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Cisco apologizes for privacy ‘confusion,’ makes cloud service an opt-in feature

Customers had complained about automatic updates and a policy document that said Cisco might track Internet use

Oracle-SAP retrial set to begin in August

The proceedings will focus on how much money SAP owes Oracle for illegal downloads of its software

Yahoo Mail bugs may be behind Android ‘botnet’ spam, says researcher

Botnet-not-a-botnet dustup between Microsoft and Google may have another explanation, says Lookout Security: Yahoo Mail for Android vulnerabilities

Google, Apple remove malware application from official app stores

'Find and Call' app steals people's phone books and spams their contacts, Kaspersky security researchers said

Why the iPhone matters: 8 questions for Horace Dediu

Apple's genius: Realizing it was more than hardware

eHarmony data breach lessons: Cracking hashed passwords can be too easy

Trustwave's SpiderLabs cracks 80% of 1.5 million hashed passwords dumped online by hackers

From tech to toilet paper, Berliner tries to live completely open source for one year

Muirhead wants to see if he can live totally open source for a year and spread the open source gospel

MIT researchers chart a new approach for mobile Internet protocols

Mosh replaces aging SSH with a mobile-friendly app and protocol

Intel appeals EU antitrust fine

EU Commission fine was faulty, say Intel lawyers

iPhone 5 rumor rollup for the week ending July 6

More quad-core, sooner rather than later, exploding omens

KPN closes portal after two-thirds of corporate customers found using default password

Use of the default password, the same for many users, combined with an easily-guessed username, left corporate data at risk

Facebook buys a stake in $450M Asian undersea cable consortium

The Asia Pacific Gateway will link Malaysia, South Korea and Japan with China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and Vietnam

Internet will vanish Monday for 300,000 infected computers

Users must wipe DNSChanger malware from PCs and Macs before 12:01 a.m. ET July 9

Mozilla, activists call for release in Syria of open-source developer

The software developer Bassel Khartabil was arrested in March in a wave of arrests in the country

Shanghai company sues Apple over Siri for alleged patent infringement

Apple has been facing a growing number of legal challenges in China

5 Mistakes to Avoid When Deploying an Enterprise App Store

Apple’s smaller-screen iPad could disrupt tablet market

Apple's iPad with a smaller screen could hurt Android tablets and the 9.7-inch iPad

Particle discovery is game changer for understanding the universe

Whether discovery is a Higgs or not, particle could explain dark matter, anti-matter, how universe began

Patch Tuesday: Time to use the Flame-retardant Windows Update client

Updated Windows Update software fixes vulnerabilities exploited by Flame malware

Group: Hundreds of Dice.com listings discriminate against US workers

Many ads on the IT job board say they're looking specifically for foreign workers, a US IT worker group says

Amazon in the crosshairs of Google and Microsoft

Tablet and cloud announcements seem directly aimed at Amazon

Online dating site dumps Amazon cloud services

WhatsYourPrice.com says Amazon was unresponsive to dating sites requests for information on outages

Build your own Linux server on the cloud

In one hour, you can set up your own Linux server on Amazon's cloud. No kidding. It really is that easy. Here's how.

Oracle close to phasing out Flash support portal

Remaining users of the heavily criticized Flash version will soon get to try out a new HTML edition

Google says spam emails not coming from Android botnets

The company on Thursday disputed security researchers from Microsoft and Sophos

Watch out Google: Apple gets patent for wearable device

Apple begins chasing Google Glass by working on device that may be used in the operating room or for gaming

Intel/McAfee: What’s the future of security?

CIOs Warming (and Moving) to Cloud Technology

Windows 8 Update: Upgrade priced at $39.99

Also: HP fails to embrace Windows 8 on ARM devices

Ransomware threatens victims with police reports for child pornography

New malware encrypts files and threatens to file false police reports, Sophos researchers say

Wikileaks releases Syria Files, 2.4 million government related emails

Wikileaks says its latest release shines a light on the inner workings of Syria's government and on Western hypocrisy

FAQ: Microsoft offers cheapest-ever Windows upgrade

Who's eligible for Windows 8 upgrade, how to do a clean install, getting Media Center for free

Google Glass launches new age of personal computing

Desktops, laptops and even tablets will soon be passe; Google Glass is paving the way toward wearable and then body-based systems

With explosion of consumer devices, IT finds greater need for network management tools

AppNeta technology helping provide easy-to-use reports

Federal appeal court raps bank over shoddy online security

The case marks another sign that banks are being taken to task for inadequate wire transfer systems

Cars should automatically call for help after crashes, EU parliament says

Voluntary adoption has been slow, so all new cars in Europe should be fitted with an eCall devices by 2015

French tax inspectors search Microsoft offices in dawn raid

The inspection was part of a routine check, said Microsoft

Targeted attacks against aerospace industry use Sykipot malware

Security researchers from AlienVault have detected new Sykipot attack campaigns

European Parliament rejects ACTA copyright treaty by 478 votes to 39

The parliament followed the recommendations of five of its committees that had examined the treaty.

CERN finds particle that resembles long-sought Higgs boson

More data needs to be analyzed to be certain about the characteristics of the new particle

Taiwan worries new Apple patent could target ultrabooks

Apple has been granted a patent for the wedge-like design of its MacBook Air devices

US court refuses to stay injunction on Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphone

The court had on Monday declined to stay a preliminary injunction on Galaxy Tab 10.1

Call of Duty franchise coming to China as free online game

"Call of Duty Online" uses a "freemium" business model popular in China

Toshiba fined $87M for LCD price fixing; won’t pay a penny

Toshiba said it won't have to pay its fine because of settlements paid already by other vendors

RealNetworks CEO quits, Rob Glaser returns on interim basis

RealNetworks has struggled financially in recent months

Google to discontinue Mini search appliance, iGoogle, other products

Since last year, the company has been trimming its product list to eliminate obsolete, redundant and unpopular products

Patent war unlikely to bring Androidocalypse

However, patent trouble is still doing a lot of damage to the Android ecosystem

Why network firewalls and mainframes are still security favorites

Motel 6, for instance, has three times more firewalls than 8 years ago

The pyro-technology behind those fireworks

Pyrotechnics professionals are using sophisticated software to dazzle crowds

Security researchers link second malware program to rogue printing incidents

The propagation routine of the W32.Printlove worm can cause the printing of useless data, Symantec researchers say