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Mexico hotel giant puts its IT in Texas

Cross-border cloud computing is no barrier for one large Mexican company, but trade barriers make it a source of worry in Washington.

Microsoft announces new hardware for Windows 8

The new mice and keyboard will be released around the time of the Windows 8 launch

Taiwanese university claims Apple’s Siri infringes its patents

The university wants to help Taiwanese electronic firms counter patent battles brought by foreign firms

OLPC brings tablet capability to aging XO laptop with touchscreen

OLPC's XO Touch will add a touchscreen to the original XO-1.75 laptop design.

Court filings reveal early iPhone, iPod prototypes

Photos of early Apple prototypes are among the most recent documents submitted to a California court

Researcher creates proof-of-concept malware that infects BIOS, network cards

New Rakshasa hardware backdoor is persistent and hard to detect, researcher says

Tools released at Defcon can crack widely used PPTP encryption in under a day

New tool and service can decrypt any PPTP and WPA2 wireless sessions using MS-CHAPv2 authentication

NSA chief asks hackers at Defcon for help securing cyberspace

NSA Director General Keith B. Alexander called the Defcon attendees the world's best cybersecurity community

Court tells Apple, Samsung most documents in patent case must be public

The court won't let lawyers play musical chairs during the case but did accept a change in the label used for each party

Apple’s first security talk at Black Hat disappoints

Wall Street Beat: ERP, mobile devices shine in mixed earnings

Tech stocks soared Friday in the wake of mixed earnings reports

Twitter suffers malware spam outbreak

Links promising photos of users lead to the Blackhole exploit kit

Survey confirms Google’s rep as a tough place to interview

Facebook, Amazon, Juniper, Rackspace and Unisys also make the list

Black Hat: Researcher pinpoints promising ways to attack Windows 8

Windows 8 has soft spots where attackers could apply pressure, researcher says

iPhone 5 rumor rollup for the week ending July 27

The first official Apple iPhone Rollup rumor, stock prices, chips, looming disappointment

Apple to spend $356 million on security company AuthenTec

The Florida company had recently signed a deal with Samsung for security on Android devices

Europe’s supply of IPv4 addresses nearing depletion

RIPE NCC to run out of IPv4 addresses any day, putting pressure on network operators to deploy IPv6

Researcher wins $200,000 prize from Microsoft for new exploit mitigation technology

Security researcher Vasilis Pappas won Microsoft's BlueHat Prize contest

Microsoft acknowledges Surface may trigger OEM hostility

Fling with tablets may affect computer makers' commitment to Windows, firm says in SEC filing

Black Hat: Shark-bitten security researcher takes another chomp out of Oracle database

Accuvant Labs' David Litchfield demos his latest Oracle 11g database hack

Facebook boosts revenue by 32 percent in first public financial report

The company also reported a net loss, attributable to IPO-related costs

Latest Citadel scam sophisticated — except for grammar

Pitch to scam people out of their credit card information via fake charity come-ons targeted but poor English a giveaway

Google adds TV as it rolls out Fiber in Kansas City

The cost is $70 for gigabit Internet, $120 with TV, and users can also choose free 5Mbps service if they pay a construction fee

Apple security guru lays out iPad, iPhone crypto architecture at Black Hat

Apple’s Dallas De Atley says crypto processing can impact iOS device performance, battery life

Windows 8 Update: Desperate for developers?

Online Metro-developer labs, no 99-cent apps, high Swedish price tag for Surface PCs

OpenBSD founder calls Red Hat and Canonical ‘traitors’ to open source

Theo de Raadt trashes commercial Linux companies over secure boot issue

Olympics could strain enterprise networks

200% increase in mobile traffic expected during the two weeks of the games, experts say

Obama administration supports new cybersecurity bill

The bill, to be debated in the Senate soon, will strengthen the U.S. cybersecurity response, the OMB says

Twitter back up after pre-Olympics crash

Outage of 90 minutes prompts Twitter users to post critical tweets

Android news and rumor round-up for week ending July 27

Nexus 7 shortages, more Jelly Bean updates, and everybody's planning their own Android phones

Twitter crashes day before Olympics kick off

Outage comes just a month after a cascading bug shut down Twitter twice in a day

Sprint posts $1.4 billion loss in second quarter

The company's losses include an effort to move Nextel customers to a Sprint network

Study: Microsoft repeatedly ranks as top U.S. spammer

University of Texas project calls attention to problem in effort to reduce spam, improve security

The 5 hottest IT jobs right now

Thousands of companies looking to hire developers with these sought-after tech skills

Juniper: We have 200 QFabric data center switch customers now

50 gained since last quarter; Juniper also addresses Riverbed, Radware ADC deals and VMware's Nicira buy

Microsoft seeks to make sense of what you didn’t say

Researchers work on software that interprets meaning expressed by pauses, pacing, pitch in human speech

Alcatel-Lucent announces loss, plans to cut 5,000 jobs

The company will cut 5,000 jobs to reduce costs

Black Hat panel: Which do you trust less with your data, the U.S. government or Google?

Security veterans Jeff Moss, Bruce Schneier, Marcus Ranum and others duke it out

Researcher wows Black Hat with NFC-based smartphone hacking demo

Charlie Miller shows how it’s possible—though not easy—to trick Nokia 9 and Google/Samsung Nexus S smartphones

Tool released at Black Hat contains 150 ways to bypass Web application firewalls

New tool can test if Web application firewalls are vulnerable to protocol-level evasion techniques

Black Hat: Cyber-espionage operations vast yet highly focused, researcher claims

Dell SecureWorks report on advanced persistent threats warns against security companies conducting cyber-espionage

P2P ‘Gameover ZeuS’ seen as largest bank-theft botnet

Dell SecureWorks researcher Brett Stone-Gross deconstructs dangerous money stealer

Lessons from a Big iPad Enterprise Adopter

US groups: Foreign cloud providers marketing against privacy concerns

Companies and governments outside the U.S. are using privacy issues to drive business away from U.S. vendors, groups say

Riverbed, Juniper enter technology-sharing partnership

Upsides seen for both companies in licensing deal

Apple looked to Sony for iPhone design inspiration, court documents show

An Apple designer was asked to dream up cell phone designs inspired by Sony

Microsoft beefs up anti-exploit tool with tech from $250K contest finalist

EMET 3.5 includes settings inspired by BlueHat Prize finalist Ivan Fratric

5 tips for making your cloud SLA air-tight

Matters to consider before signing on the dotted line of your next cloud SLA

3 ways to add broadband to your mobile devices

Symantec president and CEO replaced by company’s chairman

Revenue grew by 1 percent in its first fiscal quarter