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U.S. Mac shipments shrink 56X more than industry average

IDC estimates Mac Q3 shipments fell 11.2% year-over-year; PC average was just -0.2%

Infosys’ revenue rises, but margins are under pressure

Salary increases cut into margins at Infosys in the third quarter

Google’s Malaysia site latest to be felled in DNS attacks

Google is the latest victim of an ongoing spate of attacks on DNS records

Adobe’s source code was parked on hackers’ unprotected server

The files were encrypted but still sitting on an open Web server, security expert says

Hadoop, Web 2.0 get a path to tape for cheap long-term storage

Spectra Logic's BlackPearl appliance is designed to easily move big data into tape libraries

Soon, everyone will be searchable on Facebook

A setting that some people could use to prevent people from finding their Timeline will soon be gone

Why Managers Need to Stop Worrying and Love Millennials

U.S. flips switch on massive solar power array that also stores electricity

The array is first large U.S. solar plant with a thermal energy storage system

Gartner’s dark vision for tech, jobs

In a world where smart machines do most of the work, expect high unemployment, unrest and tumult

Back to the future: BlackBerry founders consider buying the beleaguered company

Mike Lazaridis and Doug Fregin own 8% of BlackBerry and are weighing a purchase of all or part of the companys shares

Percona challenges Oracle with alternate MySQL release

Percona Server 5.6 replicates some features only found in the enterprise edition of Oracle's MySQL database

Battelle deploys quantum key-protected network in full production

Cites value of quantum crypto but says its limitations need to be overcome

Google Tells Feds It Wants to Disclose Surveillance Orders

People flock to anonymizing services after NSA snooping reports

However, even vendors offering those services can't guarantee 100 percent success in shielding data from government surveillance

T-Mobile launches free international text and data roaming

Free plan offers just 128 Kbps data roaming, but adds 'speed boosts' for a fee

Twitter appears to try out a news delivery service

An experimental account appeared on the site to send news-related direct messages

Scientists create 3D-printed bacteria zoos to study infections

University of Texas researchers used 3D printing to create microscopic enclosures

Microsoft security guru: Abusing data should be a felony

EmTech MIT: Craig Mundie lays down the law on data privacy, cybersecurity

So much data, so little security — what happens if your city gets hacked?

Microsoft's Craig Mundie offer security suggestions to MIT Emtech conference; other experts tout smart cities technology

Canonical’s Saucy Salamander gives Ubuntu some speed

The new version of Ubuntu will also come with the latest edition of OpenStack

Delft University wins World Solar Challenge car race

The 3,000 kilometer race across Australia's desert is one of the harshest tests for solar powered cars

HP’s Whitman pegs Microsoft as an ‘outright competitor’ over Surface

CEO acknowledges reality, joins others like Acer, Lenovo to criticize partner's move into hardware

Android watchers all a-quiver over the Nexus 5

Qualcomm shoots its collective mouth off again, Samsung flaunts its curves, Eric Schmidt says Android's safer than iOS, and more flak for the Galaxy Note 3.

Advanced mobile customer apps are target of Kofax software

TotalityAgility 7.0 adds mobile devices, info capture, analytics

Hackers exploit vBulletin vulnerability to inject rogue administrator accounts

Users should delete the 'install' directories from their vBulletin deployments and upgrade to the latest version of the software

Researcher argues for open hardware to defend against NSA spying

Mobile ads double in first half of 2013, reaching $3B

Advertisers see the power in small screens

EU court holds news website liable for readers’ comments

The European Court of Human Rights approves fine for news site

How to build the immortal data center

Cisco patches vulnerabilities in some security appliances, switches and routers

If left unpatched, the vulnerabilities could enable denial-of-service, command execution or authentication bypass attacks

U.S. Army evaluates self-driving, machine gun-toting robots

At Fort Benning demonstration, robotics firms show off technology that can carry soldiers' gear and fend off the enemy

Gartner: The cloud according to Daryl

Analyst Daryl Plummer summarizes cloud computing in 6 handy aphorisms

‘Barbie Dreamhouse’ bug changes Mac, iPhone calendar’s gaudy colors

iCloud glitch in August returns, swaps users' custom calendar colors for purple and pink, won't let them manually switch back

Acer’s new $249.99 Chromebook bound to spark price war

Acer's C720 Chromebook comes two days after HP and Google's Chromebook 11, which has an ARM chip.

Airbnb files motion to block New York demand for info

Airbnb said it was fighting a subpoena for information on hosts of its rental service

India ordered to introduce ‘paper trail’ in electronic voting machines

The country's Supreme Court allowed the Election Commission to introduce it in stages

Google to pay rewards for open-source code security fixes

The program aims to improve critical open-source tools widely used across the Internet

Report: Twitter might go public on Nov. 15

An analysis by PrivCo reveals a Twitter "slip-up" in previous documents

Google expands Maps to include searchable reservations, events

Users now can also choose multiple destinations for one trip

How location tracking will change the way you shop

Technologies that follow you around the store could be a benefit or the latest privacy invasion

Dutch solar car on cusp of World Solar Challenge victory

The cars are a few hours away from the finish line in Adelaide

Picking a Fight Over NSA Surveillance in the Post-Snowden Era

Samsung’s curved smartphone: A big innovation or a novelty?

Is the Round's curved display significant technology or just a gimmick in a string of new Samsung products?

Windows XP deadline provides silver lining to slumping PC market

PC shipments fell by 7.6 percent during Q3, performing better than IDC's original projection of a 9.5 percent drop

Disney develops ‘feel-around’ touchscreens

The technology could also help the blind to identify objects on a touch screen

Will cloud services be traded just like stocks and bonds one day?

Several companies are exploring the idea of trading cloud services on a commodities future exchange market, and the idea is gaining credence

The ‘autonomous,’ hackable car

Microsoft ponies up $100K to researcher who figured out new Windows hack in 2 weeks

U.K.-based James Forshaw demonstrates how to bypass Windows 8.1's defenses, wins first bonus payment in June program

Once a target, always a target: A second look at awareness training in action

Facebook open-source cache squeezes more from flash disks

Facebook's homebuilt Flashcache can reduce wear and tear on SSDs while boosting data throughput to users