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Researchers: IoT devices are not designed with security in mind

Lack of encryption and other security issues were found in home automation hubs that could facilitate burglary, stalking, and spying

Microsoft gives more organizations access to apps from Azure Marketplace

Enterprises can now buy tools and applications in the Azure store via Microsoft partners

Oracle brings big data back to database administrators

The Oracle Data Integrator for Big Data gives DBAs a more familiar view of their big data collections

Apple Pay rival CurrentC coming in mid-2015

The payments platform operated by major US retailers is testing Bluetooth and barcode technologies

Microsoft closes acquisition of R software and services provider

Revolution Analytics provides services for the open source R programming language for statistical computing and predictive analytics

New battery could reduce phone charging to just one minute

3 UX ideas for the new generation of mobile apps

Financial services tech firm FIS is trying out three approaches to smarter mobile apps that any developer should consider

JavaScript experts: Microsoft’s new Spartan browser rocks

Nobody knows JavaScript like the folks at Famo.us, and the JavaScript engine and rendering pipeline in Windows 10's Spartan browser blew them away

Dawn of the data center operating system

How microservices architecture and Linux containers will tame distributed computing for developers and ops

Chromebooks coming with Intel’s new Braswell chips

Intel will announce new Celeron and Pentium chips code-named Braswell at IDF Shenzhen