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Requests of all kinds have increased by more than 70 percent since 2009, the company says
Symantec will focus on developing new integrated products
With reports of a smartphone and tablet launching this spring, analysts praise Google's competitive drive
Google's spending on lobbying was up 70 percent in 2012, Facebook's up nearly 200 percent
Server apps, with common UI, create multivendor reach.
Former Microsoft senior VP says Windows 8 on ARM tablets is a "scale 9 earthquake"
Where VMware leaves a hole, other vendors step in
Social media users loved the buzzword and trend last year, but are darker times on the way?
One defendant pleads guilty to several charges and agrees to cooperate with an investigation
VMware has found widespread use of Puppet among its user base
Malware was used to steal millions of dollars from U.S., offshore bank accounts, since 2006
SSDs to represent 40% of the hard drive market by 2016
Surface for Windows 8 Pro support all legacy laptop applications, Windows Store apps, touch
New Net-T capability for sensor/information pods helps aircraft share invaluable battlefield information.
Security company is working on a product that can allegedly mitigate entire classes of vulnerabilities in SCADA systems
The company has forecast software and software-related service revenue will grow by 11 to 13 percent this year
Joyent and SkyTap join Amazon Web Services in offering cloud-based Hadoop clusters
Jobs made threat shortly before former Apple executives officially joined Palm, documents reveal
Trend Micro annual threat report says Android malware follows in footsteps of Windows threats but at faster rate
Intucell's software can decrease the number of dropped calls and lessen congestion, it said
Enterprises can distribute video content to any device without building their own infrastructure for encoding and streaming
And why Aerohive's Matthew Gast has an engineer's crush on the FCC chairman
It's not a tablet, PC, or cloud-only device - Dell's upcoming computer has everything
Warrantless search of file violated defendant's Fourth Amendment right, federal judge says in child porn case
RIM hopes upgraded BES 10 tool can help boost BlackBerry sales; analysts are skeptical on eve of new RIM smartphone launch
Shylock home-banking malware updated to take advantage of Skype, which will feature in Microsoft SharePoint and Office
Information Governance experts say that while storage coast are down, there's risk -- and cost -- associated with the growing 'data lake'
Microsoft could take legal action against the resellers if a settlement isn't reached
AMD hopes to be profitable by the end of fiscal 2013 with the help of new products and a boost from its custom chip business
For the full year, Google's revenue topped $50 billion for the first time, something CEO Larry Page described as 'not bad'
IBM relied on growth markets and new initiatives to boost its bottom line
The chip maker has been struggling with a slow PC market and is trying to diversify into tablets and ARM-based servers
The number of LTE users around the world grew nearly 600 percent in 2012, the researchers said
As much as a quarter of the US government's annual IT spending is wasted, lawmakers say
IC Insights says tablets and smartphones will take a larger chunk of overall processor shipments and revenue
Red Hat views the recent ManageIQ acquisition as a key element in its hybrid cloud strategy
The issue was fixed, but apps that gained this permission without proper authorization still have it
Telework Exchange survey shows BYOD policy gaps for mobile devices
The 10.6-inch Surface Windows 8 Pro tablet will be priced starting at $899 with 64GB of storage
The EU project is so vague that no one will take it seriously says EDRi
Tech and engineering pros reported the largest salary jump in more than a decade, according to career site Dice
The study claimed that staying with Microsoft was cheaper than migrating to Linux, a German publication reported
HotLink lets users manage Hyper-V, KVM, XenServer and other hypervisors all from VMware's vCenter management console
Vague comment by RIM CEO on potential for BlackBerry technology licensing sparks rally
The new version of the VoltDB in-memory database can now communicate with JSON, PHP, node.js and Go
Also: Start Menu really is missed, a Windows 8 Padfone, Meg's onboard
Shipping will start in February at low price points
The company points to growth in its wireless division as cause for optimism
P400m uses higher quality NAND flash, XPERT firmware for extending SSD performance, life span and data integrity
