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Nvidia Appoints New CTO to Boost High-Performance Business

Nvidia hires former Cray CTO Steve Scott to drive the company's HPC strategy

Apple’s Device Dominance Drives E-Book Price-Fixing Lawsuit

A new class-action lawsuit accuses Apple of conspiring with publishers to raise e-book prices

Cisco Profit Fell One-Third in Q4

Cisco's sales rose slightly but net income dropped from a year earlier

Google+ Set to Become Second Only to Facebook

Study: Google+ to surpass Twitter, LinkedIn within year, looms on Facebook

Microsoft Patches Final Pwn2Own IE Bug

Quashed vulnerability that let researcher bypass browser's sandbox, win $15K in March

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Customer Accuses Infor of Betrayal in Software Lawsuit

Paragon Medical claims that it was sold 'virtually useless' software

Clearwire’s new CEO faces big challenges in the LTE race

Clearwire needs new financing, new network infrastructure and new customers

Google Apps Catapult BI-LO Supermarkets to the Cloud

Amazon Launches Free Kindle Cloud Reader App for Web Browsers

Safari and Chrome initially supported for instant book reading; others coming

Mozilla Shrinks Firefox’s Memory Appetite By 20%-30%

Firefox 7 will be faster, less likely to crash than predecessors, claims developer

Mayors Voice Support for AT&T Deal with T-Mobile

The acquisition will bring mobile broadband benefits to more U.S. communities, supporters say

Adtran buys Wi-Fi vendor Bluesocket

Targets enterprise with "virtualized" WLAN

When a Cloud Service Vanishes: How to Protect Your Data

Anonymous Allegedly Threatens to ‘kill’ Facebook

The loose-knit hacking collective says the social networking site will be targeted on Nov. 5

Wall Street: Software More Valuable Than Oil

Tech industry wary of for another downturn, as Apple changes market

Baidu Shuts Down Twitter-Like Service

Baidu retreats from China's booming microblogging market

Booz Allen CEO Downplays Effect of Anonymous Hack

"This is really not a group of kids out there that are playing video games," CEO says of Anonymous

Google Engineer, Adobe Squabble Over Flash Bug Credit

Adobe says it patched 13 flaws in Tuesday's Flash Player update; Google's researcher claims he reported 'around 400'

Windows 7 Migrations: Don’t Get Distracted by XP, Windows 8

German court’s ruling may pose long-term concerns over Android

One expert argues Google needs to close-source Android

From Microsoft to Google Apps: Why We Migrated

Defcon: VoIP makes a good platform for controlling botnets

Botmasters can run zombies from payphones and BlackBerries, researchers demonstrate

Using Renewable Energy in the Data Center

Microsoft patches 1990s-era ‘Ping of Death’

Also plugs critical holes in IE9, Windows' DNS service in 22-fix collection

Microsoft’s BlueHat goal: Kill bugs dead

FCC officials: We won’t let LightSquared hurt GPS

But the agency also doesn't want to lose the LightSquared spectrum for mobile broadband, officials say

VMware Licensing Change Opens Doors for Competing Providers

Evaluating Cloud Vendors: The Ecosystem Matters

3 technology trends your company can’t ignore

You can't just focus on the changes that are happening today

Google’s self-driving car in accident; user error blamed

Autonomous car was in manual mode when the incident occurred

Verizon makes its satellite dishes available as standard service

Used primarily after disasters, the service can also support IPTV streaming from events

Visa to make it easier for merchants to adopt chip-based card payments

Incentive program could bolster future smartphone-based payments

Windows 7 to crack 40% share by year’s end

But likely destined to be last Microsoft OS that sees large-scale deployment, says Gartner

Microsoft adds Hadoop support to SQL Server, data warehouse

Connectors that tie Hadoop to Microsoft's data warehousing stack will be available soon

Amazon struggles to restore lost data to European cloud customers

Developers vent frustration on Amazon support forum

6 tools that help businesses tame Twitter

Apple issues Lion disk disaster recovery tool

The tool creates a physical recovery disk on USB flash or external drives

Skytap automates cloud deployments

Adds software features to ease replication of in-house environments for the cloud

HotLink aims to ease managing mixed virtual environments

Its SuperVISOR for VMware integrates natively with vCenter to manage multiple hypervisors

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Londoners take to social media outlets during the riots

Web-based applications are playing a role in how the riots will be investigated

Agile Manifesto writers reunite to celebrate and agitate for agile

Lenovo to release new Le tablet and smartphone in Q3

Lenovo is aiming at a 20 percent share of the Chinese tablet market

Sony London optical disc warehouse destroyed in fire

The fire will almost certainly have an impact on supply of Sony entertainment products in the U.K. and Ireland