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Verizon and MetroPCS argue for their right to favor some Web content in a court brief
Both are from Ukraine and are doing time in U.K. prison on other botnet charges
Parent Live Nation implementing private cloud for third largest e-commerce site
Amazon's market-leading cloud suffers outage caused by power failure, restarting bottlenecks and a multiple software bugs, bringing down Netflix and other customers Friday night
ICANN has been in control of the Internet root since 1999, and will maintain that position for up to seven more years
In the case involving Oracle the court found that software vendors have no rights to block resale
On 'decision day' for a leading Supreme Court blog, a $25,000 investment paid off
Expert on Internet privacy says businesses can thrive without Do Not Track legislation
Gundotra views Google+ as a Google 'upgrade,' and more than just a Facebook rival
A judge found that Twitter messages are not protected by law in the same way as emails and private messages
The state's transportation committee advances a bill with liability language pending
Most information requests came from the US, where Twitter complied at least partially with three-quarters of them
Announcement set for Wednesday is expected to show proof of Higgs boson, a key to understanding the nature of the universe
Cisco removed language saying Cisco might collect and share Wi-Fi router users' Internet history
The Linux kernel has a bug in how it handles leap seconds, according to the creator of the Cassandra database
One declaration focuses on net neutrality, while a second asks government to stay away from regulations
New OS assumed to be released by end of year
Size and price point matters in mainland China, says expert, who sees a 7-in. iPad as Apple's killer tablet for the Asian market
Nvidia says the Kai reference design includes 'sacrifices in the right places' that allow cheaper displays and more efficient memory
And could remain Microsoft's most popular operating system for years if Windows 8 falls flat
Security researchers saw an exploit for the CVE-2012-1889 vulnerability being used with the Blackhole exploit toolkit
Google makes proposals aimed at avoiding a massive fine
Micron to also acquire controlling shares in Rexchip Electronics for $334M
Reddit, LinkedIn and other sites were knocked offline by an extra second added to the official time
The deal had been rumored for some time
Few college dropouts end up running U.S. high-tech companies; most tech CEOs have at least one graduate degree
Most U.S. tech CEOs attended elite, private colleges, survey shows
Stat firms disagree on virtually everything about browser wars
But protecting your online privacy remains an uphill battle
The investigation by the ITC has attracted interest from the FTC, U.S. Congressmen and the industry
The legal battle had once threatened to ban sales of the iPad in China
The court had in a separate order issued a preliminary injunction against sales of Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet
IBM has designed a mobile application that can identify products without the use of QR codes
Second time in two months it's filed claim with U.N. agency to get hands on a URL
Imagine controlling a PowerPoint presentation with a wave of the arm
iPhone is most popular device, BlackBerry users are jumping ship, Android is most popular OS, according to results of online survey
After complaints on forums, Cisco's home networks unit provided instructions for rolling back the EA3500 and EA4500 firmware
Yammer is a competitor to NewsGator's Social Sites, an enterprise social collaboration add-on for SharePoint
The company will provide device makers a developer kit to help them adopt new Android releases more quickly
A new set of reports due later this summer will provide broader, more specific usage metrics to makers of mobile applications
Apple is looking for Unix engineer to support Oracle and IBM servers at its data center in Malden, North Carolina
White House effort aims to bring industry, consumer groups to the table to jointly create new Internet privacy codes of conduct
Microsoft declines to comment on usage metric spat that started earlier this month
Customers of the file-sharing site should be treated as creditors and wait until the DOJ's copyright case is resolved, a DOJ lawyer says
The iPhone has become greater than the sum of its parts
Businesses should feel no pressure to adopt the new operating system, maybe ever
HP's Converged Cloud model will depend on interoperability with hardware from other vendors
Small, cheap and highly functional, Google's Nexus 7 is an impressive device
