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Microsoft’s magic trick: Making 100,000 Metro apps appear

Now how did Microsoft make 100k apps magically appear in three months? It helps if they already exist.

How it works: The technology of touch screens

NASA exploring $1.5 million unmanned aircraft competition

NASA unmanned challenge would focus on sense and avoid, among other hot drone issues

Citrix offers common management console with first step of Project Avalon

Exacalibur and Merlin lead the way as Citrix moves to the cloud

Over 20Gbps DDoS attacks have become common occurrences, Prolexic says

The number of DDoS attacks has decreased, but their average bandwidth has increased during the third quarter of 2012, Prolexic says

With breaches inevitable, ‘behavioral whitelisting’ bolsters fight

LogRhythm boosts behavioral analytics into the 'multi-dimensional' zone

Cisco, Citrix forge ADC alliance

Cisco will recommend NetScaler after discontinuing ACE development

Facebook expands blacklist of malicious URLs

Bolstering 'the link shim' tool is expected to help businesses, as well as consumers

Qualcomm to open 2013 CES in place of Microsoft

The maker of ARM-based processors for smartphones and tablets will give the opening-night speech at CES

IBM reports sluggish quarter

IBM generated less revenue in its third quarter than analysts expected