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Independent tests find Sprint coverage well below advertised claims, while Verizon and AT&T LTE networks covered 100% of tested areas
Attempt to find alternative to display advertising on mobile phones is driving adoption, according to Qualcomm
Apple has thrived but its path has not been smooth
Country's comments on the inident are puzzling in that attacks are usually described in gigabits per second and not gigabytes
TeamGhostShell turns attention from China and 'Hellfire' to higher education
The South Korean electronics maker said its operating profit jumped on surprisingly strong sales of its flagship Galaxy handset
Current Apple CEO less of a showman, more of a public figure
The FCC is on track to add 300MHz of spectrum to mobile broadband by 2015, helping carriers expand fast services
NAS boxes support high-speed video processing on up to six hard drives
Despite privacy, security and IPO stumbles, social network's user base just keeps growing
Moore and Lloyd share title; both recently named as potential CEOs after Chambers
Tributes, images helped to tell Apple co-founder's story
Meanwhile, just one critical Microsoft Patch Tuesday security bulletin to fix a long-standing SQL Server flaw
Intel's new network-attached storage reference platform emphasizes security, multimedia capabilities.
Single critical update will fix serious flaws in Office 2007, 2010 on Windows that hackers could use to hijack PCs
Survey finds that less than 20% of IT shops are using open source cloud deployments. Biggest concerns around project maturity, security
ICE and the DOJ have now seized more than 1,500 websites for alleged copyright infringement in the past two years
Humans are still better suited for working with small parts to build gadgets, according to robotics experts
Real-time tweets replacing need for political junkies to wait for pundits to opine after a debate
Microsoft plans to integrate PhoneFactor's technology into its cloud services and on-premises applications
PCI rules don't mention whitelisting as a technology, but some PCI auditors giving it the thumbs-up
Nook Media's first product will be a Nook reading application for Windows 8, RT and Windows Phone.
Publishers will be able to remove their books and journals from Google's Library Project
Alexander Fishenko, owner of Arc Electronics, accused of 'elaborate web of lies' to support Kremlin's desire for U.S.-made high-tech military electronics
Oracle added an IaaS layer to its cloud, but analysts question if that will attract new customers
Previous regulatory filings suggest that billion still includes a significant percentage of duplicate and fake accounts
Cloud computing, BYOD and the consequent changes to the network will have huge effects.
Obama, Romney's first debate most tweeted event in U.S. politics
Privacy advocates hit back, call demands 'bizarre'
Utility lets scammers cull, distribute credit card data in real time
Experts say innovation, standardization would have suffered; IBM might be King of Networking
Then Windows 7 gets a longer life, Microsoft presses on
Privacy debate starting; "Do good with biometrics and avoid evil."
Though the platform has had issues lately, developers don't see them as deal breakers in Java deployments
A university lab is showing its concept of networks formed by laying gadgets on shared surfaces
Prolexic, which says it protects the top financial institutions, says the attackers have done their homework
SHA-3 features a fundamentally different architecture from SHA-2
But HP will need one within five years to avoid missing out on a big segment of the market, its CEO said
Enterprise group head offers glimpse into 2013 roadmap; 100G Ethernet, new programmable ASICs, and fabric and virtualization extensions on tap
HTTP 2.0 will be based on Google's SPDY protocol
Industry experts at Interop NY look beyond the coming advent of 802.11ac.
Centralizing access control, security, management
Harvard, Stanford, Penn among those hit; breached data mostly innocuous, analyst says.
HP CEO outlines a turnaround strategy promises another tough year as it heads toward full rebound by 2016
IT and developers can run into problems when they utilize public cloud offerings, experts warn
HP said it will focus on better design to help turn around its business
New company would still be 4th largest carrier, but a tougher rival
