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Apple files complaint against Motorola in the US to prevent iPhone 4S litigation

Apple asked a federal court to rule that Motorola Mobility's patent claims relating to Qualcomm components are exhausted

Google acknowledges Wallet debacle, pulls prepaid cards

Company still touts Wallet as superior to 'plastic and leather'

Latest Droid features ‘best keyboard yet,’ iFixit finds

Phone is much more difficult to repair, however

How to Save the IT Industry in 4 (Not So Easy) Steps

Cisco’s John Stewart on the latest security threats … and what enterprises can do to fight back

MediaTek lays groundwork for cheaper Android 4.0 smartphones

The first phones based on MediaTek's new platform will arrive during the first quarter

Fast Firefox faceoff: Nightly vs. Pale Moon vs. Waterfox

Three unofficial Firefox variants take advantage of 64-bit processors and 64-bit version of Windows 7

Mozilla patches critical Firefox bug

Firefox 10 is third straight release needing follow-on patch

Factory Conditions Elicit Little Outcry

Office 15 Public Beta Due This Summer

First White House CTO Chopra Resigns

Startup launches array tuned for unstructured, structured data

Starboard's array offers SAN/NAS integration along with tiered storage

HP Readies Open-Source webOS Release

F5 gear bought to optimize WAN also helps with VDI

Big-IP features led to better virtual desktop performance for Missouri firm

Poor factory conditions elicit little outcry (K4)

Hadoop wins over enterprise IT, spurs talent crunch

Hadoop enables enterprises to store and process data they previously discarded due to cost, complexity and a lack of tools

UptimeCloud shows real-time AWS costs

Uptime Software is the latest company to try to help AWS users control spending

Apple files another US patent suit against Samsung

This time, Apple takes aim at the Galaxy Nexus smartphone

FAQ: WOA vs. x86, which Windows tablet to pick?

Much depends on how 'free' Office apps will be on ARM-based tablets

Crowd-funding site offers open alternative to Kickstarter

Crowdtilt differs from Kickstarter by allowing users to fund any project

Romney Talks Technology Innovation, Hands-off Government

Google abandons big, black drop-down menu

Google replaced the big drop-down menu it launched as part of its Google+ redesign with a static menu bar

Iran blocks access to some outside websites, services

Tor Project accuses Iranian government of 'ramping up censorship' by blocking SSL-encrypted sites like Gmail, Twitter

6 Ways to Defend Against Drive-by Downloads

iPhone 5 rumor rollup for the week ending Feb. 10

June joy for certain, unless ethicists and anarchists delay it

Much of Western U.S. is a 3G wasteland, says FCC

Mountainous regions lack 3G or 4G data coverage

FDA defends its monitoring of whistleblowers’ email

Official says agency perused private email accounts of workers while investigating leaks of confidential information

Wall Street Beat: Earnings, spending forecasts highlight tech sector strength

Economic uncertainty still casts a shadow on IT spending, however

How the Phoenix Suns basketball team takes on social media attacks

Barrage of network attacks surface during big games as sports fans go wild

FAQ: Windows on ARM explained

Microsoft spells out some details of WOA, it's 'touch-first,' tablet-oriented OS

Most social net users are kind, Pew survey finds

While users see some bad behavior, most report positive experiences on Facebook, other sites

Google expands the scope of its vulnerability reward programs to cover Chromium OS

Google says that both its Web and Chromium security reward programs were a big success

Forget Public Cloud or Private Cloud, It’s All About Hyper-Hybrid

Motorola Mobility fails to make patent case against Apple in German court

Just claiming a patent is essential to implement a standard is not enough, the court told Motorola Mobility

How to get the IRS’ attention: Forge nearly $8 million in tax returns, steal identities

Ex-IRS employee gets 105 months in prison for identity theft, fraud

Blogger exposes major Google Wallet security flaw

Google vows to fix hole in prepaid card system

Web app lets enterprise set security, sharing for Google Apps users

DomainWatch monitors assets, applies rules, flags violations

Japan’s largest carrier to launch test service to combat Android fragmentation

NTT DoCoMo says its new remote testing service will help developers keep up with the variety of Android handsets and software versions

Chinese expected to brush off real name registration for Twitter-like sites

Beijing has given a March deadline for all microblog websites to require users to register with their real name identities

Java compiler would enable high-quality code, efficient memory use

Eolas loses in Web patents claim against Google and others

The defendants and counterclaimants in the case include top Internet companies like Google and Amazon.com

Stoke gateway could ramp up carriers’ Wi-Fi offerings

The Wi-Fi Exchange from Stoke is designed to make it easier for mobile operators to connect users with Wi-Fi networks

Microsoft details Windows 8 for ARM devices

Called WOA, this special version of the OS will come bundled with its own version of the Office suite

Windows 8 on ARM, dubbed WOA, to include Office apps for tablets

Many want the PowerPoint and Excel apps they are used to on the desktop

Activists Target Apple, Deliver Petitions to Seek Labor Reform

Report: Google building home entertainment system

The Wall Street Journal reports that the Internet giant seeks to get into the electronics business with its own brand

Cray courts the big-data market

But do we still need supercomputers when we have Hadoop?

Cloudscaling to offer OpenStack private cloud platform

The software will be the first product offered by Cloudscaling, which is a services company

Microsoft details ‘Windows on ARM’ program

WOA is a subset of Windows 8 for tablets and other devices

Microsoft to issue more critical patches next week for Win7 than XP

IE update likely the one users will want to apply ASAP, say researchers