The message at Gartner's recent Symposium/ITxpo was to prepare for a fast move to augmented reality, the decline of mobile apps, a major shift away from web browsing and more. Many users will expect businesses, universities and governments to respond to these shifts, the market research firm said at its annual conference.

Oracle's October security update is one of the largest ever, fixing more than 250 vulnerabilities in enterprise products that are used to store and work with business data, the company reported.

Mention artificial intelligence, and a discussion about the robot wipeout of humankind is sure to follow. It's also a technology that businesses will increasingly trust in decision-making, Gartner analysts said this week at the research firm's annual Symposium and ITxpo.

A drone alone can't make "last-mile" home delivery scale. But robots can.

IoT is complex, fast-growing and often intertwined with systems that govern things like water and power. That makes IoT security a critical requirement, but it's one that's not necessarily well understood.

In trying to be the world's largest e-tailer by offering almost anything, Amazon has attracted a dedicated group of thieves and resellers trying to slip through the holes in Amazon's bureaucracy.

Nearly a fifth of shoppers would avoid a retailer that has been a victim of a cybersecurity hack, according to a survey.

The global smartwatch market nosedived by 32 percent in the second quarter of 2016, with Apple Watch shipments down by 55 percent when compared to a year earlier, according to research firm IDC.