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Price of Windows 8 Pro upgrade may quintuple after Jan. 31
Lenovo is reorganizing its operations into two business groups
Here's what manufacturers can do to get ultrabook sales back on track.
Chinese authorities had tried to block the function after it launched in late May
The portable game player is based on Android and Nvidia's new Tegra 4 chip
Nvidia needs the new chip to remain competitive in the smartphone and tablet computing market
The hacker fears Apple will fix the bugs in iOS 6.1, making it harder to develop future jailbreaks
The company unveiled a rack-mounted server for video gaming
Starting At $699, HP says its first touchscreen Sleekbook laptop with AMD chips are "most affordable"
The toughened glass used in many smartphones and tablets is about to get tougher
The French company's product for offices will incorporate a VoIP phone
3M Touch shows 84-in. table-top model
The HDTV pioneer's format boasts 16 times the resolution of today's high-def TV
The tablet is compatible with conventional and mobile digital TV broadcasts
The patent provisions of the deal with the U.S. FTC gives Google less negotiating power, patent experts say
Microsoft says $617 million contract, that will serve some 2 million users, covers support for data center consolidation, collaboration, cybersecurity, mobility, cloud computing and big data
Analyst credits IE9 for starting the turnaround
Employers in Illinois and California are now barred from asking for usernames and passwords for social media pages of workers, job seekers
The certificate authority said that it issued two intermediate CA certificates as a result of an error
Janitor Money finds, cleans up cloud assets
'Great Firewall of China' upgrade could also allow China to spy on international companies doing business in the country
Security experts say hack-backs are simply asking for more trouble, because it is almost impossible to know where an attack came from
While no DDoS attacks have been linked to mobile devices, one analyst is convinced it's only a matter of time
Jeramiah Perkins led IMAGiNE Group, which secretly recorded movies in theaters and offered them online
The Elderwood group appears to be living up to its reputation of finding serious software vulnerabilities
The timing is not particularly helpful, said a State Department spokeswoman
The company updated its Chrome browser and notified other browser makers about the problem
Review process begins for new SATA-IO specs
Internet Explorer zero-day exploit is not addressed, but businesses should implement the workaround
Amazon's cloud went down, again, this time on Christmas Eve, for 12 hours , blacking out 7% of AWS customers. Will continued cloud outages erode confidence in the public cloud?
Chitika reports share bump for Apple iPad competitors Kindle Fire, Galaxy Nexus and Samsung Galaxy
The company agrees to license mobile patents to competitors and to stop scraping rivals' content
More than 100M helium-filled drives are expected by 2016
ScanSource says Avanade lied about its ability to do the job, resulting in a project disaster
Gartner anticipates turbulence ,upheaval in IT security vendor landscape
Early admission statistics point to another challenging year for high school seniors
Hopes to base public cloud on OpenStack technology, but exec says platform isn't quite ready
The fast, short-range wireless technology will gain a much larger sponsor under a pending agreement
The website of Capstone Turbine Corporation served an exploit for a new Internet Explorer vulnerability, security researcher says
Apple made its request in documents filed with the U.S. International Trade Commission
Gartner tells enterprise customers to do their homework before jumping into cloud storage.
Gartner lists Amazon, AT&T, Google, HP, IBM and Microsoft among what it says are the top 10 cloud storage providers
Gartner expects worldwide IT spending to total US$3.7 trillion
Analytics company Flurry pegs device activations at 50M
A woman faces a defamation suit for negative reviews about a contractor
With a growing number and type of devices, enterprises need to assume that they are vulnerable, analysts say
The U.S. government asked it to cooperate in an investigation, it said in a filing
Business council including Coca-Cola, eBay, FedEx, EMC, Fidelity Investments, Intel, Johnson & Johnson and Walmart sees "information security shake-up" this year
Apple alleges Amazon's "Appstore" name is too close to its own "App Store"
There were many promises, but not all were delivered
