Hope and fear are close cousins. Great leaders balance the two and approach them in a measured way with resolve. Great technology leaders show how innovation can feed into--and balance--the two.

Microsoft is ending support for Windows XP on April 8. While you're technically free to keep using the 12-year old operating system, doing so may put you at greater security risk for attack as future vulnerabilities go unpatched.

How can CIOs and IT executives help their teams be more productive (besides providing them with free food)?

More than 750,000 spam emails were sent from smart household appliances such as fridges and TVs over a two week period, according to a security firm
    

Gartner's research indicates that the decline will slow in the U.S. this year. Apple's Macintosh sales jumped 28.5 percent in the last quarter of 2013. [Read more]
    

Virus protection for a Mac isn't essential, but if you want the comfort of knowing you've got extra protection, save yourself some money and try one of our picks for the best free antivirus software for Mac OS X.

A password management tool stores all your passwords in one place and is a great way for small business owners to manage several different accounts while keeping information secure. Finding ...

The technology sector is facing legal and regulatory challenges on a number of fronts.

Many are being driven by software, mobile and cloud computing technologies transforming and becoming critical in almost every industry. This creates friction with existing laws and regulations and highlights the fact that many of these have not kept pace with the technology and industries that they are regulating and need to be updated.

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Don't take risks with your company data. The data you collect can be just as valuable as the physical assets of your business.

Researcher claims that newly uncovered weakness could be used to directly spy on people's communications Continue reading...

Microsoft is urging consumers to upgrade their PC operating systems, as the last-ever batch of security patches is released for Windows XP

Unsupported Windows XP machines in China could pose a threat to the Internet in general if bot-herders round up significant numbers of them to use as launch pads for malicious exploits, according to a top white-hat hacker.

Windows 8 is an OS struggling to capture the imagination of the masses, and now rumors suggest that Microsoft may alter the way its Start Screen works in Windows 8.1 Update 1.
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At the current rate of decline, the number PC shipments could fall well below 300 million, a sum that would have been unimaginable just two years ago. No combination of price and new, extraordinary...

According to the observation commonly attributed to Mark Twain, "history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme."
That adage, according to Brookings Institute researchers and authors Peter W.

It's not just governments. Companies such as Google and Facebook spy on us too. We have clicked through to their 'free' digital services at the cost of sacrificing our privacy. So how do we get out?