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Where did you first learn about Amazon's crazy plan to deliver packages via drone? "60 Minutes"? The New York Times? Increasingly, the answer is likely to be Twitter, Facebook or Yahoo, and that's just how the online giants like it.

It's been another busy year in the enterprise software industry, marked by high-profile acquisitions and IPOs, the rise of in-memory computing, a red-hot HCM market, and even the apparent settling of a long-running Silicon Valley feud.

Explosive revelations in the past six months about the U.S. government's massive cyber-spying activities have spooked individuals, rankled politicians and enraged privacy watchdogs, but top IT executives aren't panicking -- yet.

The British Computer Society will be given a 1.1m fund from the Department for Education to help primary school teachers prepare for the new computing curriculum.

Organizations drowning in big and small data will soon have a new way to wrangle, munge or transform it however you want to describe the process thanks to software from startup Trifacta that's now in beta tests.

Kang Zhao, assistant professor of management sciences in the Tippie College of Business, and UI doctoral student Xi Wang are part of a team that recently developed an algorithm for dating sites that uses a person's contact history to recommend more compatible partners.

Densely-packed chips performing Bitcoin calculations are immersed in cooling fluid, which bubbles as it boils, removing the heat from the ultra-high density "mining" operation.

The hands of this ostensibly black stock photo model might be coding on an open-source project.

Microsoft moved to reassure business and government customers worldwide that it is committed to informing them of legal orders related to their data, and will fight in court any 'gag order' that prevents it from sharing such information with customers.

CIO - Android and iOS are the two key mobile operating systems. Not coincidentally, they are the two that also cause huge headaches for app developers.

A neural network that uses infrared imagery to monitor the build-up of people can warn of dangerous crowd crushes in Mecca - or at the bus stop THIS year's Muslim hajj pilgrimage in October passed without major incident, but every few years serious crushes kill hundreds.

It's no longer enough to have smartphones, smartwatches, smart TVs and smart cars.

If your computer is infected with a virus or other forms of malware, disconnecting the machine from the Internet is one of the first steps security experts say you should take.

"For young people, you need to make things tangible. You need to feel with your hands the CPU warm up, see the lights turn on, hear the speakers - or this computer science doesn't feel real.

HP and Dell lead Samsung, Lenovo, and Acer in InfoWorld's reviews of both classic clamshell notebooks and innovative touch-driven hybrids more In this eGuide, InfoWorld along with sister publications CIO, CSO, and Computerworld examine the state of mobile app development and management in the enterprise.

A recent report by IDC says that 14 million jobs will be created by cloud computing.

Information Technology is the way of the future in jobs, according to most industry experts.

Google Inc. this week expanded its cloud services business and cut prices for some key offerings, stepping up its bid to challenge Amazon.com in a growing market.

Security researchers are gradually raising warnings that the Internet of Things will increase, by multitudes, the number of things that can be hacked and attacked.

For Andrea Johnson, the heart of computer science is not programs or gadgets, but people.