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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

From calculators to tablets, Intel to emphasize mobile era

Intel will announce new tablets based on Bay Trail processors at Intel Developer Forum next week

How to Prepare for a Potential Syrian Counterattack on the U.S. Power Grid

Court bars Apple from making industry-wide e-book deals

Apple vows an appeal of the injunction

Microsoft’s picture-authentication welcomed given password fatigue

Google previews Chrome app launcher for Macs

Will host first Chrome developers summit this November to push OS subversion strategy

Call Center Outsourcing Buyers Want More Than Cost Savings

Facebook updated privacy policy likely next week

Facebook has closed the comments period on the policy updates amid controversy

Breaking the 4K bottleneck, getting content to the home at IFA

4K video is hot, but getting content to TVs is still an issue. IFA provided a glimpse into the future.

NASA’s NuSTAR telescope detects images of 10 ‘supermassive’ black holes

Space telescope spots first of what scientists hope will be hundreds of finds

Is eBay warming up to Bitcoin?

A post on the auction site's Deals blog asks users about the virtual currency

Facebook and Parse started talking in 2011, Parse’s CEO says

A different kind of partnership was considered before Facebook's acquisition

Microsoft adds a wing, more closets to the homes of SharePoint Online tenants

Office 365 customers will be able to store larger and more diverse files on the suite's cloud collaboration server

Microsoft to patch dangerous Outlook hack-by-preview bug next week

Sets Patch Tuesday plans with slate of 14 updates, including critical fixes to IE, Windows, Office and SharePoint

Microsoft Patch Tuesday aims at IE (again) and SharePoint

Fourteen September bulletins means lots of work for administrators

Report: NSA defeats many encryption efforts

The agency has been working since 2000 to circumvent encryption through a variety of methods, a news report says

Brewer taps Bud Lab at University of Illinois

Anheuser-Busch aims to gain access to new talent to work on big data, analytics projects