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Microsoft gains cloud security certification … six months after Google

FISMA is key certification for government cloud customers

Is ‘Quadroid’ the new ‘Wintel’?

Quadroid, like Wintel, could pose profit, consolidation challenges for manufacturers

With WikiLeaks, Amazon shows its power over customers

Don't mistake cloud providers for the Swiss; they aren't neutral

Oracle challenges IBM with ‘Sparc Supercluster’

CEO Larry Ellison will be talking up Oracle's hardware efforts again at a launch event Thursday afternoon

HP boosting multimedia in WebOS with MediaSmart move

HP also wants to put more resources into WebOS development

NASA: Discovery opens door to search for new life forms

It's not ET, but a new form of life found right here on Earth

IT spending to be up as much as 6% in 2011

IDC predicts cloud, mobile and social to fuel growth to $1.6 trillion

New net neutrality proposal: What’s in this thing?

FCC chairman outlined many principles aimed at pleasing everyone, but details remain scarce

Is a next-generation firewall in your future?

Slow drift toward application-aware firewall/VPN with intrusion prevention and filtering

FCC looks into Level 3, Comcast content dispute

Comcast says the dispute is a simple peering negotiation, but Level 3 says Comcast is trying to hide its true intentions

IBM chip breakthrough may lead to exascale supercomputers

New technology could help make the faster supercomputers a thousand times faster

Salesforce.com gets Amazon cloud replication tool

Jitterbit is rolling out CloudReplicate, which can mirror Salesforce.com data to Amazon's cloud service

SAP launches HANA for in-memory analytics

The first version of the in-memory analytic appliance as well as a specialized application are now available

China to inspect government computers for pirated software

The Inspection comes as Microsoft files lawsuit against 10 Chinese companies for pirating software on to computers

Groupon adds four more countries in Asia amid Google rumors

The website company Google reportedly plans to buy launched in Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong and Philippines

U.S. tech lead at risk, says Obama’s top scientist

Energy Secretary Chu issues blunt warning on U.S. tech manufacturing and competition from China

India tries again to block unsolicited telemarketers

An earlier “do-not-call” registry for mobile subscribers did not work

Nvidia eyes CUDA in mobile devices

CUDA could provide a big jump in the ability of mobile devices to run multimedia-rich applications

Apple wins patent on 3D projector that needs no glasses

Apple's patent describes how to track viewers and reflect different images into left and right eyes off a rippled screen

Sonatype links Apache Maven build manager with the Eclipse IDE

IE’s share slides again as IE6 starts to fades away

Microsoft celebrates withering of creaky IE6 while Chrome, Safari gain ground

Interpol issues wanted notice for Wikileaks’ Assange

Wikileaks' chief spokesman is contesting sexual assault allegation in Sweden

Battery power, wireless spectrum hold back mobile computing

FCC scheduled vote on net neutrality this month

Genachowski attempts to push through new rules in the face of Republican gains in Congress

Feds draw a bead on Russian behind Mega-D botnet

Mega-D botnet accounted for one in 10 spam messages sent on the Internet

Troubleshoot your Apple iPad

FCC’s Genachowski pushes for vote on net neutrality

The chairman's plan would not reclassify broadband, but would treat mobile broadband differently than wired

IE9 beta hits 15 million downloads, but Google Chrome cuts into Microsoft share

Despite overall losses, Microsoft claims optimism

Dell resumes Venue Pro sales; T-Mobile cuts price

Smartphone available again three weeks after Wi-Fi, battery concerns surfaced

What it’s like to be a woman in a mostly male industry

Verizon LTE network to go live Dec. 5

Initially, customers will be able to connect via USB modems attached to their laptops

Cyber Monday is biggest online spending day ever

9 million shoppers spend $1 billion online in a single day, many using their computers at work

FTC calls for online do-not-track list to protect privacy

The list could be implemented by industry or by Congress, the FTC report says

iPhone’s iOS edges Android as preferred smartphone OS

iPhone and BlackBerry in 'dead heat' for U.S. market share, says Nielsen

Verizon sets the bar for future LTE launches

Offers 5GB, 10GB plans, charges $10 per GB overage

CRM: Four Dirty Little Secrets of Marketing Automation

Developers pull tool that allowed unauthorized WP7 apps

The creators of ChevronWP7 are now working with Microsoft on making it easier to load homebrewed apps

Cloud Computing: How to Craft a Smart Chargeback Strategy

Hilton CIO: 4 Reasons We’re Using SharePoint and Office 2010

Groupon 2.0: More Deals and a Personalized Feed

Verizon LTE to focus first on business users

LTE smartphones coming in '11, but consumer data usage could be a concern

One Enterprise’s Two-Year Apple Mobile Makeover

What you should know about Next Generation Firewalls

Next Generation Firewalls are powerful, if not a bit confusing

What Today’s Server Shipments Tell You About Cloud

BP oil spill, Lady Gaga top Yahoo’s 2010 search list

Forget the economy and politics, searchers focus on Justin Bieber, Kim Kardashian

Microsoft quietly invests in IBM emulator TurboHercules

Google Editions e-book venture to launch by year’s end

Recent federal court opinion on Google settlement with authors and publishers may have helped smooth the process

Amazon pulls WikiLeaks plug

WikiLeaks moves URL to Swedish hosting firm after Amazon 'ousted' the controversial site

Devs yank WP7 unlock tool after Microsoft makes promises

ChevronWP7 makers strike deal with Microsoft on talks about supporting unauthorized apps on Windows smartphones

Dell CFO: Tablets will gain ground in enterprises

Tablets could replace laptops as the primary computing device