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IBM launches new services model for municipal planners

The city of Portland finishes the pilot project of "System Dynamics for Smarter Cities"

Cloud Computing: 4 Tips for Regulatory Compliance

Desktop Search: Free and Paid Apps for Finding Your Data

Is The Internet Addictive?

R.I.P. Old Twitter; New Twitter takes over

After nearly a year, old version is gone

Online spending in U.S. gains momentum, says report

Study shows online shopping accounts for 10% of discretionary spending

Facebook use linked to teen psych disorders

Early study results show correlation between social network's use and narcissism, aggression

VMware preparing data loss prevention features for vShield

VMware's vShield looks to better protect sensitive virtualized data

IBM, NCSA abandon petascale supercomputer project

IBM pulls out of a contract to build a petascale supercomputer for the United States

AMD sitting out smartphone market

AMD has no immediate plans to enter the smartphone market and will focus on tablets, smartphones and PCs for growth

Lawsuit aimed at Apple’s Mac OS may be Android battle by proxy, says expert

Disputed patent once owned by Android smartphone and tablet maker LG Electronics

Google accuses Oracle of delay tactics in Android suit

Oracle has yet to produce Sun.com web pages and Java source code, Google says

Verizon strike signals shift in telecom business

Verizon's wireline workers strike as the company focuses on more profitable products

Syrian hackers retaliate, deface Anonymous’ social network

Counters Anonymous' earlier sabotage of nation's Ministry of Defense site

Clearwire’s LTE plan faces high hurdles

In addition to funding woes, Clearwire faces technical and market challenges

Apple unveils $999 iMac for colleges

21.5-in. system sports dual-core processor, 2GB RAM

Google, Oracle still battling over Android e-mail

Google insists the e-mail from engineer Tim Lindholm is protected under attorney-client privilege

Clearwire’s LTE push highlights growing momentum

More operator launches will result in lower prices and more competition on network equipment

The Grill: Barbara Koster

Top 8 ways feds (and corporate users) can take advantage of green IT

GAO report outlines key federal green IT initiatives

Talent wars: Are your IT staffers being poached?

Make mine modular: The rise of prefab data centers

Defcon: The lesson of Anonymous? Corporate security sucks

Experts say top execs pay attention to Anonymous for the wrong reasons

Career Watch: Help needed for help desks

Drug Maker Fixes Supply Chain With Social Tools

Ratiopharm Canada and its new parent company see improvements in service levels and manufacturing cycle times.

Cloud Fears Are Overblown, Says U.S. CIO

Kundra contends that security concerns are exaggerated in part to discourage competition.

Defcon: The security penetration testing quagmire

How corporate security flaws are handled raises lots of questions

Lightning strike in Dublin downs Amazon, Microsoft clouds

The incident took a turn for the worse when some backup generators didn't start as planned

4 reasons Windows Phone 7 will beat iPhone and Android

And three reasons it won't

Cyber-espionage attacks threaten corporate data in new unrelenting ways

IT should rethink security in wake of advanced persistent attacks

India wants special monitoring access for Twitter, Facebook

The demand to monitor Twitter and Facebook follows similar requests for access to other online services

Start-up to release ‘stone-like’ optical disc that lasts forever

New optical disc aims for consumer market first, then corporate archives

Healthcare IT Consumers Fear Data Loss From EHR Systems

Subway Picks Cloud Software for Usability

Shoppers Prefer ‘Tablet Commerce’

Black Hat: Apple does well but Microsoft does better with enterprise security

OSX is getting better, but has a way to go, security researchers say

Microsoft: We make more money on cloud-based Exchange than legacy email

Per-user income greater in cloud, or so Microsoft claims

Build your own camera, launch it like a grenade

At Defcon, hackers show how to make cool toys just like the military's

AntiSec hackers dump data after hacking police websites

10 gigabytes of law enforcment data is dumped after an online marketing firm used by rural Sheriff's is hacked

Three tips for a better Anonymous

Security experts offer advice for how the hacker group can grow up

Try a Little Socrates

Beyond having the answers, finance and other leaders benefit from asking the right questions, says Harvard's Rob Kaplan.

CalTech, UCSD bring photonics to silicon

A newly fabricated waveguide could prove to be an instrumental component in tomorrow's super-speedy optical networks

Oracle asks court to force Motorola to testify

Oracle says Motorola has been stonewalling its requests for information about its Android implementation

Security rundown for week ending Aug. 5, 2011

A week of scary network threats from Black Hat, McAfee's Rat Report and more on RSA data breach

Cisco nabs Juniper sales execs

Back and forth continues between router/switch rivals Cisco and Juniper

Black Hat: Researcher picks apart Sophos antivirus package

Sophos says it discussed researcher's work and is making some changes

Malware turns off Windows’ UAC, warns Microsoft

Urges users to check that the regularly-belittled prompt is really on

Contest shines light on broadband providers’ tactics

The FCC awarded three teams for work that will help users see what they are actually getting in their broadband service

NASA launches Juno on 5-year journey to Jupiter

Probe will look under Jupiter's clouds in a search for clues about the birth of the solar system

Industrial controllers need security rewrite