Technology Industry

Samsung taps DOD tech veteran to head enterprise push

Terry Halvorsen served as chief information officer at the Pentagon from 2015 until this year

3 reasons why data scientist remains the top job in America

Why is the position in such high demand and will it stay there in the years to come?

FCC’s deregulation of business data lines could mean a price hike

Small and medium-size businesses in the US could get hit with price increases of up to 25 percent, some critics say

Microsoft sets May 9 as original Windows 10’s retirement date

Version 1507, the mid-2015 debut release, disappears from the patching list; next up is version 1511, which will likely follow in early October

Geared for speed: Accelerating IT with hybrid infrastructure

Only in the USA: ISPs get tax dollars to build weak broadband

Tennessee votes to give millions of taxpayer dollars to AT&T and Comcast rather than let municipal broadband expand at no taxpayer expense

Microsoft vs. Apple: Strategies change but the battle continues

Microsoft and Apple are both successful in the enterprise, but these two tech giants have claimed that success using different strategies—while at times stealing from the other’s playbook

Comcast Business offers direct connection to IBM Cloud network

Comcast joins Verizon, AT&T and others as it seeks more large enterprise customers

Giant FCC spectrum auction raises $19.8 billion, sets up 5G services

Some observers expected the auction to raise $30 billion or more

DDoS attacks abusing exposed LDAP servers on the rise

A pair of advisories from Ixia and Akamai illustrate how DDoS attackers can abuse legitimate protocols to launch ever larger reflection attacks