructure, held back by concerns over a range of issues Read More
Getting back to growth on the top line has been a major goal for Chief Executive Officer Ginny Rometty and a milestone investors are looking for as proof that the company can finally climb o… Read More
Is dedicated server hosting dying — killed by ubiquitous cloud platforms? Or will there always be a place for high-performance, single-tenant server hosting? Read More
The WHIR is excited to be headed to Orlando, Fla. next week for the MERGE! Show where we will be hosting a special edition of the WHIR networking events on Tues., Oct. 17, from 6 - 9 p.m Read More
Thursday's hearing is the first in a European court to go to the heart of the company's use of technology deemed to be essential to its proper functioning Read More