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Linux development to get high availability push

The Linux Foundation has started the High Availability Working Group to speed Linux enterprise features

Feds prep for eGov shutdown

White House: 'Most websites will not continue' during federal shutdown

TEAC announces 24nm NAND flash chip

New chips aimed at media players, tablet PCs, digital TVs and set-top boxes

Lawmakers question if search engines contribute to piracy

Members of a House subcommittee look for ways to shut down 'parasite' piracy sites

Windows servers hacked at The Hartford insurance company

The company notified about 300 employees, contractors and some customers of the breach

Google reportedly to overhaul YouTube

Video Web site to add 'premium channels' as it takes on age of Internet-connected TVs

Most NFC mobile wallet talk is ‘half-baked,’ analyst says

Retailers have to accept NFC for mobile payment services to move forward

U.S. can conduct offsite searches of computers seized at borders, court rules

Appeals Court judge reaffirms government's authority to conduct warrantless searches of digital devices along U.S. borders

10,000-core Linux supercomputer built in Amazon cloud

Cycle Computing builds cloud-based supercomputing cluster to boost scientific research.

Cloud Computing Standards: Too Many, Doing Too Little

Sony’s ‘in for a hell of a wake-up call,’ Anonymous says

Hacker group digs in to avenge PlayStation3 jailbreakers with layers of attacking botnets

Cloud CIO: 5 Key Pieces of Rollout Advice

Microsoft blames Apple for Outlook 2011 sync snafu

Changes to MobileMe mean that next week's Office 2011 SP1 won't sync calendars with Apple's service

Others drawn into Oracle, Rimini Street legal fray

Oracle and Rimini Street have subpoenaed third-party software maintenance providers CedarCrestone, Spinnaker and netCustomer

Root Android app shows coverage maps

Users can view a map that displays the coverage of their operator based on data collected by Root and other app users

Senators: E-surveillance law needs to be updated

Democrats say it's time to rewrite a 25-year-old law governing law enforcement access to electronic data

How to Network: 5 Tips for Maximizing Your Meetings

Google found guilty of defamation in Italy

The search engine giant's Autocomplete service linked a businessman with the words "fraud" and "fraudster"

iPhone-iPad App Spotlight: The Masters Golf Tournament

Canonical commits to netbooks over tablets for Ubuntu

The company has not yet built a tablet-specific edition of the Linux-based Ubuntu distribution

Do utility companies slight IT security?

Ponemon study suggests physical security gets way more money than IT security at many energy companies

Developer yanks unauthorized Windows Phone 7 update tool

Officially, Microsoft remains mum, but one of its German employees warns that future updates may be blocked

Screen queens: 7 dual-screen devices you can buy now (or hopefully soon)

Xiotech plans to integrate storage management on blades

The new ISE storage blade for SMBs will integrate some controller functions on it

Outsourcing in Latin America: What A Vendor Won’t Tell You

Yahoo unhappy over Italian court’s ruling on search

The court has ordered Yahoo to remove links to a pirated Iranian movie

.Net development moves to Android

TiVo virtualization project speeds insight into TV viewers

Database provisioning that took hours or days at TiVo, now take minutes

Tax prep maker warns customers of Epsilon email hack impact

Intuit customers addresses not part of the hacker haul, but TurboTax maker alerts users anyway

Nimsoft merges monitoring and service management

Unified Manager features IT service management as SaaS, on-premises or a combo

Mobile payment pilot coming to Salt Lake in 2012

Fine, analysts say, but will the credit card companies and banks all get along?

Robots, ‘now among us,’ hit Smithsonian

With one million robots in use, museum introduces collection ranging from R2-D2 to Marv, one of the smallest in the world

Pickup in lens orders points to more tablets with cameras

Cameras are expected to become more common on tablet PCs this year

More foreign brands use China’s Taobao for e-commerce

Piracy continues to be a problem on Taobao, according to one foreign company that sells on the site

Satyam will pay US$10M to settle US fraud charges

The company is aiming at relisting on the New York Stock Exchange

Selenium test suite to add mobile apps

RSA detailing SecurID hack to customers sworn to secrecy

Some customers hesitant to sign nondisclosure agreements

How to Ace a CIO Job Interview

Policy-based security and access control

SUNY Old Westbury's CIO talks about the school's policy-based approach to securing the network and controlling bandwidth use

FAQ: Epsilon email breach

While names and emails were exposed, it could have been worse

New servers feature Intel’s 10-core Xeon E7 processors

Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Cray announce new servers with Intel's new 10-core E7 family of chips

Intel CEO’s pay package climbs 7% to $15.7 million

Biggest boost to Intel CEO Paul Otellini's pay came from a $6.8 million bonus

Verizon simulates disaster near operations center

The company's mobile command center restores communications to affected building

AMD closes in on Intel with move to 32nm chips

With its 'Llano' processors, AMD hopes to gain on rival Intel

Microsoft researchers: NoSQL needs standardization

Verizon to pay Uncle Sam $93.5M in overcharge dispute

Settles allegations of surcharges that violated federal contracts

Judge tosses $625.5M patent judgment against Apple

Vacates 2010 jury verdict, says Mirror Worlds failed to prove patent violation

Gen Y vs. Gen X: Who Causes More IT Headaches?

Lawson rolling out analytics app for health care

The new software will give hospitals insights into staffing and financial information

Vatican publication rehabilitates hackers

A Jesuit author lauds hackers' philosophy of creativity and sharing and praises Wikipedia