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Unemployment for technology professionals remains low, with tech consultants particularly in demand, according to jobs site Dice.com's Tech Trends report for the second quarter of this year.

"Algorithm: Of Hackers and DRM" tells the story of a hacker who breaks into government systems and finds all sorts of unsavory material (shades of Edward Snowden fully intentional). You can watch it for free below -- but not for long.

ALGORITHM - Of hackers and DRM from Moshe Bergstein on Vimeo.

For its latest trick, Apple goes for the unexpected: It's teaming up with IBM. The newly announced partnership brings together IBM's enterprise expertise and Apple's mobile dominance. IBM will create enterprise apps exclusively for iOS, then sell Apple hardware loaded with industry-specific apps to its clients.

IBM is betting on Apple to carry its analytics and cloud portfolio into the modern era. Apple is betting on IBM to cement the iPad's status as the new enterprise computing standard.

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Microsoft doesn't just want users for Azure, it wants full-blown partners who will develop and deploy apps inside Azure for other users, turning it into an enterprise app store.

Windows aficionados expecting (or at least hoping) for some insight about the next version of Windows were le

Amazon Web Services' release of its Zocalo cloud service for managing and sharing documents is a very interesting move. Yes, many such services are already out there, including Google Drive, Box, and Dropbox, but AWS goes further with Zocalo.

For starters, Amazon promises to take care of the storage, authentication, security, and other aspects of running a document sharing service for you. Beyond that, AWS will push further into mobile and introduce services to aid mobile application development and system administration.

Between 2010 and 2013, there was a 25 percent drop in small business processing online orders as traditional credit card merchants. Instead, they turned to third-party payment services, primarily due to concerns over cybersecurity and costs

Swift, Apple's new programming language for iOS and OS X applications, has rocketed up the charts in two monthly tabulations of programming language popularity.

Swift, Apple's new programming language for iOS and OS X applications, has rocketed up the charts in two monthly tabulations of programming language popularity.

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Recently I met up with an old friend at cafe in San Francisco's Mission District, the kind where hipsters pay six bucks for an individually brewed cup of ultracaffeinated coffee. We didn't belong there -- we were too old.