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Exactly what is Homeland Security watching for on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube?

Department of Homeland Security on congressional hot-seat over social media website monitoring

Waledac malware returns after two years with password-stealing capabilities

A new version of the Waledac malware. capable of stealing passwords and BitCoins, has been detected in the wild

How to Manage a Distributed Development Team

Quortus moves intelligence to edge of mobile networks to offload core

The company has turned the mobile network core into an application that can run on a regular server

Report of Google already moving onto Android 5.0 (‘Jellybean’) draws doubts

Prominent Android blogger urges skepticism

Cisco on Microsoft/Skype: Sour grapes?

Appeal of EC approval may indicate non-buyer's remorse

Cool cop tech: 5 new technologies helping police fight crime

Linux skills in demand, wages up

Senior-level skills most sought-after as companies launch Linux projects

Cisco aims to blunt the power of Microsoft-Skype merger

Cisco's request to the European Commission seeks the type of action the company fought two years ago

Iomega launches desktop, rack-mountable NAS line

The StorCenter PX Server Class Series arrays support advanced video capture

Adobe confirms new zero-day Flash bug

Patches Google-reported XSS flaw hackers now exploiting in targeted attacks

Opera acquires two mobile ad companies

The company wants to make more money from the traffic generated via its mobile browsers

Copyright holders dealt blow in EU social networking case

European court rules that social networking sites cannot be forced to intall general filters

New MSN site updates users on topics trending on Twitter, Facebook

The msnNow site identifies hot topics and trends on social networks and Bing

Romanian police arrest alleged hacker in Pentagon, NASA breaches

LightSquared’s options to save its network are limited

The carrier doesn't have many good choices after the FCC moved to shut down its plans

Microsoft sees Skype linking all its products, CFO says

The comments come on the same day when Cisco raised concerns about how Microsoft will integrate Skype and Lync

iPad 3: Should It Support LTE?

LightSquared vows to keep seeking a GPS solution

Responding to a decision that could sink it, the carrier called on other parties to join in solving a conflict over GPS interference

Juniper exec gives inside look at QFabric

Apple to ban stealthy iPhone contact data harvesting

Promises update to iOS after Congress asks about apps that grab address book without permission

Event shows the many faces, challenges of big data

New applications emerge but changing skills demands and still-growing technology stand in the way

NASA fixes computer glitch on robot traveling to Mars

HP CEO: Google-Motorola deal could close-source Android

HP CEO Meg Whitman said a closed-source Android and iOS could create a big opportunity for webOS in the long run

Cisco to appeal Microsoft-Skype deal in European court

Cisco says Microsoft should be forced to support industry standards to communicate with other collaboration platforms

Smaller iPad talk resurfaces, but Apple won’t be tempted, say experts

CEO Tim Cook doesn't address rumors, intimates 7-in. Kindle Fire is a 'limited function...product'

Private App Stores and Tablets: Notes from an Early Adopter

Rackspace soon to partner with developers of private OpenStack distros

Rackspace plans to include commercial private OpenStack distributions in its Rackspace Cloud: Private Edition offering

Zynga makes dramatic shift from public cloud

The social games company sees Amazon Web Services as a 'four-door sedan' and its own network as a sports car

iPad 3 rumor rollup for the week of Feb. 14

March Madness, LTE obsession, iPad epistemology, the case for cases

Apple’s iPad Aims to Revolutionize Education

Motorola Android phones not getting Ice Cream Sandwich until second half of year

Atrix 4G, Photon 4G among the devices slated for Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade in Q3 2012

Telenor seeks compensation from Indian partner for loss of 2G licenses

India's Supreme Court cancelled the allotment of 122 2G licenses

EU IT companies to get guidance on human rights issues

Two Irish IT companies face criticism for selling to Syria

SEC denies carrier attempts to block shareholder net neutrality votes

The agency doesn't buy arguments by AT&T, Verizon and Sprint saying net neutrality isn't a significant policy issue

How and When to Build a Mobile Website

Malware Network Threats Rising, How to Defend Yourself

Prioritizing tech projects: How managers make a short list of long demands

FCC axes LightSquared LTE dreams

No viable way to mitigate GPS interference, NTIA finds

Boost for wireless in Europe as more spectrum is made available

EU Parliament approves Radio Spectrum Policy Program

OCZ launches 16TB flash card

The R4 CloudServ card acts as flash cache in a server

EMC and VMware team with Atos to create European cloud company Canopy

New company expects to open the app store in April, offering a full range of apps

Sweden gets Europe’s first LTE smartphone

The Galaxy S II LTE is on the way to stores now, according to Samsung

Senators Unveil Cybersecurity Bill to Empower Homeland Security

Oracle preps MySQL Cluster for Web use

The newly released version, MySQL Cluster 7.2, comes with a Memcached interface

Enterproid to enable work and personal numbers on one phone

A deal between Enterproid and BroadSoft could let users make and receive both work and personal calls on the same Android phone

Researchers crack online encryption system

Many of the public keys don't fully protect sensitive online transactions, study concludes

Ordinary Chinese divided on iPad trademark dispute

Apple's iPad trademark faces the court of public opinion - as well as a possible customs ban in China and investigations from authorities

Startup Porticor launches with encryption technology for cloud computing

So-called 'split-key' encryption designed to give enterprises firm control

Acer sees profit in Q4 after reporting losses in previous two quarters

Acer expects ultrabooks to reach the $600 to $700 price range by the end of this year