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LinkedIn goes down, then back up, then down again Wednesday morning

Popular professional social media site LinkedIn suffered two outages in three hours

4 Ways Federal Fiscal Austerity Will Impact CIOs

What will T-Mo announce next week?

Quality service over LTE, matched by unsubsidized phone and unlimited plans could give T-Mobile fighting room, analyst says

DHS shifting to cloud, agile development to boost homeland security

Along with its transition to agile, the department is establishing cloud services, platform-as-a-service and software-as-a-service

Senate bill would require warrant to obtain emails from Internet companies

'Analog era' Electronic Communications Privacy Act no longer suited to digital age, said one of the bill's sponsors, Sen. Patrick Leahy

Open-Xchange to launch open-source, browser-based office suite

The new online office suite is being developed by a team of former OpenOffice developers, the company said

Taiwan’s PC makers focus on low-end tablets in search of growth

Acer and Asus are aiming to ship larger volumes of tablets this year

Google adds another city to fiber service rollout

Olathe City Council has approved an agreement to bring Google Fiber to the city

Industry coalition objects to Google’s domain names applications

FairSearch.org, which is backed by Microsoft, Nokia and Oracle, said Google could get a competitive advantage from generic industry terms

Click fraud botnet defrauds advertisers up to $6 million

The 'Chameleon' botnet generates high traffic on low-quality websites

New breed of organized criminals aided by Internet, says Europol

Chirpify opens up Facebook’s News Feed for business

Users can now make purchases on the site directly from the News Feed

Apple sneaks Safari update into Snow Leopard

Another clue that Apple's changed its support lifecycle, and will keep OS X 10.6 alive a while longer

Privacy Protection for Documents Stored in the Cloud Gets DoJ Nod

Nvidia CEO disappointed with Windows RT, prays to Outlook god

Jen Hsun Huang says the Arm platform is too important for Microsoft to ignore

Nvidia to speed up graphics processors with Maxwell, Volta

Nvidia aims to improve bandwidth and graphics performance with the latest Maxwell and Volta graphics processor designs

Nvidia aims for late Q2 launch for Project Shield handheld

With the product, Nvidia aspires to enter the portable handheld gaming market

Report: Amazon building $600M cloud for CIA

Is AWS getting into the private cloud business?

Data-Driven Companies Outperform Competitors Financially

Head to head: Samsung Galaxy S 4 vs. HTC One

What's the Android coolest flagship of them all?

Warren East explains why he’s leaving ARM

An 'element of staleness' creeps in when CEOs stick around too long, he said

Microsoft to let Office 365 users replace SharePoint’s newsfeed with Yammer’s

The option will go live with an upgrade of Office 365 this summer

Nvidia unveils new Tegra chips for smartphones, tablets

The new Tegra chips, code-named Logan and Parker, will be based on the latest GPU, memory and manufacturing technologies

Microsoft taking bribery allegations ‘seriously’

A news report says the company is being investigated for bribery in three countries

Microsoft to cooperate with feds in bribery, kickback probe

Responds to claims that the DOJ and SEC are scrutinizing deals in China, Romania and Italy by Microsoft and its partners

Mobile Hardware Is Going to Disappear

Lawmakers call for greater protections from e-surveillance

House members push for ECPA reform during a hearing, and senators introduce a new bill

Rising cyber-nationalism leads to amplified cyber-mistrust

U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping today and one topic is Chinese cyberattacks

Microsoft going after enterprises with Dynamics AX ERP

Dynamics AX is starting to land global deployments with large enterprises, including Revlon

Cisco weds WebEx with telepresence

Enterprise Connect show news: Browser-based participants can conference with room systems

iPhone U.S. dominance due to carriers’ pricing strategies

U.S. mobile carriers give high-priced phones an edge by not discounting calling and data plans for cheaper hardware

Google Apps broker exploits enterprise concerns about Microsoft’s Office changes

Pitches Google's cloud-based apps using the same criticisms licensing experts have leveled at Office 365

5 Ways to Avoid Mobile App Development Failure

Microsoft set to roll out new mobile applications for Dynamics ERP, CRM

The goal is to deliver 'clean,' simple-to-deploy mobile apps, according to a spokesman

Supreme Court reaffirms resale of copyright works

Justices say a prohibition on the resale of products made overseas would cause multiple problems

Skype preview for Windows Phone 8 gets HD video

The feature works on phones such as the Nokia Lumia 920, HTC 8X and Samsung Ativ S

Microsoft boosts Dynamics CRM with marketing, social media analysis

The additional functionality will help Microsoft compete with Salesforce.com and Oracle

ARM appoints Segars as CEO after Warren East retires

ARM's new CEO Simon Segars inherits a company well-positioned to grow in key markets, analyst says

Rackspace program looks to ‘seed’ cloud workforce

Rackspace to launch Open Cloud Academy, a training program to fill skills gap in cloud computing

How to Work With IT Recruiters to Find Top Tech Talent

Email addiction: Why the enterprise can’t break free

MongoDB refines load balancing

The MongoDB data store can now randomize placement of data on different shards to smooth load balancing

Is Converged Infrastructure the Future of the Data Center?

Bill would force agencies to take proactive security approach

Bomgar CEO talks mobility, cloud risks and old cars

Mississippi-based remote tech support company sticks to its on-premises roots

Apple’s misleading warranties must be punished, says EU Commissioner

The EU must take a more prominent role to monitor and coordinate consumer rules, Reding says

Nokia wins German patent injunction against HTC over power-saving technology

Nokia's victory is insignificant because it applies to handsets that are no longer imported into Germany, opponent HTC said

Cisco aims software improvements at enterprise video communications

Cisco plans deeper integration between its TelePresence and WebEx products, and better network management tools for video conferencing

Second computer glitch stalls NASA’s Mars rover

Curiosity puts itself in safe mode because of software bug