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Intel talks technology concepts, plans Atom update

Intel to announce new Atom platform, discuss thermal technology at Computex

Hitachi touts hard drive for ultra-light PCs that’s 26% thinner

New drives will be used in PCs, laptops, video cameras and set top boxes

Protesters provide noisy welcome to Computex

A demonstration targeting companies including Apple and Foxconn provides a noisy start to the Taiwanese trade show

Facebook admits censoring content in Pakistan

It has not however removed the controversial content from its web site

Brocade increases backbone switch Fibre Channel ports, doubles throughput

Switch port throughput goes from 4Gbit/sec to 8Gbit/sec

Pixel Qi shows prototype touchscreen displays

The prototype screens appear in several mock-ups, but there is still no word on a commercial product

Compal readies Windows, Android and MeeGo tablets

The world's second-biggest contract manufacturer of laptops says its customers are very interested in tablets

Crazy-but-true stories from tech’s trenches

GlobalFoundries joins other chip makers in raising spending

GlobalFoundries raises capital spending by US$3 billion

HP to cut 9,000 jobs, automate enterprise service business

It will take a $1B accounting charge to cover the cost of restructuring

Cutting-edge Wi-Fi silicon will power high-def video distribution

Quantenn's latest 802.11n chipset drops in size, power and price

HTC Evo 4G: What’s inside first WiMAX smartphone

The iFixIt teardown shows a powerhouse; Sprint launch on Friday

MSI shows prototype laptop with convertible keyboard

The laptop's keyboard flips over to reveal a pen-input pad.

Asustek unveils big 12-inch screen tablet, e-reader

China flexes supercomputing muscle in Top 500 rankings

China's Nebulae system takes the second spot in the biannual list

Nvidia CEO: Hardware makers uniting behind Android

Windows is too big and has too many features for tablets

Intel unveils new server chip with 32 cores

The new 32-core chip adds vector processing capabilities to boost application performance

The Web will unify fragmented mobile OS world, says Opera

HTML 5 will make Web browsers more application friendly, according to the Norwegian browser maker

Enterprise risk management: all systems go

Georgetown University turned ERM into specific systems and projects that reduce risk

Update: Apple sells 2M iPads, on track for 7.6M in 2010

Sales leave most early 2010 estimates in the dust

$100 million ‘scareware’ CEO was already a fugitive

The alleged mastermind of a $100 million scareware scam skipped out on authorities last year

RIM joint venture to invest $100M in China’s mobile industry

Fund will focus on mobile Internet and mobile cloud technologies

Former Google exec mentors Chinese startups

Kai-Fu Lee's new company is helping to raise a new generation of startups

Glasses-free 3D LCD TVs likely out by 2015

ITRI showed off a 42-inch glasses-free 3D LCD TV in Taipei

What desktop virtualization really means

Computex 2010 to feature iPad rivals

Windows 7 and Google's Android will battle for the tablet computer market at this year's show

China’s OPhone to find its way to US as Android+

Chinese software company produces the Android software used in Dell smartphones

Apple vulnerable in iTunes antitrust probe

Market dominance in music downloads gives DOJ more to work with, says antitrust expert

8 Questions with Infor’s Bruce Richardson

Teens and smartphones: Coolness is key

Bull bills Tera 100 as Europe’s first petaflop computer

Bull is aiming for over 1 petaflop of sustained performance when it finishes tuning the computer in September

Windows XP SP2 retirement looms, puts users in tough spot

Half of all corporate PCs running XP stuck on soon-to-be-obsolete SP2

You don’t know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz

Is there a replacement for Facebook?

Google adds Reader to ‘kill IE6’ campaign

More bad news for the 17.6% stuck on Microsoft's 'antiquated' browser

Four out of 10 iPhones sold to enterprise users, says AT&T exec

But that's not the same as saying 40% of sales are made to businesses

Displaced IT workers apply for federal help

Notices on Connecticut Web site document effort

Career Turning Points: Keep IT All About the Users

SharePoint 2010: Three Ways Sony Is Using It

Leadership: Critical Move from Senior IT Leader to C-Level

ThoughtWorks gives agile IT an online forum

Apple needs to jump on TV opportunity, analysts say

The time is ripe, as the company has brand equity as a device maker and content provider

Dot matrix printers return to make music

A set of dot matrix printers will make a symphony together, perhaps for the last time

Microsoft admits Windows Phone 7 slide was wrong

The company overstated IDC's sales forecast in a conference presentation

Symantec readies Norton security, storage apps for Android, iPhone smartphones

Also, Norton DNS service will flag or block dangerous Web content

Five indicted in cybertheft of city’s bank accounts

Thieves used spyware to steal login credentials and illegally transfer $450K from Carson, Calif.'s coffers in 2007

Dell adds document management features to printers

Dell tries to gain control over the flow of documents in organizations

Google App Engine gains developer interest in battle with EC2, Azure

Foxconn plans safety nets, may raise pay after 12th suicide

Latest suicide came on the heels of pledge by HP, Dell and Apple to investigate problem

OLPC’s Negroponte says XO-3 prototype tablet coming in 2010

A glass prototype will debut this year, and when it hits the market, should cost just $75