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Twitter takes legal action against spammers

Twitter filed suit in federal court this week against a number of spam tool providers

Highlights from Google CEO Larry Page’s “State of the Company” address

What Google's chief has to say on the present and future of the company

IBM iPad app revels in vintage math history

Apple iPad app that celebrates mathematics by recreating what was a 50-foot infographic displayed at the 1964 World’s Fair

Sullivandanny just wants to be dannysullivan

But the Internet she can be a fickle beast

Steve Jobs biographer confirms that Jobs’ anger about Android was very real

Despite claims to the contrary, Steve Jobs' anger regarding Android was very real

Pros Tips for Extending LibreOffice

Joke about Apple getting sued hits too close to home

Mere days after an 83-year-old woman files million-dollar lawsuit

What do Infoblox and March Madness Have in Common? One and Done

Simplifying the cloud deployment process to a one-and-done system.

Steve Jobs’ anger over Android was “just for show” claims Google CEO Larry Page

In a recent interview, Google CEO Larry Page had a few interesting things to say regarding Apple's ongoing battle with Android and the extent to which Android's existence truly bothered Steve Jobs.

Cisco, Juniper see government differently

Spending up in Juniper's Q1 while Cisco expects segment to be challenging for the rest of the year

New Cloud Federation Business Model for CDN Services

OnApp Federates Cloud Hosters to Deliver Worldwide CDN Services, and then . . .

Key departures continue to plague Google Wallet

Google Wallet debuted in September 2011 and it's not an understatement to say that the service hasn't exactly been a rousing success, a fact underscored by a number of recent high-profile departures

Google posts first “Google Glasses” video

Google's Project Glass gets its first public viewing

Free apps like Angry Birds suck the life out of your smartphone

Purdue University research finds popular free smartphone apps spend up to 75% of their energy on advertising-related functions

Baseball and social media by the numbers

Which teams and players are the heavy hitters online?

High-tech laser guns will zap targets in Olympic pentathlon event

Modern pentathlon event in London Olympic Games will feature laser guns, electronic targets

Looks like Apple paid off victim of ham-handed iPhone search

Lawyer goes tellingly mum about threatened lawsuit

The Battle For The Mind, Heart And Soul Of The Cloud

Amazon,Citrix, Eucalyptus, OpenStack Essex and more fight for cloud supremacy

What is on a US Secret Service mainframe anyway?

Secret Service’s mainframe apps collect tons of information about ongoing and resolved investigative cases

Sprint offers hosted UC

Kinect 1.5 for Windows in the Works

An update to the motion sensor bar will make it multilingual and improve debugging.

Instagram, BlackBerry Mobile Fusion highlight a busy day for Android news

It's never a dull moment with Google's mobile OS

What do you want mobile phones to do in the next 40 years?

It has been almost been 40 years since the first mobile call, what’s next?

Are Facebook passwords fair game for employers?

Are companies who demand applicants' social media passwords hurting themselves?

Researchers: Those nasty, offensive violent video games make players….cooperative

Swedish research team questions link between violent video game play and aggressive behavior

Build Cross-platform GUI Applications with wxWidgets

A Report on ICANN 43: New gTLDs and DNSSEC

Hell Freezes Over: Farpoint Group’s New Web Page

OK, don’t get too excited – we finally have something other than “under construction” on our site. At least this isn’t an April Fool’s column.

How to keep yourself from losing important files on a Unix system