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Consumers remain wary of personal health records

Adoption rates to remain 'modest' over the next one to three years, IDC says

Feds to use IT buying power to push green

With $80B IT budget, U.S. gov't will use its Wal-Mart-like clout to accelerate green IT practices

Obama’s Facebook town hall a sign of times to come

Social networks like Facebook and Twitter expected to play big role in 2012 elections

German software maker Ashampoo warns of malware after hack

Customers could be hit with malicious pdf files, following the breach

Ubuntu Server geared for future clouds

The server edition of Ubuntu 11.04, "Natty Narwhal," gets an updated set of cloud support tools

Oracle-Google case could be decided by November

The judge hearing Oracle's lawsuit against Google said he'd like to get the case wrapped up quickly

Cisco accused of orchestrating engineer’s arrest

The arrest of Peter Alfred-Adekeye was retaliation for a lawsuit, his company claimed

Apple breaks iPhone sales record again

But iPad 2 suffering from 'mother of all backlogs,' says exec

Microsoft’s hosted apps earn federal certification

This week, Microsoft's BPOS-Federal hosted service earned FISMA certification

Texas fires two tech chiefs over breach

Data of 3.2M people was inadvertently posted on a publicly accessible website

IBM to support Windows servers on mainframes

Windows servers will integrate with zEnterprise mainframe

Intel smartphone ambitions stunted by Nokia withdrawal

Intel CEO Paul Otellini says Nokia's withdrawal hurt possible volume shipments of smartphone chips.

Phishing emerges as major corporate security threat

Break-ins at Oak Ridge, RSA, others show that the 'low-tech' phishing attacks can have bad consequences

PlayBook gets subdued retail launch

RIM focusing first on corporate sales, analyst says

Kindle books to be loaned from libraries later this year

Can be read on Kindle or devices with Kindle reader

iPhone 5 delayed until September, says report

Reuters cites supply chain sources; analyst says Apple wants more on hand to meet higher demand

PlayBook teardown reveals it is easier to repair than iPad 2

Oracle goes after Workday, SuccessFactors with Fusion HCM

In a webcast, executives hint at a big SaaS focus for Fusion Applications

BlackBerry PlayBook tablet — released before it was ready?

Two Open-Source Cloud Standards: What It Means to You

On-premises BlackBerry servers won’t connect to Microsoft’s Office 365 at launch

RIM's cloud-based service will enter beta when Office 365 launches

AT&T net income spikes on mobile customer gains

The company reports strong gains in wireless revenue and subscribers

iPhones secretly stashing history of your location

SQLite file usually stored in clear on iPhone smartphone and Mac

Web service guards SMBs against smartphone expense gotchas

Portal plus smartphone app tracks current phone usage

iPhone secretly tracks user location, say researchers

iOS 4 logs up to 100 locations daily in unencrypted file on iPhone, iPad and syncing computers

What the robots saw: Inside Fukushima nuclear power plant

A pair of iRobot Packbots send back images from inside the reactor buildings

22 free tools for data visualization and analysis

Got data? These useful tools can turn it into informative, engaging graphics.

AT&T racks up iPhone activations despite Verizon competition

Despite increased competition from Verizon, AT&T activates even more iPhones.

FTC calls out Google’s Chrome over Do Not Track

Google will have to decide whether to support privacy feature once it hits WebKit, says expert

Cisco going to NSS Labs to sort out alleged firewall issues

Cisco couldn't duplicate NSS Labs results for TCP Split Handshake; NSS Labs stands by its findings.

Gartner: BI, analytics software spending jumps 13.4%

A rebounding economy, user demand and aggressive vendor marketing drove the numbers

Popular kids clothing retailer hit with database breach

iPhone App Spotlight: Chaikin Power Tools for Stock Traders

Microsoft Lync 2010: Unified communications comes of age

DOJ limits Microsoft’s purchase of Novell patents

Novell and CPTN agree to change a deal for the Microsoft-organized consortium to buy Novell patents

Fedora dons the new Gnome

Botnet takedown sets legal, not technical, precedent

Meet the fastest public-key algorithm few have even heard of

NTRUEncryption gains X9 acceptance, but is it finally ready for prime time?

Offshore IT and BPO services subsidiaries still popular

Companies prefer to set up subsidiaries for better control and innovation

New NetBeans offers Java 7

China Mobile will help Alcatel build next-gen base stations

China Mobile's extensive use of fiber makes it a good fit for Alcatel-Lucent's lightRadio concept

Another key Republican calls for H-1B cap hike

Meanwhile, President Obama holds meeting on immigration reform

China’s outsourcers poised for growth

China's position in market is similar to where India was 10 years ago

Mobile development 101: What you need to know

Samsung challenging Intel for market leadership

Tablets like Apple's popular iPad are giving Samsung momentum in the chip, memory markets

Former engineer who sued Cisco now faces criminal charges

After suing Cisco for access to its SMARTnet service Peter Alfred-Adekeye faces extradition to the US on hacking charges

Quake triggered big drop in Japan’s IT exports last month

Closed factories and distribution problems

Linux patent protection network gets boost from Facebook, HP

Open Invention Network builds patent portfolio to prevent Linux suits

First White Spaces access point gives grandma the Internet

Just don’t call it "Super Wi-Fi"

Change.org victim of DDoS attack from China

Change.org believes the attack is connected to its online call urging the Chinese government to release a famous artist