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Nvidia: First $199 ‘Kai’ tablets will be announced this year

Kai is a reference design for a low-cost 7-inch tablet to compete with the Kindle Fire

Competition, games can bring about enterprise app advances

'Gaming the enterprise' can effectively grow next-generation collaboration platforms

Microsoft teams with Quanta for ‘private cloud in a box’

Quanta Computer and Microsoft will offer 'pre-validated' configurations of hardware and software for deploying private clouds

Google TV box gets movie streams from Android 4.0 smartphones, tablets

TVs will be able to play movies direct from Android 4.0 smartphones and tablets with a Google TV box under development

AMD chases Intel ultrabooks with Trinity laptop-tablet hyrid

With Trinity, AMD hopes to undercut Intel's touchscreen ultrabooks on price

Cisco competitor extends data center fabric line

Xsigo enhances virtual I/O director, management apps to support Romley servers, more hypervisors

Google warns users of ‘state-sponsored’ hacks

Alerts Gmail users when it suspects government-backed account or malware attacks

HP’s Livermore was ‘furious and appalled’ at Oracle dropping Itanium

The former HP enterprise chief read on the Web that Oracle would stop developing for Itanium

Facebook joins Google, ISPs in notifying DNSChanger victims

Facebook alerts owners of DNSChanger-infected computers that they need to take action before July 9

Researchers predict advent of ‘resource-as-a-service’ clouds

These clouds will allow customers to rent individual compute resources by the second, not the hour

The Cisco security directive

HP touts unified cloud services

Hewlett-Packard kicks off its HP Discover user conference with a bevy of new cloud software packages and services

Mobile wallet systems could hurt brick-and-mortar banks, survey suggests

Many users expressed willingness to drop their banks altogether

Xbox SmartGlass: Microsoft’s multiscreen strategy

SmartGlass will let consumers view complementary content on devices like tablets and smartphones

Lawmakers press Facebook about adding under-13 users

Congressmen ask about data collected, privacy controls and an 'eraser button'

Gartner: Top 10 emerging infrastructure trends

The tablet, the cloud, big data all on the list

Researchers find ways to bypass Google’s Android malware scanner

Mobile security researchers devised methods that could allow Android malware to detect when it's being analyzed by Google's Bouncer system

Startup applies for 307 generic top-level domains

Donuts has raised $100 million in venture capital and plans to serve as a registry, the company says

Nonexistent Apple iPad Mini biggest threat to iPad’s tablet dominance

Latest ChangeWave survey shows iPad thrashing Amazon Kindle Fire

Fujitsu marshals resources to help recovery after the historic 2011 earthquake

U.S. agency turns to cloud computing to increase availability of applications

Cisco upgrades mobile carrier switches with an eye on escalating traffic

The ASR 5500 brings a new class of performance and maintains consistent software to distinguish among traffic types

Egenera jumps into cloud management

PAN Cloud Director lets Egenera manage heterogeneous cloud environments, minus Cisco gear

New HTML5 control blends Web with native mobile apps

Verivo bridging Web clients, and content, to enterprise systems

Oracle buys Collective Intellect for ‘social intelligence’ tools

The move is just the latest instance of the rivalry between Oracle and Salesforce.com

Adobe patches critical vulnerabilities in Photoshop and Illustrator CS5.x

Adobe keeps its promise and releases security patches for older Photoshop and Illustrator versions

Researchers reveal how Flame fakes Windows Update

Bogus certificates key, but espionage malware also spoofs Microsoft's update service on a network

Apple faces delay in bid for ban on US sales of Galaxy Tab 10.1

A District Court said that the jurisdiction in the matter is still with an appeals court

Intel says 20 Windows 8 tablets in works with new Clover Trail chip

Intel seeks a reboot in tablet market with Atom chips code-named Clover Trail and Windows 8 OS

IBM attacks app design to bolster mobile security

Extension of IBM AppScan tailored for testing Android OS apps before they are released to get ahead of the mobile malware curve

LTE spectrum fragmentation can be easily resolved, says NTT DoCoMo exec

The head of the companys R&D strategy division says using existing 3G bands for LTE and more multiband devices is the cure

Egenera CEO stresses openness in competing with ‘Cisco, Cisco, Cisco’

CEO Pete Manca says dramatic transition to software focus keeps Egenera in data center sweet spot

Facebook locks in on bounties for security

But can White Hat debit cards compete with an increasingly lucrative black market?

HP, Oracle clash over what their Hurd deal’s wording means

Opening arguments in HP's breach-of-contract suit focused on an agreement reached after Oracle hired ex-HP CEO Mark Hurd

HP’s Autonomy connects to Hadoop

Hadoop users can now use Autonomy IDOL's 500 functions to analyze their data

IBM adds inline compression, other upgrades, to storage systems

Doubles capacity of V7000, which can now hold up to 960 drives or 1.4 petabytes of data

Are employers pulling back on IT hiring?

Analysts have different views of May's dismal U.S. jobs data from an IT perspective

IBM updates Rational tools for cloud, mobile

IBM has updated its Rational CLM software to work in clusters and has introduced some new cloud-based development management services

Microsoft throws ‘kill switch’ on own certificates after Flame hijack

Cyber-spying tool exploited bug in Microsoft licensing service to 'sign' code, including some related to Windows Update

Flame malware’s structure among most complex ever seen, says Kaspersky Lab

More details surface about cyber-espionage Flame malware

Salesforce.com buying social marketing vendor Buddy Media in $689 million deal

The move follows Oracle's recent purchase of Buddy Media competitor Vitrue

Windows 8 test drive: Hardware is a challenge

Windows 7 machines don't guarantee a good Windows 8 experience

Government role in Stuxnet could increase attacks against U.S. firms

How security pros are handling data overload

Could data scientist be your next job?

The definition of a data scientist varies, but no matter how it's defined, the skills are in demand.

Asus previews hybrid laptop-tablet device and all-in-one PC

Asus Chairman Jonney Shih unveield the products on the eve of Computex in Taipei

Windows 8’s built-in AV to be security of last resort

Integrated Windows Defender will activate only on PCs sans antivirus software or after other products have expired

Obama expands OPT visa program for foreign students

Changes add new fields of study to program that that serves some 40,000 university students

‘Body Area Networks’ should free hospital bandwidth, untether patients

At-home use of disposable wireless monitors could be the biggest market of all

IT Industry SAP to Pay $4.3B for Cloud B2B Vendor Ariba