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White House cybersecurity chief calls meeting to discuss President’s agenda

Key focus of Wednesday meeting likely to be use of economic incentives to boost private sector cybersecurity

Intel to ramp up Sandy Bridge faster than expected

The world's largest chip maker raised its capital spending to meet anticipated demand for the new processors

EU approves Comcast’s acquisition of NBC Universal

What final ‘meaningful use’ rules on EMRs mean for doctors, hospitals

Healthcare providers will have two years to implement stage one programs on electronic medical records no matter when they start

Robots as the next big industry?

Artificial intelligence reseachers urged to step up efforts on robotics at conference

CouchDB NoSQL database ready for production use

R.I.P. Windows XP SP2

'End of an era,' says one researcher; security pros mark retirement of Microsoft's most significant service pack

Wireless helps dairy with milk, ice cream deliveries

Rugged MC 9500 handheld from Motorola at heart of project

Can Sprint afford a WiMAX flop?

Company may take hit if WiMAX fails to catch, but other strategies are out there

Windows XP SP2 and 7 other things Microsoft has killed this year

Microsoft’s bell tolls for Windows 2000/XP SP2 support, Kin smartphones, Courier tablet and more

why executives are the easiest social engineering targets

iPhone rules smartphone roost

iPhone leads,Android phones increase share; RIM continues slide, survey finds

Study: Most MySQL users not too worried about Oracle

Forty-three percent expect the open-source database to improve under its ownership

Pixel Qi resumes shipment of 3Qi low-power displays

Pixel Qi's 3Qi shipments resume after a rash of orders knocks out the initial stock

Microsoft exec mocks iPhone 4, dubs it Apple’s Vista

Consumer Reports urges Apple to provide free cases to all iPhone 4 owners

Business intelligence goes mobile

Corporate America is finally beginning to deliver BI where it's needed -- everywhere.

Mozilla yanks password-stealing Firefox add-on

Pulls Mozilla Sniffer for being bad, and CoolPreviews for being buggy

Happy vacation! Security at tourist spots

Security isn't what travelers think about before a vacation, but top tourist sites are working hard to keep visitors secure

Cloud tools give Microsoft partners a jump-start

The move aims to help partners deploy and support cloud-based offerings

Sprint puts off WiMax data cap

Its 3G monthly cap jolted some users, so Sprint has no plans to limit 4G use for now

VA scales back $500 million IT revamp

Change dictated by cost concerns, department says

Toshiba, SanDisk look to boost flash production

Their planned 'Fab 5' fabrication site will turn out 210,000 wafers a month

How one company got burned by cloud’s No. 1 risk

10 Communication Mistakes CIOs Still Make

Sprint makes a case for enterprise WiMAX

Mobile video conferencing will be the 'killer app'

BlackBerry Messenger Quick Tips: Mastering BBM Basics

Microsoft Bing grabs search share from Google

After some slips in the market, third-place Bing inches up in June

Oracle data grid scales .NET to new heights

The new version of Oracle Coherence gives .NET apps Java-sized scalability

Intel combines smart TV with smart remote

Imagine a television remote that can automatically figure out who you are

CIO Alert: Five New Microsoft Licensing Tweaks

Verizon creates medical information exchange cloud

Company's Health Information Exchange allows access to patient data via a secure Web portal

VMware halves price of starter virtualization kit

VMware entry-level virtualization kit to cost $500; could answer Microsoft, Citrix criticism

Why People Love to Hate Their Office Printers

India’s Infosys sees profits trimmed by wage hikes

The global economic environment continues uncertain, the company said

Cheap chipsets for Google Android smartphones due out in Q3

MediaTek holds the biggest share of China's market for handset chips

Offshore outsourced jobs pay well, but are stressful

A new study shows employees have heavy workloads and frequently change jobs due to workplace dissatisfaction

Teo launches single-server unified comms system

Teo UC allows universal voice mail retrieval, voice conferencing, integrated presence and more

Coverity and Armorize link code quality, security analyses

Metastorm brings workflow modeling to the cloud

The service from the BPM software provider is hosted on Microsoft Azure

Maiffret returns to eEye Digital Security

Security vendor GFI Software acquires Sunbelt Software

* Parties promise unspecified integration between respective products

Windows Live to integrate WP7 phones, PCs, Xbox in the cloud

Microsoft is back with Windows Phone 7, its mobile exec says

International anti-counterfeiting talks hit snags says EU

Both Parliament and the Commission have concerns about ACTA

Windows Phone 7 can be remotely located, wiped

Microsoft previewed new features of the upcoming release of the OS during a presentation at a company event

Feds publish final eHealth ‘meaningful use’ rules

Just 20% of physicians, 10% of hospitals have basic EMRs today

Ozmo’s chip and software turn Windows 7 laptop into Wi-Fi hotspot

Laptop driver works with 'SoftAP' feature in OS

Your on-demand HPC shopping list

Big guns for hire: Supercomputing-in-the-cloud

Some companies are slashing costs and improving production by using on-demand high-performance computing services

Apple policy would kick AdMob off iAds, Hamoui says

The rule is not being enforced but AdMob hopes to work out a solution yet, the AdMob chief said

Web designer claims 84% ownership of Facebook

Does Zuckerberg really own Facebook? N.Y. man files suit over alleged contract