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Acronym for Hit Me Up a hot topic along with World Cup, Haitian earthquake, Chilean miners
Also debuts two new enterprise-class hard disk drive lines
Frantz, a three-time thief, had it all; now he's going to jail
Six in 10 survey respondents expect to hire more in the first half of the new year, compared to the prior six months
Some fear acrimony could hurt sites using both vendors' software; analysts predict problems for third-party support industry
As more people adopt smartphones, criminals will find new ways to use them for no good
Millennial Media says iOS, Android each make up 38% of "ad impressions"
Domain name restored less than two weeks after EveryDNS terminated wikileaks.org citing reliability concerns.
Dozens of groups calling for rules say that the proposal up for a vote Dec. 21 is too weak
Ships record number of updates, patches critical IE bugs, flaws exploitable through rivals' browsers
The Illinois woman pleads guilty to one count of unauthorized computer access
Taiwan government rewards NT$1 million to Android app and UI developers
Tosses Microsoft co-founder's case because 11 companies 'left to guess' what they did wrong
Who's offering what, and some low-cost options
People using a simple denial-of-serivice tool in support of WikiLeaks can be tracked
Dell has agreed to pay $27.75 per share for Compellent, a little more than it discussed last week
An improved user interface, new categories and a bigger application are not enough to appease developers
The company plans to use a new US$30 million venture funding for this purpose
Flash on Chrome OS a "work in progress," Adobe says
Firm looks to boost Android, Galaxy awareness for users of models at all price points
The average U.S. household devotes about 13 hours each to TV and to the Internet
The emerging tablet market has led to the development of new chip designs from Arm and Intel
At the same time, Dell unveils first array that includes the new Seagate Constellation drive
Data shows iPhone outselling all Verizon smartphones in Q3
Location-sharing app appears in App Store nearly two years after Google said it was 'coming soon'
Carrier may already be shipping the device to its warehouses, source says
Ira Winkler: Security needs to practice consistent, measured incident response to avoid extreme policies and overreactions
Timing, and massive re-engineering needed, cast doubt on report
Microsoft says that it can rapidly improve the technology by using the cloud to learn about how people use voice recognition
Researcher HD Moore spells out how to see what accounts were among 1.3M accessed by hackers
Oracle refutes claims that it is no longer supporting the Lustre file system for open-source users
So far this season, online spending is up 12% over 2009
Customers in the dark about the future of Novell's products following company's sale to Attachmate, Microsoft-led consortium
'Bet on it,' says security expert, as hackers exploit password re-use
Like other enterprises, Cisco worked through mobile-employee challenges
Grassroots WikiLeaks hacktivisim aims to take down fax machines at MasterCard, Amazon and others
Gadgets, teen stars, sports and spills were all trending at various times
All crooks want for Christmas is to steal your money and sensitive information. Security experts give tips on avoiding scams
Doubleclick and Hotmail sites caught serving malicious ads
Telcom says fix under way for LTE connection problem, which also crops up when simply reconnecting to the 4G wireless network
