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Post-riot, UK government halts talk of social media shutdown

The UK government does not appear to support shutting down social networks in times of crisis

What’s next for Apple?

Apple's product pipeline and management will likely make the company successful in the short term

The other big resignation: Slashdot creator “CmdrTaco” steps down

One day after Steve Jobs resigns CEO job, founder of popular tech news site Slashdot moves on

AMD hires ex-Lenovo exec Rory Read as new CEO

AMD hopes Read will take the company into new markets

Steve Jobs’ resignation ‘end of an era’

But product pipeline stocked for at least two, maybe three years, say analysts

New tools driving big data analytics, survey finds

As tech issues are overcome, big data has becomes a vital business asset, says TDWI report

Researchers see improvements in breakaway Zeus malware

A combination of the Zeus and SpyEye banking malware programs is taking shape, researchers say

Nokia launches cheapest dual-SIM phone yet

The €25 Nokia 101 supports up to five SIM cards and has a music player with an integrated speaker

Google+, Facebook duel is big boon for users

Users get more features, better privacy as social rivals duke it out

EnterpriseDB adding new cloud option for PostgreSQL database

A high-availability version of the open-source database will be available on Amazon EC2

Groupon’s struggle in China no surprise, say analysts

Groupon's venture in China is laying off hundreds of employees across more than 10 cities

RIM starts trial of music service, launching later this year

The service will allows users to cache songs on their phones for offline listening

Steve Jobs: “I hereby resign as CEO of Apple”

Industry watchers high on successor Cook, but wonder how Apple will change without Jobs in charge

Citrix personalizes, extends virtual desktops

Citrix XenDesktop 5.5 features desktop personalization and wide area network access

‘Operations guy’ Tim Cook gets chance to shine at Apple

The COO will get to test his mettle running one of the world's most successful technology companies

Steve Jobs at Apple: A timeline

As Hurricane Irene nears, Americans turn to social networks

American Red Cross says social sites 'integral' to disaster response

Apple CEO Steve Jobs resigns

The surprise announcement came Wednesday afternoon

MongoDB co-author: Enterprises to start adding NoSQL

Experts positive on Facebook’s new privacy controls

The upcoming changes are long overdue, they say

MIT researchers craft defense against wireless man-in-middle attacks

Protocol can detect message tampering essential to these exploits

EHR use by doctors will foster personal health record uptake

Tech companies looking to sell consumer IT products need to build off current technologies instead of creating devices

‘NewSQL’ could combine the best of SQL and NoSQL

A database pioneer argues the best of SQL and NoSQL could be combined in database systems

Apache warns Web server admins of DoS attack tool

'Apache Killer' circulates in the wild, say project devs, who promise a patch in 48 hours

Tight supplies push up prices of 13-in. MacBook Air

eBay sellers price the popular notebook as much as $335 above list

Mobile broadband expansion means jobs growth, experts say

Industry group says telecom industry doing its part to boost employment

How Writing a Book Can Boost Your IT Career and Your Income

Hackers could reverse-engineer Microsoft patches to create DoS attacks

Proof-of-concept shows how to exploit Microsoft vulnerability, Qualys says

Iomega releases new 12-bay NAS array

Fully configured new StorCenter array with 36TB of capacity is priced at around $10,500

iPad will reign supreme through 2013

Apple solves supply issues, makes hay on rivals' stumbles, says analyst

Facebook, Twitter boom despite Google+ challenge

Report shows strong growth for social nets, especially Tumblr and LinkedIn

3 reasons why the iPhone won’t help Sprint very much

Sprint still must confront AT&T-T-Mobile deal, need to convert to LTE, and win new customers

Dutch court slams brakes on Samsung Android phone sales in Europe

Analyst Mueller calls it 'first enforceable software patent court decision worldwide against Android devices'

myBART hack by Anonymous could have been worse

The website for several years issued randomly generated passwords, which were unlikely to be resued

Dutch court bans Samsung Galaxy S, SII and Ace in Europe starting Oct. 15

But judge says issue can be resolved if Samsung updates its phones with Android 3.x software used on tablets

India exempts outsourcers from new privacy rules

Foreign companies sending data to India will also not be covered under the rules

Nokia looks to attract users with new Symbian phones

With good specs, an upgraded user experience and affordable prices, Nokia hopes to give Symbian sales a boost

VMware launches a developer edition for cloud service

VMware has packaged a developer edition of it Cloud Foundry stack to run on a single computer

Twitter turns on SSL encryption for some users

The mandatory use of SSL encryption will thwart account hijacking over unencrypted wireless networks

Aging East Coast infrastructure a concern after quake

Some gas lines in New York City date back to the Civil War

Lawsuit accuses comScore of extensive privacy violations

Online tracking firm surreptitiously siphons personal data, changes security settings on computers, suit alleges

Eucalyptus gets high-availability protection

Version 3.0 of the Eucalyptus cloud platform will be the first to feature high-availability functionality

Top Chinese official warns Sina’s Twitter-like service

Sina Weibo, a social networking platform, has 200 million registered users

IBM shines in strong Q2 server market

HP and IBM have been trading places at the top over the past several quarters

Dish Network hopes to build LTE cellular network

It filed for permission to do so with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission

A TouchPad for $49? Maybe if you’re Rick Astley

A $49 TouchPad site offers a lesson in social engineering -- and Rickrolling

Data centers largely unaffected by East Coast quake

The earthquake was the biggest to hit Virginia in more than a century, according to the US Geological Survey

Google feels the pain of users who can’t get on Google+

Google is working hard to get the site ready for application developers, enterprise users, minors and corporate marketers

Mozilla’s WebAPI eyes cross-platform mobile apps

Project would allow developers to build web-based app interfaces accessible from any HTML5 smartphone or tablet

Sprint to sell new BlackBerry Curve 9350 starting Sept. 9

Sprint will sell the 9350 for $80, after rebate