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China is investigating Microsoft for allegedly operating a monopoly in its market, the government said Tuesday, as it took aim at the US software giant over business practices.

A network testbed being constructed just south of San Francisco will help carriers and vendors develop standards for better cloud services, the CloudEthernet Forum says.

The sudden arrival of smart mobile devices four years ago proved to be a real shot in the arm for the art of software development, inspiring a massive creative surge among amateur and professional coders alike.

OkCupid, a top US dating / matchmaking website, intentionally mismatched users to test its technology, the IAC/InterActive Corp service said on Monday, weeks after Facebook Inc admitted to misleading users in a psychological study.

Zumasys, a leading provider of cloud computing solutions for business-critical applications, announced today that it has been ranked #1 on the 2014 Best Places to Work in County list, a project of the Orange County Business Journal and Best Companies Group.

Computer scientists have developed an artificial intelligence algorithm that can analyse and compare musical styles and have used it to study the musical progression of the Beatles.

Smarter contextual awareness, 4K video and augmented reality are just some of the new technologies that will be offered by smartphones and tablets over the next year or so, according to Qualcomm's product blueprints.

This will show the simple and useful way to implement Banker's algorithm in managing & scheduling projects,their resources & to give effective solution.

Almost everyone sees the potential of Internet of Things but how can businesses truly unlock that potential.

The Church-Turing thesis is one of the pillars of computer science; it postulates that every classical system has equivalent computability power to the so-called Turing machine.

Computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University, working with high-throughput data generated by breast cancer biologists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, have devised a computational method to determine how gene networks are rewired as normal breast cells turn malignant and as they respond to potential cancer therapy agents.

Siemens is developing new technology aimed at transforming electric cars into "rolling computers" controlled by a centralized computing architecture.

Just over six months after he was posthumously pardoned by Queen Elizabeth II, Alan Turing , the cryptologist who led Britain's successful efforts to crack the German's Enigma code during World War II, turns up on the Mainstage of the Barrington Stage Company in the person of actor Mark H. Dold , who gives a remarkable and memorable performance as ... (more)

An unusual ransomware Trojan, discovered by cybersecurity experts last month, is the first of its kind to secretly use a Tor anonymizing network to hide its communication with a command-and-control server.

A group of Dell experts, customers and partners, as well as analysts and journalists, debate the issues of security in a rapidly evolving IT world.

We recently managed to reduce network errors in Awesomenauts by 10% by improving our throttling algorithm.

Music enthusiasts have long recognized the dramatic changes the music of The Beatles went through in only a few years' time, but now for the first time researchers have scientifically measured the legendary rock band's progression using an artificial intelligence algorithm capable of analyzing and comparing musical styles.

When Shantel Silva got into Villanova University, she did what incoming freshmen do these days.

In their quest to copy competitors, social sites and apps increasingly drop features that are part of the popularity and identity of their products Now, the service has been re-created as a third-rate Yelp instead of a first-rate Foursquare.

This last Monday, Chicago hackerspace Pumping Station One hosted a "Not Exclusively Raspberry Pi Meeting" in which a representative from the Element 14 company demonstrated the newest model of the Raspberry Pi , a revolutionary computer designed to be cheap, easy to program, and flexible in use.