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Firefox OS ‘too late’ to shake up mobile

Carriers care more about the alternative to Android, iOS than will consumers

HP sells webOS to LG for smart TVs

LG will acquire the mobile operating system's source code and engineering team

CEO Mayer calls in all Yahoo telecommuters

Going against changing attitudes on at-home workers, will Mayer lose workers?

Privacy group: Google sharing too much personal info with developers

Google's sharing of app buyers' personal information with developers violates an FTC settlement, Consumer Watchdog says

Customers hit by the Azure outage will automatically get a credit

Microsoft waives reporting requirement

Is Your Enterprise iPhone App User-Friendly?

Intel demos perceptual computing software toolkit

One developer prototype at MWC relies on hand gestures to swipe through photos

TI to ship multi-protocol wireless power chips

New chips will support charging multiple smartphones at same time

West Virginia auditor blasts Cisco, state for “oversized” router buy

West Virginia Legislative Auditor says vendor and state officials skirted legalities in $24 million router contract

Dell Latitude 10 gets some attitude with 20-hour battery, fingerprint reader

The security-enhanced tablet is aimed at government, health and education markets

Researcher unearths two new Java zero-day bugs

Vulnerabilities affect up-to-date Java 7 browser plug-in, says Security Explorations

ZTE premiers Open, its first Firefox OS phone

Free online course: All you ever wanted to know about SDN

Georgia Tech offering software-defined networking (SDN) course via Coursera

New Box security features aimed at user, device and content protection

The announcement includes new partnerships with data loss prevention vendors

North, South America also hope for LTE roaming

4G Americas industry group wants the same spectrum band used across the region

14 dirty IT tricks, security pros edition

How the 2013 Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leaders were chosen

Premier 100 IT Leader: Judith L. Batenburg

The 2013 Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leaders: On the fast track

Premier 100 IT Leader profile: JR Gamez

DoCoMo decodes new video standard without new hardware

The HEVC standard could help operators reduce load and consumers reduce download times and cost

Premier 100 IT Leader: Kris Herrin

Premier 100 IT Leaders: Lucille Mayer and Ramaswamy Nagappan

Premier 100 IT Leader: Greg Meyers

RSA: Big data, analytics services will secure data centers

RSA announces professional services for locking down security of large enterprises

Premier 100 IT Leader: Tamara Payne

Premier 100 IT Leader: Mark Reilley

Premier 100 IT Leader: Malcolm Jackson

Premier 100 IT Leader: Monique Shivanandan

Premier 100 IT Leader: Denise L. Stephens

Premier 100 IT Leader: Henry J. Sienkiewicz

Premier 100 IT Leader: Garry Lyons

Premier 100 IT Leader: Nancy Wolk

Premier 100 IT Leader: Lincoln Wallen

Samsung’s next-gen NFC smartphones and tablets to get Visa’s mobile payment applet

Hadoop Is Not Just for Linux Anymore

Why Telemedicine Is Finally Ready to Take Off

Wireless LAN vendors target surging carrier Wi-Fi market

Ruckus, Aruba products aim at large-scale, integrated Wi-Fi services

Small-cell chip, network rollouts point to a diverse future

New products from Ruckus and chip maker Broadcom highlight the variety of tools coming for different settings

IT Outsourcing Customers Get What They Pay for, Not What They Want

Asus aims at tablets and phablets with Padfone Infinity, Fonepad

A snap-on frame transforms the Padfone into a tablet

SAP and Ericsson join forces on M2M services

The two will develop services that will be offered to enterprises by operators

iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending Feb. 22

Latest Apple iPhone 6/iPhone 5S rumors: Hardcore quad-core, the PlayStation 4 connection, iCheapo

AT&T to wirelessly connect most GM vehicles over LTE in 2014

Move marks another step in the move to 'Internet of Things'

Hortonworks brings Hadoop to Windows

Hortonworks expects its Windows version of Hadoop will feature full feature parity with the Linux version of the distribution

Carriers hope Firefox makes OS market more competitive

Mobile operators see themselves as under pressure from other mobile players

Qualys streamlines vulnerability scanning of Amazon cloud instances

Qualys launches Amazon AWS API data connectors for QualysGuard

Windows XP and Firefox browser amass worst vulnerability record over past 25 years

Sourcefire study looks at software with highest number of high-severity vulnerabilities

Largest carriers in China, Japan, Korea agree on NFC ‘roaming’

China Mobile, NTT DoCoMo, and KT have established handset and service requirements for using NFC technology internationally

Operators, GSMA work to simplify integration of apps with mobile networks

Developers can integrate their apps with several operators at once