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Steve Jobs imitation with angel wings promotes a tablet in Taiwanese ad

An actor impersonates Steve Jobs to promote a new tablet from a Taiwanese company

Salesforce.com yields to pressure over analytics pricing

Salesforce.com's upcoming Analytics Edition features will now be included in some editions at no additional cost

Sprint gives LightSquared six more weeks for FCC approval

LightSquared needs to win clearance to operate near GPS frequencies before getting Sprint's help rolling out a network

Kindle sales soar but Amazon mum on actual numbers

Amazon disappointed investors by posting a 58 percent drop in profits, despite increased sales of its Kindle

New Mission for CIOs: The Art and Science of Pricing (K4)

IT leaders need to step up and provide the company with the sophisticated tools needed to make smarter pricing decisions, which lead to greater profits.

Five Tips for Dealing With Your CFO (K4)

CFOs are increasingly calling the shots, which means CIOs are reporting to them, not the CEO. Do you know how to talk business in a way they'll understand? If you're all about the tech, the answer is no.

Why Patagonia Opts for a Wacky eBay Storefront (K4)

Defying expectations of for-profit retailers, Patagonia invests in an eBay partnership that allows customers to resell their used clothing. ROI be damned.

Federal Mobile Strategy Calls for Shift in Government IT

Cisco aims Wi-Fi access point at iPad profusion

The Aironet 3600 is designed to make networks faster and steadier for tablets and smartphones as well as laptops

Microsoft ‘committed’ to Hyper-V OpenStack support

The OpenStack community is considering dropping support for Hyper-V

Microsoft releases PST importer for Exchange

Microsoft declares war on its own PST file format, urging users to upgrade to Exchange 2010 instead

Symantec drops don’t-use advice, gives pcAnywhere all-clear

Offers free upgrades to customers running older editions as one rival swoops in with special pricing

Oracle outlines plans for RightNow integration

Mark Hurd, Thomas Kurian and others laid out the vision in a live web event

FCC overhauls telephone subsidy for the poor, adding broadband

Changes to the Lifeline program include a broadband pilot program and efforts to reduce fraud

IRS helps bust 105 people in massive identity theft crackdown

IRS and DOJ team on nationwide strike against identity theft, fraud, phishing

Firefox 10 relieves add-on updating pain

Mozilla patches 8 vulnerabilities, delivers first enterprise edition

Semiconductor market to slow this year, iSuppli says

Semiconductor revenue will be hurt by weak economies worldwide, lower spending and sluggish demand

5 key points from Google’s privacy-policy letter to Congress

Search giant responds to congressional queries about privacy policy in 13-page letter

RIM says ‘Be Bold’ cartoon is not a new BlackBerry ad campaign

Update to blog clarifies that cartoon infographic is 'intended to be...fun'

Lawmakers question proposed change to video privacy law

Netflix wants one-time permission from customers to share their streaming video choices, but lawmakers balk

Megaupload user content safe for two more weeks

EFF joins battle to free user data from shuttered company's servers

Three reasons why asking risky questions reduces risk

Michael Santarcangelo explains that by evading difficult issues, we actually increase our risk

LinkedIn Tip: How to Opt-Out of Social Advertising

Costolo says 2012 is ‘Twitter election’ year

Twitter CEO Costolo says political candidates will need to use the popular social network to win elections

Obama confronted on H-1B use during Google+ hangout

President is questioned by wife of laid-off Texas semiconductor engineer

Nimbus puts up its new all-flash array against disk arrays

The E-Class array in one rack can match the performance of 14 racks of disk drives

SeaMicro puts 256 Xeon cores in server

SeaMicro, which sold only Atom-based servers, adds a Xeon microserver to its stable

In letter to Congress, Google defends privacy changes

Google exec contends users still retain control, and private information remains private

Cook hires first exec since taking Apple’s reins from Jobs

Makes CEO of struggling European chain Dixons head of Apple's retail

Google previews new privacy policy

Google's new consolidated Privacy Policy goes into effect March 1, 2012

German appeals court says ‘Nein’ to Samsung’s Galaxy Tab

Samsung tablet still can't be sold in Germany

IT Salaries: Growth Reflects Positive Changes in the IT Job Market

Microsoft fine-tunes Windows 8 Beta with input from users

Microsoft listens to users of Windows 8 Developer Preview

IBM buys Worklight for mobile software platform

IBM also announced a new software system for mobile device management

RIM criticized for ‘Be Bold’ superhero blog and graphic

Apparent try to better appeal to youth causes renewed concern about RIM's future among analysts

Coverity and Wind River target development insecurity with new alliance

13 Windows 8 features worth knowing about

Student privacy activists due to meet with Facebook

The meeting on Feb. 6 aims to resolve disagreements over privacy issues between the group and Facebook

Hackers infect WordPress 3.2.1 blogs to distribute TDSS rootkit

Compromised WordPress 3.2.1 blogs infect visitors with TDSS rootkit through Java exploits

Infor revamps support services, heightens competition against SAP, Oracle

The new Xtreme support offerings come in three tiers

Git gets enterprise equipped

AccuRev will release a connector that can enable many of its own enterprise features to work with Git

Zultys adds Android client for its IP PBX

The new client offers presence, access to company directories, call log and secure IM

HP extends asset mapping into Amazon, VMware clouds

HP's Discovery and Dependency Mapping Advanced package now can find your IT assets in the cloud

Toshiba, Fujitsu join Japanese tech peers in booking massive 3Q losses

Toshiba and Fujitsu both still expect a profit for the full fiscal year, but have slashed their forecasts

Samsung still not allowed to sell original Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Germany

Samsung's altered Galaxy Tab 10.1N is not affected by the continued sales ban

Oracle handed setback in HP Itanium case

Oracle had cited fraud by HP to defend its decision not to support Itanium in its software

Salesforce.com launches Desk.com help-desk service

The service for small businesses is the result of Salesforce.com's Assistly acquisition

Cybersecurity Report Stresses Need for Cooperation

Google helps translate JavaScript to its Dart alternative

The company's JavaScript to Dart Synonym application maps common idioms

Cybersecurity report: All countries lag behind the bad guys

The new report from McAfee and SDA ranks Finland, Sweden and Israel as the countries most prepared for cyber-threats