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General David Petraeus used clever Gmail trick during affair

Former U.S. General and CIA director David Petraeus resigned last week after admitting to an affair, during which he used a well-known Gmail trick to help cover his tracks.

Dell profit slides 47 percent amid weak PC market

Sales of desktop PCs and laptops both declined in the quarter

The Long Tail of Virtualization

Virtualization's effect on backup, cloud storage and databases.

US agencies target bogus business opportunities

The companies required customers to pay, then didn't deliver on the promised income, the agencies say

Google set to collide with car industry

The automotive industry has long lagged behind the consumer electronics market. Naturally, this presents an opportunity for Google to step in and innovate.

Majority of popular EU websites don’t ask permission to install cookies, report says

IT Services Get Closer to Home

Cisco, Qualcomm join to make better use of Wi-Fi in stores and venues

Users of some phones will get to see free information and download apps by tapping a flashing icon

HP targets new Proliant SL4500 server at distributed environments

HP's new SL4500 server is targeted at Hadoop and the OpenStack cloud OS that are highly scalable in distributed computing environments

Europe looks to ARM chips for supercomputing edge

Can the chip used in Google's $249 Chromebook help solve the power problem facing high-performance computing? (See image below)