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The Ninth Annual Gibbs Golden Turkey Awards

30 years later, it’s an unimaginable hack

Setting limits with ulimit

The ulimit command can keep disaster at bay on your Linux systems, but you need to anticipate where limits will make sense and where they will cause problems.

Exchange 2013: Support for (non-Microsoft) Tablets, Laptops, Mobile Phones

Providing iPads, iPhones, Android, Mac, Linux Systems with a Full OWA Experience

What’s New in Exchange 2013 (an early adopter’s perspective)

Security spending hike good for Cisco

Data center, cloud builds boosting market to near $3B

AppDirect Builds a Cloud/Mobile App Ecosystem

A discussion with three companies building app ecosystems.

‘Dumb Ways to Die’ will leave you feeling alive

A PSA that will leave you humming and hopefully save a few lives

Apple;s lead in Lightning accessories for iPhone 5, iPad faces challenges

JBL, Belkin, Scosche and iLuv accessories have released Lightning-compatible accessories ranging from speaker docs to chargers

GENBAND to provide full development support for Avaya CS-2100, SL-100

Best practices for creating ‘the human firewall’

Avaya has the products, now it needs to execute

Now that Avaya has a substantial product base, it's time to see how the company can execute on its channel plans.

For Samsung, it’s lonely at the top

Android has seen massive success lately, for which Samsung is the most responsible.

General David Petraeus used clever Gmail trick during affair

Former U.S. General and CIA director David Petraeus resigned last week after admitting to an affair, during which he used a well-known Gmail trick to help cover his tracks.

The Long Tail of Virtualization

Virtualization's effect on backup, cloud storage and databases.

“Outwar” outlaw hacker indicted over gaming attack

UD Dept. of Justice charges hacker brought down “Outwar” game, stole code and created his own system called “Outcraft”

Cloupia acquisition shows Cisco is serious about cloud management

In acquiring Cloupia, Cisco improves management for its cloud resources on the back end.

30 years later: Imagine if the famous Harvard-Yale football game balloon prank was tried this Saturday

If that MIT fraternity pulled the same hack in 2012, well …

Google set to collide with car industry

The automotive industry has long lagged behind the consumer electronics market. Naturally, this presents an opportunity for Google to step in and innovate.

Better check your Skype password after hack is exposed

Microsoft is forced to pull password reset function due to a vulnerability that could allow an account to be hacked.

Realtime’s push beats Ajax pull

If you're trying to build Web apps that can provide real time updates for vast numbers of users, don't let them 'pull' data, use Realtime to 'push'

Realtime’s push beats Ajax pull

Notification: PostgreSQL 8.4.14, 9.1.6, 9.0.10

Is Surface Pro manufacturing set to start in December?

Hints from a Chinese publication suggest Surface Pro and Xbox Surface tablets will start production next month.

Google reproduces 100,000 stars in Chrome experiment

Take a break from work and look at some stars.

DARPA wants army of networked amateur astronomers to watch sky for space junk

SpaceView program aimed at offering more data to the US Air Force’s Space Surveillance Network

SDNs provide a solution for Extreme Networks’ XOS

Leveraging the publicity of Big Switch's introduction to the market, Extreme Networks has upgraded its own SDN strategy.

Apology for ‘piracy confession’ scheme lacks a lot

Explanation of scheme that impersonated Twitter users shows company doesn’t get it

If the Internet is magic, why can’t we vote on it

Another election and another round of calls to use Internet voting

Apple and HTC settle patent dispute

Apple recently settled of its patent disputes with HTC.