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Not just for Macs, Thunderbolt rumbles into PCs

The arrival of 4K video and the prevalence of Apple-inspired PC designs is making Thunderbolt suddenly sensible for PCs

DIY Internet of things: The ultimate maker project

With sensors and microcontrollers as cheap as they are, the Internet of things is poised for support from the maker crowd

Hallelujah, the NSA has been reformed!

The president has deemed it so, but trusting the NSA to stop collecting communications information is no longer possible

Your guide to InfoWorld’s best tech of the year

Last week's 2014 Technology of the Year Awards honored 35 products, the best we encountered in 2013 -- and the ones that animate the most important enterprise technology trends

Why Silicon Valley can’t find Europe

Those who forget past tech are doomed to be hacked

You can have your smartphone, tablet, wearable PC -- hackers are targeting the legacy systems that power our daily lives

Full text of Obama’s intelligence directive regarding NSA reforms

Here is the official presidential directive and a fact sheet on the details of the new policy

What Obama’s NSA reform means for tech

The few surveillance reforms described in Obama's speech leave too many unanswered questions about NSA's overreach into tech

Oracle builds a bridge to Salesforce.com with new adapter

The adapter allows organizations to synchronize Salesforce.com and on-premises applications

Moot aims to revolutionize online discussion technology

JavaScript-based platform features better integration with websites, allows search engines to crawl discussion content