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OS X Snow Leopard desertion rate accelerates after patches stop

Exposing hidden domain registrations could hurt innocent users more than criminals

Panasonic’s 5-inch ‘handheld tablet’ redefines tough

Oracle buying Micros for $5.3 billion

Chinese users forgo SMS texting for messaging apps

Ad network compromise led to rogue page redirects on Reuters site

Nvidia abandons 64-bit Denver chip for servers

US NSA granted extension to collect bulk phone data

Google develops own ‘boring’ version of OpenSSL

Twitter keeps sending texts to recycled phone numbers, lawsuit says

AMD tackles thorny problem of laptop battery life

USENIX researchers get a grip on Hadoop performance

Prisoners freed after cops struggle with new records software

FCC proposes $1B per year for Wi-Fi in schools

BMC and the Anatomy of a Successful Turnaround

Surface Pro 3 ‘notebook’ reaches retail today

Millennials Dispel 5 Myths About Their Generation

US senators introduce bill to expand Wi-Fi spectrum

Tool aims to help enterprise IT manage ‘honeypot’ hacker decoys

Republicans call on FCC to leave net neutrality to antitrust agencies

Wall Street Beat: Despite Oracle earnings miss, software appears healthy

ICANN CEO wants to make progress on US split at London meeting

Oracle buys LiveLOOK for co-browsing technology

Companies warned of major security flaw in Google Play apps

Many Android apps on Google Play contain authentication keys that can be easily taken to steal corporate and personal data

Microsoft reveals Office 365 roadmap, offers opt-in previews

Hacker puts ‘full redundancy’ code-hosting firm out of business

Florida college applies corporate-style security to ‘BYOD’ campus network

7 tips for protecting your AWS cloud

How to Clean Up Your IT Resume

Alert issued over plain text passwords in some Super Micro motherboards

House approves effort to limit NSA searches of US data

Google acquires video ads company mDialog

Bitcoin auction going ahead despite US Marshals gaffe

Judge not sold on $324M settlement in Silicon Valley tech worker case

You can take home a Surface Pro 3 on Friday — if it’s a Core i5

Katherine the White Shark crashes research site’s servers

USENIX: Unstable code can lead to security vulnerabilities

Oracle claims second-largest SaaS vendor title, while Q4 profits slip

Chinese site in signal-jammer sting could pay record $34.9M FCC fine

LinkedIn launches mobile job search iOS app

Office 365 customers can sign up to get new features early

Unit4 plots growth plans with cloud ERP and mobile apps

New iPhone iOS 8 notifications to bring changes, annoyances

Businesses look to leverage Apple iOS 8 device interactivity as much as you do

Supreme Court: Abstract idea isn’t patentable when tied to a computer

Intel ventures into 3D mobile chat app that tracks faces, moods

The real ‘fire’ in Amazon’s smartphone? A shopping spree

BlackBerry ekes out a profit as revenue tumbles nearly 70 percent

China cuts access to Dropbox

Facebook back up after short but widespread outage

As iPhone thefts drop, Google and Microsoft plan kill switches on smartphones