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More than 200 U.S. TV stations would shut down under a plan to auction spectrum to mobile carriers, the NAB says
Cyber criminals are taking over mobile devices by using many of the psychological tricks used to con people online.
Two closed in Kunming, but three that use Apple logo remain open
Says customers could win $10,000 payments in arbitration wins
IT security can be a thankless task no doubt and mistakes only magnify problems
Google is closing Google+ accounts if it believes people aren't using their real names
The focus is on scalability, flexibility and performance
The new Profile Manager is a nice addition, but in almost every other respect, Lion Server is a downgrade
The BlackBerry maker will lay off 2,000 of its 19,000 staff as part of a cost-reduction program
For these companies, employee volunteerism means improved collaboration and productivity on the job
No word when, or if, Microsoft will support new Lion features, like Auto Save and Versions
Pharmaceutical company uses social collaboration to get everyone communicating
Senate to take its own look next week at skills-based immigration
Thanks to a 200-employee company based in Moscow, Russia is gaining attention in high-performance computing
IBM has demonstrated a high-speed storage system that uses solid-state memory and a parallel file system
Broken apps, Wi-Fi problems and iOS-like features plague some users
Tablets aren't PC replacements, but complementary devices, AMD and Intel executives claim
May update Firefox 3.6 next month to give users a way to migrate bookmarks
Security Manager's Journal: Newly purchased security products aren't going to deploy themselves.
Adobe lists more than a dozen products affected by new Apple OS
Business All-in-One partners can now resell SAP's Sybase mobility software
Now says Flash is hardware accelerated in Mac OS X 10.7
Weaknesses remain in the consumer market, as some vendors post record results
Google+ chief Vic Gundotra says the company "screwed up" by not anticipating the demand
No NFC, September is the The Month, next iPhone will be iPhone 3GS
The company added 2.2 million mobile subscribers during the second quarter
The newly released Linux kernel features improved support for Xen and BTRFS file system, as well as a new versioning scheme
Oracle may depose Page on negotiations between Sun and Google for a Java license
Judge Alsup, in a feisty mood, picked holes in both Oracle's and Google's arguments
The new smartphone has a button to access Twitter-like services from Chinese firm Sina
Nothing law enforcement can do to stop us, groups say in statement following this week's arrests
Mac OS X 10.7 selling faster than any previous upgrade, Apple says
As shuttle fleet retires, agency looking to future of robots in space
Legislation and regulation move too slowly to deal with Internet privacy issues, a Commerce lawyer said
Sci-fi series 'H+' shows 'dark and vicious' side of technology when virus strikes, kills billions
AMD's second-quarter revenue declined by 5 percent year over year
Rackspace/NASA cloud project one year old this week
Zurich Insurance wants court to declare it has no obligation to cover Sony claims
Microsoft's business software sales and service eclipses sales of Windows for the first time
The acquisition of the startup should help the new social networking site