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A breakup may be on the horizon for BlackBerry

Set to be acquired by Fairfax, BlackBerry says it will 'refocus' on its core enterprise business even as Gartner advises clients to ditch the vendor's products.

Overseas, Twitter cites access, privacy and Kakao among its biggest challenges

Twitter reveals the difficulties of monetizing its service internationally

Facebook networking chief: No more secret ASIC commands

Social networking giant uses software defined networking (SDN) to wrest more control of its network gear from vendors

Report: NSA has little success cracking Tor

The agency has attacked other software, including Firefox, in order to compromise the anonymity tool, according to documents

Wall Street Beat: Business as usual for tech, but gov’t crisis casts shadows

A month-long stoppage would impact U.S. tech spending, a debt default could have disastrous consequences

U.S. supercomputers haven’t been affected by gov’t shutdown — yet

National labs have money to keep HPC up and running, but theres a limit

An Amazon set-top box would be cheap, might streams others’ content

It's not clear Amazon can launch the device in time for the holidays

Shutdown affects government sites, but Weather.gov remains up as storm looms

A weather forecast has a tropical storm or hurricane headed for the U.S. Gulf Coast

Web hosting firms at risk from critical vulnerability in WHMCS billing and support system

WHMCS developers released security updates to close publicly disclosed SQL injection vulnerability

Switching IT Outsourcing Providers Easier (and Less Costly) Than Ever