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Windows 7: The essential guide

New Windows Mobile software builds hint at Microsoft’s direction

Unofficial Windows Mobile 6.5.1 smartphone OS iterations boast deftness, simplicity

The challenges of managing SaaS projects

Verizon chief trashes net neutrality

SuperComm remarks come one day before FCC vote

Facial-recognition system can guess your age

System for advertisers shown at Gartner Symposium

Gartner on cloud security: ‘Our nightmare scenario is here now’

Conference sessions highlight benefits, drawbacks of move toward cloud computing

RIM BlackBerry Bold 9700 to Have U.S. Launch in Nov.

Experts see forecast worsen for cybercrime

But investigators say they're developing clearer strategies for dealing with online crime

Windows 7 and Desktop Virtualization: The New Tools

How Apple Keeps Defying the Odds

IT pay cuts: Are you next?

More IT professionals see their pay slashed during company-wide cuts; some leave

Web 2.0 Summit: Microsoft avoids Bing for Mobile talk

Exec shifts expected focus to talk about competing with search giant Google

Windows 7 will drive virtual desktop adoption, VMware says

Upgrading to Windows 7 poses logistical challenges, VMware executive says

SAP, Siemens ink new support pact

The global corporation signs a new three-year maintenance deal, dispelling rumors it may drop vendor support

Outsourcing Industry Mergers Spell Bad News for IT

Microsoft strikes search deals with Twitter, Facebook

The social-networking companies will collaborate with Microsoft to get their status updates and "tweets" on Bing

IBM facing double legal trouble

Mainframe antitrust inquiry, insider trading charges add up to headaches for Big Blue

Engineers create fingernail-sized chip that holds 1TB of data

The process also shows promise for boosting vehicles' fuel economy

Extreme turns to Motorola for WLAN future

It will resell Motorola's enterprise WLAN gear and develop unified wired and wireless management software

Study disputes claim net neutrality hurts investment

A paper by Free Press suggests that broadband spending will continue if the FCC makes new rules

Microsoft SharePoint VP hails ‘Swiss Army Knife’ software platform

First public white spaces broadband network is alive in Virginia

After years of battle, Microsoft, Dell light up the first public broadband wireless network based on unlicensed television spectrum.

Phoenix claims DeviceVM stole its instant-on technology

Phoenix sues rival for trade secret theft, and ex-employee for breach of contract

Report: Employee Holiday Shopping Will Strain Security

ISACA survey finds productivity losses, information security risks are at stake when employees use work devices for shopping

Making Sense of Rapid7’s Metasploit Acquisition

The information security community may benefit from it, experts say, but much depends on how Rapid7 handles its new property

RIM develops a better BlackBerry browser

RIM powers up Webkit investment for new BlackBerry browser

4 Tips for Writing a Great Social Media Security Policy

Security researchers at IANS think social media policies provide security departments with a great opportunity.

Key Capabilities of Next-Generation Project Managers

PHP 6 to boost internationalization with Unicode

Cisco unveils new generation of branch routers

ISR G2 optimized for video, virtual services

US high-tech trade deficit improves, still long way to go

Photonics, electromedical and communications equipment lead way TechAmerica trade group says

AT&T packages enterprise mobile apps

The hosted applications for BlackBerry and Windows will serve the merchandising and hospitality sectors

Tech CEO parade slated for Web 2.0 Summit

The conference will address the increasing societal responsibilities of Web 2.0 players

Chinese authors mull action over Google book settlement

A new group aims to fight online copyright infringement

Microsoft slates Office 2010 public beta for November

CEO Steve Ballmer announces upcoming betas of Office 2010, SharePoint 2010

Citrix bows to customer pressure on XenDesktop licensing

XenDesktop 4 will now come with per-device as well as per-user licensing options

Gartner: Server virtualization now at 18% of server workload

Gartner predicts nearly half of server workloads will be virtualized by 2012

Gartner: Don’t sweat move to IPv6

Move to IPv6, next-generation Internet protocol, a relatively low priority, analyst says

Iconix settles charges of violating children’s privacy law

The clothing company collected children's personal data without telling parents, the FTC says

Richard Stallman joins call for Oracle to divest MySQL

Oracle must be prevented from taking control of MySQL, software activist says

Survey: Americans don’t trust the cloud to store confidential data

Top fear is identity theft according to a Unisys survey

SharePoint guru builds wedding, Elvis into conference schedule

Microsoft Sharepoint devotees add nuptials into busy week

FTC slams MoneyGram with $18M charge to settle fraud complaints

FTC said MoneyGram knowingly let scammers use it money transfer system for scams

Ballmer: Users won’t be penalized for switching from premise to hosted software

CEO Steve Ballmer says moving between online applications such as SharePoint and Exchange will be seamless

Apple sets sales records ‘as if recession never happened’

Mac and iPhone sales 'spectacular,' hints of new products this quarter

Who is Steve Ballmer?

A quick look at Microsoft's Chief Executive Officer

Zend: Code Tracing capability eases PHP problem resolution

Teradata: We still rule over Oracle, IBM in analytics

At conference, says it will offer its data warehousing technology for private corporate cloud

Nook e-reader pushes Barnes & Noble into crowded market

Bookseller is also backing e-book access via Motorola Cliq and other smartphones

Using the Internet makes people smarter, study finds

UCLA research finds that online searching can increase brain activity in older adults