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Tech leaders to 2011 grads: Go to the bathroom, don’t be a jerk and take risks

Cisco chief John Chambers, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer share words of wisdom in commencement addresses

Search for space life takes aim at specific planets

Using NASA Kepler space telescope images, SETI group to hone in on 86 possible life-supporting planets

Droid X2 dual-core smartphone available Thursday from Verizon

The X2, at $200, has double the processor power of the Droid X

SAP launching in-memory computing cloud

Partners will build applications that use SAP's HANA in-memory compute engine

Define, educate, prevent: Avoiding data loss is easier than you may think

Intel throws might into chasing mobile market and ARM

Chip maker wants to delve into elusive smartphone, tablet market

G.hn home-network backers plan tests next week

Vendors will test chip sets using the ITU G.hn standard for interoperability

Senator introduces electronic surveillance reform bill

The bill would provide more legal protections for data stored in the cloud

IT gets its report card

The IT leader who can't explain where the IT function is and where it should be won't be around for long

Intel speeds up road map to tackle threat from ARM

CEO Paul Otellini says the changes will be as significant as Intel's launch of the first Pentium chip