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Data Everywhere, But Not Enough Smart Management

You don’t know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz

New ‘name to shame’ extortion scam targets porn users

Hentai anime fans' IE bookmarks posted online -- unless they pay $16 to remove proof of porn use

SAS introduces social media analytics to enterprise

iPhone is app development king

iPhone apps development leads over Windows Phone, Android, Symbian, BlackBerry, Ovum survey finds

MIT researchers boost efficiency of wireless power

The key: powering several electronic devices at once

Obama calls for NASA to focus on trips to Mars and beyond

President defends plan to re-focus NASA, and scrap project to return humans to the moon

Opera Mini tops 1M downloads to iPhone

Norwegian browser maker not worried about iPhone OS 4 SDK changes

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FCC to take first steps toward broadband plan

The agency will move toward remaking the Universal Service Fund during its Wednesday meeting

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AMD tries to boost weak laptop offerings

The company is focused on improving its position in the laptop market

Twitter gives the lowdown on its new business model

The company says it will split the revenue from Promoted Tweets 50-50 for third-party apps

Hate voice-controlled phone menus? So does Intel exec

Voice-recognition software still has a long way to go in computing, says Intel's Perlmutter

MeeGo, Android phone platforms take stage at Linux conference

iPad online use approaches Android, BlackBerry

Tiny usage share -- just 3 out of every 10,000 online devices -- but closes in on well-established mobile rivals

Spam volumes grew 6 percent last year, says Google

Security researchers must find new ways to battle spam, according to Google's Postini mail filtering division

Fireshark plugin decodes the malicious Web

The tool for Firefox expediates investigation of Web sites that may have malicious code

How IT Outsourcing Customers Can Test Cloud Computing

Researchers find bugs in archive file formats

They found it is possible to conceal malware within archive formats such as .rar and .zip

Privacy in a mobile world: Massachusetts data privacy law

Process and technology steps to manage compliance in ever-more-complex computing environments

Senators question Cyber Command’s role

Lawmakers seek more information about the authority of the new Defense Department organization

PC sales in rebound with 24% surge in Q1, says IDC

Researcher says Lenovo and Acer lead the way as all top PC makers show impressive results

Oracle issues emergency Java patch to stop zero-day attacks

Quashes bug being used by hackers to install attack code

Where is Your Cloud? Four Compliance Best Practices

LinkedIn Tip: Premium Account Elevates Job Seekers

Cloud Computing: Early Adopters Share Five Key Lessons

AMD’s six-core Phenom II X6 chips appear in stores

Online retailers are taking orders for the chips ahead of launch later this month

pCubee creates virtual, 3D display case

With a stylus, users can virtually poke and prod what's inside

SATA 6Gbit/sec.: Does it double your SATA speed

Judge in Italian Google case receives threats on Facebook

Hundreds of messages criticizing his decision have been posted since the Feb. 24 verdict was announced

Critic: Customers should reject Comcast throttling deal

Instead of accepting the $16 settlement, customers should demand something else, a network engineer says

Zeus botnet exploits unpatched PDF flaw

Researchers spot first widespread attack using Reader, Acrobat design flaw

OpenSolaris leaders unnerved by Oracle silence

OpenSolaris communitry is vexed at Oracle's silence, mulls forking code base

Why not iSCSI?

FibreChannel over Ethernet gets all the hype for unifying data centers; is iSCSI not up to the task?

SEC investigating HP over alleged Russian bribery

Three current and former HP officials have been arrested in connection with the investigation

MySQL official emphasizes GPL, improvements

Motorola’s iSIM could power company-specific mobile apps

Flexible wafer attaches to a GSM phone SIM to deliver apps, services

Apple’s iPad isn’t unbeatable, analysts say

Google, HP, Dell and others must focus on marketing, solid features

Windows Phone 7 vs. iPhone matchup: a developer’s perspective

Windows Phone will give iPhone OS a run for the money

Wall Street Beat: Tech earnings season off to roaring start

Bellwether financial announcements plus upbeat market reports fuel confidence

It’s Incredible! New Droid on its way to Verizon

HTC's Droid Incredible has a better camera than Google's Nexus One, but is this an iPhone killer?

Man who left USB drive in shared PC waived privacy claims, court rules

Defendant in child porn case had sought to suppress evidence gathered from the thumb drive

Apache project server hacked, passwords compromised

The attack may be related to another intrusion at collaboration vendor Atlassian

‘IT genome’ an effort to map tech ‘DNA’

BDNA is launching Technopedia, a portal for IT asset data

Facebook beefs up site against hackers

The world's largest social network is employing various means to stop scammers

Microsoft acts to avoid Windows blue screen repeat

Blocks rootkit-infected PCs from getting latest kernel update to prevent Blue Screen of Death

Java developers OK with Oracle — so far

Rally adds Kanban tool to agile arsenal