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Don’t blame DNS for Facebook outage, experts say

Sys admin error appears to be the culprit, but DNS is vulnerable to similar mistakes

Iran confirms massive Stuxnet infection of industrial systems

Nation's atomic energy experts met last week to discuss ways to eradicate worm, say reports

Mozilla concept phone is a glimpse of the future

The Seabird phone has two pico projectors, a virtual keyboard and a multifunction Bluetooth dongle

Lenovo’s IdeaPad U1 hybrid tablet laptop delayed to 2011

Lenovo's IdeaPad U1 was originally slated for a June 1 release this year

Panasonic’s robot gives a 16-finger, automated hair washing

The latest robot prototype from Panasonic can wash and rinse hair

Oracle database design slowed Chase online banking fix

Analyst says excessive push to maintain data integrity forced firm to restore exorbitant amount of data

China’s ‘big hole’ marks scale of supercomputing race

1,000 U.S. scientists are involved in exascale development, but China and Europe have stepped up their investment, IBM warns

Forget digital tunes; analog music on the upswing

Vinyl record sales are at the top of a four-year sales trend

J.D. Power ranks iPhone No. 1 in customer satisfaction

Apple beats Motorola, HTC to take top honors fourth year running

Finns trial next-gen on-line home automation

Users will be able to adapt their usage as tariffs change throughout the day, according to vendor There

UK survey aims to quantify prevalence of cyber stalking

The Network for Surviving Stalking says there's little research concerning online stalking

The Microsofting of Juniper Networks

With ex-Microsoft exec Johnson at the helm, Juniper adopts software giant's style of reaching out to third parties to expand market reach

Juniper Networks cooking up new ideas in incubation lab

Lab complements Juniper's Junos Innovation Fund for seeding external software start-ups

News quiz: The week in tech

Panasonic robot gives 16-finger, automated hair washing

Part of effort by Panasonic to build $1.2B robotics business by 2015.

Google tries to fix Microsoft’s Internet Explorer with Chrome Frame

Chrome Frame brings advanced HTML5 and JavaScript to Internet Explorer

Facebook CEO unveils foundation, $100M donation

Zuckerberg making friends with more than 40,000 students in Newark, N.J.

How CIOs Use Twitter: 5 Facts

Coders must reprogram how they write for Wall Street

Parallel programming knowledge is becoming a must-have skill

Suspect in eBay phishing scam arrested in Romania

A man allegedly broke into eBay systems after stealing employee log-in data through phishing scams

BlackBerry for Business blog debuts

New blog targeted at RIM's coveted business base

Weak server chip shipments on the horizon, analysts say

Computer makers may order fewer chips on weaker server demand

Wall Street Beat: Red Hat, Tibco and Apple lead tech charge

The IT sector shows resilience during market swings

Satyam to delist from New York Stock Exchange

The scandal-hit Indian outsourcer says it cannot meet the exchange’s deadline to submit its delayed financials

‘Rapid DNA’ analysis tool closer for FBI, but obstacles loom

FCC takes ‘free love’ approach to white spaces spectrum

White space debate pits Google and Microsoft against carriers such as Verizon

Microsoft’s new stance: IE9 won’t require Windows 7 Service Pack 1

Microsoft previously said Internet Explorer 9 browser needed SP1

Facebook outage spotlights social media addiction

Frustrated Facebook users find themselves jonesing for updates when site crashes

How CIOs Can Influence New Product Innovation

Rubinius Ruby language variant gets an upgrade

Google, others settle with DOJ over no-poaching deals

Six companies have agreed not to strike deals that prevent each other from hiring away valuable employees

Orange looks set to use Cisco, EMC, VMware in cloud

Orange Business Services is planning an audio conference with the three-way data-center partnership

Oracle links ADF development technology to Eclipse

Hardware trumps Fusion Apps in Ellison’s big speech

But OpenWorld still provided plenty of Fusion fodder for those who cared to look

Industry standards arrive for testing SSD endurance, reliability

They could help solid-state drive buyers better compare hardware

Facebook fixes glitch, says access back to normal

Facebook blamed the problem on a third-party networking provider

Court ruling further delays 3G auction in Thailand

Thailand is one of the few remaining countries in East Asia without 3G mobile service.

Rural markets hold the key for India’s mobile growth

The country's urban markets have saturated, according to analysts

The InfoWorld expert guide to Web browser security

China video sites may mean dollars for Hollywood

New content deals should help film and television producers get revenue from viewers in China

8 essential privacy extensions for Firefox

Gartner: Global ‘IT debt’ hits $500 billion, on the way to $1 trillion

Maintenance backlog poses serious risk to business systems, Gartner says

Analysts see uptick in Russia-registered spam domains

Efforts by Russia to tighten up domain name registrations may not be working

U.S. military takes cloud computing to Afghanistan

Cloud computing hardware and software is being packed into mobile boxes to aid warfighters in the sky and on the ground.

NBC’s Outsourced: Separating Fact from Comedy

Swedes first to bear brunt of full-price LTE

Faster speeds and a larger data allowance should be enough to attract subscribers, according to TeliaSonera

Hackers exploit latest Microsoft zero-day bug

Microsoft raises warning as attacks exploit ASP.Net flaw, urges admins to apply workaround

FCC opens up ‘white spaces’ spectrum to mobile devices

Wireless devices could soon access the 'super Wi-Fi' spectrum, supporters say

Baron analysts using iPads over fast 802.11n network

Cisco technology reduces Wi-Fi interference from fish tank controls

How to put IT in the user’s seat

Monitoring the user experience shows how real users interact with Web applications