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Cybercrooks target SMBs with new types of attacks

Ransomware, mobile malware and brute-force attacks aimed at small business are on the rise

Qualcomm invests second $60 million in Sharp for next-gen displays

Sharp and Qualcomm subsidiary Pixtronix are trying to mass produce displays based on tiny mechanical shutters instead of LCDs

Microsoft investing over $670 million in Iowa data center

The West Des Moines project will create 29 new jobs

Bitcoin Foundation warned by California financial regulator

The foundation maintains that it is not a money-transmission business

NSA leaker Snowden leaves Hong Kong reportedly for Russia

Hong Kong's government said Sunday Edward Snowden had left for a third country

Reports: FTC probes Google’s Waze acquisition

The U.S. agency is reportedly reviewing the potential anti-competitive impact of Google's purchase of the Israeli mapping app developer

Southwest Airlines flying again after major computer glitch grounds flights

Systemwide computer glitch grounds more than 60 Southwest flights on Friday/Saturday

Facebook bug exposes contact information from millions of users

There is no evidence, the company says, that the bug has been exploited maliciously

Android ransomware marks profitable new era for cybercriminals

Linux Foundation sees broadening role for developers

Foundation adds new courses to reflect job changes

Rackspace supercharges MongoDB service

Rackspace is using its ObjectRocket acquisition to offer fully tuned MongoDB data stores

Here come the pricey, 12-hour laptops

But even with stellar battery life, the four-figure price tags could slow sales, says Forrester analyst

Another working Apple-1 pops up, could sell for $500K

Christie's to auction out-of-nowhere antique starting next week

Oracle to charge extra for 12c database’s ‘fundamental’ feature

Intrigue builds over an Oracle and Microsoft press conference set for Monday

Too many CSOs ignore the reality of today’s threats

George Viegas argues that recent research finds too many security managers suffer from 'ain't gonna happen to me' syndrome

British intelligence tapping fiber-optic cables for massive amounts of data

The GCHQ surveillance program is even bigger than NSAs, The Guardian says

‘Hell is Other People’ is the anti-social app

Want to avoid your friends? Have we got an app for you

Intel looks past Windows, sees Android for Haswell successor

Intel is looking to hire a program manager who will take charge of porting Android to Haswell successors

Civil liberties advocates call for more oversight of NSA surveillance

NSA surveillance programs need more transparency, critics say

Enterprises starting to trust cloud for more sensitive apps

Cloud gaining traction for everything from e-discovery to security monitoring

Founder of Citrix and much more, Ed Iacobucci dies at 59

Versatile tech pioneer oversaw OS/2 at IBM, formed a jet startup and of late targeted data sprawl at VirtualWorks

Virgin Mobile USA to carry iPhone 5 for $550

Sales kick off June 28; unlimited 3G and 4G LTE data, and unlimited messages, available for $35 a month

‘Star Trek’ stars’ remains to be launched into space

Roddenberry's and Arthur C. Clarke's ashes will blast off in 2014

iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending June 21

Leaking components, Labor Day frenzy, fingerprinting bezel, liquid cooling

U.K. regulator gives Google 35 days to scrap its remaining Street View data

If the company doesn't, legal action might be taken

Tech talent wars spill into marketing

Hiring managers from outside the IT department are recruiting IT pros, particularly for cloud computing roles

CIO Takes Action to Solve BYOD’s Privacy Problem

6 highest/lowest paid IT jobs

Technology staffing firm Mondo predicts a spike in demand for HTML5 developers in 2014

First ransomware app targeting Android devices spotted in the wild, Symantec says

Fake 'Android Defender' can change the settings of the operating system, reject reset attempts, Symantec says

Microsoft baits trap with $100K in hunt for new exploit techniques

Puts money where its mouth is, say security experts, to make Windows ecosystem more secure

Wall Street Beat: Software vendors report mixed results amid market tumult

While Red Hat had a strong quarter, sales were soft for Tibco and Oracle

NSA can retain encrypted communications of Americans possibly indefinitely

Leaked document details the procedures used by the NSA to limit data collection from US citizens

Big Data Will Drive the Industrial Internet

VMware and MapR hope to simplify virtualized big data

MapR's Hadoop platform is now certified for VMware vSphere, allowing enterprise to get commercial support

Samsung’s new Android camera features more megapixels than you probably need

Plus, Huawei flirts with the press and sneers at Nokia, Nexus 7 falling down on the job, and HTC makes a plastic One

Capgemini to orchestrate Microsoft cloud products with Skysight offering

Capgemini hopes to allay fears over 'data sovereignty' for European users by running loads in local data centers

IT Outsourcing Industry Doing Little to Prepare for H-1B Visa Reform

Microsoft’s $100k hacker bounty sounds great but has a lot of loopholes

Winning vulnerabilities and exploits must be novel, generic, reasonable, reliable and impactful -- whatever those mean

Microsoft’s $100K hacker bounty sounds great but has a lot of loopholes

Winning vulnerabilities and exploits must be novel, generic, reasonable, reliable and impactful – whatever they mean

Google and Red Hat collaborate on App Engine in private clouds

The two company's have worked on tests to verify third party implementations of App Engine, including Red Hat's CapeDwarf

Lenovo to launch new $500 Windows 8 tablet, and 5 touch-based laptops

The Lenovo Miix includes a keyboard cover

U.S. inventor of DRAM tech honored with Japan award

Robert Heath, a researcher at IBM who invented the core bit storage cell used in modern DRAM chips, wins the Kyoto Prize

Sony Xperia A doubles Samsung Galaxy S4 in head-to-head Japan sales

NTT DoCoMo says Sony dominated after it promoted the two models heavily in its summer campaign

Wi-Fi’s fast 802.11ac standard may pay off big in mobile

The new technology could cause phone makers and carriers to jump into a rich set of new channels

Will Instagram video weed out Vine?

Thursday's announcement could spark a leapfrogging competition between the rival apps, some experts say

Provisions under which NSA can collect, retain data on U.S. residents revealed

The Guardian publishes two more secret documents on NSA spy programs

Oracle’s Ellison spills beans on upcoming SAP HANA competitor and Database 12c plans

Database 12c.1 will focus on in-memory computing, according to Ellison

After closing arguments, Apple’s fate in e-book antitrust case goes to judge

Both Apple and the Justice Department made their closing salvos in a Manhattan courtroom

Oracle Q4 profits up 10 percent, but revenue flat

Hardware revenue continues to slide but cloud software revenue jumped 50 percent, according to Oracle

As machines learn to think, exascale will be critical to U.S. defense

Congress readies a bill, but funding estimates are below other nations