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Amazon cloud accessed daily by a third of all ‘Net users

Cloud provider and the Internet becoming one and the same

Qualcomm’s S4 chips for smartphones, tablets in short supply

Qualcomm says a slow ramp in the 28-nm manufacturing process is slowing down Snapdragon S4 chip supply

A look at the hottest 2012 spring smartphones

The Nokia Lumia 900, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus and more!

Oracle quietly plotting ambitious cloud computing plan

Oracle cloud plan includes software, platform and social collaboration tools

The sorry state of federal IPv6 support

99% of US government websites don't support IPv6, with 5 months left until Obama administration mandate applies

Chinese residents charged with selling $100M worth of pirated software

The defendants operated websites selling pirated software at discount prices, the indictment alleges

Internet ad revenue hit $31.7 billion in 2011, topping previous record

Mobile advertising showed explosive growth

SAP designs facility for ‘agile’ cloud application development

A new facility was specially designed to support the development methodology

Larry Page tells jury he doesn’t recall details of Java negotations

Microsoft remains mum on Windows 8 upgrades from Vista, XP

Limits upgrade path confirmation to 2009's Windows 7

Cisco to add IM software to enterprise IP communications system

Cisco Unified Communications Manager customers will get Jabber IM at no extra charge

Xirrus unveils rugged Wi-Fi ‘super access point’

Sealed 2-radio array with 3x3 MIMO delivers up to 900Mbps

White House raises concerns over CISPA bill

Information sharing without privacy safeguards is a problem, National Security Council spokeswoman says

Study: Entrepreneurs can save big money with broadband service

New businesses can save $16,000 in the first year by using Internet-based services instead of traditional ones, a study says

Top FBI cyber cop joins startup CrowdStrike to fight enterprise intrusions

Shawn Henry to head incident response unit

Windows RT tablets will add to the BYOD nightmare

No enterprise management, no virtual client support, no Outlook

Verizon offers to sell some 700MHz spectrum in olive branch to government

Offer will include spectrum from the 'A' and 'B' blocks

Sizzling open vs. proprietary debate heats up the cloud

Vendor rhetoric hot and heavy; Amazon Web Services still could have last laugh

Efforts afoot to advance cloud standards

The fight for interoperability in the cloud could rest on the evolution of standards

Enterprise iOS, Android apps can be outfitted with tighter security

Mocana server analyzes apps, adds security features

Computer Trojan horse steals credit card details from hotel reception software

A remote access Trojan horse (RAT) that targets hotel point-of-sale software is being advertised on underground forums

Google shares lessons learned as early software-defined network adopter

Open Networking Summit: How Google's OpenFlow-supported SDN came to be, and what it means for the future of the Internet

New Verizon service brings LTE to private IP networks

Verizon technology routes traffic at cell tower to private MPLS VPN

Cisco’s ties to spin-in confirmed

CEO Chambers says $100 million invested in Insieme, with a $750 million cap

Cybersecurity Bill Revised to Ease Privacy Concerns

Symform has a cloud without a data center

Symform has built a cloud service without building a data center and instead uses the excess storage capacity of individual customers to create a virtual community cloud

HP says commercial software vulnerabilities down almost 20% across industry

Apple, Adobe, Oracle software on top 10 vulnerabilities list; HP's '2011 Top Cyber Security Risks Report' also notes rise of Chinese exploit kits

DEMO 2012 products that cater to the enterprise

In between checking out the latest consumer tech at DEMO, take a look at those with potential for the workplace.

Mozilla blocks Java in Firefox for some Mac users

Disables outdated plug-in for Firefox on Leopard and earlier

ICANN system for applications for new gTLDs still down

ICANN is still unclear about a date for the reopening of its application system

Apple contests Greenpeace’s coal-fired data center claims

Apple said 60 percent of the power for its North Carolina data center will come from renewable sources

Yahoo’s new CEO lays out strategy for smaller, more focused company

Thompson's plan suggests which divisions will likely be cut as the company reinvents itself

Oracle considered buying RIM and Palm, Ellison says

Larry Ellison revealed the plans under cross-examination in Oracle's trial against Google

First Intel Inside smartphone coming from Lava this week

Lava International's Xolo X900 will be launched in India and will have a Medfield Atom processor

IBM posts flat revenue, falling hardware sales

Revenue from the System Z mainframe group dropped 25 percent, but the company's profit grew

Intel’s first Ivy Bridge chips will be high-end quad-core parts

Many had expected the first chips to be for ultrabooks, but Intel will aim higher with Ivy Bridge to start

Farewell, Apple. Hello Linux Mint!

How I gave up my MacBook Pro

Mobile apps can feature ready-to-use cloud services

iOS, Android and Web apps call out to hosted features

Vyatta speeds up its software-based routing with vPlane

The company is testing a system for greater data-center scalability and phasing out its dedicated appliances

Intel profit dips as PC and server chip sales decline

Intel sales in the key PC and server division have either fallen or are flat, though revenues beat forecasts

Microsoft – carefully – edges closer to the open-source community

New entity provides cover for Redmond's in-house products while pushing company forward

Open-source hardware movement seeks legitimacy

A nonprofit organization, Open Source Hardware Association, is being formed to promote open-source hardware

Civil liberties groups: Cyberthreat sharing bill still attacks privacy

The CISPA cyber information-sharing bill could get a vote in the House of Representatives next week, critics say

Twitter unveils patent policy meant to give its employees more rights

The Innovator's Patent Agreement would dictate that patents could only be used for defensive purposes

Carriers cap LTE services to avoid fixed-line cannibalization, says IEEE’s Saracco

Says real significance of LTE is its native IP access, not its bandwidth

$500M state pension software system wracked by backlogs

Officials: Problems will get worse before they get better

Privacy watchdog, lawmaker push for Google probe

Calls for federal investigation come after FCC found no legal fault with Google's collecting of personal data on Wi-Fi networks

Google says it had Sun’s full support in building Android

Google's attorney presented the company's opening statement in day two of its trial against Oracle

iPad 4 rumor rollup for the week ending April 16

When it comes to iPads, smaller is better, and so is older for now

Intel grabs record share of growing chip market

Gartner reports that Intel and Qualcomm showed great gains in 2011