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Clients want access to CEOs at Indian outsourcers: report

They attach great importance to their relationships with the heads of Indian outsourcers, according to the report

HTC’s Q1 revenue leaps 174.5 percent

The Taiwanese smartphone maker expects its tablets, and Facebook buttons on phones, to lift income again in Q2

Sony hints at compensation for PlayStation Network hack

However, it's unlikely to involve money as access to the service is free

China’s Huawei files lawsuit aganist rival ZTE

Both Huawei and ZTE are major producers of telecommunications network equipment

Taipei demands answers for Sony, threatens fines

City officials want an explanation on the PlayStation Network outage "from start to finish"

Apple, Google will testify to Senate on location tracking

Franken, Leahy confirm both companies will answer questions about smartphone privacy at May 10 inquiry

HP starts work on $2.5B NASA contract

Government spending slowdown hurts GDP, but IT vendors may do OK

LTE outage irks users, dents Verizon’s reputation

The failure was probably on the back end, analysts believe

How We’re Using SharePoint 2010 to Connect Our People

IT-Business Alignment a Thing of the Past

Why You Should Stop Worrying and Let End Users Have iPads

NY Yankees staffer accidentally e-mails customer list

Data on nearly 18,000 season ticket holders is e-mailed in a customer newsletter

Latest iPad security threat: fake jailbreak code

Luckily it only failed, instead of wrecking downloaders’ PCs

What We’re Reading from the May 1 Issue of CIO Magazine

How to Bring Outsourced Services Back In-House

Yahoo Hadoop spin-off could propel software’s growth

Yahoo's engineering unit would become its own company if Yahoo pursues that option, according to the Wall Street Journal

Cyberthieves loot SMBs, transfer millions to firms in China, FBI warns

More than $11M stolen from 20 businesses in past month

Xoom does better than expected

Motorola said it shipped 250,000 Xoom tablets in the first quarter

Give Middle Managers Better Collaboration Tools

It's not enough to share documents, says Geoffrey Moore, the consultant and expert on technology adoption.

Making Enterprise Architecture Matter

CRM On A Smartphone

Three Creative Ways to Add Talent to Your Team

Researchers use disk frag to hide data

Data is hidden in plain sight as fragmented pieces

PlayBook tablet sales surpass Best Buy’s expectations

Meanwhile, Sprint opts to sell Xoom Wi-Fi tablet instead

5 Things You Need to Know About Videoconferencing

Microsoft quarter rescued by Microsoft Office

Mass. General Hospital revamps video gear; bolsters telemedicine program

Vidyo equipment promises to support expansion of telemedicine services

Yahoo email suffers partial outage

Yahoo confirms on Twitter that some users were without email Thursday

PlayStation hacker: Sony has only itself to blame for breach

Sony worried about the wrong type of hackers, said George Hotz, the man who jailbroke the PlayStation

The Sony PlayStation breach notification letter that broke 77 million hearts

The Sony PlayStation Network data breach notification letter offers little consolation for what might happen to your data

Lawsuit: Trial version of CAD software includes spyware

The software company demanded payment months after the customer deleted the trial version, the complaint alleges

Royal wedding could be royal pain for IT

Workers sneaking a peek at prince's nuptials could cripple company networks

White iPhone 4 flies off shelves in China

Apple's online store shows three-to-five day delay in shipping for new model

Microsoft issues $25 price hike for certification exams

Microsoft certification exam price to rise from $125 to $150 on July 1.

Cloud computing providers: Clueless about security?

Survey of 127 cloud-computing service providers reveals deep apathy for security

Apple fourth-largest PC vendor with iPad, Canalys says

Canalys says Apple's computer shipments grew year over year by 187.9 percent in Q1 when accounting for the iPad

Microsoft fixes Office flaws found in Patch Tuesday updates

'Someone should get slapped...for this crap,' fumes user

Programmer-turned-astronaut to lift off on NASA’s Endeavour

Astronaut Gregory Chamitoff to control robots, make 2 spacewalks in 15-day mission

Intel said set to ship five new SSDs, hybrid drive

Reports indicate some of the new solid state drives will be Intel's fastest to date

5 Virtualization Management Tips to Live By

Attachmate boss on Novell buyout: Great brands, little overlap

Software company CEO calls deal "a milestone" for Attachmate and the industry

iPads run amok: Does your company need a tablet policy?

With tablet mania in full swing, should IT take charge, back off or strike a middle course in trying to control the gadget?

Suit charges Sony breach caused by poor security

Complaint contends Sony failed to implement proper firewalls, encrypt sensitive data on Sony PlayStation Network

Amazon outage a valuable lesson in cloud security

Apple ‘dropped the ball’ on iPhone location tracking issue, says expert

Crisis communications pro blasts Apple for taking too long to explain tracking

Apple reportedly buys iCloud.com domain for $4.5 million

Rumored sale hints at upcoming cloud music service.

Verizon restores LTE data network after outage

Delays sale of second LTE phone, the Droid Charge

Apple testing iOS 5 with third-party apps

Crash report reveals Apple devices running next major iOS update

Sprint still losing money despite adding 1.1M customers

Sprint postpaid subscriptions still falling despite surge in prepaid numbers

Delay announcing Sony PlayStation Network breach may be linked to criminal investigation

'Network was designed with performance concepts in mind and not security concepts,' one expert suggests