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Aruba announces cloud-based Wi-Fi management service

Competes with Cisco-owned Meraki and Aerohive

NASA’s Cassini finds plastic ingredient on Saturn’s moon

Spacecraft detects propylene, an ingredient use to make car bumpers and storage containers, in Titan's atmosphere

Rivals to again review Google’s promises in EU antitrust case

The EU competition chief expects a resolution of the case involving search results for Google services 'by next Spring'

Shutdown could test IT security at federal agencies

Agencies would have skeletal IT teams in place to manage systems

10 encryption tips for the enterprise

Security company scours ‘Dark Web’ for stolen data

Companies are looking for new ways to monitor the brisk trade in stolen information on underground forums

Seagate, TDK show off HAMR to jam more data into hard drives

They will demonstrate the heat-assisted data writing technology in a HDD

DoCoMo shows ‘touch display’ for computer glasses

The prototype creates a virtual interactive display on a flat surface

DRAM prices up 35% since China fab plant fire

Micron, others likely to benefit from Hynix DRAM shortage

Symantec seizes part of massive peer-to-peer botnet ZeroAccess

Researchers freed 500,000 infected computers from operators of the ZeroAccess botnet

Former Qwest CEO out prison, blames NSA for troubles

Nacchio says Snowden leaks back up what he's been saying all along

Obamacare could help fuel a tech start-up boom

Guaranteed health coverage may encourage people to launch their own business or work solo

After getting star billing, Oracle’s Fusion Applications take a supporting role

Some 85 percent of the 650 Fusion Applications customers so far are going with a cloud deployment

Dumping a Surface? eBay averages double the return of a buyback vendor

Loyal Surface owners complained last week that Microsoft doesn't take trade-ins, but online auctions put more cash in pocket than any buyback deal

BMC puts Hadoop on the company timesheet

BMC's Control-M automated workflow software can incorporate big data-styled Hadoop jobs as well

Dead Drops offline P2P file sharing network goes global

More than 1,200 physical locations allow people to share thumb drive files, and their lives, anonymously

Tech firms push for NSA surveillance transparency bills

Google, Facebook, Apple and other companies call on Congress to move quickly on NSA legislation

Cisco, Intel push ‘trusted geolocation in the cloud’

Trusted Computing Group module can be used to contain data geographically  

Through a glass darkly: Microsoft’s new financial reporting format

Analysts worry CIOs and enterprise IT leaders will struggle discerning the sales performance of specific products

T-Mobile could see more gains from iPhone 5S and 5C sales

iPhone 5 was recently a top seller, helping to reverse T-Mos sales declines

Ford chief Alan Mulally climbs to No. 2 on Microsoft CEO betting line

Irish bookmaker lists turn-around expert at 3-to-1 odds, second only to former Nokia CEO Stephen Elop

Brute-force malware targets email and FTP servers

Researchers find Fort Disco malware variants launching brute force password guessing attacks against POP3 and FTP servers

Is that hotspot safe to use? Wi-Fi Alliance wants to help

The group is also seeking to get rid of wires in the home

NASA doubles commercial fleet after successful Cygnus docking

Touch and type: 3 keyboard covers for the iPad Mini

Cloud Security Alliance’s new guidelines focus on mobile, data management

CSA recommends what users should look for from cloud providers

Forget fingerprints: Your iris is your new identity

BlackBerry responds to Gartner’s call for clients to ditch BB products

4 Ways CIOs Can to Respond to a Service Outage

EMC Bets Big on Flash Storage

Security industry in ‘rut,’ struggling to keep up with cybercriminals

Mobile App Lets Jewelry Retainer Test In-store Discounts

Staples Lab Delivers Omnichannel Apps

Microsoft to pay execs who stay, pay those culled during reorg turmoil

Awards $60M to 8 execs on the same day that board okays retention payments

3 Tips for Communicating With Millennials

Many CIOs Yearn for the Corner Office

Intel partners to expand app-level energy management

Intel partnered with TSO Logic to widen the availability of its data center management software

HP opens up on SDNs

Software-defined networking: HP creates developer network, app store to accelerate deployments

Replacing silicon with nanotubes could revolutionize tech

Stanford breakthrough could affect everything from smartphones to laptops, cars and smart eyeglasses

IBM settles with U.S. over alleged discrimination in job ads

IBM agrees to pay $44,500 for ads that U.S. government said showed preference for visa holders

Microsoft’s Surface to be under revenue microscope

New financial reporting format will disclose tablet line's quarterly revenue

Sharp shows 7-inch next-generation MEMS display

The display is being developed in collaboration with Qualcomm

Apple beats Coca-Cola to emerge as most valuable global brand

Samsung at number eight continues to strengthen its brand globally, according to the report

Microsoft buys used iPhones in latest attempt to get consumers to switch to Windows

Third deal this month offers minimum of $200 for an iPhone 4S or iPhone 5

Microsoft received 37,000 end-user data requests in first half of year

Law enforcement requests related to users of Microsoft online services are on pace to match last year's figures

How to Overcome Resistance to Global IT Standardization

Door Opens for More Female CIOs at Universities

Wall Street Beat: Tech IPOs, M&A continues to heat up

A strong stock market fuels activity

Rights groups plan anti-NSA surveillance rally in D.C.

ACLU, EFF, Mozilla among nearly 100 organizations planning event on 12th anniversary of U.S. Patriot Act

‘Free Unix!’: The world-changing proclamation made 30 years ago today

On Sept. 27, 1983, a young Richard Stallman set the stage for both Linux and the open source software movement