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IDC: No end in sight for rising smartphone sales

Latest forecast shows strong demand in developing nations fueled by price declines

Samsung exec: Smartphone of the future is bringing a technical design revolution

In his keynote at Design Automation Conference, Samsung president Dr. NamSung Woo spells out where challenges lie for smarter mobile devices

Smartphone shipments surge as prices drop

More smartphones to ship in 2013 than other mobile 'feature' phones

The next corporate revolution will be power to the peons

'Bureaucracy has to die,' says business consultant at CITE Conference (see video below)

IE11 on Windows 7? Mum’s the word from Microsoft

Microsoft may set its next browser as Windows 8-only

Tablet owners spend a lot more on apps

Finding by Analysys Mason based on users in U.S. and Europe

Salesforce.com aims for next $1 billion business with ExactTarget buy

Salesforce.com will 'double down and focus' on building out its marketing software arm, says CEO Marc Benioff

IBM: Hey CIA, why let Amazon build you a private cloud?

Amazon reportedly won a $600M contract in March to build a cloud for the CIA; now IBM is trying to stop it

NFC forecast dims at Gartner

Struggles at mobile payment services like Google Wallet and Isis cited as factors

Obama targets so-called patent trolls

Obama calls on Congress to make it tougher for patent assertion entities to threaten other businesses

TechEd attendees call Surface discount deal ‘crazy’

Either that or Microsoft is hoping for an amazing word-of-mouth benefit

Informatica hopes ‘Vibe’ can be data integration’s version of the JVM

Vibe, a 'virtual data machine,' will eventually run on small devices and sensors

Intel working on low-power Thunderbolt for tablets, smartphones

Intel says Thunderbolt on mobile devices depends on the future of WiGig, a wireless data transfer specification

Cisco betters its best-selling Catalyst Ethernet switch

Most popular Cisco Catalyst 2000 line extended with 2960-X, which doubles stack ports and bandwidth, cuts energy use

Microsoft overhauls pricing for Azure Web services

Per-minute charges, the clock stops when a VM stops, monthly credits for developers, somebody wins an Aston Martin

Google targets developers with cloud-based backend kit

Mobile Backend Starter makes it easier to integrate Android apps with its cloud

Qualcomm processor opens door for cheaper LTE smartphones

Growing volumes and new components are helping push down the cost

Looks like Feedly wins the Google Reader expat crown

Partners with several popular RSS apps, including gReader, Newsify and Reeder, to keep feeds going after Google pulls the plug July 1

New laptops and hybrids emerge as ‘fatbooks’ are kicked to the curb

Old-school laptops are out of favor, as PC makers experiment with new form factors to compete with tablets

Google biometrics tests show there’s no magic pill for passwords

Electronic tattoos and pills that make the body itself a password would create their own unique challenges, security experts warn

Lenovo in talks for joint venture, possibly to shore up smartphone business

Lenovo has issued a statement following reports suggesting the company is in talks with NEC

Nvidia shows sturdier Shield gaming device just before it ships

Pre-orders for Shield have been slow, Nvidia's CEO said, but the company stepped up its marketing for the device later this month

Intel shows first smartphone with Merrifield chip

Intel says the Atom chip code-named Merrifield will offer over 50 percent better performance than its predecessor

Nvidia says Tegra 4 can power a better, cheaper stylus

CEO Jen-Hsun Huang showed how the Tegra 4's image processing capabilities can substitute for a digital stylus

Intel jumps into cloud gaming with first Haswell server chip

Intel's Xeon E3-1200v3 chips will serve graphics over the cloud with Haswell's improved graphics processor

Chasing tablets, Intel reduces Haswell power draw even further

Intel will drop power consumption on Haswell chips even lower than 7 watts

Dell’s XPS 12 hybrid with Haswell offers 50 percent more battery life

Dell says the thinner and lighter XPS 12 will have longer battery life of 9.5 hours

Report: US President Obama to announce measures against patent trolls

The president is expected to announce a package of proposals on Tuesday

Twitter says error in ‘routine change’ caused brief outage

Some users lost service for about half an hour on Monday

Malware going retro in 2013, security firm finds

Old tricks attract attention of cyber bandits in the first quarter, McAfee finds

Copying grows along with data, driving attempts to rein it in

There are reasons to duplicate data, but it can get out of hand, analysts say

Why BlackBerry’s tepid tablet strategy could be its fatal flaw

TechEd 2013: Windows 8 upgrade to showcase features for enterprise

More than just a Start button, Windows 8.1 will include diverse wireless support, per-application VPNs

Amid riots, Turkish leader calls Twitter a ‘curse’

Social media has been a major player in the political protests erupting in Turkey

Maine may be first state to require a warrant for cellphone tracking

Bill requiring a search warrant for location data tracking passes legislature, headed for state Senate, governor's signature

Microsoft TechEd focuses IT pros on the ‘Cloud OS’

Microsoft is gearing up Windows 8.1 for enterprise use and cloud-enabling Windows Server 2012, Visual Studio and other products

Get ready for a flood of new Hadoop apps

Hadoop's 2.0 release includes Yarn, a workload manager that could make it much easier to build and run apps on the open source big data platform

Google says ‘no’ to sexually explicit content on Glass

The clarified stance comes following the launch of a porn app for the wearable computer system

Apple under the gun as US e-book trial starts

Apple faces off with DOJ alone after publishers settle antitrust charges

Prosecutor: Manning shared data without regard for national security

Bradley Manning's court martial begins at Fort Meade, Maryland

How Windows Red can fix Windows 8: The right strategy for Microsoft

Open source luminary Atul Chitnis dies of cancer at age 51

Indian technology pioneer mourned by colleagues

Samsung extends Galaxy Tab 3 line-up with 8-inch and 10.1-inch models

The tablets support six LTE bands, but frequencies used in the U.S are missing

Hands-on with Acer’s 8-inch Windows 8 tablet, Iconia W3

The Iconia W3 will launch later this month

What Google, Facebook and Twitter are doing right with website security

Google, Facebook and Twitter are improving security, Neohapsis Labs says

Dell announces XPS 11 hybrid, will ship with Windows 8.1

The device can be used as a tablet or laptop

LTE and smartphones drive mobile traffic, says Ericsson

The total number of global smartphone subscriptions will reach 4.5 billion by the end of 2018

TechEd: Microsoft preps system software for cloud usage

TechEd's first day unveils the Azure-friendly Windows Server 2012 R2, System Center 2012 R2, Visual Studio 2013 and SQL Server 2014

Targeting cloud, Microsoft set to revamp major enterprise software platforms

At TechEd: Windows Server, SQL Server, others get second major refresh in a year, focus on hybrid cloud

McAfee sees surge in spam, Koobface samples, MBR attacks

First quarter of 2013 characterized by significant rise in spam levels and malware samples, new McAfee report says