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Preps customers for April demise of support for Windows 7 RTM
It's the maximum sentence prosecutors had sought for Andrew Auernheimer
$3.14M Pwnium contest gets one submission
The FDA has not said when regulations will come out
Company reports 'significant' number of users affected
Not before leaking alleged credit report and personal information of CIA director John Brennan
ZTE will appeal the ruling and said it was confident that the court decision won't affect any ZTE business operations
End dates are 18 months after support lifecycle start date
CAs have issued certificates for internal domain names that could become public soon, causing conflicts, ICANN warns
Falls from No. 1 to No. 18, but still thumps Microsoft's Steve Ballmer
With nearly 2M Twitter followers, pope dives into social media
The companies were unable to meet a March deadline for joint research into low-power mobile displays
Lenovo has updated the design of its trusty ThinkPad, ditching the trackpad buttons and making it lighter and thinner
Free RSS service rakes in customers dumping the slated-for-retirement Reader
State-run media blamed it on an international attack
The flaw allows attackers to abuse special URL protocol in order to force users' games to run malicious code
Lawyers claim iPad 3G account hacker Andrew Auernheimer's exploits did not cause any actual damage
Domestic IT services providers believe U.S. visa policies put them at a competitive disadvantage
Tizen plans revealed separately, just as Samsung launches Galaxy S4, and barely mentions Android
Others not so taken with the 5-inch 'phablet,' and argue talk of Apple falling behind Samsung is crazy
Majority of IT pros surveyed by Modis say they'd relax streaming content restrictions for the company CEO or president
Report says Facebook is moving to use Twitter-like hashtags
IDC analyst focusing on autonomous vehicles says big data is one of the biggest barriers to adoption
Researchers showed how to attack 3G and 4G USB modems at Black Hat Europe
Genesco claims it was unfairly fined by Visa over a 2010 data breach
Intelligence agencies eye use of financial crime data to fight terrorism
OMG OEMs, copying Samsung, eyeball tech, silicon madness
Black Hat Europe: Trend Micro's SCADA experiment finds 17 targeted attacks, mainly from China, US, Laos
Google and Waze navigation systems can be
OS X 10.8.3 adds Boot Camp support for Windows 8
One analyst suggests Samsung may hope to put Galaxy line on Tizen OS (see video below)
The South Korean electronics giant said it will launch a Tizen smartphone in the second half of this year
Smart Scroll and Smart Pause track eye and facial movement to make video watching and scrolling better
The electronics giant will now have three 'CEOs,' emphasizing the independence of its massive divisions
Analysts question whether some of Samsung S 4's new features like eye-tracking will be used
Gee Rittenhouse was appointed Bell Labs' new president last month
Certificate Authority Security Council says crypto flaw as described in article not really practical as TLS/SSL certificate attack
Federal charges include conspiring with members of the hacker group to disrupt Tribune's Web server
The new smartphone has a bigger, sharper screen compared to the Galaxy S III
Companies should not assume that security products are implicitly secure, the researcher said
BigQuery users can now combine query results from multiple tables
Some question whether new action is needed to curtail patent infringement lawsuits
One day after Android chief steps down, Jeff Huber is out as head of mapping and commerce
VMware is launching a public cloud, creating a hybrid cloud offering for customers. Is this the Amazon cloud killer?
Proposes working group within the Object Management Group
CalTech researchers says chips can recover from major trouble in microseconds
CERN physicists say new data leads them closer to saying particle is Higgs boson
Samsung picks up on Apple's series concept with the Galaxy line
Google's decision to ax RSS reader sparks petitions, more
Software features, not hardware, appears to be Samsung's big focus for new smartphone
