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Facebook users squint at font size change

Users take to Twitter to voice their frustrations over smaller type size

Gmail power tips, tools: Get the most from Google’s e-mail

Third jury fines Minnesota woman $1.5M for pirating 24 songs

Jury rejected arguments that that earlier awards in case brought by RIAA were excessive

Oracle user group warns of support deadline

Certain E-Business Suite customers need to meet a patch threshold to go on extended support

Alcatel-Lucent CEO: Femtocell interest is growing rapidly

Operators rolling out services in homes and at the office

Toshiba ships one of the first dual-core tablets

The Folio 100 tablet is designed to outperform the iPad

Windows 7 Wanted at Work: Consumer IT Strikes Again

Dispute pits China’s top IM client against security firm

Tencent is forcing users of its instant messaging client to uninstall security software as part of an going feud

Facebook, Google face EU crackdown over user data

The EU Commission has published new proposals on data protection laws

California woman sues Apple over iPhone ‘iBrick’ upgrade

Claims Apple used iOS 4 upgrade to cripple older iPhones to sell more iPhone 4s

Privacy advocates fear massive fed health database

U.S. Office of Personnel Management wants to collect data from three health programs

Sheraton hotel picks Meru for Wi-Fi

Sheraton in Springfield, Mass. solves old network problems with 61 new low-cost APs

Company taps Cisco to monitor social networks

Zone Labs customer comments on Facebook, Twitter slipped through the cracks before Cisco's SocialMiner

U.S. says China building ‘entirely indigenous’ supercomputer

Petaflop-class supercomputer 'expected to be complete within the next 12 to 18 months,' DOE says

MetroPCS expands LTE to L.A., Philly

Fifth-largest carrier also adds nationwide coverage plan for CDMA network

AT&T rolls out patient data exchange, mobile monitoring services

It's experimenting with patient-monitoring slippers

Scott McNealy talks Java, Oracle and Larry Ellison

The former Sun CEO says Ellison is a great capitalist but not a 'good' capitalist

VMware exec: Cloud computing is a certainty

Financial services firms expand online fraud defense

Financial firms want to stymie tech-savvy gangs of cybercrooks using Zeus and other technology

Google quashes 12 Chrome bugs, gives users early Flash fix

IE, Firefox, Safari users don't get Flash Player update until later today

Latest Azure enhancements may tempt more developers

The ability to add third-party software to Azure and do more work with virtual machines are key new features, developers say

Smartphones grow by 90% in third quarter, IDC says

Samsung's growth was 453% with Galaxy phones and others

Your CEO’s 2011 Agenda: What CIOs Need to Know

Microsoft: All Windows 7 customers should consider desktop virtualization

Windows 7 expected to spur virtualization deployments

Microsoft slates first critical fix for Office 2010 next week

But no patch for actively exploited IE bug

With GOP gains, what next for net neutrality at FCC?

Some net neutrality backers question if the FCC will still move forward with new rules

Oracle license would have cost SAP billions, Phillips says

Former Oracle President Charles Phillips testified for 90 minutes on the third day of the trial

Holographs could be ‘game changer’ for business

Researchers taking holographic images from sci-fi to real-world applications

Google Instant comes to Android, iPhone

Mobile users of Google Instant may not see the same kind of benefit as computer users

T-Mobile ad provokes renewed debate over 4G wireless

Competitors, analysts criticize T-Mobile's performance claims for the network it calls 4G

Wall Street Beat: Tech strong as US stocks hit 2-year highs

Component and hardware sector growth appears to be slowing, however

Excited iFixit strips down Microsoft’s Kinect game controller

Says Microsoft Kinect for Xbox 360 "unlike any hardware we’ve ever taken apart"

Clearwire to lay off 15 percent to save cash

The WiMax carrier will also hold off on retail and marketing efforts in some cities where its network goes live

Researcher to release Web-based Android attack

Devices running Android 2.1 and earlier are vulnerable to the browser bug

Microsoft: We’re more enterprise-ready than Google Apps

Cloud computing underwhelms PHP developers

Google settles Buzz lawsuit with no payout to Gmail users

Google will pay US$8.5 million into a fund to benefit Internet privacy organizations

True tech stories from tech professionals

New browser add-on turns back IE’s clock to 2001

Unibrows lets enterprises run IE6 as a tab inside IE8, gives them a way to migrate to Windows 7 without ditching old Web apps

WiGig to line up with DisplayPort standard

The partnership could produce high-speed, short-range wireless links from computers to displays

UK: Google Wi-Fi collection violated data protection laws

The Information Commissioner's Office is letting Google off with a warning and no fine, however

Paid app, cloud service secure consumer Android phones

Lookout Mobile Security adds features to premium version of its agent

Hopkins to build data analysis super machine

Johns Hopkins redefines the rules for building supercomputers

Complexity of IT systems will be our undoing

CTO says $2 million project has less than 50% chance of success.

Galaxy Tab cheaper in the US, but data access more costly

Analyst: Samsung's tablet the only credible competitor to the iPad, but Apple will dominate going forward

Boucher, Fiorina and Whitman lose elections

Three candidates with tech experience fall during Tuesday's election

Oracle revs up cloud API

Make your own anti-virus signatures with DIY tool from HBGary

Inoculator designed to let security manager create anti-malware signature on fly

How Wi-Fi and Wireless Data-Sharing Cures Patients’ Ills

Taking Business Risks With Your IT Budget