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Google: Bidding for Yahoo or driving up cost for Microsoft?

Reports that Google is looking at Yahoo could pose problems for archrival Microsoft

Sprint to sell Transform Ultra on contract for $80 on Nov. 13

Pre-pay carrier Boost Mobile offers the smartphone for $230 with no contract

WikiLeaks suspends operations, cites lack of funds

Claims that an illegal 'financial blockade' crushes efforts to raise funds

2011 Top Green-IT Vendors

Career Watch: Combatting doublespeak

Methodology: How we picked the 2011 Top Green-IT Organizations

JM Family: Works to eliminate more than 1,400 physical servers

New Security Flaws ID’d in BlackBerry 6 OS, Enterprise IM Apps

Apple quietly updates MacBook Pro laptop line

No change in pricing as company ups processor speeds, hard disk sizes

NBC Universal: Retired or recycled 47 tons of hardware

Kaiser Permanente: Slashes data center power by 7.2 million kilowatt-hours

Allstate: Reduces nearly 3,000 servers or devices in 18 months

Prudential Financial: 1,000 servers moved into a virtual environment

State Street: Compression technology helped cut storage use by 50%

Baker Hughes: Wake-on-LAN technology has resulted in 40% energy savings

Citigroup: Desktop standardization cuts energy costs by $6 million per year

KPMG: Aims to reduce its carbon footprint by 25% through environmental stewardship

Raytheon: Boosting data center temperatures cuts energy use by 30%

Nixon Peabody: 300 physical servers were swapped for 30 VMware ESX servers

Northrop Grumman: Virtualizing or retiring approximately 3,000 servers

Oracle buys RightNow for about US$1.5 billion

The move will give Oracle cloud-based customer service software, in yet another move against rival Salesforce.com

Nokia’s Windows Phone push meets its market test

Two phones are expected to be launched on Wednesday

Software Development Still a Risky Business

Despite technology breakthroughs over the years, software development remains costly and error-prone.

Test Aims to Disprove Data Center Dogma

A Trinity Health IT engineer keeps systems that reside in a generator shed running, despite fluctuating temperatures and dusty conditions.

Fraudsters find creative ways to abuse e-commerce sites

Silver Tail Systems, a company that specializes in Web security, has seen a raft of creative fraud schemes

Oracle launches NoSQL database

Offers options especially for non-essential data storage

China’s Alibaba sets up fund to back mobile OS

The next version of Alibaba's mobile OS is slated to come out later this year.

Cray to Build 20-Petaflop System

Obama Aims to Stop Federal Data Leaks

New Low-Power Memory Could Challenge DDR3

Got cyber insurance?

Everything you need to know about purchasing insurance that pays out in the event of a data breach

Wi-Fi devices crowd 2.4GHz band; IT looks to 5GHz

Congestion, interference, bogged down users

Microsoft says makers of more than half of all Android devices are now its licensees

Microsoft, Compal sign patent deal covering Android, Chrome

iPhone 5 rumor rollup for the week ending Oct. 21

iPhone 5 scuttlebutt: LTE or die, Facebook iPhone scams, NFC doomed by stupids

Widely used encryption standard is insecure, say experts

XML encryption, used to secure communications between Web services, can be exploited so that sensitive information is decrypted

Mobile growth driving out unlimited data

Sprint and other carriers use caps to rein in use, but they may remove them later

Salesforce.com to ‘unlock’ SAP’s core software for ‘social enterprises’

A new set of services is aimed at marrying Salesforce.com's Force.com platform with SAP's back-end systems

Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus to ship Nov. 13 for $400

Focus is on Peel remote TV app

CIO Role: Is IT Facing a Leadership Crisis?

Google readies Google+ for push into the enterprise

Vic Gundotra says integration imminent but analysts say a lot of work to be done

Hard to fully assess Duqu threat yet, researchers say

Early indications are that fears of Stuxnet follow-on are exaggerated

Uptime Institute kicks off server roundup contest

The data centers that tear out the most servers get free tickets to the next Uptime symposium

Security roundup for Oct. 21: Duqu for you; Google Apps in LA; researching smartphones

Son of Stuxnet sets off Symantec-McAfee back-and-forth

Sprint cutting unlimited 4G data plans

Sprint's monthly data plans for all devices except phones are being capped

Google slips a sneak peak at Gmail redesign

Changes could be getting email service ready for eventual integration with Google+

Wall Street Beat: Tech sales strong in third quarter

But areas of weakness, economic turmoil, create caution among buyers

Steve Jobs ranted, raged against Android as ‘grand theft’

"I will spend my last dying breath...to right this wrong."

Cisco CEO’s pay falls 32%

Cisco CEO John Chambers received compensation valued at $12.9 million in 2011

Forget new threats: It’s the old-school attacks that keep getting you

5 iPad gadgets for geeks