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It's crunch time for anyone who wants a piece of BlackBerry, as a six-week due-diligence period ends for bidder Fairfax
Innovation in information and communication technologies drives global economic development
Unveils new data center, cloud switches just ahead of Nexus 9000 launch
Finding ways to use helium gas lets Western Digital to decrease power use by 23%
Ventev's TerraWave products complement Cisco gear to focus radio signals in a narrower range
Linux creator Linus Torvalds wants comments on a proposal for an entirely bug-fixes and stability release in about a year
Combined Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 user share passes 10%
Google expands on work since 2011 to keep attack code off personal computers
A review with commentary for security C-Levels
Microsoft has acknowledged the issues, but it hasn't come up with a fix yet
The monitor will work with devices that have an HDMI port
Another day, another theory as curiosity mounts over barges in Maine and California
U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee's proposed legislation would legalize dragnet surveillance of Americans, privacy advocates warn
Apple cedes coveted award to Asian rival for the first time
Female users in the US will see the ad regardless of whether they follow the designer
Page response times at the troubled site improve from eight seconds to less than one second, officials say
Marin County will favor 'tier two' ERP vendors in the second go-round
Even prompts users of 2011's Lion and 2009's Snow Leopard to upgrade
The market for plasma TVs has slipped dramatically in recent years
The computer, targeted at the do-it-yourself crowd, will ship by the end of November
New Google device runs KitKat and boasts a low $349 unlocked price; to be sold only on aggressive service plans of U.S. carriers Sprint and T-Mobile
It is likely that other European countries haven been breached too, the Finnish foreign ministry said
Google aims to make the latest version of Android a better fit for cheap smartphones
Users of free cloud storage provider say they haven't had access to their data in days
Analysts say it needs to improve its unified communications and enterprise social efforts or risk being left behind
Design changes -- the new iPad Air is lighter, thinner and faster -- prompt consumers to unload older Apple tablets to fund purchases
The malware checks if infected systems have a SAP client application installed, ERPScan researchers said
Microsoft, Google, Yahoo and other Internet companies had so far asked for permission to reveal data requests to the public
Rockstar acquired Nortel's patents for US$4.5 billion after outbidding Google
Apple launched the iPad Air in China on Friday
The Senate Intelligence Committee bill would allow the bulk collection of US phone records to continue, with some limits
Links between Africa and the rest of the world will keep pace, growing 51 percent per year through 2019, Telegeography says
DHS warns public safety departments that their out-of-date Android devices are a security risk, but updating them is not always easy
Some positive news from Apple, Facebook, as well as upbeat reports on software and tablet sales help fuel share prices
Citrix improves scaling, setup for mobile management product
Identity and access management as a service on a roll, but encryption as a service struggling
Analyst points out that Google Trends -- a predictor of past quarter sales -- is down 25% from last year at this time
Unlike other NoSQL data stores, Accumulo provides role-based access to data
The vote, however, is nonbinding
Google Android phone is finally – FINALLY – out. Now can we all just take a deep breath?
The hotly anticipated phone offers LTE network technology and other enhancements
