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Oracle makes ‘big data’ push even bigger

Oracle's family of products for analyzing massive and varied data streams keeps growing

Microsoft’s new tablets Surface

Microsoft makes 10.6-inch Surface tablets faster and adds more storage

Microsoft takes second swing at tablets with new Surface 2 lineup

Faster and with longer battery life, but priced nearly the same as the originals

In another blow, Blackberry suspends Messenger rollout for iPhone, Android

Unreleased version of Android app 'caused issues'

Gartner: 64% of organizations looking at Big Data projects this year

Gartner calls 2013 big year for Big Data 'experimentation and early deployment'

Larry Ellison takes $1 salary, declines bonus, still lands $78 million

Oracle CEO declines a $1.2 million cash bonus but accepts equity awards valued at $78.4 million

iPhone TouchID fingerprint biometrics broken by German hacker club

Chaos Computer Club shows online video demonstrating use of a gummy finger hack of an Apple iPhone

8 hot IT skills for 2014

Java exploits seen as huge menace so far this year

F-Secure threat report also discovers Bitcoin cybercrime 'mining' operation

Government Healthcare IT Plans Hinge on Open Data

6 Social Media Management Tools Ready for the Enterprise

Apache Struts security update disables vulnerable feature

Version 2.3.15.2 of the development framework also fixes an issue with the action mapping mechanism

Schools’ use of cloud services puts student privacy at risk

Vendors should promise not to use targeted advertising and behavioral profiling, SafeGov said

Infor’s Phillips pins growth on user-friendly design revamp

Fresh user interfaces are seen as key to Infor beating Oracle and SAP in the ERP software market

Security org raises Internet threat level after seeing expanded IE attacks

Gang responsible for Bit9 hack in February responsible for latest attacks exploiting IE 'zero-day,' says FireEye

Boston, SF shine in mixed U.S. IT job market

DEC’s demise may offer a lesson for Microsoft

Offshore IT service providers are the leading users of L-1 visas

Encryption is still the best defense, despite NSA code-cracking

How to protect corporate data from angry ex-employees

Surveys show companies lose millions due to hacks by disgruntled former workers

NSA spying fiasco sending customers overseas  

Switzerland-based Cloud Sigma says businesses are looking to international providers who are out of jurisdiction of US federal agencies

LinkedIn denies harvesting user email accounts without permission

A lawsuit charges that the company breaks into email accounts of its members to gather contacts' addresses

Oracle’s Ellison promises ‘ungodly’ database speed with new in-memory option

Ellison also announced a new high-memory server appliance

Rather than walling off from NSA, Brazil should welcome whistleblowers

iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending Sept. 20

Sapphire gleaming, Big Things, solar secrets, NFC angst

Wall Street Beat: Software vendor results offer glimpses of optimism

Oracle and Tibco report quarterly financial results that were mixed, but more solid than last quarter

BlackBerry expects $1B loss, will slash staff, reduce handset range

The company hopes to halve operating costs while it evaluates its future

Sen. Franken seeks data on privacy controls in iPhone 5s fingerprint tech

Lawmaker seeks answers to a list of 'substantial privacy questions' sent to Apple CEO Cook

How I got an iPhone 5S on launch day

It took an all-nighter, unsuccessful stops at two Walmarts and finally a trip to the Apple Store

Ballmer: Three-layered plan will lead to ‘One Microsoft’

Two months in, it's hard to tell the status of the realignment plan that's supposed to bring cohesion and agility to Microsoft

iOS 7 off to speedy adoption start

Ad network Chitika says nearly a third of all North American iOS traffic now comes from Wednesday's upgrade

Gang exploits both physical and system security during bank robbery

Apple’s iOS 7 patches 80 vulnerabilities

Early iPhone customers clamor for new colors, fingerprint sensor, better camera

One customer was set to buy two iPhone 5c's (for each of her parents, in blue and pink) and an iPhone 5s for herself

‘It’s a BYOD world’ – with a catch — at New York Law School

Bring Your Own Device is fine, says technical director, but no network access without a clean machine   

NetApp’s hybrid cloud plan targets storage for any virtual systems

Storage vendor says it can provide a common data management layer across public and private clouds

Microsoft OS chief: One API to rule them all

Microsoft is pushing ahead with a unified Windows strategy

Apple exhausts initial supply of iPhone 5S

Gold model runs out first; other colors backed up 7-10 working days in U.S.

iFixIt tears down an Australian iPhone 5S

Components no one cares about, gibberish labels, and tech fetishism

7 ways to beat fingerprint biometrics

Apple's embrace of finger scanning technology in the iPhone could be a breakthrough moment for biometrics. But finger scanners are no panacea. Here are 7 ways hackers have figured out to fool them.

Google wages war on Microsoft’s Office with free iOS, Android apps

Quickoffice is now free to anyone with a Google account; but Microsoft execs promise Office will come to non-Windows platforms

Memo to Pinterest: Go ahead with those ads, but be careful

Promoted content that is tasteful is a good idea for Pinterest, one analyst said

Ballmer strongly hints at Office for iPad and Android tablets

He said Microsoft has its eyes wide open for opportunities to port products to non-Windows platforms

iOS 7 update: online forums awash with complaints, pleas

User postings about new Apple iOS 7 show confusion, ignorance, frustration, and victories

Hungry? Let’s print lunch

The chances of finding life on Mars just got slimmer

NASA's rover Curiosity hasn't found methane, a calling card of life, in the Martian atmosphere

Google to tackle aging, illness with new company

Google branches out into healthcare, medical research with new company call Calico

US FTC lacks data breach authority, says accused medical lab

The Atlanta medical lab fires back at an FTC complaint that it lacked a reasonable cybersecurity program

NSA wants even closer partnership with tech industry

NSA's Debora Plunkett says NSA's now is real-time automated information sharing on a large scale

Microsoft expands buyback deal to goose sales of Surface, Windows phones

'Smart move,' says retail expert, that will drive traffic