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The iPad 5 date data debate rages; rhetorical flourish turns rumor into fact
All based on one analyst's one-month estimate of display shipments
Commission acknowledges it was naive to allow the company to monitor itself
Australian consultancy is surprising first to offer pre-order on Ubuntu tablet
Boston-area creative firm goes all VoIP; founder calls iPhone 'irrelevant'
Why is it a lot of security firms want to have sandboxing 'like FireEye' right now?
Samsung will invest US$110 million in ailing Sharp in a deal that deepens their ties, in a possible blow for Apple
The Wireless Device Independence Act would allow consumers to "unlock cell phones for interoperability purposes"
Trend Micro checks up on Asprox, which has diversified into fake antivirus installs as well as spam
Asus reported strong growth in its tablet business in last year's fourth quarter
Data compression has been added to Chrome mobile to reduce data loads
A failure to remove bad email addresses has resulted in unintended blocks by Spamhaus
The auction site has shared a new methodology for tracking energy efficiency
Malware uses Microsoft encryption to hold computers hostage
The numbers look at national security investigations into some users
The task force would monitor proposals in the U.S. and other countries that could hurt the Internet
Some groups call for green card reform, some for entrepreneur visas, some for many reforms
Dell releases Fluid Cache 1.0, which accelerates application performance via efficient caching
JPL's Soderstrom shows Spacecraft 3D app at Premier 100
Better acceptance of Windows 8 could help a PC rebound later this year
ERP and office suites come in second and third in Gartner's survey
The virtualization specialist has built up an enterprise collaboration stack in recent years that includes Zimbra and Socialcast
Next up for IBM's supercomputer, passing the physicians licensing exam
No more working anywhere, anytime, for Best Buy's corporate employees
The lack of default certification revocation checking in Java makes the problem worse, researchers say
NextEra has adopted off-the-shelf hardware to help workers get key data anywhere
Intel has 23,500 devices and 41 applications and services in its BYOD program
Microsoft will be fined for failing to live up to its 2009 settlement agreement, according to The New York Times
The company adds more flexibility to enterprises that want to run traditional desktops
The systems now have 512GB of RAM and 32 processor cores
If past practice is a clue, Apple will support Java 6 on Snow Leopard until second half of 2014
MetricsHub monitors Azure services, adjusts cloud resources to fit demand
The Korean giant now dominates the smartphone and tablet era, but it is built for steady progress rather than big breakthroughs
Seagate drops the Momentus XT name for 'SSHD' moniker
Computer trouble caused engineers to pull up backup system while trying to repair main computer
Releases software to manage flash across the data center
Computerworld Premier 100 attendees not warm to BlackBerry 10
Copyright Alert System, which could slow or suspend your Internet service, said to lack due process
Computer Engineering tops the list ... and math skills matter most
Penn State among those offering new combination majors
The operator will rent out trackers and offer a "call" service allowing users to summon a security guard to their location
Negativity appears to be higher on Twitter in response to political events and policy decisions, Pew said
Twitter says it will also end its integration with Facebook as the companies compete for advertising clients
One user reports a 1,000 percent increase in interaction after paying to promote a post
This latest vulnerability report follows a week after the same company reported two other holes in Oracle's plug-in
In a fight to stay online, The Pirate Bay claims North Korea will lend a hand
Software AG unveiled an in-memory business intelligence platform and an in-memory-enabled Enterprise Service Bus
Fujitsu aims to make it cheap and easy for businesses to keep a fleet of different-sized laptops on the road