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Healthcare will take up nearly 20% of the US economy by 2019

Consumers will spend billions on health-related video games and mobile health apps, says PricewaterhouseCoopers

How the Apple iCloud compares to Google’s cloud

One takes an app-based approach, the other is Web-based

Penn. school district hit with new Mac spying lawsuit

After settling with another student for $175,000 last year, Lower Merion says new suit 'solely motivated by monetary interests'

Facebook Privacy: How to Block Facial Recognition

Copyright advocates slam ISPs for not stopping piracy

EU Commissioner vows to improve copyright laws

As iPad sales boom, Gartner downgrades PC forecast

PC sales still growing, but not as fast as expected

IPv6 traffic surges at launch of World IPv6 Day

Early data shows doubling of IPv6 traffic, although 'not a super dramatic increase'

Rovio readies cookbook, new games, China push

The company doesn't see an end to the Angry Birds phenomenon

Industry upbeat about IPv6 Day despite low traffic volume

Internet 2.0 tried out for a day

New Cisco edge routers optimized for IPv6 traffic

ASR 9922 and 9000v aimed at distributing Ethernet-based video, mobility and cloud services

Verizon confirms sales of its Galaxy S II ‘superphone’ start in July

Other major carriers are also expected to have the hottest new smartphone, made by Samsung

Four Ways the Red Sox are Scoring with SharePoint

EU Parliament votes for contract for online sales

New law would also ease online traders' costs

White-box tablets gaining share as iPad alternatives

Price-sensitive buyers opting more for iPad knockoffs

Microsoft pursues botnet herders via Russian newspapers

The advertisements are a legal formality required by the U.S. for its ongoing Rustock botnet lawsuit

Google adds download defense to Chrome, patches 15 bugs

Updates browser to version 12 as it boosts anti-malware protection

Apple plans new ‘spaceship’-like campus

Apple wants to put up a single, circular building to house 12,000 employees on a new campus in Cupertino

Google redirects Kazakh search traffic

Google is rerouting searches from Kazakhstan after authorities there enforced a rule that .kz domains be hosted locally

Twitter rolls out automatic URL shortening

The microblog is rolling out the service to a few users to start with

Taiwan’s ITRI develops e-paper technology

The research institute plans to commercialize the e-paper technology in two years

Google discusses search rankings, blocks

Google's Matt Cutts also said more updates to the so-called Panda algorithm are coming

World IPv6 Day: Tech industry’s most-watched event since Y2K

400 websites are participating in 24-hour trial of IPv6, despite worries about timeouts and hacker attacks

A decade later, W3C finalizes CSS 2.1

Next-gen marketing combines local, social and mobile

Speakers at the SMX conference in Seattle talked about the newest tools and tactics for online marketing

HP sets $2B in financing to speed cloud adoption

Along with financing, HP details its hybrid cloud strategy and ability to 'burst' to providers

Judge rules against trial in lawsuit by victim of $588K cyber heist

Patco alleged that Ocean Bank did not do enough to stop illegal transfers from its account

10 things to know about the move to IPv6

The depletion of IPv4 addresses is turning the spotlight to the Internet's numbering system

Apple offers preview of iCloud music feature

With iTunes 10.3 beta and iOS 4.3.3, users can download purchased tracks to multiple devices

Twitter’s importance to SEO seen as growing

Speaking at SMX in Seattle, SEO experts talked about ways they've successfully used Twitter

Facebook raring to give IPv6 a test flight

Network engineers worked for months to get ready for World IPv6 Day

How to upgrade to OS X Lion

Mac OS X 10.7's coming in July; Here's what we know so far about the upgrade path

Ask the boss: A COO’s perspective on ERM

Risk’s rewards: Organizational models for ERM

Can’t reach your favorite site? IPv6 may be to blame

Some will see delays reaching Facebook, Google, Yahoo, others during World IPv6 Day

Apple Copies BlackBerry With BBM-Style iMessage App

Dell offers gateway storage appliance

Dell's new appliance combines SAN and NAS

Virtualized environments painfully insecure?

Major damages sought in Oracle-Google patent dispute

Rewrite of Android virtual machine, affecting thousand of developers, also at stake

Why Your IT Department Needs Data Scientists

Riverbed releases WAN cloud storage gateway appliances

The gateways deliver 12:1 data compression and are targeted at data back-ups to the cloud

iCloud and iOS 5: New challenges for the enterprise

VMware CEO: What we plan for the post-PC era

VMware's CEO sees virtualization as one piece of the platform VMware intends to offer a mobile, cloud-enabled world

Four indicted in $1.5M ATM skimming operation

Prosecutors allege members of the group actually entered bank branches to modify card readers and steal data

Turn IT pros into ‘Compassionate Geeks’

A new book focuses on IT support services but offers lessons for techies' career development

Data center group issues cloud usage guidelines

Open Data Center Alliance releases documents on cloud computing recommendations

Oracle seeks hefty slice of Google’s ad revenue

Oracle wants ad revenue generated via searches on Android mobile devices, according to a court filing

LTE outperforms 42M bps HSPA+ on streets of Stockholm

But HSPA+ still impresses with download speeds at over 20M bps

Phishing still rules, because we’re still gullible

U.S., Chinese, EU firms push cloud standards

Open Data Center Alliance, with 280 members, claims to represent $100 billion in IT spending power

Free antivirus programs rise in popularity, new survey shows

Microsoft share of antivirus market grows, says Opswat survey