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US judge dismisses Apple patents lawsuit against Motorola

Judge Richard Posner's ruling 'with prejudice' means neither side can refile the case

Verizon gives Motorola LTE Razrs their GSM wings

Along with Android 4.0, the Razr and Razr Maxx now can use their GSM radios for international roaming

How Alan Turing set the rules for computing

The Turing Machine gave the world a model for how computers could operate

Twitter stumble causes outage, not hactivist

'It’s imperative that we remain available around the world, and today we stumbled,' VP of engineering writes in reference to 'cascading bug'

Group questions Google government contract claims

Evidence suggests that some of Google's government contracts are governed by consumer privacy policy, SafeGov says

Computer graphics pioneer Ivan Sutherland wins Kyoto Prize

The Inamori Foundation recognizes Sutherland for his breakthrough contributions to the graphical user interface

Finalists in Microsoft’s $250K contest take on ‘most-pressing’ exploit tactic

All three finalists submit new ways to stymie ROP attacks, used by Stuxnet and other first-class exploits

Open source cloud vendors air their differences

Citrix, OpenStack and Eucalyptus officials fire zingers back and forth

iPhone 5 rumor rollup for the week ending June 22

Apple iPhone 5 scuttlebutt includes mini dock flare-up, the 5th dimensions, Liquidmetal again, China 3G

Windows Phone 8 seen cementing developer loyalty to Microsoft

Developers cite new hardware options, more APIs and device services

If you are going to build a private cloud, Eucalyptus is the tool you’re looking for, says CEO Mårten Mickos

Windows Phone 8 announcement puts partner Nokia in tough spot

With new OS coming in the fall, sales of Nokia's current Lumia smartphone line could be hit hard

FCC order on business line pricing may not fully reregulate

Members of a coalition pushing for pricing changes on business lines say a pending FCC proposal is a good first step

Twitter struggles with hours-long outage

The company briefly reported the problem had been solved before the site went down again

Defense contracts worth billions cover network operations, cyberthreat sharing, Android security

Lockheed Martin supporting DoD global network, also supporting DoD Cybercrime Center contract to collaborate with industry

Cisco patches vulnerabilities in VPN client, security appliances

Cisco released security updates for AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client and several hardware security appliances

Rackspace president: Cloud needs open alternative to Amazon

"Clones" of Amazon clouds will not create choice customers need in the cloud, Rackspace executive claims

Samsung’s Galaxy S III smartphone becomes available in US

Samsung's Galaxy S III smartphone is coming today to multiple carriers at $199.99

Metrics firms bicker over which browser, IE or Chrome, is No. 1

Microsoft returns fire, blasts StatCounter for what it calls 'personal attack' against its head of IE marketing

Hackers exploit Windows XML Core Services flaw

Until a patch is released for the critical vulnerability, a Microsoft workaround is the only way to stymie hackers

Surface vs. iPad: The Weight of the World on Microsoft

Rackspace exec warns of Amazon lock-in

Copying the APIs of a cloud service isn't sufficient to avoid lock-in, a vendor of a competing cloud service argues

Social software users: Focus on corporate culture or your project will fail

Business management issues, not technical ones, dominated the discussions at Enterprise 2.0

Microsoft previews Windows Phone 8

Mobile OS gains common core elements from Windows 8

Samsung mulls enterprise cloud services for mobile devices

Samsung is thinking of building a hosted cloud service to make its Galaxy tablets and smartphones attractive to the enterprise

NASA revamps, looks to speed high-tech commercialization opportunities

NASA opens new online tech portal it says simplifies and speeds access to the agency's intellectual property portfolio

FAQ: What we don’t know about Microsoft’s Surface tablet

If the saying 'What you don't know can kill you' is true, how much danger are Microsoft and its customers in?

Oracle agrees to ‘zero’ damages in Google lawsuit, eyes appeal

Oracle waived its right to damages in order to conclude the trial and move on to its appeal

Windows Phone joins the Windows 8 and corporate parties

Red Hat releases NoSQL database for enterprise Java

The Red Hat JBoss Data Grid can store large amounts of data in memory, to aid enterprise Java programs

Catz: HP could have joined Oracle’s Sun buyout on the eve of the deal

Oracle gave HP one last chance to buy Sun's hardware business, Oracle co-President Safra Catz says

HP unveils Windows-powered NAS box for SMBs

New Hewlett-Packard X5520 array can scale to 122TB

House panel: ITU should stay away from Internet regulation

A resolution passed by a House committee says the U.S. supports an Internet free from government control

Microsoft, Google, IBM and Salesforce.com heat up PaaS

IBM, Microsoft, Google and Salesforce share their strategies regarding one of the hottest emerging areas of the cloud: Platform as a Service.

Apple infringes on Samsung UMTS patent, Dutch court rules

Samsung lost two other infringement cases in The Hague today

5 Pros and Cons of Microsoft Surface Tablet

Windows Phone 8 “sneak peak” due today

Will changes translate into market share?

When CTOs Quit, What’s Next?

Report: Flame part of US-Israeli cyberattack campaign against Iran

Unnamed Western officials confirmed that Flame was developed by US and Israeli governments, the Washington Post reported

Kodak claims Apple is interfering in its patents sale

Eastman Kodak recently filed to auction its patent portfolio

WikiLeaks’ Assange seeks asylum in Ecuador

The Ecuador government has confirmed it has received a request for asylum from Julian Assange

Oracle’s Catz was ‘shocked’ by HP suit against Hurd

The Oracle co-president denies her company committed itself to keep porting its software to Itanium

Virtual analysis misses a third of malware

Approach needs to shift away from assuming malware can be prevented from entering a network, security expert says

Alerts about free food in the kitchen and other signs enterprise social tools are a hit

Enterprise 2.0 Conference roundup: Corporate users of social network tools going far beyond Facebook, Twitter

HP puts Intel Atom chip in low-power ‘Gemini’ server

HP's Gemini platform has a flexible design that can house different processor cartridges for different workloads

Juniper confines SDNs to data center

Juniper's strategy will hurt least in its smallest market if software defined networking technology doesn't pan out

QCon: Application development faces seismic shift

Java overtook C++ in popularity because it was better suited for the Web, argues Oracle's chief of development

Microsoft could be alienating hardware partners with new tablets

Microsoft's new Surface tablets could bite into sales of tablets from Windows 8 and Windows RT licensees

Pricing seen as key to success of Microsoft’s Surface tablets

$600 for a Windows RT tablet could have customers walk away, analysts say

Eucalyptus makes moves to stand apart from open source cloud rivals

Release of latest Eucalyptus software update marks culmination of internal changes put in place over past 18 months, CEO says