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Sprint to begin $300 Samsung Galaxy Note II sales on Oct. 25

First quad-core smartphone available in U.S. runs Android 4.1 and has a 5.5-in. display

Oct 16, 2012 2 mins

Android Mobile Device Management Small and Medium Business

Survey of IT managers suggests preference for Microsoft mobile platforms

A ThinkEquity poll of U.S. IT managers found that 48 percent plan to standardize on Windows mobile OSes, like Windows Phone 8 and Windows RT

Oct 16, 2012 3 mins

Microsoft Small and Medium Business Windows

Marissa Mayer appoints another former Googler as Yahoo COO

She taps Henrique de Castro for one of Yahoo's top jobs

Oct 16, 2012 3 mins

Data Center Enterprise Enterprise Applications

Cisco adds to cloud collaboration services its hosting partners can offer

The company also plans to release a packaged version of its WebEx online meetings service for on-premise or private cloud deployment

Oct 16, 2012 2 mins

Cisco Systems Collaboration Software Small and Medium Business

Cyberespionage malware ‘miniFlame’ discovered

Kaspersky Lab said it discovered the malicious software during an analysis of the Flame command and control servers

Oct 16, 2012 3 mins

Access Control Malware Small and Medium Business

Climate change research gets petascale supercomputer

1.5-petaflop IBM Yellowstone system runs 72,288 Intel Xeon cores

Oct 16, 2012 4 mins

Government High-Performance Computing IBM

Google integrates search across services including Gmail, Drive, Calendar

The testing of the new expanded personal search feature started Monday

Oct 16, 2012 2 mins

Enterprise Applications Small and Medium Business

What will an $8 billion check from Softbank buy Sprint?

The windfall from the proposed takeover could go into paying off debt, building its network or buying Clearwire, analysts say

Oct 15, 2012 5 mins

Enterprise Mobile Device Management Small and Medium Business

Cyberthieves loot $400,000 from city bank account

Cybertheft comes just days after RSA issued a warning that criminal gang planned massive attacks against U.S. banking customers

Oct 15, 2012 4 mins

Cybercrime Data Center Government

Microsoft Windows 8 brings malware improvements, says antivirus researcher

'Early Launch Anti-Malware' architecture means anti-malware drivers get there first in boot process

Oct 15, 2012 3 mins

Network Security Small and Medium Business Windows