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LinkedIn’s New Face: Tour ‘Signal’s’ 6 Key Features

Apple TV teardown gives App Store clues, says analyst

Storage space, iOS 4.1 hint at broader future for new Apple TV

Google upgrades Instant with keyboard navigation

Google is also expanding the availability of Instant to 12 new countries

At long last, Obama highlights IPv6 issue

NTIA workshop is current administration's first attempt at promoting next-gen Internet

Will feds commit to another IPv6 mandate?

Industry urges Obama to enforce a deadline for federal Web sites to support next-gen Internet

Xmarks browser sync tosses in towel

Browsers' built-in sync, failure to make money lead to demise

OpenOffice.org developers move to break ties with Oracle

Developers of OpenOffice.org have created a new foundation and a new brand, LibreOffice, to promote the software suite

Texting while driving bans don’t work, may actually hurt, study finds

Government disputes results while states continue to institute bans

Apple Peel, which turns iPods into iPhones, coming to US

The Chinese-developed Apple Peel 520 allows a user to turn their iPod Touch into a smartphone

CodePlex Foundation now called Outercurve

Seeking to shed its Microsoft roots, CodePlex Foundation has become the Outercurve Foundation

Tilera: Server with 800 cores may ship next year

Quanta could ship 800-core server by end of next year

Nokia loses share in India to Chinese and local brands

Its delay in introducing dual-SIM phones may have hurt its sales, according to IDC India

Idappcom seeks to displace penetration testers

Idappcom's software checks to see if security products are really catching exploits and malware

Amazon prepping Android app store, tablet?

Amazon store would join Google, Verizon as Android app market providers

Symantec lays out encryption roadmap

Symantec lays out integration of PGP Corp. and GuardianEdge Technologies.

Succession planning for IT: Get some depth to your bench

Google Voice cleared for iPhone: report

Code being retooled to support iOS multitasking

What’s up with encryption?

National security, new technologies, lawsuits all part of what makes encryption hot

OpenOffice.org breaks away from Oracle with new foundation

Open source rivals team up on post-Sun future of OpenOffice

NIST blesses network access, desktop security

Trusted Computing Group and the National Institute of Standards and Technology agree on standards

Toshiba to show no-glasses 3D TV next week

It will be the first from a major TV maker that doesn't require dorky glasses

10 years after: Optical market recovers from dot-com bust

Sustained growth seen as excess fiber is lit

Microsoft launches status dashboards for BPOS

The goal is to keep BPOS customers better informed about performance and availability issues with the suite

Google’s Gmail has less than 1% of enterprise e-mail market, Gartner says

Gartner: Gmail nears 2 million business users, but Microsoft still dominates

Microsoft sets Oct. 26 launch of Mac Office 2011

Amazon takes pre-orders for revamped suite

Kindle owners rich, iPad owners young and male

Nielsen survey of tablet,e-reader, smartphone users sheds light for advertisers, publishers

Businesses overconfident about IT resilience, study finds

Plans to keep systems running in the event of a disruption fall short of reality, study finds

Minnesota moves e-mail to Microsoft’s cloud

State turns to Microsoft's hosted business suite as part of effort to reshape its IT systems

Four things RIM PlayBook got right

RIM PlayBook features strong specs, Flash support

CRM Records: Dummy Tricks for Smarter Searches

CDW survey: 25% of customers reported network outage in last year

Power loss accounted for half of all network disruptions

Cloud services empower startups

Amazon Web Services allowed companies like Melodeo, SEOmoz and Spiral Genetics to get ahead

Microsoft adopts open source WordPress, ditches Live Spaces

Microsoft will migrate users of its free blog service to an open source platform run mostly on Debian Linux

CDT protests bill requiring registrars to enforce copyright

New legislation from Senator Leahy would require domain-name registrars to shut down infringing websites

Cisco eats its own IPv6 dog food

Router manufacturer is testing next-gen Internet services on its Web site

HHS makes final picks for regional health IT help centers

Feds also help to fund training of 50,000 health IT workers

Fedora 14 tests desktop virtualization

The first public beta of version 14 of the Fedora Linux distribution edges toward potential enterprise use

White House issues IPv6 directive

Agencies must support next-gen Internet on all public-facing Web sites by fall 2012

Study: Top web sites riskier than porn

While adult sites are dicey, you're more likely to find a link to malicious content on some of the web's most visited spots

Microsoft issues emergency patch for Windows Web bug

Experts applaud move to deliver fix via manual download, not Windows Update

Microsoft SharePoint: Three Deployment Challenges

Fiber-to-the-jungle

Arizona State University and the Smithsonian bring classrooms to the rainforest

Google goes on acquisition spree this year

It has already bought 23 new companies in 2010; Microsoft has bought none

The Cloud: A threat to incumbents, opportunity for startups

Leaders from Amazon, Microsoft and Citrix say their services threaten legacy providers but offer new possibilities too

Heartland Payment Systems bolsters encryption

After data breach Heartland out to secure payment-card processing

Buffalo: Data center capital of America?

Fresh off Yahoo opening, Verizon mulls site here

BlackBerries gain remote support tools

Rhomobile brings iPhone app dev to Windows PCs

California bans malicious online impersonation

Maliciously impersonating someone on Facebook or Twitter will soon be illegal in California

Can PlayBook tablet serve both consumers and workers?