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How Microsoft should go about setting Windows Phone free

It's a model that worked for Android, so why not? It wouldn't be the first time Microsoft gave away a product to grow a market.

Switch to open source successfully completed, city of Munich says

The 10-year long project has been a success, city officials said

Windows RT and Windows Phone 8 for free?

Microsoft operating-system shakeup rumors promise a streamlined development structure

How to Win the IT Infrastructure and Operations Talent War

ITU standardizes 1Gbps over copper, but services won’t come until 2015

G.fast standard will open the door for 4K video over telephone wires

Manage app logons and authorizations via the cloud

Both startups and traditional vendors offer access management as a service

Internet companies dismayed by French law allowing warrantless access to live user data

The French senate passed a law allowing police and government officials warrantless access to user data from ISPs and online services

Wireless charging consortium launches Rezence, its consumer brand

It plans to showcase wireless charging tech at next month's CES

Privacy groups ask FCC to rule that carriers cannot share phone records

The phone records provided to the government are not really anonymous, the groups said in a petition to the FCC

Banks shouldn’t rely on mobile SMS passcodes, security firm says

As mobile banking grows, malicious Android applications are increasingly intercepting one-time passcodes