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EFF files brief supporting release of Megaupload data

Kyle Goodwin is one of many innocent third parties who are now locked out of their data, the EFF contends

iPad buyers: Your tablet is at the store (maybe)

Sampling of Apple's retail stores shows that all have some iPad models in stock

Do Insecure Open Source Components Threaten Your Apps?

Qualcomm’s quad-core chips to counter Intel’s ultrabooks

Qualcomm says its quad-core Snapdragon processor will be used in thin and light laptops that rival ultrabooks and the Macbook Air

Wall Street Beat: Tech ends best quarter in markets since dot-com bust

Red Hat and Tibco report strong quarters

Dell expands virtual desktops into the cloud

Company partners with another firm on Desktop as a Service (DaaS) offering

Gov’t efforts target online counterfeits much more than digital piracy

Of 270 websites taken down by ICE and the DOJ in 2011, only 22 involved digital piracy, according to a White House report

Old software blamed for city’s failure to collect $17.6M in parking fines

Long Beach, Calif.'s auditor urges the city to update its software

New IBM CEO in middle of Masters golf controversy

Augusta National Golf Club's policy against female members under the microscope again

Windows 8 Update: Back up Windows Server 8 to the cloud

Also, why Windows 8 Consumer Preview touch experience can stink; is Microsoft a sore loser?

Massive payments data breach originating with Central American gang through NYC garage?

Gartner hears from reliable sources; WSJ identifies Global Payments as third-party target of breach

Ancestry.com Preps for Flood of Census Queries

Trend Micro unearths more links between China and hacker group

The company was able to link an email address used by the group to a hacker in the Chinese underground

Intel plans ‘superchip’ for high-performance computing

Intel's new superchip will use InfiniBand interconnect technology for I/O

Vote on nano-SIM standard postponed after row

A new vote will have to wait for least 30 days, according to ETSI's rules

Kelihos gang is building a new botnet, researchers say

The cyber criminal gang behind the sinkholed Kelihos botnet can easily regain control over a part of it

Foxconn’s overtime reduction will not affect product prices, analysts say

Apple supplier Foxconn is reducing employee overtime to help improve working conditions at its Chinese factories

Micron settles memory price-fixing lawsuit from Oracle

The lawsuit dates to September, 2010 after Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems

Google to sell Android tablets online, report says

Google will open an online store where it will sell Android tablets from partners such as Samsung and Asus, according to sources

Is New Legislation Needed to Protect Online Privacy?

RIM revenue plummets; new CEO to consider licensing

RIM said it is renewing its focus on enterprises

Labor group finds poor working conditions at Apple supplier Foxconn

A Fair Labor Association investigation reveals compensation issues and health and safety risks in a widespread survey

Critics say FTC, Obama privacy plans would lead to major regulation

Officials with the NTIA and FTC defend the proposals, saying they're mostly focused on voluntary actions by Internet companies

EBay taps mobile payments innovator David Marcus for PayPal president

EBay's choice reflects its aggressive push to dominate the mobile payments market

Why Windows 8 touch sorta stinks in the Consumer Preview edition

Existing hardware wasn't built to rigorous Microsoft standards for the new operating system.

Dissecting Cisco’s FabricPath Ethernet technology

Cisco's data center network architecture has many vital features and moving parts

IT jobs will grow 22% through 2020, says U.S.

Biennial update says offshoring will limit growth in some occupations, while healthcare IT provides a boost

Do-it-yourself plan to take down Sality botnet outlined on public mailing list

Cybercriminals could use instructions posted on the Full Disclosure mailing list to hijack a large botnet

AOL unplugs 10,000 servers, saves $5 million

AOL said it decommissioned a quarter of its servers to win the Uptime Institute's first Server Roundup Contest

Australia’s iPad problem exposes LTE roaming challenge

As LTE is deployed on many different frequencies, it may be hard to get the fast service away from home

Threat of a bullet in the face keeping cybercrooks cautious

Cybersecurity research director also warns that we haven’t seen the worst of advanced persistent threats, er, malware

Researchers smash Kelihos botnet with dose of its own poison

Botnet's peer-to-peer command structure 'backfired,' says take-down participant

Half of all U.S. mobile phones are smartphones

Numbers have grown nearly 40% in a year

RIM attacks Apple’s nano-SIM tactics

Apple employees are registering to vote for operators, which isn't allowed, according to RIM

Report cites U.S., Canada as malware attack focus

Look from Welsense at last year's trends sees social-networking becoming main malware targets

President Obama targets $200 million for big data boost

U.S. government looks to bolster techniques to access, organize, and collect information from huge volumes of digital data.

Open-source designs for your very own tricorder now available online

Star Trek-inspired project packs multiple sensor types, runs Debian

Microsoft bot takedowns help, but are no cure

They separate the head from the body but the body grows back

Amazon posts human genetic details of 1,700 people

Largest cache of human genetic information now available to anyone on Amazon's public cloud

Malware infects Macs through Microsoft Office vulnerability

Rogue emails distribute booby-trapped Microsoft Word file that installs Mac OS Trojan, researchers said

Ethernet Alliance chair talks about key trends, what’s next

Cisco forces manufacturer’s hand; company adopts Microsoft Lync

Lack of MeetingPlace support for Outlook drove Creation Technologies to Microsoft's communication platform

IT execs must deal soon with worker use of social tools

Workers push for IT adoption of social networking tools like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, video and Foursquare

Amazon Web Services updates Linux implementation

The upgrade will allow enterprises to run different versions of applications and programming languages

Congress urged to secure drone law

Allowing thousands of drones over U.S. skies raises serious privacy questions, advocacy group says

Motorola refuses $300 million Microsoft bond to keep Windows 7 in German market

Windows 7 and the Xbox 360 could be banned in Germany due to patent litigation

As 60th anniversary nears, tape reinvents itself

Streaming media, the cloud and Big Data will play important roles in tape's future.

Chinese leader asks Apple’s Tim Cook to care for workers

Apple's supplier Foxconn has been criticized for alleged poor working conditions in its Chinese factories

Google going forward with Go language

Version 1 of programming environment is released, featuring binary distribution support and integration with Google's App Engine cloud platform

Dell ends smartphone sales in the US

Dell has stopped offering its last standing smartphones, the Venue Pro and Venue, in the U.S.