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Ice IX malware tricks Facebook users into exposing credit card details, says Trusteer

A new Ice IX Trojan horse configuration is being sold on underground forums to target Facebook users

European Commission opens antitrust investigation of Motorola Mobility

Samsung delays Galaxy Tab 2 family launch until end of April

More work on Android 4.0 is needed before the products can ship, according to Samsung

Google is responsible for misleading ads, Australian court rules

Ads that used a company's name to direct traffic to a competitor's website were misleading and deceptive, the court found

Terremark launches private cloud offering

The new service lets users burst traffic to public clouds, including Amazon's

Employee litigation against Tata gets class action status

The employees have accused Tata of wage violations

Hitachi releases first enterprise-class 4TB hard drive

The new Ultrastar drive has four different power settings

IBM releases DB2 version 10, the first big upgrade in four years

IBM's newly updated flagship database can shrink storage requirements and speed query response, the company claims

LightSquared question is in FCC’s hands now

The agency could go ahead and kill the carrier's LTE plan or take other action, and it has no deadline

IEEE studying lighter Gigabit Ethernet cable for use in cars

The reduced twisted pair Ethernet cables would have fewer copper wires inside

Flying car one step closer to delivery with prototype flight

Terrafugia executives expect to start delivering drivable plane within a year

Dell’s acquisition a Wyse one, analysts say

Deal fills an important gap in hardware company's solution portfolio

Oracle, Google fail to reach settlement in Android lawsuit

Oracle's Safra Catz and Google's Andy Rubin weren't able to come to an agreement in their dispute over Java technology in Android

New iPad gets raves from survey and Consumer Reports

Whopping 82% of new iPad owners say they're 'very satisfied'

ACLU: Most US police don’t seek warrants before tracking cell phones

The tracking of mobile phones is widespread across law enforcement agencies, according to the civil rights group

Apache promotes Sqoop as Top Level Project

The Apache Software Foundation connects Hadoop to databases and data warehouses with Sqoop

Fave Raves: Compliance assistance wins over IT pros

Products that can help achieve regulatory compliance are a popular favorite among the IT pros who contributed to Network World's annual Fave Raves feature

Unpatched Java vulnerability exploited to infect Macs with Flashback malware

The Flashback.K variant is distributed via exploits for a known Java vulnerability that Apple has yet to patch

4 critical trends in IT business continuity

10 hard truths developers must learn to accept

Groups pressure Pakistan to stop national Internet monitoring plan

Local and international civil rights organizations have jointly written to the government

iPhone 5 Rumor Rollup for the week ending March 30

Mindblowing 3D, little trouble in big China, screen gems are highlights of Apple iPhone 5 scuttlebutt

IE’s browser share recovers, Chrome down for third straight month

Sign of a Microsoft turnaround, or just a calculation change by metrics company?

A sampling of BYOD user policies

Here are several actual BYOD policies that you can use as the framework for your own policy

Samsung, NTT DoCoMo chip group abandon planned LTE chip joint venture

The firms had agreed to launch the venture by March of this year but could not agree on a final deal

Forecasting a warming world via thousands of PCs

Citizen-scientists, volunteers donate computing time for climate research

Carriers make their play in the cloud

As telecoms buy up cloud providers, they look to enter the increasingly crowded cloud market

Global Payments says fewer than 1.5M cards affected in data theft

Visa and MasterCard have alerted banks about the breach, according to reports.

IBM to develop telescope data analysis system

IBM will develop advanced technologies for what will be the world's largest radio telescope, operational in 2024

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