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IBM debuts first Watson machine-learning APIs

APIs for Watson are available through IBM's Bluemix cloud service, covering the likes of machine translation to rendering visualizations of data

Microsoft looks to poach Salesforce.com customers with aggressive pricing

Aggressively priced CRM Online product bundle includes both Office 365 and Microsoft's Power BI tool

Gartner lays out its top 10 tech trends for 2015

Internet of things, smart machines, pervasive analytics, and 3D printing are all part of Gartner's list of strategic technologies for the year ahead

Microsoft Security Essentials may be throwing false positives for Trojan:DOS/Alureon.J

The precise circumstances are unclear, but it's becoming obvious that MSE in some cases detects a DOS/Alureon.J infection where none exists

Surprise patch KB 3005628 bodes ill for Microsoft’s patching strategy

Out-of-band patch fixes errors 0x800F0906 and 0x800F081F in .Net Framework 3.5, but disrupts Microsoft's patching plan

Facebook open-sources its Chef cookbooks

Facebook offers two homemade devops tools for systems management on GitHub and says more are on the way

Nadella says Windows 10 will tie everything together in the IoT

On Windows 9, the Microsoft CEO tells a Gartner crowd: 'It came and went'

Micron provides a software view into new coprocessor

A software kit for programmers should give developers an idea how the co-processor could work

GitHub dangles deep cloud service discounts for students

GitHub's Student Developer Pack offers thousands of dollars' worth of developer tools and cloud services for free to students

Salesforce launches ‘reimagined’ customer-service, sales software

Service Cloud1 shows Salesforce grappling with users' desire for mobile-first apps and multi-channel support

Critical Bugzilla vulnerability could give hackers access to undisclosed software flaws

Software projects that use the Bugzilla bug tracking software should deploy the latest patches immediately, security researchers said

ITC to investigate Nvidia complaint over Samsung phones, tablets

The patent infringement complaint centers around display technology

IT jobs pick up in September, after a slow summer

The IT job market added 13,200 positions in September, near the monthly high set in April

Redfish spec wiggles servers free from vendor lock-in

A new, smarter, out-of-band communications specification aims to replace the aging, fragmented IPMI

PC-BSD 10.0.3: An alternative to desktop Linux distros?

In today's open source roundup: PC-BSD 10.0.3 could be an option for Linux users. Plus: Linux 3.17 released, and Steam now has more than 700 Linux games

Google Dart crashes into top 20 programming languages

The language's JavaScript compiler helps fuel interest; meanwhile, Java hits an all-time low in Tiobe's popularity index

Couchbase readies next-generation NoSQL storage engine

Four projects that could make or break HP Enterprise

HP is counting on these notable initiatives on the business and enterprise to move the needle for customers

MobileIron brings mobile management into mainstream IT

MobileIron's integration with Microsoft's SCCM highlights the major challenges IT departments will need to confront as mobile devices begin overshadowing PCs

Zoomdata’s ‘micro-query’ tech speeds up analytics

The micro-query engine breaks requests into tiny queries so that it can start delivering results in under a second

It’s official: HP will break itself in two

CEO Meg Whitman will head Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, while PC and printer business head Dion Weisler will run HP Inc.

Google to put guards on payroll rather than contract amid concerns about inequality

The company is now hiring both full and part-time guards, who will have all the benefits given to Google employees

Couchbase readies next-generation NoSQL storage engine

Couchbase 3.0 promises faster performance, plus sneak peeks at the new ForestDB database engine and N1QL query language

WSJ: Hewlett-Packard to split off PC, printer business

A split would be an about-face on CEO Meg Whitman's original strategy to keep the company together

Microsoft takes the hassle out of Office 365 email encryption

The Office 365 Message Encryption service no longer requires that email recipients have a Microsoft user account to view messages

ARM’s Mbed falls short of true open source

Virtually all essential infrastructure is now really, actually open source. Did ARM not get the memo?

Price tag for troubled SAP project will skyrocket to nearly $1 billion, audit says

An 'overly ambitious design' and poor training are cited as reasons for the mess at a New York gas utility

Apple signals Oct. 21 as OS X Yosemite launch date

Company likes to announce OS X releases on its financial earnings calls; it will reveal its third-quarter sales numbers on Oct. 20.

Microsoft adds Azure to disaster-recovery-as-a-service bandwagon

Microsoft Azure Site Recovery stands out in a crowded field by being a hybrid cloud service

As the tentacles of Facebook’s data spread, privacy questions resurface

A rebuilt advertising server makes use of Facebook user data across the wider Web

IBM pumping more horsepower into Watson successors

IBM is adopting a new interconnect and making memory improvements for new Power servers due in 2016

Microsoft slips, spills app volume purchase program for Windows 10

Blog prematurely revealing details of volume purchasing program and enterprise-created 'stores-within-the-Windows-Store' was deleted

Cisco, Acer, others join Intel-backed IoT standards group

The Open Interconnect Consortium is the latest IoT body to boast about its progress, gaining 27 new members

Next DRAM bust will slow down chip market in 2016, Gartner says

But the worldwide semiconductor market will record fast revenue growth until then

How to avoid an Oracle ERP upgrade disaster

Users who have gone through the experience advised their peers during OpenWorld

Thanks to Windows 8, Windows 10 need only be good enough

Despite the buzz created by Microsoft skipping ahead to version 10, Windows 8 has set a low bar for expectations

Google’s Physical Web wants to link all the smart ‘things’

Google's Physical Web concept proposes a standardized — and minimally annoying — way for mobile users to interact with smart devices

Why Google is pushing Android One at the expense of open source

In today's Android roundup: Android One is poised to give control back to Google. Plus: Google Play Newsstand updated, and a preview of Android L on the Samsung Galaxy S5

Windows 10 doesn’t matter to the future of Linux

In today's open source roundup: Windows 10 is not relevant to Linux. Plus: Borderlands 2 available for Linux, and does OpenOffice really still matter?

Frege joins Scala, Clojure among Java functional languages

The strictly typed, purely functional language is 'a Haskell for the JVM'

Ericsson releases WebRTC browser and framework as open source

The browser has been resurrected at least in part to make up for Apple's apparent disinterest in the technology

Frege joins Scala, Clojure among Java functional languages

The strictly typed, purely functional language is 'a Haskell for the JVM'

Oracle user groups testify to company’s change for the better

Two Oracle user support groups offer insight into Oracle's evolving attitudes on customer feedback, licensing, and open source

ARM builds an OS for the Internet of things

ARM's Mbed OS will be free for use on ARM chips when it's released next year

Windows 8 user share nose-dives in September

Windows 10 can't come fast enough for Microsoft as ailing Windows 8 falls by record amount

Google shakes up cloud services market with another price cut

Google fires back at Microsoft, which last week cut prices of some Azure services

Trying Windows 10 Tech Preview? Keep these 7 things in mind

The software you'll install on your PC is an early stage version of the OS that'll have bugs and will change a lot over time

Build better HTML5 UIs with Mozilla’s latest Brick library

Brick 2.0 creates customizable Web UI elements via features in HTML5

Report: LulzSec leader directed cyber attacks while working for FBI

Hector Xavier Monsegur directed attacks against targets in the UK, Australia, Brazil, and other countries

Oracle to developers: Let Java be your IoT platform

From small devices to servers, Java is the top developer tool, says Oracle