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IBM makes big mobile push with MobileFirst

The company has marshalled its mobile products and services under a new brand

Oracle moves manufacturing jobs from Mexico to the US

Oracle has received a loan from the state of Oregon contingent on adding 130 jobs there and retaining 300 more

Cisco, EMC coalition expands data center portfolio

VCE unveils two low-end converged infrastructure systems, SAP optimization, management software

Juniper adds SDN to mobile networks

Juniper Networks launches SDN products to centralize management, software enable services

Samsung eases search for movies, shows on TVs, mobile devices

Samsung's new TV Discovery feature takes the pain out of searching for movies and TV shows

Sony’s PlayStation 4 announced after long wait

Sony's PlayStation 4 has an x86 processor and other new hardware to provide better gaming and streaming services

Identity fraud in US reaches highest level in three years

Merchants and banks, however, absorbed much of the losses, according to Javelin Strategy and Research

Hack findings highlight China, U.S. in game of spy vs. spy

Jeep joins Burger King on Twitter hacked list, inspires MTV, BET to fake breaches

Many companies likely affected by compromise of popular iOS developer forum

iPhoneDevSDK administrators confirm that the site was compromised and hosted a zero-day exploit in January

FCC eyes Wi-Fi expansion, approves mobile signal boosting rules

New unlicensed spectrum is needed to keep up with growing demand for Wi-Fi, the agency says

Yahoo starts revamp with updated homepage

CEO Marissa Mayer shows off 'infinite' and social news feeds, and bolder look

Broadcom chip eases location tracking’s thirst for power

The company says its new location chip can support uses such as geofencing all day

ERP software project woes continue to mount, survey says

Sixty percent of respondents said they'd received less than half of the expected benefits from their projects

Linaro extends Linux ARM to networking gear

The not-for-profit Linaro plans to offer an open source Linux OS for ARM-based networking equipment

Petition asks Obama to legalize unlocking of mobile phones

Petition needs 15,000 more signatures by Saturday

Dell: We can beat Cisco in enterprise and cloud security

Dell security strategy calls for optimizing identity management capabilities gained in Quest acquisition

OnApp: The most popular cloud platform you’ve probably never heard of

London-based company has a global content delivery network (CDN), a cheap platform ($10/hypervisor/month) and now has added storage

Apple ships Java update, malware scrubber after confirming attacks on own Macs

And touts security moves that didn't prevent Java exploits from hijacking engineers' machines

AMD docking technology adjusts tablet, laptop performance in hybrids

AMD's Turbo Dock increases performance when hybrid is in laptop mode, scales down in tablet mode

Citrix releases XenMobile MDM for Apple iOS, Android devices

XenMobile offers role-based management of mobile devices

Oracle releases new Java fixes, speeds up patching cycle

Oracle patches five more Java vulnerabilities that weren't fixed in a security update earlier in February

Dell beefs up its deduplication appliance line

Current DR4000 users can upgrade to the new DR4100 series without charge

China’s Defense Ministry calls accusations of state-sponsored hacking groundless

China's Defense Ministry points to flaws in claims that the nation's military supports cyberespionage

Microsoft, EMC, NetApp join Oracle’s legal fight against Google on Java

Software trade group BSA has also come out in support of Oracle

Twitter calls for smarter password habits following Jeep, Burger King hacks

Passwords should be unique for each website people use, the company says

Chinese Army link to hack no reason for cyberwar

Dell profit sinks 31 percent as company fights to go private

Dell's profit and revenue both declined amid a collapse in PC sales

Nokia Siemens targets carriers’ Wi-Fi, small-cell rollout challenges

Along with new equipment, the company will showcase software and services

Oxford University briefly blocks Google Docs in anti-phishing effort

Oracle sale of Lustre welcomed by HPC users

The Lustre file system will be better supported by Xyratex, a smaller company more focused on high-performance computing, observers said

Mozilla changes policy to limit risk of subordinate CA certificate abuse

Sub-CA certificates will need to have technical constraints or be publicly disclosed and audited, Mozilla's new CA Certificate Policy says

Google’s Page, Brin and Schmidt to testify in employee antritrust case

The executives' deposition statements could later be used in court

iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending Feb. 15

The 'delay' of the iHumungous phone, and other credulities

Microsoft shows off iPhone, iPad and Android clients, voice calls between Lync server and Skype

Microsoft powering up unified communications server Lync with broad VoIP, Wi-Fi connections

NetApp releases all-flash array

Company doubles memory in enterprise class arrays

Canonical launches tablet interface to run on top of its OS

The side-stage multitasking feature allows users to run tablet and phone apps at the same time

Flash Storage Offers Fast Path to VDI, Better App Performance

How Microsoft will change forever and thrive again

Microsoft promises stronger ties between Lync, Skype

Lync Conference keynote: Presence, Instant Messaging and voice interoperability available in June; video within a year

Microsoft Azure overtakes Amazon’s cloud in performance test

Azure's cloud is faster at uploading and downloading files to the cloud, Amazon still more scalable, storage provider Nasuni finds

HTC’s One smartphone signals end of megapixel era, executive says

HTC's new One smartphone has a 'revolutionary' ultra-pixel camera to capture sharper images

Meet Mandiant, the company pulling the covers off alleged Chinese hackers

Company's latest report traces cybersecurity threat to China's People's Liberation Army

HP quadruples virtual machines in new blade

HP says the new ProLiant WS460c Gen8 blade server adds server efficiency and cuts operational costs

Cisco puts a huge value on the ‘Internet of everything’

More devices and people connecting to the Internet will create $14.4 trillion opportunity over the next decade, the company says

Gartner: BI software spending to hit $17.1 billion by 2016, but pace of growth slowing

A still-soft economy and other factors will temper BI spending compared to past years

Cisco declares war on Microsoft unified communications system

Faults lack of phones, video endpoints, voice and video gateways

Tilera developing chip with more than 100 cores

Tilera also announces a 72-core chip to fill the void of a cancelled 100-core chip

Nvidia targets low-cost LTE smartphones, tablets with Tegra 4i chip

Smartphones and tablets based on the new Tegra 4i chip will be out by year-end

Kaspersky apologizes for antivirus update that continues to disrupt customer nets

Customers have reported issues that include: long log-in times, slow launch of third-party applications and, in rare cases, Internet Explorer crashing