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Eight is enough! IT’s biggest frenemies

Microsoft sticks to guns, will unveil refreshed Surface on Sept. 23

On-sale date likely remains Oct. 18, when Windows 8.1 update reaches retail

Harvard, MIT join on artificial intelligence research

Universities awarded $25 million NSF grant to create next-generation AI technologies

Icahn withdrawal clears Dell buyout path

Icahn's withdrawal from an effort to buy out Dell paves the way for CEO Michael Dell and Silver Lake to buy the company

Windows 8 Update: Picture passwords not so terribly insecure, researcher says

Also, Surface to get battery-boost keyboard, Nokia buy could lead to Surface Phone brand

Lawyer: Verizon should be able to block websites

Congress didn't authorize the FCC to pass net neutrality rules, Verizon's lawyer tells an appeals court

EU politicians call for suspension of data-sharing deal amid new NSA spying allegations

News that the NSA may have spied on Swift provokes outrage in the EU

PostgreSQL 9.3 communicates well with others

The new version of the open source PostgreSQL database now comes with data wrappers that can both write and read data to other systems

SAP focuses on stability, data source support with Business Objects update

Business Objects 4.1 is now generally available

Seagate unveils a hard drive for tablets, shuns SSDs

The drive offers up to seven times the capacity of typical tablet SSDs

Intel ships Haswell processors for tablets

Includes a new chip that draws as little as 4.5 watts power in tablet usage scenarios

Your Video Strategy May Hold the Key to Hiring Top Talent

Security experts question if Google’s Chrome Apps is worth the risk

WLAN enterprise growth slows after 802.11n upgrade rush

While enterprises revenue slows, service providers are picking up some of the slack

Report: UK and US spies have cracked BlackBerry’s BES encryption

Documents leaked by Edward Snowden indicate that the NSA can read certain targets' BES communications

China to give jail sentences for Internet users found guilty of online defamation

China has been stepping up measures to crack down on online rumors

Service lets companies manage Amazon Web Services encryption keys

Dark Matter Labs rolling out private-key encryption storage package for cloud services

Unified Communications Drives Collaboration, Cost Savings (After a Lot of Hard Work)

Fatal distraction: 7 IT mistakes that will get you fired

Career Watch: IT professionals assess the IT profession

IT Resume Makeover: How to Showcase Your Strengths

Fed says tech demand outstripping supply in Boston, San Francisco

But the average starting salary for new computer science graduates said to be down this year by 2.5%

Microsoft Xbox Music now available on Android, iOS and free online

The premium version costs $9.99 per month or $99.99 per year

Wireless USB to get high-speed jolt from WiGig

The Wi-Fi Alliance plans WiGig certification starting next year

Facebook offers real-time feed of user data to online and TV news

Facebook launched two APIs to allow news organisations to include user comments

NASA team fixes lunar orbiter glitch

LADEE spacecraft now working well as it heads to the moon for dual missions

Google’s rivals want to review new concessions in EU antitrust case

Google offered the European Commission new concessions to settle a long-running antitrust investigation case last week

Torvalds marks Linux’s birthday with a nod to its past

Self-driving cars don’t yield for naysayers

Dell sticks with Windows 8 for business tablets

Microsoft’s mobile fate rests on Nokia deal

Nissan working on smart watch that monitors both car and driver

The company described it as a concept and did not release details on commercial availability of the product

Google celebrates Chrome’s 5th birthday with desktop/mobile Chrome Apps

New suite of apps include productivity tools, games

Sony, Panasonic show consumer 4K camcorders

Sony plans to start selling its 4K camcorder in October

Elop moves from long shot to shoo-in as next Microsoft CEO

Betting firms shorten odds on the former Nokia chief executive, make him the front-runner by far

TVs and smartphones steal the spotlight at IFA

The annual electronics fest saw many new products

Federal judge upholds Apple’s 30% take on in-app e-book sales

After antitrust conviction, Apple App Store rules remain in place

Encryption still best way to protect data — despite NSA

Properly implemented encryption very hard to beat, even by experts at U.S. spy agency, security experts say

Disk storage revenues decline in Q2

8.2 exabytes of storage were shipped in the quarter, a 21.5% jump since last year

Wall Street Beat: Tech starts off season on mildly upbeat note

Big deals mark the tech landscape as the mobile market grabs the spotlight

NASA’s lunar mission could lead to Internet in space

NASA's LADEE space probe launches tonight on mission to test laser communications

Schneier on NSA’s encryption defeating efforts: Trust no one

Some security professionals raise concerns about tech companies' potential cooperation with the surveillance agency

OS X Mavericks likely to arrive Oct. 30

A late October launch of the new OS would sync with Apple's habits

Android Trojans gain botnet distribution, new code

IT offshore outsourcers are top L-1 visa users, U.S. says

IEEE-USA says government report shows that L-1 visa is tool for offshoring jobs

Q4 hiring plans slow, hint at IT recruiting challenges

Networking, data management and helpdesk are among most sought after skills

Hello from space! Kirobo takes huge step for robotics

Japanese robot speaks its first words onboard the space station

Yahoo: More than 12,000 US data requests led to disclosures more than 11,000 times

And that's just so far this year, according to Yahoo's first transparency report, released Friday

The final iPhone 6 rumor rollup: what is Apple likely to do?

Improving, not changing, the "iPhone experience"

Samsung’s Note 3 and Gear smartwatch make a pricey package

Price range from $1,000 at T-Mobile unsubsidized, and $600 at Verizon with a two-year contract