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Some refer to Turing Award, Marconi Prize, Draper Prize as de facto Nobels
Berners-Lee, Cerf, Kahn are among most decorated technology innovators
The Turing Award, Marconi Prize and National Medal of Technology are among the ways networking, security and other IT innovators get their due
Public key cryptography's Diffie, Hellman and Merkle enter two halls of fame
The rumor mill is in high gear as people speculate about new features in Microsoft's latest version of Windows. Here's a compilation of the latest leaks, rumors and previews.
Microsoft, VMware, Xen and more running in Brocade data centers
Multiple medals winning Cerf would love to see Nobel Prize in Computing
Qualcomm co-founder Irwin Jacobs, late information theorist Jack Wolf honored with Marconi Prize
Windows 7 will top out at a 41% share, less than half XP's peak
The NX-10K may be aimed at enterprises, but it's a 2U box
Formal strategies could set international codes of behavior for cyber war
A Hadoop connector is part of Informatica 9.1
The IBM Intelligent Operations Center will offer a unified view of multiple back-end city government systems
Hacker group LulzSec said it targeted the InfraGard site because of the U.S. decision to treat hacking as an act of war
Florida man allegedly used Facebook, Web mail to target up to 500 women
The service was reported to have been cut on Friday
Details are sparse as the case is still under investigation by Scotland Yard and the FBI
The DOJ is talking to Apple about its interest in Nortel patents, amid antitrust concerns, the Wall Street Journal reports
Peter Alfred-Adekeye sued Cisco for antitrust and last year was arrested for data theft
Kaplan, creator of Flip videocam, starting up sandwich chain
Precise now offers its APM platform in an easy-to-deploy virtual container
Apple and other tech companies should pay their full taxes instead of lobbying for a repatriation break, US Uncut says
Google says U.S. government officials were target of phishing attack
Pakastani hacker group claims it accessed personal data on 40,000 people
After the service outage, PlayStation Network subscribers get as many as four free games
Despite underlying confidence in the sector, the economy may not lift all companies
4G or not 4G, 3 not 1 new phones, iOS tyranny, Googleshock
Newly-named 'MacShield' appears, Apple issues detection update to warn Snow Leopard users
Google talks up some ways companies with large data centers can save money and energy
Most networks in Syria inaccessible from outside, Internet monitoring firm says
Indian based offshore firm HCL wins outsourcing contract from Dex One; 30% of IT staff will be cut, reports say
Analysts try to parse the risk Microsoft's taking by blending touch with the desktop in one OS
Apple's magical tablet resulting in incidents even Steve Jobs couldn't have foreseen
Nearly 5 petabytes of capacity shipped
Apple iOS 5 and iCloud will be unveiled
Groups say plans to give E.U. citizens' data to the U.S. and Australia breaches civil liberties and is a security threat
Hundreds of sites will support World IPv6 Day; some end users will experience delays
PayPal will halt its service on AliExpress in August
TI CEO Rich Templeton says Intel's promises of manufacturing progress won't change ARM's domination
As of Aug. 1, Google Apps won't support older browsers
VMware's vSphere security works but has risks; Cisco, Check Point, others have their own virtual security plans
