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IBM’s Power8 opens up to component makers

IBM provides hooks so third-party component makers can attach their parts

Amazon Web Services improves GovCloud management

The addition of CloudFormation lets GovCloud users create templates to configure and manage more complex environments

Why Microsoft’s Next CEO Will Fail

Unity adds 2D game development and works with Facebook

Version 4.3 of its development platform will have an integrated 2D physics engine

Cloud Helps Financial Company Spin Up a New IT Operation

Office 2003’s burial will resurrect hacker activity

New York Times hack highlights weakness in registrar security

<em>New York Times</em> site hack shifts attention to registry locks

Mechanism provides relatively easy way to mitigate risk of unauthorized DNS changes, security researchers say

US court finds file-hosting service Hotfile infringed copyright, says MPAA

Hotfile was sued by five studios for allegedly promoting and benefiting from copyright infringement

Former Google executive to help Xiaomi to expand outside China

Xiaomi has risen to become a top smartphone maker in China in only two years

Hacker points Syrian telecom website to AT&T, T-Mobile

The prank also pointed email servers for the Syrian Telecommunication Establishment to Israel and Iran

Three types of DNS attacks and how to deal with them

After Twitter, NY Times hacks, top Internet brands remain at risk

Twitter acquires Trendrr to get a better handle on tweets about TV

Trendrr should provide Twitter with better data about users' tweets

IBM starts restricting hardware patches to paying customers

Following an Oracle practice, IBM starts to restrict hardware patches to holders of maintenance contracts

Mobile device management shifts to the cloud

MobileIron's Anyware focuses on Web simplicity, self-service

Twitter tweaks its site and mobile apps to make conversations easier

The update is meant to simplify how @ replies are displayed

Analysts push iPhone 5C price predictions to $450

Apple will choose to defend revenue because it can't compete at low-end in emerging markets

Massive Delta IV rocket launches classified satellite

The satellite is likely the latest member of America's spy satellite system

Developers hack Dropbox, show how to access user data

The cloud storage provider's two-factor authentication was bypassed to gain access to user data

Srsly? Bitcoin, selfie added to Oxford dictionary

The dictionary adds some 40 new words, many tech-inspired, to its online dictionary

Infor fleshes out its Inforce Salesforce.com integration

Now it includes support for multiple ERP systems and companies from a single Inforce instance

VMware’s virtualization quest could help shake up storage, too

The company is pitching several upcoming storage technologies at VMworld alongside its NSX network hypervisor

Social engineering: Study finds Americans willingly open malicious emails

Juniper kills MobileNext mobile packet product line

Juniper  MobileNext was a  high-profile competitor to Cisco's Starent gateway that was designed to enable non-interrupted delivery of high-definition voice and video over 2G/3G and LTE mobile networks

Bookmaker handicaps Microsoft CEO race

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop is the current favorite at 5 to 1; Apple CEO Tim Cook is at 100 to 1

Spear phishing led to DNS attack against the New York Times, others

Hackers managed to compromise the login credentials for a Melbourne IT domain reseller responsible for the affected domains

Federal CIOs Face BYOD, Mobile App Security Challenges

Privacy campaigners want review of Irish Facebook, Prism decisions

The group lacks the funds for lengthy litigation

Half of organizations targets of cyberattack in last year

VMware spotlights key NSX  security tool for deploying security software and services

VMware's NSX network virtualization platform uses tool for deploying wide range of third-party security vendors such as  McAfee,  Rapid7,  Trend Micro, and Palo Alto Networks

Toyota Goes All-in With Social Media Monitoring

Kennametal CEO Uses IT to Keep a Laser Focus on Customers

New Role for the CIO: Chief Process Officer?

Patriots Deploy Stadium Wi-Fi to Compete With the Comforts of Home

5 Things You Need to Know About Geofencing

Will Microsoft Office Finally Play Nice on the iPad?

Google cuts Nexus 4 price by up to a third in some key markets

Competition in the smartphone market heats up ahead of Apple's next iPhone launch

If you sell 36 million Samsung or Apple smart watches, are you successful?

Juniper predicts big growth for smart watches like Samsung Gear and Apple 'iWatch' by 2018, but says it's still a 'niche'

Forget Shark Week: Researchers tag n’ track great whites

Using four different kinds of tracking technology, OCEARCH finds sharks are often closer to shore than you think

Bitcoin offers privacy — as long as you don’t cash out or spend it

Most users do not use sophisticated methods that would more deeply mask their transactions

Oracle software will run faster with new SPARC M6 chip

The latest SPARC processor has 12 processor cores, effectively doubling the number of cores than its predecessor, M5

Server revenue continued slide in Q2 on weak demand, says IDC

IBM and HP held on to the top two positions but with declining market share

DNS hack in Australia hits marquee US sites

The Syrian Electronic Army is believed to have modified DNS records for many websites

MIT develops 110-core processor for more power-efficient computing

MIT says the chip won't be available in stores this Christmas season

New York Times site outage caused by attack on domain registrar, company says

Attack may have compromised several other domains as well, including Twitter, security researchers say

Intel to ship new Atom server processors next week

Intel says its new Avoton chips will be up to seven times faster and four times more power efficient than current Atom processors

New York Times website hacked

Early evidence suggests site was hit by Syrian Electronic Army

Nissan plans to offer affordable self-driving cars by 2020

It plans to demonstrate its autonomous tech later this year

Yahoo aims for consistency with site redesign

The company is pitching advertisers with two new types of units