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R gets commercial support just in time for big-data boom

For under $800 per year, Revolution Analytics can answer all your R-related questions

Mozilla proposes new version of net neutrality rules

The browser maker's propsal would regulate broadband providers' relationship with edge services

Nanotech Trojan horses target and kill brain cancer

Nanoparticles deliver 'death genes' to cancer cells, leaving normal brain tissue healthy

IBM: Security threat prevention isn’t ‘dead’ yet!

IBM rolls Threat Protection System, saying prevention should be the focus of enterprise security systems

CEOs may look twice at IBM’s new security suite, services as Target’s head rolls

New security products and services from Big Blue are aimed at preventing nightmare data theft scenarios

Run your own cloud storage for less, EMC says

The company is launching its Elastic Cloud Storage Appliance, formerly Project Nile, at EMC World

Symantec Lays Out Advanced Threat Protection Roadmap

Career Watch: Crunching the BLS jobs figures

Acer chairman to leave PC maker in June, no replacement named

Acer's co-founder Stan Shih says he's satisfied with the changes wrought at the PC maker in his six months as Chairman

Nokia’s $100M investment suggests its next focus may be ‘Connecting cars’

Nokia Growth Partners will manage a $100M Connected Car Fund, investing in automotive technology and location products and services

Symantec partners to fend off zero-day attacks

Symantec joins forces with Check Point, Cisco, Palo Alto Networks

EMC heads back to the high-stakes software table

Software initiatives are likely to be a big part of EMC World this week

Data breaches 9% more costly in 2013 than year before

Ponemon finds increased abandonment by customers of organizations hit by data breaches

Gates cedes Microsoft shareholder crown to former No. 2, Ballmer

First time in company's 39-year history that co-founder was not the top shareholder

SAP tech chief Sikka steps down in management shakeup

The executive is leaving for personal reasons, shortly before co-CEO Bill McDermottA is expected to be named sole CEO.

The Internet of Things could encroach on personal privacy

White House report on IoT describes electrical devices with unique signatures that can tell a lot

Jury finds Samsung infringed some Apple patents, must pay $120M in damages

The verdict came at the end of the third full day of deliberations

OAuth weakness threatens users of social media sites

U.S. Air Force takes Google Glass for a test flight

FTC told to disclose the data security standards it uses for breach enforcement

Administrative judge rules in favor of LabMD in long-standing dispute

How-to Make the Most of Your New Twitter Profile

Bye-bye, Blu-ray: Video-on-demand and streaming options are gaining on you

Up-and-coming hi-def online compression formats put even greater pressure on optical media

Wall Street Beat: Internet stocks under the gun

Fierce competition among social media and e-commerce companies, and the need to spend money, are making investors nervous

Eager to declutter your Lumia? Windows Phone 8.1 to get a file manager

Microsoft also launched a site where users can suggest features for the OS' Cortana voice-operated personal assistant

Microsoft sharpens encryption management tools

The 2014 version of the IT administration tool suite includes an improved BitLocker management component

Crowdfunding campaign wants net neutrality billboard where US regulator can’t miss it

Ohanian turns to crowdfunding site to raise money for a billboard opposing the FCC chairman's proposal

White House Calls for Big Data and Cloud Privacy Overhaul

HP creates a new way to sell data centers

Enterprises can get a data center they have full control of without the upfront costs

Samsung wants to talk about your health at event on May 28

A week after Samsung's event, Apple is expected to launch a health-related mobile app at its Worldwide Developers Conference

The Internet of Things likely to drive an upheaval for security

Securely managing IoT will require a combination of IT, physical and industrial control security, Gartner says

Robocoin ATMs will send bitcoins to phone numbers

Robocoin Bank users will be able to send bitcoin to phone numbers around the world

Google deals made Android phones more expensive, lawsuit claims

A class-action complaint contends Android devices are pricier because of secret agreements Google makes with device manufacturers

DDoS attack from Facebook possible, but unlikely

Project Ara module maker explores ‘conductive ink’

3D Systems is developing conductive ink for Project Ara's modular blocks, and also fine-tuning its manufacturing process

First-of-a-kind Kickstarter lawsuit highlights risks of crowd funding

An attorney general alleges that a company raised $25,000 for a playing card set, but has not delivered the rewards

SanDisk announces 4TB SSD, hopes for 8TB next year

SanDisk's new drive family has up to 4TB capacity for data center use

HP expects first x86 Nonstop systems next year

Nonstop customers will get a path off of Intel's Itanium chip

Microsoft fixes IE zero-day flaw

Windows XP users will receive the patch, even though Microsoft ended support for the OS about 3 weeks ago

Nvidia $192 Tegra TK1 board could be used as a Linux gaming PC

Nvidia's Jetson TK1 computer, shipping now, delivers 300 gigaflops of performance

Wearable devices with health IT functions poised to disrupt medicine

The data that wearables can provide excites doctors, although the health care system isn't ready for the technology

Microsoft makes one-time exception, patches IE on Windows XP

Calls news coverage of IE vulnerability 'overblown,' but patches IE6, IE7 and IE8 on XP anyway

Oracle, Oregon officials once discussed faulty website technology as Healthcare.gov fix

Oregon has since scrapped its site, Cover Oregon, and will use the federal Obamacare site

Foursquare splinters itself in two, will launch new app called ‘Swarm’

Swarm will provide mobile messaging based on the locations of friends

White House big-data panel calls for privacy protections, ignores NSA

Big-data collection has several benefits but raises other privacy concerns, a presidential panel says

Cisco retires WebEx Social, partners with Jive instead

The companies will market a suite that includes WebEx Meetings, Jabber and Jive enterprise social networking software

Internet Explorer security fault forces Microsoft to save Windows XP one more time

Out-of-band fix for a zero-day flaw in Internet Explorer will include XP, Microsoft says

Afraid of the cloud? How to handle your fears

Study finds that 73% of IT execs worldwide fear that cloud providers are hiding problems

CTO Says Cloud Services Earn Vote of International Election Monitoring Group

DOJ reaches settlement with eBay to end no-poach hiring deals

The proposed settlement would bar eBay from entering into no-hire agreements with other tech firms

Oracle will allow customers to swap on-premises software for cloud services

The move follows a similar one by rival SAP