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Verizon: US gov’t made 320,000 requests for customer info in ’13

Law enforcement requests to Verizon far exceed those made to other tech companies

By Grant Gross

Jan 22, 2014 3 mins

Apple Government Telecommunications Industry

New think tank tackles Internet governance

Newly founded Commission for Internet Governance wants to inform the discussion

By Loek Essers

Jan 22, 2014 3 mins

Data Center Enterprise Applications Manufacturing Industry

Google uses YouTube performance to rate ISPs

To get the highest rating, an operator's networks has to serve users with good quality HD content 90 percent of the time

By Mikael Rickna$?s

Jan 22, 2014 2 mins

IPv6 Media and Entertainment Industry Small and Medium Business

Big Data startup MemSQL raises $35 million

MemSQL was founded by former Facebook engineers, specializes in distributed in-memory database technology

By Ann Bednarz

Jan 22, 2014 3 mins

Big Data Facebook Venture Capital

Amazon posted 16,100 IT job ads last year, tops in U.S.

Service firms, tech vendors and Best Buy also among top posters of U.S. IT job ads

By Patrick Thibodeau

Jan 22, 2014 3 mins

Amazon.com Enterprise IBM

Researchers plan to use nano-satellites as space traffic cops

Dozens of tiny satellites in low Earth orbit could help reduce space junk collisions

By Sharon Gaudin

Jan 22, 2014 3 mins

Computers and Peripherals Data Center Government

Report: Amazon considering live TV streaming service

The service would compete with cable and satellite pay TV services if it goes ahead

By Martyn Williams

Jan 22, 2014 3 mins

Amazon.com Media and Entertainment Industry Videoconferencing

Target-related malware was a side job for man living in Russia

The 23-year-old contends the program he helped develop has a defensive purpose as well

By Jeremy Kirk

Jan 22, 2014 3 mins

Access Control Data Breach Small and Medium Business

PS4 and Xbox help AMD to a profit, but outlook disappoints

AMD's business has been improving thanks to the use of its technology in the Xbox One and PS4

By James Niccolai

Jan 22, 2014 3 mins

AMD Enterprise Technology Industry

Hardware torpedoes IBM’s Q4 revenue

Sluggish sales of IBM mainframes and other hardware put a damper on the company's latest quarterly earnings report

By Joab Jackson

Jan 21, 2014 5 mins

Enterprise IBM Technology Industry