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The U.S. Attorney said the prosecution recognized that there was no evidence against Swartz to warrant severe punishment
AV-Test.org failed the company again in another round of security software testing
The company says its Open Compute Project will give customers more choice and flexibility in choosing servers
A judge in California has ordered the two companies to try to work out their differences over Amazon's use of the name 'Appstore'
Outside of reaching a diplomatic solution, options available to the government would not stop the attacks quickly, say security experts
With exploit sold for $5,000 via cybercrime forum, experts double down on calls for consumers to uninstall the software
Intel is readying silicon photonics for use at the motherboard level
AT&T exempts from data caps the traffic going over its own femtocell, but not those of other carriers, the group says
New operating systems face an uphill battle as they challenge Android and iOS
Manger of Surface line says tablet arriving 'in the coming weeks'
Dell supports the Open Compute Project's systems management framework, which works on ARM and x86 servers
Is this Russian vs. Russian espionage? Is cyber-war a good marketing tool?
Whitehouse.gov petition gets 40,000 signatures in four-plus days; needs 100,000 in 30 days for White House response
System will work with the security offered by various carriers and smartphones
Post-season veterans gather at Gillette Stadium as AFC Championship game nears
Those who use fake vouchers can face a lifetime ban on certification exams
Facebook's new Graph Search is a search engine built specifically for social networks. But how did engineers build it?
The Galaxy Tabs are not covered by the scope of Apple's design right, the court ruled
It's justified, say security experts, who cite known but unpatched bugs
Service pack for System Center and upgraded Intune service create a single platform for
Pre-configured templates should allow enterprises to get up and running quicker
Fusion ioScale is a standard product based on storage cards the company makes for huge hyper-scale data centers
If self-checkout is a mature technology, why are some stores ditching it?
Verizon report recommends 'least privilege management,' a decades old concept. Problem is, it's still not mainstream.
Inefficient storage methods also seen as raising costs in cloud, survey finds
Three employees are alleged to have taken secret dcouments and information before joining Nvidia
Blue Coat, which makes software and appliances that monitor and restrict web traffic, has been criticized before
Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren has proposed to call it "Aaron's Law"
The expansion should bring tighter Microsoft Lync integration, the carrier says
DefenseCode said it discovered the firmware flaw and reported it to Cisco 'months ago'
'We wanted to make search more social,' CEO Mark Zuckerberg says of the new tool
Software and IT services in the US smart energy delivery market is likely to grow by 20 percent between 2011 and 2012, a study predicts
Microsoft System Center SP1 allows customers to manage Azure services and on-premises Microsoft assets from a single console
Dell's market capitalization and recent transition struggles could create problems in finding potential investors
Forrester says North American security execs work harder but European teams have more money for IT security budgets
Virtually silent while Cisco, others plot software-defined networking strategies, Juniper's pushes new software licensing model
Muglia emphasizes new software model flexibility, says Juniper's revenue mix will shift
SpectorSoft adds enterprise support for BlackBerry platform but not Android or Apple iOS
Dell has designed a cloud service for retailers, joining other companies that carve out services aimed at specific vertical niches
Seculert researchers identified a Java exploit and corresponding attack pages on Red October command and control servers
Access points use Wi-Fi data to 'see' mobile users at stores
The deals for Innoveer Solutions and Navigis strengthen its Salesforce.com and ServiceNow practices
EMC security division says new approaches to go beyond SIEM
Federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is applied too broadly in alleged data theft cases, critics say
Gartner, IDC both agree HP now top in the global PC market
Wi-Fi and Bluetooth backers say the proposal might hurt performance, but Globalstar says it won't
