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Cisco's wireless unit shifts emphasis to "mobility"
Cisco's Wireless Networking Business Unit doesn't actually talk so much about wireless networking these days. Increasingly, its message aimed at IT groups is about the broader concept of "mobility."
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HP announces 'world's first' portable multifunction printer
Hewlett-Packard on Wednesday announced the OfficeJet 150 Mobile All-in-One portable printer, which the company called the world's first mobile multifunction device that can "print, copy and scan on the go."
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We're not waiting for Android 5 'Jelly Bean,' developers say
Despite the rumors, developers are focused on making apps -- and money -- from today's Android
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Apple 'in talks' with China Mobile, could reach 667.2 million
Apple is in talks with China Mobile, according to the carrier's chairman Xi Guohua, although an agreement is yet to be reached.
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Apple victorious in iphone5.com domain dispute
Apple has apparently won control of the iphone5.com domain, according to changes in a Web record of the URL.
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Paging Mr. Phelps: This SSD will self-destruct....
SSD maker RunCore's InVincible SSD can wipe your data using one of two methods: overwriting the entire disk with meaningless code or frying it with voltage.
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Social media a boon for businesses, but creates security quagmire
Social media -- Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ and so forth -- has become a way of life for companies and their employees to interact with the public, but beating back the fraudsters that try to prey on customers, not to mention keeping employees from spilling sensitive data, is becoming a full-time job for many.
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iPhone 5 said, again, to have 4-inch display
The next iPhone, which may or not be called iPhone 5, will have a 4-inch screen according to several unidentified sources cited in news stories this week.
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Ethernet switching gets specialized
Growth in the Ethernet switch market is now being driven by specialized devices for specific applications, rather than evenly across all customer deployments.
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'Thelma & Louise,' 'Beetlejuice' star Geena Davis wins major telecom award
Actress Geena Davis, President of Argentina Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and Huawei Chairman Sun Yafang have been named winners of the 2012 ITU World Telecommunication and Information Society Award for their efforts promoting information and communications technology (ICT) to empower women and girls.
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iPhone, iPad become apple of cyber criminals' eye
Apple devices -- ever more popular in the workplace -- are about to become more popular with cyber criminals.
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Android hackers honing skills in Russia
The malware business growing around Google Android -- now the leading smartphone operating system -- is still in its infancy. Today, many of the apps built to steal money from Android users originate from Russia and China, so criminal gangs there have become cyber-trailblazers.
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Will voluntary cyber threat sharing plan cast doubt over CISPA?
The question of whether CISPA is really necessary might arise in the wake of a Department of Defense announcement last week that as many as 1,000 defense contractors -- and possibly thousands more -- may voluntarily join an expanded program of sharing classified information on cyber threats with the federal government.
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T-Mobile USA clarifies job cuts will be net 350, not 900
T-Mobile USA clarified its latest restructuring plans and said the changes will result in a net 350 job losses, not 900 as reported earlier.
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Cisco mobility bundles target BYOD, mobile virtual desktop
Cisco announced yesterday three pre-tested bundles of products and services designed to cut through the confusing complexity of enterprise mobility.
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With Verizon pushing more into data caps, Sprint touts unlimited option
If you're a Verizon customer upset that your next smartphone contract won't include unlimited data, Sprint would like to remind you that you have an alternative.
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Anonymous Takes Aim at Indian Government
In retaliation against Internet Service Providers (ISPs) blocking some video-sharing and torrent websites like The Pirate Bay under Indian court orders, Anonymous, the "hacktivist" organization, today took down the websites of the ruling Congress Party and the Supreme Court of India. Anonymous, which in the past has been credited with taking down the websites of the MPAA, RIAA, the FBI, the US Department of Justice and child pornographers, took down these sites in what is understood to...
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For Univ. of Kentucky, SAP's HANA is 'disruptive'
The University of Kentucky says it has reshaped its business intelligence capability by adopting SAP's in-memory system, HANA.
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Technology Patent Wars Sign of Robust Innovation
The head of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office tells a congressional panel that the landmark reform bill signed last September is already yielding significant results, but defends litigation in tech sector as a sign of vigorous innovation.
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7 Tips for Establishing a Successful BYOD Policy
If you haven't developed a corporate Bring Your Own Device policy, or if the one you have is out of date, these tips will help you address device security, IT service, application use and other key components of an effective BYOD policy.
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Facebook sets IPO share price at $38
With Facebook's long-anticipated IPO expected to hit on Friday morning, the company set its initial share price at $38 today.
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Mac-based Flashback click fraud campaign was a bust
The hackers in charge of the Flashback botnet managed to generate $14,000 from their click fraud campaign, but have not been paid, Symantec said today.
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New mobile DRAM standard for 4G networks offers 50% performance boost
The specification for next-generation mobile DRAM was published, offering smartphone, tablet and ultra-thin notebook makers a 50% increase in memory performance.
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Why Ultrabook Laptops Aren't Just MacBook Air Clones
Ultrabooks are sleek, super-thin laptops that often feature a silver, wedge or tapering design--yes, just like the Apple MacBook Air.
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US firms over-reliant on firewalls to defend against DDoS attacks
More than half of US businesses still rely on conventional firewalls or intrusion prevention systems to shield themselves from the scourge of DDoS attacks, a survey by services firm Neustar has found.
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Japanese researchers break record for Terahertz Wi-Fi transmission
Researchers from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan claim to have broken the record for wireless data transmission in the Terahertz band with a data rate 20 times higher than most current Wi-Fi connections.
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Google Knowledge Graph: The Birth of a Siri Rival?
On the surface, Google's Knowledge Graph seems like just another search feature, but connect the dots and it could become the brains behind a Siri-like virtual assistant.
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T-Mobile debuts four data pricing tiers
T-Mobile USA will debut 4 'No Annual Contract' data service plans on Sunday, while Verizon plans to kill unlimited data plans as users shift to 4G
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General Motors pulls Facebook ads
Car giant General Motors has confirmed it will stop advertising on Facebook, after deciding that paid ads on the site have little impact on consumers' car purchases.
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Android malware using real apps as disguise 'wrappers'
Mobile malware stepped up an order of magnitude in volume and sophistication during 2011 and this trend has continued in the first quarter of 2012, according to F-Secure's latest quarterly report.
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Spiceworks social network for IT pros hits 2M users
Spiceworks, the social business platform for IT professionals, has announced that it now has 2 million users, representing nearly 30 percent of all IT pros at small and medium-sized businesses worldwide.
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Cyber spies exploiting Java, Flash flaws
Such activity is often paid for, or sanctioned by, government agencies
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AT&T lights up 4G LTE in New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Naples
AT&T Thursday launched its 4G LTE service in, New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Naples, Fla., today, which extends its high-speed network implementations to 38 markets.
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Mozilla product director says Firefox on Windows RT 'probably not worth it'
Unless Microsoft allows other browser makers to call important APIs in Windows RT, it's "probably not worth it to even bother" building a version of Firefox for the new OS, a Mozilla product director said.
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Open-source messaging at (nearly) the speed of light
Felix Ehm, a member of CERN's beams control group, has always had a curious and scientific bent.
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iOS 6 spotted by developers in usage logs
Developers have discovered that users running iOS 6 have been accessing their apps.
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HTC phones banned in US after Apple patent win
Apple has succeeded in stopping the HTC One X and Evo 4G LTE smartphones being shipped into the US, with reports emerging that the devices are being held back at customs.
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Apple speaks up in Siri 'false advertising' lawsuit
Apple is hoping to dismiss a set of class-action lawsuits accusing it of falsely advertising Siri. The lawsuit claims the iPhone 4S's voice activated assistant feature doesn't work as advertised.
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Ex-Microsoft exec: 'We shouldn't have taken on Apple with Zune'
Microsoft should have "skipped media players completely" and instead produced "the coolest music service for your phones ever."
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UK investment banks point to in-memory analytics to tackle big data
Big data is increasingly being seen as a significant problem by the UK's investment banks, where 67 percent believe that in-memory analytics will be the predominant architecture deployed within the next three years to help tackle it.
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NASDAQ fines Morgan Stanley over coding error in trading software
Morgan Stanley International has been fined APS35,000 by NASDAQ OMX Stockholm after a coding error in its algorithm software caused unusual volatility in the market on 30th November last year.
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The Pirate Bay suffers DDoS attack
The controversial file-sharing website The Pirate Bay has experienced a distributed denial of service attack, according to the site's Facebook page.
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Doctors warned not to use social media with patients
Doctors are being cautioned by hospitals they work with to avoid interacting with patients on social media, and that they reject any overtures by patients to interact on the likes of Facebook and Twitter.
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If Facebook's IPO goes south, social, tech markets could take a hit
With Facebook's initial public offering creating such a frenzy of interest, there's an important question to be considered: What happens if tomorrow or next week or five months from now, this investment goes south?
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Comcast ditches flat 250GB bandwidth cap for tiered service approach
Comcast is trying out more flexible ways to implement its bandwidth caps by experimenting with tiered service options.
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J*******k: Dirty word disappears from Apple iTunes store
Apple historically has fought iPhone jailbreaking by warning customers that their device warranties will be voided if they muck around with the innards of their Apple products. Now Apple appears to be taking its disapproval of jailbreaking one step further by censoring at least some references to "jailbreak" in its U.S. iTunes store.
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NetSuite 'glad to help rival SAP with their ERP'
Zach Nelson, chief executive at NetSuite, has publicly thanked rival SAP for renewing a cloud computing license with his company, instead of using its own software.
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UK man jailed for Facebook hack
A man from West Sussex has been sent to jail for 12 months after hacking into a private Facebook account.
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Consumerization trends hit IT service management
While the technology is moving forward, some still struggle with how to implement and integrate tools meant to help them get a grip on IT processes.
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T-Mobile cuts 900 jobs in restructuring
T-Mobile USA will cut 900 jobs in a restructuring on top of a 1,900-job reduction at its call centers that was announced in March.
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From laptop to legion - turning one computer into many
A recently launched Kickstarter-funded project aims to bring $50 thin clients to schools and small businesses, allowing them to turn almost any computer into a multi-user hub.
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Microsoft tunes up Windows 8 multi-screen
When Microsoft launches Windows 8 Release Preview next month the operating system will have improved navigation features for users who like more than one monitor to display all their applications.
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Developing world fuels rise in software piracy, claims BSA
Four out of every ten programs used in the world are pirated or unlicensed, a loss of revenue to the software industry of $63.4 billion (APS39.5 billion) a year, the Business Software Alliance's (BSA) latest annual study has calculated.
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What Tech Issues Loom Large for Election 2012?
After three-and-a-half years of Obama's presidency, progressive and conservatives have developed pointed assessments of his administration's handling of tech policy issues. From cybersecurity to net neutrality, how does the tech agenda fit into the fall election?
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Wozniak reveals why Steve Jobs loved secrecy
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has set off on his Woz Live tour across Australia and New Zealand, revealing why Steve Jobs liked secrecy, why he thinks computers should be able to interact with humans, how he feels about leaving Apple and what he knows about the iPhone 5.
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Facebook raises stock offering, shoots for $18.5B with IPO
Facebook is working to increase the size of its IPO by 85 million shares, an increase could lift the company's upcoming offering to about $18.5 billion.
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Greenpeace infiltrates Apple's Cupertino campus
Greenpeace infiltrated Apple's Cupertino campus this week, projecting messages from Twitter and Facebook users who are dismayed at Apple's use of coal at the data centre that powers its cloud services.
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HTC One X, Evo 4G LTE Denied U.S. Entry Over Patent Dispute
U.S. Customs is holding up imports of HTC's One X and Evo 4G LTE Android phones because of HTC's ongoing legal battle with Apple. "U.S. availability of the HTC One X and HTC EVO 4G LTE has been delayed due to a standard U.S. Customs review of shipments that is required after an ITC (International Trade Commission) exclusion order," an HTC official told PCWorld. "We believe we are in compliance with the ruling and HTC is working closely with Customs to secure approval."
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How to start a business continuity program
Sometimes you pull the short straw.
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Equifax Eyes Are Watching You--Big Data Means Big Brother
As one of three credit bureaus in the United States, Equifax keeps financial data on every adult in America, plus people in 16 other countries. But the company knows much more than just what goes into an old-fashioned credit score.
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Senate bill slots 55,000 tech green cards
There's a new push in the Senate to set aside as many as 55,000 green cards to science, technology, engineering and math graduates -- so-called STEM workers.
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Google releases Chrome 19, adds tab sync and patches 20 bugs
Google released Chrome 19, patched 20 vulnerabilities in the browser and doled out $16,500 in bug bounties and rewards to independent researchers.
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Mozilla readies app marketplace for public beta
Mozilla Marketplace will be online in a few weeks to take on Apple App Store and Google Play Store
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Pure Storage's next-generation flash array offers high-availability option
Pure Storage today announced the second generation of its all-flash array, which can now be configured for high availability.
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Intel launches third generation Core vPro processors
Chip maker Intel today announced the launch of its third generation Intel Core vPro processors, codenamed Ivy Bridge, designed for use in business laptops, desktops and "intelligent systems".
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Netgear Adds to Its 802.11ac Lineup
Netgear's first 802.11ac router, the R6300, will go on sale next week for $200, the company announced at a news conference yesterday. Touting the benefits of the next-gen Wi-Fi standard, the company also announced two more 802.11ac products: a lower-end router and a USB adapter for notebooks, both due this summer.
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Android 5.0 Will Launch this Fall with Five Nexus Devices: Report
When Android 5.0 "Jelly Bean" launches this fall, it will appear first on several new mobile devices sold by Google itself as part of the "Nexus" line.
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GM Will Stop Paying for Ads on Facebook - Because They Don't Work
Just days before Facebook's much anticipated initial public offering, one of the largest advertisers in the U.S. has decided to stop advertising on the platform. General Motors will stop advertising on Facebook because it has determined that paid ads on the site are, well, not effective, the Wall Street Journal reports.
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Mobile Phone Sales Sink for First Time in Three Years
Is the bloom off the rosy market for mobile phones?
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Verizon to Kill Unlimited Data for All Users, Offer Shared Data Plans
In Verizon's quest to kill unlimited data, even customers with "grandfathered" plans are on the chopping block.
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Google's new Knowledge Graph: Three key features
Google today unwrapped the first part of its efforts to overhaul its search engine capabilities to incorporate more semantic search capabilities. Here are three of its key features.
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Utah CTO takes fall for data breach
The executive director of Utah's Department of Technology Services has resigned over a data breach two months ago that exposed the Social Security numbers of about 280,000 Medicaid recipients.
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Smartphone security is heading for 'apocalypse'
The meteoric rise in the smartphone market is creating a dangerous vulnerability in smartphone security - one that may not be patched until the problem expands into what has been dubbed an "apocalypse."
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Microsoft anti-bloatware service to apply to Windows 8 PCs, too
A Microsoft in-store program that scrubs "bloatware" from Windows PCs will also be offered when Windows 8 machines reach the market later this year, a company representative said.
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Hospital system pursues identity-management Holy Grail
It's an ideal in identity management: a centralized role-based access control system that supports single-sign-on (SSO) user access to authorized applications tied into the human resources systems for automated provisioning and de-provisioning, and the ability to integrate physical-security identity badges for room access.
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Google aims to make search smarter, easier
The vaunted Google search engine is set for an upgrade that will make it easier for users to find the information they need by putting their searches in context, the company said Wednesday.
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ICO website hit by DDoS attack
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) website has been taken offline following a suspected distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.
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Juniper to license Radware tech for data center?
Juniper Networks is negotiating a deal with Radware to license application delivery controller technology from the company, according to investment firm Oppenheimer & Co.
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Samsung is the big daddy of Android phones
Samsung has become the clear leader in sales of Android smartphones as Gartner today reported that it accounted for 40% of worldwide Android sales in the first quarter of 2012.
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Android, Samsung top smartphone sales, topping Apple's iPhone
Android smartphones made up 56% of the global smartphones sold to end users in the first quarter of 2012, giving them a far higher share than the 22.9% held by Apple's runner-up iPhone, Gartner said Wednesday.
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Mac clone maker Psystar saga ends as Supreme Court denies appeal
The four-year-old saga of Psystar, a Florida Mac clone maker that was crushed by Apple, ended Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear its appeal of a lower court decision.
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Lenovo packs 'thinnest' ThinkPad ultrabook with 4G LTE
Lenovo on Tuesday announced a range of new ThinkPads with Intel's latest third-generation Core processors, including a ThinkPad ultrabook that the company claims is the "thinnest ultrabook in the world."
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Lenovo working with Intel on ThinkPad Windows 8 tablet
Lenovo is working with chip maker Intel on a future ThinkPad tablet based on Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system, a Lenovo executive said.
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Privacy advocates fear CISPA
Privacy advocates are riled up after the recent passing of the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act by the House, which occurred despite opposition from privacy advocates, lawmakers and the White House.
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Forrester outlines 5 rising, 5 declining security technologies
Security technologies rise and fall in popularity, and Forrester Research in its TechRadar report puts its bets on five it thinks are in a growth mode and five it thinks are dying away. Do you agree or disagree? Let us know.
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Intel looks to cover bases with new server chips
Intel announced three major expansions of its Xeon server processor line this week, adding lower-priced Sandy Bridge options for the two- and four-socket market and the Ivy Bridge architecture to workstation-class devices.
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With IPO looming, Facebook boosts stock price range
Facebook has raised the price range of its stock shares just days before the company's highly anticipated initial public offering.
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New engine to power Xangati's performance monitoring product
The latest version of Cupertino-based Xangati's virtual dashboard product will boast a new performance management engine and the ability to work with eight instances of VMware vCenter, instead of just one.
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Intel incorporates security, management into Core vPro processors
Intel today described management and security capabilities that will be part of its new Intel Core vPro processor family used in PCs, tablets, laptops and intelligent systems.
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SAP lays out cloud strategy post-SuccessFactors deal
SAP announced a broad set of plans to become a player in cloud computing, spanning from a "loosely coupled suite" of business applications to data integration and PaaS (platform as a service) Tuesday during the Sapphire conference in Orlando.
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Apple dominates other smartphone vendors in consumer satisfaction
The latest American Customer Satisfaction Index has found, not surprisingly, that people really like their iPhones.
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AMD undercutting Intel's ultrabook on price with new Trinity chips
Advanced Micro Devices hopes to provide thin-and-light laptops that are less expensive but equally speedy to Intel's ultrabooks with its new A-series chips, which the company officially announced on Tuesday.
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Consumer love for mobile sparks discontent with Microsoft's software
Satisfaction with Microsoft's software slipped last year, part of an industrywide downturn driven by U.S. consumer discontent with traditional PC programs, a national survey said today.
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LightSquared's bankruptcy is a cautionary tale
After more than a year of active testing and debate over LightSquared's plan for a nationwide, wholesale 4G network, the now bankrupt company may end up as no more than a cautionary tale for mobile investors.
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Appsbar gives small businesses a simple (and free!) template for app building
If you've ever wanted to build a mobile app for your small business but have been intimidated by the cost of hiring developers, Appsbar has a proposition for you.
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Microsoft Awaits $250 Mn Windfall from Facebook IPO
Microsoft is all set to get a $250 million windfall when it sells 20 percent of its estimated 1.8 percent stake in Facebook in the forthcoming initial public offering (IPO) of the social networking giant. At the higher end of the proposed $34-$38 per share price band for the IPO, Microsoft's entire stake in Facebook would be valued at about $1.25 billion.
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A Secure BYOD Policy at MasterCard? Priceless.
More than a year into its bring-your-own-device program, MasterCard Worldwide continuously assesses the security technology and policies that allow 30 percent of its employees worldwide to use their personal iPhones, iPads and Android devices at work.
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How to surf safely with a VPN-for-hire
"When your data passes through a public network--such as the Wi-Fi at the coffee shop or airport--it is at risk." I've been writing variations on that sentence for 10 years now, and I expect I'll be writing it for many more. That's because it's easy to snoop on such networks, and the data on them isn't safeguarded against those prying eyes. You have to take action to keep your data safe. Fortunately, doing so doesn't have to be hard.
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10 hacks that made headlines
In our first Rogues Gallery, we looked at ten infamous social engineers -- con men who exploited human weaknesses rather than technical vulnerabilities.
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No tablet comes close to touching iPad, reports iSuppli
After a brief dip in late 2011, the Apple iPad has firmly reasserted its position as the dominant player in the tablet market.
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Cisco's wireless unit shifts emphasis to "mobility"
