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Reding renominated as EU commissioner for another 5 years

She wants to stay in charge of telecom but some governments want her out of the way

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Chrome OS poses long-term threat to Microsoft

But it will be 'years and years' until it competes with Windows, say analysts

The Google OS: Are we saved at last?

EMC fine tunes its management software portfolio

Following several software acquisitions, EMC introduces an integrated, streamlined management product portfolio.

Solving the DLP Puzzle: 5 Technologies That Will Help

Android, Chrome OS differ over voice communications

Google makes it clear it wants to keep both operating systems and let the market decide

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Imagine Cup winners design software to solve global problems

The winning team from Romania built software that connects government agencies and cities

Health 2.0 Meets Government Stimulus

Google’s new OS raises privacy, antitrust concerns

Google will be able to track users all over the Web, privacy advocates say

Coradiant acquires the assets of Symphoniq

Web performance management Coradiant will add Symphoniq's user application management technology to its portfolio

State Department worker sentenced for passport snooping

The former employee is sentenced to a year of probation after looking at passport information on high-profile people

No sign of N. Korean backing in bot attacks on U.S. sites, says researcher

Evidence points to hackers who crave attention, says noted botnet expert

Analysts: Google has muscle for long-term battle with Microsoft Windows

Upcoming Chrome OS is latest weapon in Google's ongoing 'guerilla war' with Microsoft

FAQ: The Google Chrome OS riddle

Google chrome project raises a ton of questions

Forrester expands ‘software bill of rights’

SaaS escrows and flexible virtualization policies top the new additions

Chrome OS will push Apple to address failings, say analysts

Apple needs to offer a tablet, drop MacBook price to $700, argues expert

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North Korea: Culprit in DDoS Attacks?

Google’s OS security claims called ‘idiotic’

Security experts disagree on whether the Google OS can live up to the company's promises

The big winner from Google Chrome OS: Telcos

The Google OS could boost demand for 3G/4G netbooks

Report: Price hikes killing SSD sales for laptops

NAND flash chip prices have increased 127% since late '08

With OS project, is Google over-extending itself?

Industry analysts question whether Google is trying to bite off more than it can chew

MasterCard halts remote POS security upgrades

Gartner says move would slow migration to stronger encryption for payment systems

Google OS may force Microsoft to reinvent Windows

Analysts said Microsoft now faces the challenge of developing a more Web-centric OS

Ex-Googler says Chrome OS will be a vastly different OS but won’t displace Windows

If successful, Google OS could spawn a whole new class of faster, cheaper, diskless PCs

Google Apps Premier Edition Gets Key Improvements

Microsoft confirms attacks against IE6, IE7

'Browse-and-own' bug lets hackers hijack Windows XP; temp fix available

AMD slowly evolves with netbook demand

While AMD has tried to avoid selling to the low end, its chips are appearing in small laptops

Yahoo enhances and broadens access to Search Pad tool

Search Pad is a note-taking application for people conducting research using Yahoo's search engine

Two Microsoft partners embrace the software-plus-services mantra

Say they will resell the software maker's Business Productivity Online Suite

LG reorganizes operations in Mexico, shutting factories

The South Korean company will stop producing mobile phones in Mexico, and consolidate its LCD TV factories there

Sony takes first step into the netbook market

The Vaio W will take Sony into the only part of the PC market experiencing significant growth

China’s grip on Web prevents dissent on deadly riots

China cut off the Internet and some phone service in Xinjiang province after 156 were killed

Symantec drives toward ubiquitous deduplication in its products

PureDisk deduplication will be tightly integrated with NetBackup, Backup Exec

Microsoft extends access to C#, CLI

C# and CLI are now covered by Microsoft's Community Promise, enabling open source usage of the technologies without fear of reprisals

Group examining SAML, Information Card for European identity system

Technology would let EU members safely share IDs

Study: Social Security numbers are predictable

With a person's hometown and birth date mined from social networks, SSNs can be narrowed down

Gmail, other Google apps, out of beta

Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Talk no longer beta products

Boston Plans iPhone App…But Will Anyone Use It?

Study: Social Security Numbers Easy to Guess

Google scrubs Apps clean of beta labels

The move is intended to calm concerns among IT managers and CIOs

Protecting Social Security numbers online is a futile exercise

Social Security numbers face myriad securty problems.

Opera CEO: Major US carrier deal imminent

Opera Mini will have broad distribution in U.S. through a deal bigger than current ones with Sprint and Virgin Mobile USA

VMware offering ‘safe passage’ to Virtual Iron users

The virtualization vendor is offering license discounts for those who want to switch

Wozniak’s storage start-up adds reliability to consumer-grade flash

Fusion-io builds less expensive enterprise flash storage devices

TerreStar to launch hybrid satellite-cellular system

Parents need to talk to kids about Internet use, experts say

Teens may spend more time online during summer vacations