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Rumors about Apple devising some form of digital wallet for the iPhone were swirling thick and fast months before Tim Cook stepped on stage today and confirmed those suspicions.

iOS 8 is the hidden revolution in personal computing, pulling together smartphones and tablets with car infotainment centers, home automation devices, health and fitness devices, and Macs. It's the center of liquid computing in the Apple universe, and right now the main center in the industry.

A newly announced product from Dell, set to debut this October, is being touted as a way to turn any late-model smartphone into a managed business smartphone, with its own voice line, storage management, and app ecosystem.

[UPDATED 2:00pm PT] While the world has obsessed over iPhone 6 details such as its size and whether it will use a sapphire

Are Java and C++ slipping in popularity? One language index says they are, although both skill sets still are in demand for developer jobs.

[UPDATED 2:00pm PT] While the world has obsessed over iPhone 6 details such as its size and whether it will use a sapphire

New generations of commodity servers typically deliver incremental updates to CPU, memory, power, and storage. It's not often that you see real innovation making its way into these systems.

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Are Java and C++ slipping in popularity? One language index says they are, although both skill sets still are in demand for developer jobs.

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Whew, thank goodness! The world is finally paying attention to Internet security.

If Red Hat’s specialization is enterprise application, development and hosting, and Ubuntu’s is anything that moves, then Linux Mint is carving only one niche: desktop dominance.

Remember the playground when you where a kid? Picture a spirited round of basketball, and you're getting the better of a friend. You're 10 points ahead when, in frustration, your friends leaves in a huff. Or in the words of Cartman from "South Park": "Screw you guys, I'm going home." The tech sector behaves very much like that as cloud computing begins to settle on its winners and losers.

As if we haven't had enough problems with last month's Black Tuesday patches, I'm now seeing

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Apple sets the standard -- for both success and failure. Here's a look at 11 major screwups, some of which almost derailed the company Dek:  Apple sets the standard -- for both success and failure. Here's a look at 11 major screwups, some of which almost derailed the company External Source:  infoworld.com Redirect Unpublished Slideshow to:  http://www.infoworld.com/slideshow/163363

Your computing life began with a single screen. Today, you probably have three to five screens or more: a work computer, a smartphone, multiple home comput- ers, maybe a tablet. Soon, you may add a smartwatch and a new wave of mini-devices ushered in by the Internet of things. With this multiplicity, the idea that you have a “primary” device slips away. Instead, the heart of your compute experience rises to a cloud where you are at the center. For that ascent to be complete, however, each of your devices needs to be seamlessly connected with the others.