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Tim Cook gives Apple employees extra Thanksgiving vacation time, with pay

The recent Maps controversy aside, it's been a pretty amazing 2012 for Apple; they've continued to rake in the cash hand-over-fist thanks to a number of new products, from the Retina Display MacBooks to the recently released iPhone 5. As a result, Ti

IBM drops Power7+ in high-end Unix servers

The Power7+ is coming first to IBM's Power 770 and 780 systems, and runs at a maximum of 4.4GHz

Tiny sensor allows gesture control of tablets, phones

Murata's sensor was demonstrated for the first time at Ceatec Japan

MetroPCS in talks to merge with T-Mobile USA

MetroPCS confirmed it's talking with T-Mobile parent company Deutsche Telekom but said a deal isn't assured

Oracle set to build out cloud service capabilities, rivalry with Salesforce.com

However, general-availability dates for the new offerings were scarce

Microsoft to open ‘pop-up’ stores Oct. 26, battle Apple at most locations

Will sell Surface RT tablets at the temporary holiday outlets

FTC gets $163 million ruling against scareware defendant

The Ukrainian operation told computer users their PCs were infected and sold them software to fix the bogus problem

Desktop chip price battle looms as AMD prices Trinity aggressively

Intel may respond by lowering its desktop chip prices, analysts say

In security response, practice makes perfect

Security flaws exposed at Washington, D.C. airports

Metro Washington Airport Authority posts documents containing electronic security information; TSA looks the other way