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IT companies lead the field in e-procurement take-up in EU

Only 5 percent of procurement in the EU is processed electronically

SAP challenging $1.3B jury award in Oracle trial

SAP wants the award lowered, and also asked for a new trial

The 6 biggest misconceptions about IPv6

Debunking myths that keep CIOs from adopting next-gen Internet addressing scheme

British judge approves WikiLeaks’ Assange extradition

But Julian Assange said he will appeal the ruling

Intel dominates as Q4 chip shipments slip

Mobile pushes 2010 into 17% growth but shipments stagger in Q4

Iran claims two new supercomputers

After Stuxnet attacks damaged its computer systems, Iran tries for IT comeback via supercomputing

Retro browser war: IE6 vs. Netscape in 2011

IE6 beat Netscape in 2001 and can still surf the Web in 2011.

China’s Baidu accused of search bias in monopoly complaint

Baidu is being accused of blocking and degrading search results for articles of a Chinese Wikipedia-like site

MSI to release three 10.1-inch touchscreen tablets in June

One will use the Android Honeycomb OS and the other two come with Windows 7

IDC: Intel’s Sandy Bridge woes not helping AMD

With the delay of Llano, AMD lacks a true competitor to Intel's Sandy Bridge chips, IDC says

New nonprofit aims at tech collaboration, social change

ConvergeUS will focus on using technology to improve education and social problems

Hacker claims credit for knocking church’s site offline

Twitter post suggests 'The Jester' may have been responsible for knocking controversial church offline

Microsoft fixes a security bug in its virus-scanner

Bug in Malware Protection Engine could give a hacker extra privileges on a Windows machine.

The Juniper QFabric FAQ

What is Juniper’s new data-center switching architecture?

Microsoft fights Google for government dollars

The software giant also goes on the defensive against Google

Juniper leapfrogs Cisco with QFabric data center product blitz

Juniper’s 40G QFabric promises 10-fold performance boost for data center

Researchers create computer that fits on a pen tip

Micro-computer's first use will be for medical monitoring

Microsoft to CIOs: Before You Go Google, Ask Questions

Even Microsoft’s CIO struggles with cloud, consumer devices

CIO Tony Scott shared details of his experiences at Microsoft

Church Website knocked offline: Was Anonymous involved?

Hacker collective had previously denied that its members were seeking to attack site over Westboro Baptist Church's controversial views

Mozilla to skip CSRF bug patch in next Firefox update

Fixes crash problem, but postpones patch for cross-site request forgery bug that involves Adobe

Apple: You say you want a revolution?

Hybrid cloud computing security: Real life tales

How one municipality is securing, managing Google Apps, Docs

Panama City finds Aprigo's CloudLock essential to provide needed security, management

FTC asks court to shut down text spammer

The California operation sent out 85 text spams a minute during one 40-day stretch, the FTC alleges

SAP bets on in-memory, mobility in new BI release

SAP's Business Objects 4.0 is set for release in May after some delays

Apple slates iPad launch event for March 2

Analyst expects iPad 2 to 'steal the show' next week

NASA’s robot may get Japanese space companion

Japan to send robot to monitor health of astronauts on International Space Station; NASA's robot set for launch Thursday

Apple sales set for bounce with expected MacBook refresh

Sales already up over 20% this quarter, will get 4-to-6-week bump from new notebooks

With Jobs on leave, Apple shareholders seek succession plan

Apple shareholders want a succession plan to be approved to protect long-term value

Google I/O tickets going for $2,000 on eBay, quadruple face value

Google developer conference will tackle Android, many other technologies.

Google launches Apps certification program for IT pros

Google will test reseller knowledge and skills in deploying, developing for, supporting and selling the Apps suite

Apache opens content management space

The Apache Foundation promotes Apache Chemistry to a top- level project

Java 7 support slated for JetBrains IDE

The push is on to cut 100G Ethernet’s price

Android-based ATRIX 4G boasts “impressive specs,” says iFixit

From hardware perspective, Motorola ATRIX 4G smartphone lives up to the hype

Ex-Microsoft exec becomes CEO at Parallels

CEO Birger Steen will target cloud and desktop virtualization markets.

EU refuses to reveal bank data transfers to US

Six months after the deal, no information is publicly available

Windows Phone 7 glitch magnified by confusion, inflexibility

Samsung users complain of no support from vendor or carrier

RIM Announces MDaemon Messaging Server for SMBs

Study finds cell phones stir brain cells

But unclear whether effect of cell phone usage is negative, positive or neutral

Cisco kills off its hosted e-mail product

E-mail has become a commodity, the networking company said

SAP enters complex-event processing market

SAP's Event Insight will go up against CEP tech from Microsoft, Oracle and others

Supporters rally to help PS3 hacker

Strong response to plea for help in Sony case, defendant George Hotz claims

India’s MindTree offers remote IT management tools

The company aims to differentiate its services by offering customers the management platform

First look: Despite stumbles, Xoom closes in on the iPad

What’s still missing in the HTML5 spec

Weak PC sales: Is it the economy or Apple?

Enterprises are buying technology, but not consumers -- unless you're Apple

Huawei wins preliminary injunction in Motorola lawsuit

Huawei wants to prevent Motorola from transferring Huawei trade secrets to Nokia Siemens Networks

TSMC boosts chip production on demand from Apple suppliers

Unexpected demand from Apple suppliers and other customers has prompted TSMC to invest in more chip production capacity