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AMD officials say governments are looking for ways to squeeze more taxes out of software
Claimed it was surprised by Apple-initiated injunction, but actually opposed motion a week earlier, court confirms
Puts an end to sneaky add-ons installed by other software
Computing center says liquid cooling is a stop-gap; changes in chips, software may be needed to deal with power demand
Token-based technologies can reduce PCI compliance burden in some cases
The idea is to make it harder for micreants to organize but raises civil liberty issues, experts say
Acer says it's the first 7-inch tablet to run Honeycomb
The Chinese city of Kunming has been in spotlight for counterfeit Apple stores
LinkedIn will change a feature that uses its members' names and photos in advertisements
The U.S. Defense Department recommended stronger rejection of outside signals, the company says
The new social network rolls out Games page, Angry Birds
'Holy mother of God, here we go again,' said one IT consultant when told of the dispute
College class' online video rates iPhone 4 and a Samsung Focus running Windows Phone 7 as superior to the Android-based HTC Thunderbolt and a RIM BlackBerry Storm
The laptop will be one of the few available with built-in LTE broadband
Telecom groups ask lawmakers to support a proposal to shift funding to broadband deployment
Analysts disagree on consequences for company's IPO
Company claims its offering is more secure than Jack Dorsey's Square
Hewlett-Packard goes meta with a service for managing other IT services
OpenLogic's service will go up against PaaS offerings from Red Hat and VMware
Company responds to blog reports showing discounts of 76% on Nexus switches for university.
Microsoft can't even outsell Bada, Samsung's hobby project.
Enters Microsoft-Motorola patent fray, says Microsoft violated confidentiality agreement
Cameron says ban might inhibit those plotting violence, looting
The company has made several upgrades to its video CAPTCHA system to make it fit better into websites
Facebook password system too simple says security firm Cenzic
New feature highlights relevant favorites, retweets, new followers
Apple and Google continue to dominate, as Nokia, Microsoft and RIM struggle
OpenLogic's service will go up against offerings from Red Hat and VMware
Intel hopes to rejuvenate interest in the PC market with Ultrabooks, which will bridge the gap between tablets and PCs
It plans to unveil the new, faster system at its developer conference in September
On-demand capabilities will compete with Verizon's, AT&T's cloud offerings
This is the first criminal prosecution of a seller of PlayStation 3 jailbreak technology
But Calif. county's district attorney passes on Gizmodo, which paid $5K for the lost smartphone, and former editor Jason Chen
The University of Texas' Brent Waters receives a $200,000 Microsoft fellowship
Vacation pictures on Flickr form visual 3D models
Anderson de Rezende Rocha fights against contrived image and video evidence
A Stanford University researcher wins a Microsoft fellowship for analysis of social networking activity
Microsoft's US$200,000 endowed fellowship goes to the University of Washington's Shwetak Patel
IST Austria's Krishnendu Chatterjee wins an award for his work on systems design
The University of Sydney's Alistair McEwan was elected as one of eight Microsoft Research Faculty Fellows
Microsoft Research Faculty Fellow Nina Balcan connects machine learning and game theory
The US$1.4 million-endowed program is designed to advance the work of future academic leaders
Post-PC era? Microsoft says no
Facebook won't say if, or when, the chat feature might launch
