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Brett Bilbrey, head of Apple’s Technology Advancement Group, retires

Brett Bilbrey retired earlier this month, marking an end to a nearly 12-year career at Apple.

Apple takes top spot in brand value computation

Samsung, Google and Microsoft round out the top 5

BMC makes the help desk more social

Forums and status updates could greatly reduce service tickets, BMC promises

Apple gets a patent for health-monitoring ear buds

The system could also control mobile devices through gestures

Half of Americans want to live in a smart city with driverless cars

One-third of Americans think it could happen within a decade

Survey: US voters willing to pay more for faster school broadband

About seven in 10 voters would agree to a $4-a-year fee on their mobile phone service, a survey says

Intel stresses in-memory computing with 15-core server chip

Intel's Xeon E7 v2 chips will go into servers with up to 32 sockets

Microsoft claims 200M Windows 8 licenses sold, but how many are in use?

Calculations show that between 165M and 184M are being used to access the Web

Gigabit Internet Service Providers Challenge Traditional ISPs

Which vendors will be on target in the era of New IT