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The company is working on moving its child exploitation app to the cloud
A few things I learned from reading "BlackBerry Planet"
Schmidt says that working with other governments to protect cyberspace is also a priority
Oracle details its Sun road map, aimed at returning the hardware company to profitability
GOP Congressman set to use popular social networking site to respond to Obama's address
New Twitter feature that shows its users the hot topics in their geographic area
$499 price and optional keyboard make the tablet a big winner, says analyst
Some will buy a Wi-Fi-only iPad and skip the 3G cost, analyst says
Bookmaker expects iPad sales of at least 2 million
Cyberwar is difficult to define, but the U.S. needs a strategy, a group of experts says
University, hospital team to build tools to boost medical image processing by 1,000 times.
After taking over Sun, Oracle also says it will invest in OpenOffice
Mars and Moon to show off in January nighttime sky dance
Tablet ships in 60 days, says Jobs, but Apple's store doesn't let you pre-order
Survey shows rise in use of free software such as OpenOffice, Google Docs
Apple fans, detractors slowed down Twitter, but there was crash during iPad event
But many questions, including about pricing changes, remain unanswered
The service, which pulls public content from users' friends on social networks, is graduating from Labs to Google.com
Public safety and law enforcement experts at a Microsoft conference like new tools but caution that their use can be limited
AT&T was the convenient choice for Apple, but company faces tough questions from users
Apple wants the new iPad tablet to be a “third category” of devices. Will enterprise IT buy into that pitch?
Following the Sun acquisition, Oracle will focus more on the potentially lucrative business of private clouds
Sun's Containers and Logical Domains are given new life under Oracle VM Manager
The iPad is chock full of wireless features and battery life, but is missing multi-tasking and voice support.
Execs duck questions about Wednesday's rumored tablet event during conference call
New design isolates virtual applications in multi-tenant systems
It can still be dangerous for citizens of China to criticize the government online
Worldwide x86 chip shipments recorded an all-time high in Q4
HTC sees Nexus One as a boon for its brand and sales of Android smartphones in general
More than a price hike, Microsoft looks to better compete with IBM Notes, Google Apps
The telecom company posts a loss due to layoff costs and other items
Data center Ethernet packages from Extreme and Voltaire get out ahead of Cisco, Juniper HP
'Fatal System Error' tells of tangled cybercrime web
The authorities are trying to stop fake ID factories by tightening supplies of specialist equipment
Wi-Fi use quadrupled in 2009, mostly via smartphones, carrier says
Speeds go from 12 Mbps to 45 M bps after tests at more spots in Stockholm
EU data protection laws are out of date and need to be harmonized better, said Brad Smith
Only 'critical issues' will be fixed for older virtualization releases
Points to Apple's win over Mac clone maker Psystar in lawsuit over game cheats