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VMware’s version of flexibility doesn’t include Microsoft Hyper-V

Virtualization leader still refuses to support competing hypervisors

Broadcom makes bid to buy Emulex for $764 million

Offer follows rejection of previous attempt to purchase company earlier this year

Nokia: We don’t know why criminals want our old phones

Nokia maintains there is no software problem that would make the 1100 model desirable to hackers

Wireless sensor system measures, analyzes energy use

How Oracle and Sun can get their act together

Free sites help you manage your money

These personal financial management sites will help you manage your finances, set a budget and get out of debt.

Can you cut information security in hard times and survive

Google video trial stays in Milan, but fast-track possible

Another part of privacy case may be moved to Rome

The Polite Way to Take a Break, Ignore, Unfollow on Twitter

Tap In Systems monitors and runs in the cloud

Its Cloud Management Service integrates with Amazon's cloud platform

EBay pledges to work with police, opposes e-fencing bills

Bills unfairly target online marketplaces, officials say

Stephen Hawking undergoing tests to diagnose trouble

Famed scientist, who suffers from ALS, is "comfortable"; family hopes for full recovery

Researcher wants hacker groups hounded mercilessly

Botnet expert Joe Stewart says 'special ops' teams could thwart cybercriminals

Data transfer rates to jump with Bluetooth 3.0

Bluetooth 3.0 standard can transfer data wirelessly at 24Mbps

Automation, Integration Key to Fighting Cyber Crooks

Analyst: Apple to concede Mac sales shrinkage Wednesday

But the worst is over, says Wall Street analyst, who points toward China, new iPhone and Snow Leopard

11 Cultural Faux Pas You Should Never Make in China

BlackBerry Tips: Delete Carrier Crapware, Icons

Emerging Offshore Outsourcing Markets You Can’t Miss

App developers could make better use of open source

Sun unveils MySQL update as Oracle deal looms

MySQL 5.4 adds scalability improvements to the open-source database

Microsoft to retire Mac Office 2004 in six months

Company supports Mac versions only half as long as Windows editions

Does Exchange support make the Sidekick LX business ready

Device will soon have Exchange support, but that doesn't make it a phone for business end users

Digital trail led investigators to alleged Craigslist killer

Arraigned in Boston today, Philip Markoff charged with assault, kidnapping and murder

Outsourcing deals get small

Outsourcing deals less frequent, smaller in value, but industries continue to turn to service providers to cut costs, outsource IT tasks.

NSA chief: We don’t want to run U.S. cybersecurity efforts

Lt. General Keith Alexander calls for the 'right partnership' with DHS

Oprah’s Midas touch gives Twitter a 43% boost

Talk show queen fires off her first Tweet and brings her audience along for the ride

After Oracle, should MySQL users stay or go?

Some say the deal will be the ruin of MySQL, while others say it could be a boost for the open-source database

NSA chief doesn’t want to do cybersecurity solo

His comments follow criticism that the NSA plays too large of a role

Google gives users control over their searchable life

Google Profiles lets people create public images and information about themselves

Virtualization is ‘the new mainframe,’ VMware says

The company hopes customers will run big enterprise applications on its platform

AMD to ship dual-core Neo, Istanbul this quarter

AMD's upcoming laptop and server chips could boost competition with Intel

100 Gigabit Ethernet: Bridge to Terabit Ethernet

40 Gigabit and 100 Gigabit Ethernet products to ship by year-end; terabit speeds anticipated by 2015

RSA Conference kicks off on somber note

FBI used spyware to catch cable-cutting extortionist

CIPAV spyware helped nab unemployed engineer angry over outsourcing

Forrester: Room for Indian outsourcers to lower prices

Cost cuts by outsourcers may however impact quality of service

Adobe’s new Flash can stream Internet content to TVs

New development platform for TVs, set-top boxes and Blu-ray players is advancement for digital market

India is losing its share of offshoring market, says Gartner

Customers are increasingly looking at alternative locations, the research firm said.

Microsoft applications from China mine the Web

The applications mine online data to map human relationships and help with translation.

Criminals pay top money for hackable Nokia phone

A software problem in the Nokia 1100 apparently allows criminals to steal online banking one-time passcodes

Microsoft gains an ally in its antitrust battle in Europe

Lobby group ACT says changing the status quo would harm software developers working on the Microsoft platform.

Has Microsoft lost its war on open source?

Tech groups praise Obama pick for CTO

Chopra has experience using technology to improve government, supporters say

Before Sun: Oracle’s recent acquisitions

A rundown of Oracle's buyouts since start of 2008, including BEA, Primavera and mValent

A New Green Gold Standard

Apply lean methods to green your IT operation

10 steps for greening an IT department

Oracle’s Sun buy: Ellison praises Solaris, snubs IBM

Oracle CEO says Sun's OS is 'by far the best Unix technology' available, also cites Java as a key component of acquisition

How we determined the Top Green-IT Organizations

Top 12 Green-IT Vendors