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Google keeps users’ data available until July 15 in Reader’s wake

People can download their data in the interim and load it into alternative services

Jul 2, 2013 2 mins

Collaboration Software SaaS Small and Medium Business

Russian rocket crashes, explodes in failed launch

Unmanned rocket, carrying $200M worth of navigation satellites and toxic fuel, crashes seconds after liftoff

Jul 2, 2013 2 mins

Computers and Peripherals Government YouTube

Civil rights groups plan July 4 protest against NSA surveillance

Websites plan to display protests, including text of the Fourth Amendment, and protestors plan live events in several cities

Jul 2, 2013 3 mins

Cybercrime Government Telecommunications Industry

Gartner downgrades 2013 global IT spending forecast on currency shifts

The analyst firm now says spending growth will be 2 percent this year, revised downward from 4.1 percent

Jul 2, 2013 2 mins

CIO Enterprise Technology Industry

Microsoft CRM update to focus on marketing, mobility and usability

Dynamics CRM 2013 will be available in the fourth quarter and will feature integration with Skype and Yammer

Jul 2, 2013 3 mins

CRM Systems Collaboration Software Small and Medium Business

Alleged Shadowcrew member extradited to the US nine years after forum takedown

Bulgarian national Aleksi Kolarov faces charges of selling counterfeit identification documents and access devices

Jul 2, 2013 2 mins

Access Control Fraud Small and Medium Business

60 billion planets in Milky Way could hold life

Cloud cover doubling the number of planets that could support water, alien life, study finds

Jul 2, 2013 4 mins

Computers and Peripherals Data Center Government

Alcatel-Lucent gives DSL networks a gigabit boost

But the products won't be available until 2016 and will work only over short distances

Jul 2, 2013 3 mins

IPv6 Small and Medium Business Telecommunications Industry

Winklevoss twins will secure bitcoins like gold — in vaults

But the twins make no guarantee that they will be able to hold hackers at bay

Jul 2, 2013 3 mins

Collaboration Software SaaS Small and Medium Business

Snowden seeks asylum from several countries including China, Russia

Snowden in a statement, released by WikiLeaks, has accused U.S. President Barack Obama of deception

Jul 2, 2013 4 mins

IPv6 Internet Service Providers Manufacturing Industry