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Fujitsu names UniCredit as first European customer for palm-scan authentication

Fujitsu's palm-vein scanners are an order of magnitude better than fingerprint scanners, the company says

Oracle releases emergency fix for Java zero-day exploit

The company broke out of its regular patching cycle for the second time this year to fix an actively exploited flaw

Hospitals need to copy airline, bank, retail e-business models

Healthcare CEO suggests having patients provide personal health data via tablets

Microsoft equips Visual Studio for Office app-building

Visual Studio developers now can use templates to quickly build apps for Microsoft Office and SharePoint

‘Tis the season for tax scammers — and now, ‘long-lining’ phishers

As IRS battles scams, phishing techniques morph into new threat

Driven by 10G, Ethernet switches buck economic headwinds

Data center upgrades, 10G servers offset European crisis, public sector stinginess

EADS CEO seeks IT industry help to speed up aviation innovation

But innovation speed mustn't come at the cost of aircraft safety, EADS CEO Tom Enders said at the Cebit opening ceremony

IDC says tech spending will grow by 6% this year, the same rate as 2012

Sequester, fiscal cliff and ongoing problems in Europe seen keeping growth rate flat

Google squashes 10 Chrome bugs as $100K Pwn2Own hacking prize looms

Also releases Chrome 25 for Apple's iPhone and iPad, promises search improvements

Canonical tips new Mir display server for use in next-gen Ubuntu Unity shell

Ubuntu development team shuns X, Wayland and Weston to continue work on in-house display manager

Intel gets serious about wireless

Intel is moving in the direction of integrating a modem inside an Atom processor

Health providers can’t find, keep IT staff

Many hospitals don't expect any immediate ROI on their investments in electronic health systems

Computer History Museum to induct Pixar co-founder not named Steve Jobs into Hall of Fellows

Class of 2013 inductees also include two PC pioneers

IBM says OpenStack will be central to its future cloud strategy

Big Blue announces orchestration tool built on OpenStack for deploying apps in its cloud more easily

Upload 100X faster to Amazon’s cloud with optimization service? Not quite, one analyst says

Silver Peak says its optimization software speeds network traffic, actual results vary though

White House: Unlocking mobile phones should be legal

The Obama administration sides with 114,000 petition signers after unlocking was made illegal under the DMCA

H-1B visas used by firm to create low-cost workforce, U.S. alleges

If there was no work, H-1B visa-holding employees at Texas IT firm were 'benched,' say feds in indictment

Securing critical infrastructure

Digital Certificates Chaos Could Cost Companies $398 Million

Four enterprise software products you might not need anymore

As the way businesses operate changes, so do the products that businesses buy

HP’s ARM servers to get Texas Instruments chips

Marks Texas Instruments' entry into the ARM server market

Vodafone uses M2M to find parking spots

Users will also be able to avoid parking tickets and get help finding their car

Microsoft promises Surface Pro in European stores next quarter

The Surface Pro will cost around a!899 when it goes on sale in Europe next quarter, although its exact price has not yet been fixed

5 Ways to Job Hunt Using Facebook

Researchers link latest Java zero-day exploit to Bit9 hack

The remote access malware used in both cases connected to the same control server, Symantec researchers said

Apple slashes iMac shipping delays to 1-3 days

Most dramatic improvement since October 2012 intro of new desktops

Top tech companies plug into renewable power

Microsoft, Google and Apple are among those tapping solar, wind and hydroelectric power sources

Microsoft starts sending cut-off notices to Office 365 preview users

Jumps 60-day grace period gun by about two weeks with expiration warnings

Fon and Deutsche Telekom hope to cover Germany with Wi-Fi

The deal will also be a boon for current Fon users that vacation in Germany

CloudFlare briefly drops off Internet deflecting DDOS attack

CloudFlare's Juniper routers choked on a new rule designed to stop an attack

Judge lowers Apple’s $1 billion Samsung award, orders partial retrial

Apple and Samsung will have to start a new trial to determine some of the damages in the case

Facebook set to launch new look for News Feed

Social network invites press to March 7 event to unveil a redesign

HP halfway through restructuring, 15K layoffs to go

CEO Meg Whitman gives shout-out to former HP CEO Mark Hurd

Oracle ports DTrace to Oracle Linux

Oracle has completed work on bringing to Linux a version of the widely coveted DTrace tool, though it's only available for Oracle Linux

Return of CISPA: Cybersecurity boon or privacy threat?

Rights groups fear widespread sharing of personal information; security managers at RSA see key new piece for corporate cyber defenses

New SPEC tool to ID most energy-efficient servers

The EPA and other government agencies will use the tool to award Energy Star ratings

Wall Street Beat: Uncertainty dampens tech M&A, PwC says

Though cloud and software technology put pressure on companies to acquire IP, merger and acquisition activity may not increase this year

Microsoft: We can update Office-by-subscription every 90 days

Analysts parse what little Redmond has said about refreshing Office 2013 software for subscribers

Tech groups question new do-not-track bill

The new legislation would require all online companies to honor do-not-track requests

Western Digital claims HDD capacity doubled with nanotech breakthrough

The nanotech discovery may lead to denser and denser HDDs

IT Services Spending Power Shifts Away From IT Leaders

NASA, SpaceX launch Dragon but glitch delays power supply

Dragon spacecraft on its way to Saturday rendezvous with space station

IT security managers too focused on compliance, experts say

'Check-the-box' mentality is causing companies, government agencies to overlook growing cuberthreats

Are we now living in a post-crypto world?

Cryptologist's comments at RSA draw mixed reaction from security community

Windows 8 uptake slows for third straight month

New OS falls even further behind the pace of 2007's flop, Windows Vista

Hackers use corporate attacks as staging grounds for other cyber assaults

Fighting a corporate cyber intrusion is fraught with legal, insurance considerations, panelists at RSA Conference say

Google publishes Zopfli as open-source compression algorithm to speed up Web downloads

Compression is about 100 times slower than conventional methods but compresses about 5 percent better, Google said

HTML5 Web Storage loophole can be abused to fill hard disks with junk data

Most browsers don't restrict the amount of data that websites can store through HTML5 Web Storage, researcher says

Federal CIOs Still Say No to BYOD

Now that there’s a Samsung Galaxy S IV release date, are we getting less excited about the smartphone?

Plus - bulldozers and Android smartphones, Androids in space, and Google vs. Samsung?