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Fusion Apps questions Oracle should answer

Pricing, deployment and compatibility unknowns loom as OpenWorld approaches

Experts argue over merits of 7-in. iPad

Reports spur analysts to disagree whether a smaller tablet's smart

Intel, Micron deliver highest capacity, smallest NAND flash

The NAND is 20% smaller than flash memory chips sold today

Amazon.com price for BlackBerry Torch is no cut

RIM says Amazon.com has offered the new smartphone at half the AT&T price since its unveiling

Mobile sign language being developed at UW

Initial field trial involved deaf students making compressed video chats

Search Monkey falls victim to Yahoo-Microsoft search deal

The changes come as Yahoo starts its transition to using Bing as its back-end search engine

Android gaming app hides Trojan, security vendors warn

Tap Snake could be used by attackers to monitor movements of an Android system via GPS tracking

SSDs may give you more bang for your DRAM

An IBM executive expects the flash storage parts to also work in conjunction with DRAM

How to roll out full disk encryption on your PCs and laptops

Full disk encryption is key to meeting compliance rules, but watch out for those Macs

India plans to lobby for drop in U.S. visa fees

The new hike in visa fees, intended to fund border security, could cost Indian outsourcers up to US$250 million a year

North Korea jumps onto Twitter

The secretive nation has started tweeting news

Rivals seek to beat iPhone by offering two keyboards

Carriers defy iPhone and release Droid 2, Torch 9800 and soon the Epic 4G, with touchscreens and physical keyboards

Most Verizon customers likely to buy Apple iPhone

And a third of iPhone owners are waiting for carrier choice to upgrade smartphone, says survey

IT job satisfaction in a rut

New survey shows IT workers loving their jobs less

Chip startup Smooth-Stone raises $48M in bid to rock Intel

Smooth-Stone will compete against Intel in server chips

Actifio aims to create order in data management

The startup's software suite can control backup, replication, archiving and other tasks

Riverbed CEO: Cisco can have Layer 2 and 3 networking, we’ll take 4 through 7

Hacked smartphones pose military threat

Data gathered routinely by phones could jeopardize troop safety, experts say

On the streets of Stockholm with LTE

TeliaSonera's LTE network delivers an average speed of 33.4M bps

Summer of Android: Top 5 iPhone rivals

Lycos acquired by India’s Ybrant Digital

Ybrant plans to strengthen its search advertising business through the acquisition

Dell to buy 3PAR for $1.15B

Purchase of the virtualized storage provider will increase Dell's reach into cloud computing

Two sentenced in kickback scheme at DC CTO’s office

Two former employees receive prison sentences for steering work to a Washington IT firm

Verizon trial of fiber-optic network reaches nearly 1Gbit/sec.

Google also wants 1Gbit/sec. to the home via fiber

LG-Ericsson venture aims at SMB’s network needs

LG-Ericsson USA will sell data LAN gear from the former SMC along with office telephony products

ACH fraud: Why criminals love this con

Deb Geister of LexisNexis explains why ACH fraud is growing and how you can prevent and detect this scheme

Apple plans online support changes

Dumps Discussions, will unveil Support Communities 'very soon'

Java founder derides Oracle’s lawsuit against Google

Samsung to show off Android 2.2-based tablet next month

Reports say P1000 Galaxy Tab, with 7-inch touchscreen and video chat, will be displayed at IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin

Microsoft and Google fight over e-mail, but agree on $5 inboxes

$5 per inbox: the standard price for cloud-based e-mail

H-1B, L-1 Visa Fee Hike Could Lead to More Offshoring

Q&A: Riverbed CEO sees WANs in the data center and the cloud

Jerry Kennelly also gives his views on battling with Cisco, expanding Riverbed's product line and opportunities in the cloud.

Scientists build robot that can learn emotions

Robot that can show happiness, sadness and fear could some day be a caregiver for children

Malicious widget hacked millions of Web sites

Parked sites hosted by Network Solutions spread malware since at least May

House Democrats oppose net neutrality deal

A proposal by Google and Verizon should dictate the online experience, four lawmakers say

Apple said to be making big mobile payment move with recent hire

Hiring of Near Field Communications expert Benjamin Vigier could turn iPhone 5 into a mobile wallet

Intel ships new Atom processors small biz, home storage appliances

The new 1.8GHz chips support both Microsoft Home Server and Linux variants

Embarcadero tackles the cloud with tools for PHP and Windows

Auto finance company scopes GPS tracking

Aim is to use GPS data to assign risk scores to auto loans

Five billionth device about to plug into Internet

Growth fueled by consumer electronics, machine-to-machine

Xbox 360 was best-selling console in July

Microsoft's redesign of the Xbox 360 paid off

Oracle sues Google over Java use in Android

The complaint says Google's phone OS infringes Oracle patents related to Java

Senator Schumer: H-1B use undercuts pay, discourages tech enrollments

Committee chair says visa program will be 'dramatically restricted' in immigration bill

Heartland denies systems involved in new data breach

Austin police says hackers broke into a network connecting restaurant with payment processor

India may put restrictions on Skype and Google

The country wants its security agencies to have access to online and mobile communications

Asus to release Eee Tablet with Linux in October for $300

The Eee Tablet is aimed at the e-reader market and includes Wi-Fi

Asus readies Android-based Eee Pad for March launch

The company's first Eee Pad, with Windows 7, will cost US$1,000

Changes to PCI data security standard leave questions unanswered

PCI DSS 2.0 mostly about minor tweaks, analysts say

Microsoft to release IE9 public beta on Sept. 15

But a no-IE9-for-XP policy will limit trial to Windows minority