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Ten ways your smartphone knows where you are

Location tools go well beyond GPS and Wi-Fi and increasingly can deliver high accuracy even indoors

Sophos takes down partner portal after signs of hacking

Sophos believes that hackers might have stolen sensitive user information from its partner portal

Google patches Chrome for second time in eight days

Fixes 12 flaws and updates bundled Flash Player to patch two more

Sprint set to offer cure for poor wireless voice quality

High-def voice quality coming to Sprint's network and phones; analysts wonder whether users will care

Twitter files lawsuit against alleged spammers and spam tool providers

Twitter said the lawsuit was another weapon in its arsenal to fight spam

Larry Page letter highlights Google’s conflicts

A year on the job, Page promotes some of Google's biggest products

Facebook selects NASDAQ for listing, report says

New York Times reports that Facebook picked NASDAQ over rival New York Stock Exchange

Report: IBM, Red Hat to join OpenStack

After volatile week for open source clouds, two major companies could join OpenStack

OpenStack development finds big growing pains

Citrix, Eucalyptus/Amazon moves highlight fast-changing open source cloud market

Federal IT pros look at BYOD security, management concerns

At the National Security Agency, 'God forbid you bring a phone in'

Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday will address exploits in Office 2010, IE9

4 of 6 bulletins rated critical

Eurocom packs eight-core Intel Xeon E5 chip into laptop

Eurocom calls its new 12.1-pound Panther 4.0 laptop a mobile server

Obama signs bill focused on crowdsourced investments

The JOBS act removes several regulations related to new U.S. businesses

Windows Phone seen as driving a wedge between iPhone, Android

As Lumia 900 launch looms, analyst says Nokia, Microsoft need BlackBerry users to switch to Windows Phone

Government IT strains under BYOD challenge

DOD, NASA, Agriculture wrestling with mobile strategies; Mississippi calls in Gartner

Wi-Fi complaints prompt Apple to replace some 3rd-gen iPads

Users cite flakey connectivity, low range, low bandwidth

UK hacker accessed accounts for 20 months before bust

‘Massive’ visa fraud alleged in lawsuit against Indian firm

Sexual discrimination lawsuit filed by two women, one who worked in human resources, includes allegations of H-1B fraud

Comparing participation in the open source cloud communities

Eucalyptus has the largest community, OpenStack, CloudStack are gaining steam

Fast-growing Flashback botnet includes over 600,000 Macs, malware experts say

Java-based attacks against Mac users resulted in over 600,000 Mac computers being infected with the Flashback Trojan horse

A quarter of the world’s households now have Wi-Fi, survey says

China will drive the growth in the home market during the next five years, according to Strategy Analytics

It’s raining sub-$100 LTE smartphones

But pricing for two-year voice, text and data service remains high

Obama’s online privacy plan gets mixed reaction

Advocacy groups want stronger rules; industry prefers to retain current self-regulation

IT skills gap forces CIOs to get creative

Some firms offer training in new skill sets; and some embed IT workers in business departments

New iPad complicates life for HTML 5 developers

Web performance on a par with that of iPad 2

Samsung starts manufacturing speedy microSD card

The card has a maximum sequential read speed of 80 megabytes per second

India’s top court declines review of 2G licenses cancellation

India's Supreme Court had ordered in February that 122 mobile licenses should be cancelled

Larry Ellison: Hardware-software integration key, Apple is best example

Oracle's founder and CEO reaffirmed his commitment to custom hardware for its products, but promises not to lock customers in

With the new Evo, Sprint gets its signature LTE device

New HTC wireless device getting strong initial reviews

Steve Jobs’ rage at Android was all “for show,” claims Google CEO Page

Late Apple CEO was just trying to rally the troops, Larry Page asserts

BYOD: If You Think You’re Saving Money, Think Again

Feds to Unveil Insider Threat Defense Plan by Year End

Microsoft acquires 20 new Windows security ideas for $13,400 each

$268,000 BlueHat Prize contest 'cheap way to get someone else to innovate,' says expert

New Microsoft tool maintains Windows user settings in virtual environments

Apps stay customized no matter how users tap into them

Ready or not, unmanned drones may soon be a staple of American life

Questions swirl around privacy, safety concerns

Microsoft details Azure security features

Microsoft is one of the few companies that has joined the Cloud Security Alliance's registry

Yahoo CEO needs to outline his vision after layoffs

Employees, industry watchers left to guess what comes next, analysts say

CDT: Cybersecurity bills raise major civil liberties concerns

Four bills before Congress would allow private companies to share cyberthreat information

IT pro rethinks infrastructure from the ground up, ends up in clouds

Oracle frees Ops Center for existing customers

The newly released Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center 12c encourages private cloud deployments

Apple patches Mac Java zero-day bug

Have Java? Then apply the update ASAP, say researchers

Facebook, Twitter are life lines as tornadoes wallop Texas

People, organizations take to social networks to warn neighbors, offer help

Microsoft boosts virtualization capabilities in Desktop Optimization Pack

The desktop management suite is gaining a new virtualization utility, while an existing one is being upgraded

Rogue US Airways-themed emails distribute ZeuS-based malware

Spam campaign targeting US Airways customers distributes a computer Trojan called GameOver

Yahoo laying off 2,000 workers to save $375M

Yahoo will begin notifying workers today of 'next steps' in the company

Government CIOs Insist on Business Case for Mobile Deployments

DHS: America’s water and power utilities under daily cyber-attack

DHS industrial-control systems (ICS) response team offers glimpse into how bad it is

Shell Oil targets hybrid cloud as fix for energy-saving, agile IT

Oil company pilots big data analytics in the public cloud

OpenStack Essex release is most stable yet, supporters say

Essex is expected to be released on Thursday

Freescale BYOD plan finds happy users

CIO says project is worth the time and effort despite the lack of a measurable financial return