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Liar, liar

Five executives who lied in their resumes.
Competitive balance?

Just months after failed AT&T merger, T-Mobile now champions competitive balance.
Customizing Windows 8

Here are eight ways that you can customize your installation of Windows 8 Consumer Preview.
Data center lessons

From no-frills servers to free cooling, Facebook's Open Compute Project reveals the many secrets behind its high-efficiency data centers.

Liar, liar Five executives who lied in their resumes.

Yahoo's resume-padding CEO mocked

Android vs. iPhone

Learn how to make Android faster and more productive than the iPhone.
Customizing Windows 8

Here are eight ways that you can customize your installation of Windows 8 Consumer Preview.
Competitive balance?

Just months after failed AT&T merger, T-Mobile now champions competitive balance.
Data center lessons

From no-frills servers to free cooling, Facebook's Open Compute Project reveals the many secrets behind its high-efficiency data centers.

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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.
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.
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...
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.
J*******k: Dirty word disappears from Apple iTunes store

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Doctors warned not to use social media with patients
Cisco mobility bundles target BYOD, mobile virtual desktop
iPhone 5 said, again, to have 4-inch display
Ethernet switching gets specialized
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Android 5.0 Will Launch this Fall with Five Nexus Devices: Report
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Privacy advocates fear CISPA
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History's first prank phone call was way back in ... 1884? by Paul McNamara
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CIA posts Top 10 world-wide Internet and mobile phone usage lists? by Michael Cooney
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DOJ smacks Baltimore police over constitutionally protected right to record cops by Ms Smith
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Comcast is trying out more flexible ways to implement its bandwidth caps by experimenting with tiered service options.

Felix Ehm, a member of CERN's beams control group, has always had a curious and scientific bent.

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

A new variant of the Zeus trojan tricks users into exposing their debit card details by displaying rogue offers when they visit Facebook, Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail, according...

If you're looking for a last-minute gift for Mother's Day, don't bother sending her a Facebook invite - chances are, she's probably already on it.

Twitter has acquired RestEngine, a two-and-half-year-old company that has helped social app publishers send emails based on a user's social graph, RestEngine said on...

Those looking to build a substantial following on Twitter would do well to stick to one particular topic, rather than use Twitter to discuss a wide range of subjects, a...

Whether you use Google's Gmail service at work or for personal purposes, you probably have a good handle on the basics: organizing your contacts, sending emails, setting...

In an IT environment of MacBook laptops, Windows PCs, iPhones, iPads and Droid devices, why would any enterprise stick with Microsoft Outlook for email and collaboration?

Getting a positive return on investment from a social media campaign is about more than tracking the number of your Facebook fans and Twitter followers. It's about linking...

VMware Thursday announced that its SocialCast sharing tool will now work with Lithium Technologies tools to capture and integrate external customer data.

In a move to expand functionality and allow for simpler adoption of its market-leading enterprise social collaboration offerings, Jive Software has released a series of new...

If you're job hunting or looking to expand your professional network, many people turn to LinkedIn and its portfolio of features and tools to browse job listings, connect...

Facebook on Tuesday announced an initiative to inspire members of the social network to post their organ donor status, offering a new Health and Wellness section.

The Facebook Phone could be the next tech product to follow the recently launched Google Drive from the land of myth into reality, according to an online report. Taiwan-based...

Thanks to a couple of boring weekends that SCHEDit founder and CEO Omar Tellez had in Princeton, N.J., my friends and I have a new way to keep track of our best options for...

Reports circulated Thursday that Facebook's initial public offering could arrive on May 17.

After the enterprise presentation segment at the ongoing DEMO conference in Santa Clara, two presenters stood out for introducing solutions to long-running workplace problems.

Cisco will include Jabber instant messaging and presence software at no extra charge with its Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) enterprise IP communications system, the...

Google underestimated the scope and consequences of the outage that hit Gmail on Tuesday.

An outage that prevented millions of users from accessing Gmail on Tuesday has been resolved, according to Google.

A new iOS app lets enterprise iPad users set up secure video conferences with others both inside and outside their organization. The app also can leverage features such as...

Google+ began rolling out a redesign on Wednesday that it hopes will make the social platform "easier to use and nicer to look at," according to a blog post.

Email phishing scams have grown more sophisticated since they first began popping up in corporate inboxes in the 1990s. Early phishing emails were relatively easy to detect...

Using VoIP via satellite links can have bandwidth issues, but Cisco today said it's introducing an IP multiplexing technology for its Cisco Mobile Ready Net package that...

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...

Tech managers need to do a better job developing talent, IT pros say. There's too much judgment and not enough instruction, according to new poll data from Dice.com.

A U.S. court has shut down the operations of a company that allegedly promised it would build its customers websites that would generate income of up to US$20,000 per month,...

These days, it seems like a dozen new network "extras" - including traffic monitors, packet inspection technologies and management products, to name just a few - are launched...

Samsung Electronics may challenge the validity of Apple's intellectual property claims before the Regional Court in Mannheim, Germany, rules on whether the company has...

Megaupload filed a motion in federal court on Thursday asking to delay a civil suit filed against the file-sharing site while it prepares a defense for its criminal case.

Oracle was dealt a minor setback in its lawsuit against Google on Wednesday when a judge denied its motion to toss out one of Google's key defenses against copyright...

Google's engineers never studied other companies' patents while developing Android for fear of allowing those patents to influence their design decisions,...

Google is seeking a new trial on copyright claims in Oracle's intellectual-property lawsuit against it over the Android mobile OS, according to a filing made late Tuesday...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is seeking a civil court contempt ruling against the largest third-party billing vendor in the U.S., alleging that it placed more than US$70...

Game maker Zynga sued a French competitor, alleging that by using the suffix 'ville' in the name of its game, Kobojo wilfully infringes on its trademark rights and is...

The Washington State Attorney General's office reached a settlement on Monday with an advertising company it alleged baited and spammed Facebook users with salacious...

A U.S. senator has urged the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to investigate whether Comcast is violating conditions imposed in its...

A jury has found Google liable for copyright infringement in its use of Java in Android, but has not managed to decide whether that infringement was protected by rules...

The jury has reached a partial verdict in the copyright phase of Oracle's intellectual property dispute with Google, and the judge has given them one more day to try to...

Oracle has asked a judge to bar Google from using some testimony given by former Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz in the companies' intellectual-property suit over the...

An executive with Hitachi-LG Data Storage (HLDS) has agreed to plead guilty and serve time in a U.S. prison for his participation in a series of conspiracies to rig bids for...

Former Sun boss Scott McNealy sided with Oracle on Thursday in its dispute with Google over Android, testifying in court that companies needed a license to use Sun's Java...

Apple, Google, Microsoft and all major smartphone vendors were slapped with a lawsuit Wednesday by Potter Voice Technologies, an obscure Colorado company that claims they are...

Oracle has lost its bid to assert a third patent in its trial against Google, with a favorable decision from the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office coming "a few days...

Apple has unveiled its earnings for another quarter, which usually means two things--a blockbuster financial performance and insights from CEO Tim Cook. The company certainly...

Andy Rubin, the head of Google's Android development team, took the witness stand for the first time Monday in Oracle's lawsuit accusing Google of patent and...

Today is the accepted date, or best guess, of William Shakespeare's birthday, in 1564. This may seem far removed from the grueling work of IT professionals.

Microsoft has formally shipped System Center 2012 management platform, adding features that create application-centric views of corporate infrastructure and - just as...

New York state's attorney general has filed a lawsuit against Sprint Nextel, alleging that the mobile provider has deliberately under-collected US$100 million worth of state...

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...

A man from West Sussex has been sent to jail for 12 months after hacking into a private Facebook account.

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.

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 controversial file-sharing website The Pirate Bay has experienced a distributed denial of service attack, according to the site's Facebook page.

Sometimes you pull the short straw.

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...