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Glass action: iPhone 4 user files lawsuit over cracked screen

Charges Apple knew of design flaw in Phone 4

How Social Networking Creates a Collaboration Culture

Do Not Track: Is Government Intervention Necessary?

Telecom infrastructure faces daunting risks, TATA CSO says

Open-source challenge to Microsoft Exchange gains steam

Open-Xchange predicts 40 million users by year’s end

Risk Management: A CIO’s Strategic Role

With wired Internet locked, Egypt looks to the sky

Satellite Internet services could offer another outlet to send information after Egypt's shutdown of the Web

How will White House get 1M electric cars on road by 2015?

Rebates, investments, rewards part of White House plan to bolster clean-fueled autos

Conficker Working Group says worm is stopped, but not gone

Former Salesforce.com execs form new security company

Apple could disrupt mobile payment industry, analysts say

Vast iTunes base makes it a 'PayPal on steroids,' one analyst said

Some say NFC mobile payments will catch on slow, even with Apple involved

Lag behind Japan, other countries relates to complexity, analysts say

Mobile online shopping gains steam in China

China's largest online retailer Taobao has been driving the growth, analysts say

With protests growing, Egypt cuts links to Internet

88 percent of network routes in Egypt suddenly vanish; government is blamed

Microsoft’s Windows revenues plunge 30%

Says dramatic drop caused by $1.7B added to same quarter in 2009 for free upgrades to Windows 7

Verizon buying big into cloud with $1.4B Terremark bid

The $1.4 billion buyout would bolster Verizon's cloud services to businesses

JCP chair: Organization does not operate in secrecy

40 search warrants executed as FBI goes after ‘Anonymous’

The warrants are part of a global crackdown on the group that has launched DDoS attacks against WikiLeaks detractors

Verizon Wireless still ahead of AT&T in apples-to-apples customer comparison

AT&T's 95.5M subscribers actually compares with Verizon's 102.2M

Microsoft presses Intel for 16-core Atom chip

The company wants a new class of low-power system-on-a-chip based on a mobile core from Intel or AMD

Qualcomm to integrate LTE modem into next tablet chip

Qualcomm will start shipping a faster, more power-efficient Snapdragon chip for smartphones and tablets

Intel gives away FCOE to simplify data centers

Its Fibre Channel Over Ethernet stack now works with Windows, Linux, and some network and storage gear

Microsoft financials buoyed by gaming, office software

The company reports record second-quarter revenue, though year-on-year quarterly growth was more moderate

Rep. Flake re-introduces bill to ‘staple’ green cards to Ph.D diplomas

Bill aims to keep top foreign graduates of U.S. universities in the country

Apple, News Corp. to launch all-digital newspaper next week

Murdoch's The Daily set to go live Feb. 2

Most workers don’t have desktop video and don’t want it, report says

Desktop video most used by executives, according to Forrester

Microsoft shipped 2 million copies of Windows Phone 7

New number triggers new spasm of Internet speculation

Oracle moves Sun docs, sparking user debate

Oracle's move has broken original Sun documentation links, setting off users who are arguing about the matter online

NetBeans IDE drops Ruby on Rails backing

iPhone-as-wallet: What you should know before taking the plunge

Using your iPhone as a credit card carries some risk

Alleged ‘scareware’ vendors to pay $8.2 million to FTC

The defendants delivered online ads telling viewers their computers were compromised

Microsoft claims employee stole $460,000 from the company

Sues former Bing toolbar promotions director after foiling theft of $1.5M more

Microsoft will give 1-year warning before killing or changing cloud services

Cloud support policy unveiled for Windows Azure and Office 365

Three Ways to Find Fresh IT Ideas on the Cheap

Retaining data does not help fight crime, says group

German police statistics show fewer prosecutions despite data retention laws

From Green Screen Apps to the Cloud: One CIO’s Challenge

Half of federal Web sites fail DNS security test

Most agencies more than a year behind in meeting DNSSEC mandate

Recession hit older tech workers harder, labor data shows

Loss of iPhone will cause ‘rocky’ time for ATT, CEO says

Still, AT&T sold 4.1 million Apple iPhones in fourth quarter even after it was clear Verizon was coming

Google promises big changes to spur Android app sales

"We're not happy" with app purchases in Android Market, Google exec says

AT&T revenue up, driven by smartphone growth

The company reports 4.1 million new iPhone connections in the fourth quarter of 2010

Apple introducing iPad in India

The company will be offering it through retailers

AT&T wireless subscribers hit 95.5 million

Carrier reports best-ever subscriber gains, just before its iPhone exclusive deal ends

Oracle: PeopleSoft still going gangbusters

Oracle claims to have gained 350 new customers for the ERP suite in the past year, even as Fusion looms

Sony games chief faced big challenges with PSP refresh

Kaz Hirai talks about how the company moved basic games platform forward

Nokia’s profit drops, faces need to change faster

The company needs a new high-end smartphone and tablet strategy, analyst says

Android 3.0 tablet: Five key features

What you need to know about the tablet-centric Android "Honeycomb"

Okta’s service offers single sign-on for all cloud apps

The service integrates with Active Directory and offers cloud app management tools for IT administrators

Tablets using Marvell’s Moby design in India soon

The company wants to achieve volumes with a product priced at below US$216

Hackers turn back the clock with Telnet attacks

The 40-year old protocol is increasingly being used by hackers, according to Akamai